Classic Length 2010 Challenge Part I

@Lita, that's a very beautiful protective style. Love the braids.

Dragon_Of_Vaeros said:
Uh oh! I woulda been here sooner had I known someone needed an intervention.

Please don't do it! Please say you are/were joking?

When looking at the shed hairs, you have to consider the length of your hair also. You didn't lose that much considering length and the amount of time that past.
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Thank you. I feel better now, but sometimes I really do feel tired of my hair. I'm sure everyone does at times. That's when I leave my hair alone. I pretty much had to force myself to co wash and finger comb a few days ago.

Dragon_Of_Vaeros said:
I just go to the restroom, stack a bunch of big books on the counter, set the timer on my camera and keep taking pics until I get some good ones. I check how it's looking in the back with the big mirror on the wall, and a little mirror that I hold in my hand (right before the camera takes the shot).

I plan to post my update pic, well... my challenge starting pic (lol) in December.



I really love that red hair stick. It reminds me of fall and Thanksgiving. I was born on a Thanksgiving.
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@Dragon_Of_Vaeros, you have a very nice birth date. Fall is a beautiful and cozy time of year. And Thanksgiving at that.

Thanks for the tips. I use to mirrors, my hand mirror and my bathroom mirror, to help me take pictures. I may try the book suggestion. :yep: I guess taking my own pictures isn't so bad. I learned how to use my own camera better. I got out my instructions manual and read, lol. I had no idea I could adjust the flash. Quite often no flash comes out too dark and the flash comes out to bright.

Too much flash:
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^^^Doesn't show good detail. You can hardly see the hair sticks.

Flash reset to a lower setting:
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^^^Much better detail (can see the swirl and design of the hair sticks) but not too dark.

I also set my camera to vivid color. Now it's easier to see the detail of the hair toys while wearing them. No more ultra bright or too dark pictures for me in which you can hardly see any detail. I also set SteadyShot always on; so less blurry pics. I was having such difficultly with my camera because I didn't know how to use it. I reset the date too to the correct date. There was just so much about my camera that I didn't know even though I've had it for 2 years. :nono: Something as simple as adjusting the flash can make such a big difference in the amount of detail seen.
 
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I have been wearing hair sticks for almost a month now and now wear them almost everyday. Using them is so easy and comes almost second nature to me. Growing up I could never use a pencil to hold my hair and I always wondered how people did it. This evening I saw an un-sharpened pencil lying on the bathroom counter and decided to give it a try. I just pretended as if the pencil were one of my hair sticks:

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^^^^Only the Number 2 pencil is holding my hair and I got it the first try, lol! :yay:

There's a lady at my job that uses pens and pencils for her updos and now I can do it too. I no longer have to wonder. Mystery solved! :yay:
 
CelinaStarr Your hair is so awesome, I absolutely love it! When I was a little girl I used to use pens and pencils for my buns all the time...and I'd forget they were in my hair when I needed them. Hehe.
 
How do all of you wear your hair every day? What hair toy(s) do you use?

Over the summer I mostly wore my Goody Spin Pins in a bun. Now I'm mostly wearing my hair sticks in a bun. Today I'm wearing my Ketylos. Sometimes I wear a braided bun or I just twirl my hair in a bun. I've tried the Figure 8 bun a few times (but it didn't look like it, lol). I also vary the position of my buns and use head bands and sometimes leave tendrils out on the sides. What about everyone else?
 
EllePixie said:
@CelinaStarr Your hair is so awesome, I absolutely love it! When I was a little girl I used to use pens and pencils for my buns all the time...and I'd forget they were in my hair when I needed them. Hehe.
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@EllePixie,

I've always wondered how people did it. I'm so excited that I can use only a pencil to hold my buns. I just had to share it with everyone, lol! I remember trying a few times as a kid and just could not do it.

Your hair in your siggy is stunning! I like your twa picture too and your hair has grown so much.
 
My Spins are starting to get on my nerves....my hair has gotten SO thick with this transition and now the Spins act like they can't stay put in my hair.....whats up with that?? I managed to get them to do their job today though.....i almost through a fit and was about to hurl them against the wall...(like i do everything that makes me mad!:laugh:)....and then i caught myself...took a few deep breaths and took my time to put them in:laugh:....they're still there!!:D
 
CelinaStarr....i can't wait to get on YOUR level where i can wear 7 inch hair sticks in my buns and they don't take over my head!!:grin:....my hair stick cinnamon bun is about the size of my fist....maybe a bit smaller...i have tiny hands with long fingers...imagine having daddy long legs for hands:rofl:

And when i put the long sticks in it looks like a sample that you get while you're at Sam's! :laugh:
 
for me what helps is if i whirl my hair into a bun and tuck my ends into the middle. then i put the spin pins straight into my head then i put is sideways to be me horizontal to my head and finish spinning.

i put the 2 right next to each other like this = in my bun. when i get home though they tend to be like this // instead but my bun is still held on tightly
 
SmilingElephant said:
Girl i don't know WHICH way i'm turning them...i believe i do turn em clockwise but the ends of my hair seem to slip out of it somehow.:fistshake:
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I know some people just wear them with the ends out especially if they have layers. Perhaps you need more than 2 Spin Pins? The more Spin Pins I wear the neater my buns.
 
I Bun everyday i use spin pins or my cheap little ugly hair sticks or a ouchless hair band.
 
I wear buns, with Flexi-8s or Spin Pins most of the time, or a mostly-updo with the ends out, again with Flexi-8s or other barrettes, or less often, a braided ponytail, with the Flexi-8s or other barrette. The braided ponytail shrinks to APL, so it does not successfully show off any length, :lol:. Even less often, I might wear a loose ponytail, but that usually looks ridiculous with my multiple textures.
 
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Perhaps I should start a hair sticks thread? I don't think many people use them on this board. I don't think hair sticks are a popular hair accessory in general. I'd like to start a hair sticks thread but I don't think I'd get many posts.

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^^^^^From left to right:

1) Outlaw of Mar Sara - StarCraft Hairsticks with matching earrings.
2) Queen of Blades - StarCraft Hairsticks with matching earrings.
3) Selendis, High Executor - StarCraft Hairsticks with matching earrings.
4) Sunset on the Sea hair sticks. I received two free pairs of matching earrings with these.

All of these are from Anafiassa at wonder and whimsy artifacts of the imagination by anafiassa . The hair sticks all have a usable length of about 6 inches.

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^^^^Sunset on the Sea hair sticks with matching earrings.

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^^^^Queen of Blades - StarCraft hair sticks with matching earrings.

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^^^^Outlaw of Mar Sara - StarCraft hair sticks with matching earrings.

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^^^^Selendis, High Executor - StarCraft hair sticks with matching earrings.
 
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^^^^From left to right:

1) The free hair stick that I received with my orders. It has an Alexandrite topper that changes colors. It only has a usable length of about 5.5 inches but it this one little stick holds my hair very well.
2) Marigold 'Tangerine Gem' Botanical Hairsticks
3) Spooked Jack O' Lantern Glow-in-the-Dark Pumpkin Hairsticks

Both pairs of hair sticks have a usable length of about 6 inches. All of these are from Aliarose at Aliarose by Aliarose on Etsy .

I rode my horsey today and didn't realize I had a piece of hay in my hair until after these pictures were taken. Sorry. :lol: Please ignore the piece of hair, lol.

This hair stick was free and has an Alexandrite topper that changes colors:

It's light purple here:
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Now it's blue:
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Now it's glowing a reddish/purplish color:
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Spooked Jack O' Lantern Glow-in-the-Dark Pumpkin Hair sticks:
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Marigold 'Tangerine Gem' Botanical Hairsticks:
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I am now storing some of my hair sticks in mugs:
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I'm gong to pretend I didn't se all those pretty hairsticks in your gorgeous curls
That way I'll save money I've already bought 1 too many hairtoys cause of you ladies
 
Hello everyone. Sorry for my absence. I am fighting with some people so I am not in the best of moods... I still plan to do a hair update but it will probably be on the weekend.

CelinaStarr - I am a lover of hair sticks too and try to collect the different ones I find here. But I am loving the earring/stick combination you've got going on. I haven't been lucky to find that! *smiles*
 
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