Flared jeans, baggy or old jeans in a size up can look brill with a tight flowery top and beaded cardigan.If it is a plain one, then tie a colourful silk scarf around the waist. The clothes are the most fun part, you can really plan with colours and texture while being comfy.Get some headbands which are very on-trend at the moment.If you have longer hair you may want to plait it overnight to give a beautiful wavy effect. Braiding is the contemporary way to create hippie hair and you can add lots of beads and other details.Dreads can be amazing but they are a long term commitment. When you think about Hippie hair you probably think dreadlocks.There's a lot of freedom, but generally really bright artificial colours and dark lips are avoided.

Make up should be kept natural because this is about expressing individuality.The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms, including health food, music festivals, contemporary sexual mores and even the cyberspace revolution. The religions and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained wide spread acceptance and Eastern philosophy and spitirtual concepts have reached a larger audience. Since the 1960's many ascpects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. Adaptation of Hippie Culture Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature and the arts. Hippies created their own communities, listened to Psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution and used drugs such as Cannabis, LSD and Psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. The origin of the terms hip and hop are uncertain though by the 1940's both had become part of African-Americian jive slang and meant sophisticated currently fashionable fully up-to date. The word 'hippie' came from hipster and was initially used to describe Beatnik who had moved into New York city's Greenwich village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the Unitied States during the mid 1960's & spread to other countries around the world.

Hippie ways of life