Putting hair up?

It keeps it away from heat & environmental elements. It's good in general to tie your hair. IF YOU HAVE THICK HAIR beware. I used to have long hair & its thick, curly. I started losing hair in the front cause i would tie it. It was too heavy. If your hair is thinner, you should be fine.

Here is site with photos on how to make a bun. Note as well, this site shows masculine styles.

http://gollan.pwaresearch.com/hp/bbbun.html

Viktoria, I know what you mean about making a torch of yourself. I once caught my hair on fire while walking past a lit candelabra. Do post a picture of your hair down though, if you can. I'm sure everyone would love to see it. Just stay away from open flame until you put your hair up again.

There seem to be so much fabulous hair accessories in the US! Not in Luleå, though.

I hear you, Dave. For sure, my photo has been around too long. However, I don´t really have any pictures of my hair out - maybe because it seldom is. And it makes me nervous: last time I got caught in everything and almost made a torch of myself passing a lit candle. For a long haired person, I´m strangely unaccustomed to wearing it... But if I get a nice picture eventually, you´ll see it for sure.

Thanks for the hair compliments everybody! (This is the first few days of having a hair photo online and such good juju from board members... and it was funny when a member mistook the half-up pic for a cat, so I switched it to a full bun! I thought that was soo hilarious and cute.) And FINALLY something keeps my hair up! Wavy, crimped, or corkscrew hairsticks!!!!

Viktoria--from what I've seen of Amish pins, they're the kind that are bent in a U shape but have no crimping. They are 2-3 inches long and are supposed to be more durable than normal hair pins.

Well eKatherine, I went on the Bunheads site (I see direct links don't work on HB anymore. It confused me for awhile) and those hair pins are fantastic : ) They also have a store locator.. and [dunn dun dunnnnn] there's a Dance store 3 minutes from my apartment! Off to buy hair pins... Thanks eKatherine!

Anais

I'm with you, eKatherine. I once made the mistake of going without conditioner. Big mistake. My hair was unmanageable. Could not get a comb through it. (BTW, your hair is gorgeous!)

Anais Satin, is that your beautiful hair in your avatar photo? Wow, so glossy!

Feeling like showing a pic of your hair worn loose, Viktoria?

Oh, gosh, if I didn't use conditioner in my hair, it would be lots shorter and all broken at the bottom.

I don't use Amish hairpins, I use Bunheads, in both the medium and long lengths. You can get them at a dance supply shop. Lots of people have good luck with the Amish hairpins, but Bunheads are available to me locally.

I also use the short hairpins you can get at the supermarket, the strong ones, not the fine ones.

http://www.bunheads.com/producttext/3sizes_hairpins.html" target="_blank"> Bunheads hairpins

I agree with Viktoria.

Your hair might not have conditioner on it, but it won;t have other stuff on it either like spray.
Sometimes giving your hair a day or two of rest from all products is good for it. Give it a chance to breathe (not literally but let air touch it)

Remember less is more sometimes.

eKatherine, do you mean Amish pins? I'm thinking of getting a pack for experimentation... SOMETHING has got to work for this slippery hair.

korsakovhatt3 wrote: Hi Dave. That is my hair in the photo. Thanks for the compliment. Your hair, by the way, is spectacular.

Thank you very much!