Foam Doughnuts

[queenofmean68]

For those of you that use these to fashion your buns, how did you protect your hair from snagging in the styrofoam? I tried wrapping a piece of black satin fabric around mine & I messed it up so bad I had to throw it away. Then I thought a black stocking would be better, but I'm still having a hard time.
Suggestions anyone?

 

[Isis]

There are some good suggestions if you do a search on "donuts". Someone mentioned using hair to cover it (buying a small piece of hair). I haven't tried that yet. Right now, if I use a bun donut, I'm covering it with black nylon stocking and it seems to work ok. I had problems with wrapping with the black satin too!

 

[inthepink]

I use either a knee-hi or an old thin trouser sock to wrap around my donut.

 

[NAY007]

another thing you can do is INSTEAD of using that foam doughnut you take a real long sock. one that goes up to your knee. then you cut the part where your toes go off. then you roll that sock into a doughnut. and then you use that sock for your bun. i really like that. when you have shorter hair then you have to cut more off the sock.

 

[Isis]

I my just try that one Nay007, thank you!

I'll see how it compares to my foam donut with the stocking. I like Hairlove's idea of the trouser sock too.

 

[dontspeakdefeat]

Nay thanks for that tip!

 

[queenofmean68]

I guess I should have been a little more specific:
I thought about a piece of satin fabric, a stocking, and a piece of hair from an old ponytail. My problem is getting it on the darn thing! Did anyone have to cut it first, then add your protective item, then glue it back together???
Or, maybe y'all are better seamstress than I am!

 

[Isis]

I haven't glued anything. I just wrap the stocking leg all around the sides of the donut and kind of tuck the end in. It seems to stay put ok. I just had problems with the satin for some reason. It kept unraveling and slipping off and I had the stuff hanging.

 

[DDHair]

That styling trick from Nay was a very popular thing with the girls in southern Louisiana, when I used to attend Southern University in 1997. It is a very affordable cute way of styling, I think the sock is much easier to deal with too, wish I could find mine now guess I'll just make another one.

 

[Isis]

It sounds like the sock may be easier because it's more flexible. I will try it soon.

 

[NGC]

I cut my satin in the shape of a triangle and then wrapped the donut by taking the top tip and placing it on the donut and then pulling the rest through the hole. I went around the donut, angling the fabric so that it continued covering more of the donut. I guess I lucked up in that it was just enough fabric that the end just covered the last pice of the donut. The end also ended inside the hole. You can then glue the tip to a secured (by the fabric) piece of the satin from the beginning of the wrapping process. (I'm not sure if how I said this makes sense).

With the sock donut, what I did was not only cut the toe end of the sock, but also cut it lengthwise. THEN take the cut up sock , place it on the satin, fold the satin over the sock. Sew the edges of the satin then fold the satin covered sock in half and sew along one edge. Roll the sock as usual.

HTH