Cat ear headphones: Fun, functional and funky!

This is a sponsored blog; while the views expressed here were genuinely mine, consideration was paid to me by Brookstone to review this cat ear headphones product.

Cat Ear Headphones: Fun, Functional & Funky!

For adults and many teens, there are so many different ways to express your personal style: what you wear, what you drive, what your music choices are…where you live, even what you share on social media can even help express who you are. But for tweens, and even some teens, it’s not always quite so easy to express that personal style. Part of it is simply living with someone else funding your life- maybe your style is too expensive for your family budget, or maybe it’s not in tune with your parents’ values. Maybe it’s just that you can’t easily find what you are looking for where you live.

For tweens and teens, who are developing their interests and tastes and wanting to both fit in with and stand out from their peers, finding things that CAN help them to make a style statement and announce “This is who I am!” can be a huge deal, and a big confidence booster. I know that my tween would be making many choices that are not necessarily what my husband and I prefer, so we compromise where we can and sometimes put our proverbial foot down. One thing that we are *so far* pretty lax on is the music that she listens to, as she really just loves pop music and she doesn’t have access to any mediums that might offer an uncut version of songs.

Music was a huge part of my tween and teen years, and I remember when I would hear a song and feel like the person singing understood everything about my life just then…and felt like I had a connection with someone even at my loneliest. So I do encourage my kids to listen to music, and we often do dance parties in the kitchen, the living room, or in the car. There are, of course, times when a dance party isn’t appropriate or I just need some quiet, and that’s when I’m glad that we have headphones available to us. Of course, FUN headphones that give a little quirkiness and a way to say hey, I’m ME and I love to be a little silly sometimes! Brookstone’s Cat Ear Headphones have become one of the coolest new things to have, to make a personal style statement and to share with your friends.

These Cat Ear Headphones stand out the moment you see them with their LED ‘Cat Ears’ that light-up when you’re listening to music. With the flick of a switch, they turn into a sound system with external speakers (look at the ears!). You can even control the LED lights on the ears independently from the speakers, so you sort of become the DJ in the room. They just look awesome even sitting on your shelf for all the world to admire. (They also have a really nice protective case to store your headphones between uses if you don’t want them on display.

These headphones have some other meow-velous features, too: ear-cup cushions that form to your head to reduce outside noise (and, if need be, ignore younger siblings or parents), forward and back buttons for instant music selection, inline volume controls, USB rechargeable batteries that last for up to five hours, and a detachable boom mic for excellent video gaming.

Plus, those same ear-cup cushions can be used almost like “feet” to enjoy your headphones as a funky speaker in your room to listen to music with your friends. And the sound quality is crazy-good!

There’s a couple of ways you can purchase Cat Ear Headphones- you can buy them online or you can go into your local Brookstone Store.

Here’s one other tip, when you buy them online, if you opt-in to Brookstone’s email program you don’t have to pay sales tax!

Who will you give these cat headphones to? Or will you keep them for yourself?