consider this: sherlock wearing barrettes and any other kind of hair accessories to keep his hair in place while working on an experiment.
john has an entire photo album of him like that
- most of sherlock’s barrettes are john’s gifts
- john has excellent taste in barrettes and chooses the one with the cutest and most colorful designs
- when he goes out for groceries he always stops at the beauty section in the supermarket or just some themed shop in his way home
- sometimes when he his uncertain some employee comes to help him asking if they can help him choose for his wife/daughter
- john always replies with a big smile that they are for his boyfriend, employees look a bit surprised most of the times bc they didn’t expected that but they always helped picking up the right colour
- sherlock’s favourite barrettes are a matching set with a daisy and a bee
- john’s favourite barrette is a bright blue with little rhinestones because it’s a perfect match with sherlock’s eye colour
- if sherlock’s hair are a bit longer sometimes john uses a hair tie and makes the littlest pony tail on top of sherlock’s head. it’s more like a fluffy pompon and john adores it
- john discovering the existence of etsy shops and spending an entire afternoon looking for barrettes with sciency/chemistry designs
- the first time a barrette broke sherlock pouted for an entire day
- when sherlock is completely focused on his microscope sometimes john loves to see how many barrettes he can put on sherlock. he wins if he runs out of space before sherlock noticing.
- john wins 80% of the times
- but he also helps sherlock remove all the barrettes and kisses his nose between every barrette taken off
- it is not rare that they have to go out and sherlock forgets the barrettes in his hair
- john doesn’t say a thing and if sherlock remembers he still doesn’t remove it because he doesn’t care
- he’s cute and he knows it
- john loves his cute boyfriend
John putting sparkly little butterfly clips (90′s flashback!) all over Sherlock’s curls. Finding Etsy and ordering every sort of bee hair clip he can find to put in Sherlock’s hair.