Abstract: A hair restraint comprising a band having a decorative assembly at an end, the decorative assembly including a first wire with one or more decorations strung thereon, a crimp bead on the first wire at each end of the decorations, with a loop in an end of the first wire interengaging a loop in the end of the band, with the band loop fixed in place defining a closed loop, and with said the end of the first wire threaded back into one of the crimp beads and at least some of said decorations, and a second wire wrapped around the closed loop of said band with each of the crimp beads squeezed onto the first wire. A method of making such a hair restraint.