Hip Aunty?

In the last six weeks I have tended the locks of Pixie Lott, Leona Lewis and Kimberly Walsh. I have also, of course, been with other artists and styled the hair of models on shoots, but these three women are the crucial factor to me now, having been befriended on the Facebook pages of my nieces and nephews and god-daughter.
It would appear they have dubbed me “the cool aunty”. This has led to me being updated with snap-shots of their lives, and this, in turn, has made me reconsider my own style.
On a birthday shopping trip with my 12-year-old super-cool god-daughter to TopShop I realised in horror that many of the clothes I was buying for her were size 6 versions of items in my own wardrobe!
This led to me making the change to pencil skirts and shirts and, on a recent shopping trip, to buying Comme des Garcons and Maison Martin Margiela, whereas before I headed to Marc Jacobs and Luella.
Mainly it has led me to notice the trends kids pick up on, and even wonder where some of them have come from.
My god-daughter has taken to parting her hair incredibly low on one side (an inch above her ear,) with a kind of super-sweep long fringe that she peeps out beneath with her head tilted to one side; meanwhile, two of my nephews look like they have walked through a wind tunnel backwards. Not that I would be so “un-hip” as to comment. I just wonder where the two trends came from?
Wind effects are not new to the catwalk (I was at a McQueen show where it was a main feature) but I have never seen hair like this!
I think it may have been a trend that got exaggerated – I noticed it first among the Public School tribe.
Of course, as I can help out with products to keep these styles in place, this means that I am warmly greeted on family visits as I arrive armed with a bag full of mousse, gel, hairspray and flat.
I am sure I will go back to being un-cool in time, but right now I am enjoying “my moment”.