Protective Hairstyles...

[CandyAppleBlack]

I know this my sound like a dumb question to you guys but,how do you put your hair in a bun like this?

http://www.argusdesigns.com/products/spike/ov_js2.GIF

 

[godzooki]

I've done it before with one of those hairdinni things but I lost too much hair to use that. maybe if they had one covered with silk or satin!

 

[Paris Belle]

I would use a donut: styrofoam in the shape of a donut, they sell these at most BSS'.

I have that Hairdini and as I stated in my Hair Gadget thread, those hair gadgets are rather dangerous to the hair...You can definitely lose a lot of hair trying those things. I did when I used them.

 

[godzooki]

thanks, will lookf for a styrofoam thingie next trip.

 

[Allandra]

When my hair was shorter (around shoulder length), I took a tube sock, and I cut it at the end where the toes would go. I rolled it on the shape of a donut. The I placed a knee high (hoisery) over that since the sock was made out of cotton. I placed it on my hair like a ponytail holder. Then I tucked my hair around it. It made a perfectly round donut (aka bun). My niece (who was 12 at the time) taught me that little trick. HTH.

 

[Kaela]

I just did it and it worked!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for this tip!! The best part, it costed me nothing to make.

 

[sweetcocoa]

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Allandra said:
When my hair was shorter (around shoulder length), I took a tube sock, and I cut it at the end where the toes would go. I rolled it on the shape of a donut. The I placed a knee high (hoisery) over that since the sock was made out of cotton. I placed it on my hair like a ponytail holder. Then I tucked my hair around it. It made a perfectly round donut (aka bun). My niece (who was 12 at the time) taught me that little trick. HTH.

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Great! I'm gonna try this when I do my bun.

 

[Lindy]

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Allandra said:
When my hair was shorter (around shoulder length), I took a tube sock, and I cut it at the end where the toes would go. I rolled it on the shape of a donut. The I placed a knee high (hoisery) over that since the sock was made out of cotton. I placed it on my hair like a ponytail holder. Then I tucked my hair around it. It made a perfectly round donut (aka bun). My niece (who was 12 at the time) taught me that little trick. HTH.

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My daughter recently showed me the same thing, except that the whole thing was done with an old pantyhose leg - no tube sock involved...

 

[CandyAppleBlack]

any more peeps help? i doesn't have to look like that pic i just want one that protects my ends and looks good....

 

[cheveux]

I'm very bad at descriptions but when I was a child, to get my hair to have a similar look, my mother used to put my hair in a pony tail, then she'd have me tilt my head down and she'd designate an imaginary center (sort of like if you held a pom pom upside down and placed an even number of those poofy things around the dead center). Then she'd take a section of hair and, using both index fingers, she'd roll it (under) around her finger just as you would roll your hair on a roller, going all the way to the rubber band. Then she'd secure that section with a bobby pin. She moved on to the adjacent section and did the same thing, all the way around. There would be 5 or 6 sections like this. If there were gaps between the sections, she'd close the gaps with hair pins. Does that make sense?

 

[Islandgirl]

Allandra I used to do the same thing when I was in high school. Except I used to use just the cotton sock. The hoisery is a great idea. (The sock trick also made it look like i had more hair than I really had-people would ask me, is that all of your hair, i would reply-yep, it is my hair no fake hair in there, they don't have to know about the sock

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[KinksnCurlz]

Everything above except after the pom pom ritual

, I take a little hair from the top and sort of twist it around very loosely, gathering more hair as I go until the donut is achieved. Then take straight pins (the ones that look like letter "U") and use about 6 to secure it. Remember, the key is to do it loosely (the more hair you have, the tighter you do the "donut").