Day 123: French braid. Which I'm about to pass out in.

Day 42: Cinnabun (sort of) held up by my new Ficcare Maximas... which I love!

Day 65: Folded braid, held by a leather slide I just made.

Day: Lotsa.
French twist held with Baerreis Cardinal wood 2 prong Lil Egypt.

Day 8 of 30 : washed my hair, plopped it for the whole morning, then dam bunned it (it's thick) and now it's still damp, in a bun, 12 hours after washing..

170--A very loose french braid.

Okay, I'm in for 60 days (at least). My hair growth has slowed down and I want to go from measuring monthly to bi-monthly (at most). I wear my hair up pretty much daily anyway.

I do think I'm going to tweak the challenge, though. I am counting half-ups. I usually only wear them once a week anyway. And I am allowing myself a "down day" once in every 15 days. Though, I doubt I'll use it.

As before, I am wearing my hair down to air dry and for bed.

I'm glad to be back in the challenge thread (I've been stalking ever since I left back in April :lol:).

Soooo....

Day 1 of 60: Started out with a dutch braid. In the car on the way home from church it morphed into a braided bun. When I got home I took it down and made a cinnabun.

Day 25: I washed my hair today. Once it got dry enough that it was only a bit damp, I put it in a cinnamon bun, which it has been in ever since.

Day 7 of 30: In a cinnabun held with 2 hair pins. I also wore my Buff over top like a bandana because I am a little greasy. Tommorow is wash day so I oiled and now have it in my night braid.

day 196- it is in 4 "buns" if you call them that, in mowhawk style inspired by Sorus

eta- picture
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I totally need to get back into this. My ends are getting pretty bad and I know I would be helped a lot by just putting my hair up.

Day one - twist in a pretty butterfly claw clip.

Day 124: Fairly messy cinnabun with the heart speharb fork 'cause it was in my bag and I "overslept" (read: stayed up way past bedtime and failed to wake up on time because four hours of sleep is not enough).

Day 7 of 31: Wound up with my sleep rope braid up in a messy chopstick bun all day. Perhaps I'll try the sock bun tomorrow for school.

Day 112: Infinity bun with tulipwood ketylos, after debating much on whether to do the "french twist" - but which I never mastered so far...

Day 2 - french twist in a silver primavera ficcare.

171--A braided ponytail.

Day 9 of 30: messy high bun with new ebony and silver hairstick

wow, day nine already! time flies.. this is helping me with my post breakup phase.. seeing how quickly time passes and life goes on.. with new updos :)

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=543&pictureid=12030

Sunday was Day 165. I hennaed my roots a little bit in the morning and then popped it all up into a lightly oiled damp messy bun for the rest of the day.

Today is day 166. I have 199 days left in my one year challenge. I have 16 days left until my halfway point. I've attempted a Figure 8 bun today, but I'm thinking maybe it's actually closer to a figure 6 1/2 (it's pretty darned messy). Secured with ficcare. Good enough for me!!!

I get to wear my hair down on Friday if I want to!!!! It's my one and only planned day off.

Catch me if you can, Iggy! :D #168--Started out in an English braid to finish drying then I put it up in a cinnabun, then for a night out at the theatre, I put it up in a Chinese Bun.

Ah, you're still a good 5 days ahead of me. Six if I wear my hair down for my birthday. I think your lead is safe for now, angel! ;)

Day 132: Peacock twist

Day 133: French twist

Day 2 of 60: Braided pigtails.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/2008/May122007Upload001.jpg

Couldn't shampoo on Saturday so I did it today. This is my shampoo day style (usually).

Day 8 of 30: I used pink and brown short knotheads to create a caterpiller type ponytail. The picture is in my album. What I liked about it was that I could create it without having to constantly pull my hair through hair bands.

Day 8 of 31: My sleep english braid is up in the bun cover with the two little claw clips -- I was very excited to see that I can cram all my hair into this thing, I thought it was too small.

Day 26: Today I just wore a simple braid.

Yay, AJoifulNoise is back! I love her updos. :)

Day 43: Low scrunchie ponytail when I went out in the early afternoon, henna mud and showercap with do-rag for the remainder of the day.

Day 113 (of 1-yr-challenge): chinese braided bun with Willow-the-wisp hairsticks

Ah, you're still a good 5 days ahead of me. Six if I wear my hair down for my birthday. I think your lead is safe for now, angel! ;) :run:

#172--An orchid bun w/a fakkare :D

Day 167: Still in my sleep braid and I have bad helmet head from the ride in to work today. The plan is to fluff things up a bit and attempt a figure 8. In the event that the figure 8 fails (and it usually does - I have too many little pokey out layers), I'm going for a messy cinnamon with a Ficcare.

Day 125: Slept through it and my cinnabun turned into a single twist. But I woke up with it still contained and redid it.

day 3 - my first Chinese bun!

Yay, AJoifulNoise is back! I love her updos. :)

Hehe, I tried to sneak back in, but I was caught! Thank you for your kind words. :flower:

Day 3 of 60: Half up pony. These braid waves are too pretty to hide.

Day 10 of 30: high bun (it was supposed to be an infinity.. oh well) held with my olive wood hairstick

Day 9 of 31: Rope-braid-wrapped sock bun! I am triumphant! Now if only it holds all day...I am not very confident in my ability to pin the braid up. Bobby pins are hard!

Edit: The bobby pins have failed me, and my hair is now restrained in the bun cover with the little clippies. I will definitely try the sock bun again sometime, perhaps with the assistance of my roommate who understands pins a little better.

Day 27: Today was a cinnamon bun held with my chopstick and a couple of bobby pins.

I started my challenge on May 11. June 11 is my birthday, I'll wear it down that day, and then see if I want to try another month!

My hair was in classic braids May 11, part way through the day I bunned them up together.
May 12 I redid the braids and gave them two seperate buns.

Day 3 - Didn't have to redo my braids this morning! Just spritzed them and bunned them seperately each held with two little claw clippies.

I'm liking this classic braid-bun thing! It's cute, very not-harsh looking, and still totally up.
My red streak is visible in them, which looks nifty, although my long blue streak is hidden.

Day 44: Cinnabun held by Ficcare.

I started my challenge on May 11. June 11 is my birthday, I'll wear it down that day, and then see if I want to try another month!

We have the same birthday! :)

Day 9 of 30: I think its called a flipped cinnabun held with hair pins and mini claws. It looked pretty nice but I had to add small claw clips to keep the shorter hairs from escaping.

Day 126: Cinnabun with fork. Off to Walmart in MY CAR to buy clove powder and cinnamon so I can henna in the AM.

day 198 (counting time drying) or day 213--boring cinnabun heald with beak clip/fakkare
with a red hand band with a red bow on it!


Are we counting the time our hair dries :S??

Day #173, I did a hot oil treatment and washed this AM and walked out the door...I only slightly detangled so far...I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to do it, but I'm leaning toward an English braid.

day 198 (counting time drying) or day 213--boring cinnabun heald with beak clip/fakkare
with a red hand band with a red bow on it!


Are we counting the time our hair dries :S??

I suppose it depends on the rules you have set for your challenge! I count drying time, my hair would never dry if I didn't leave it down. I don't wear my hair down all day on washing days, though - 3-4 hours is usually enough for it to dry enough to be put up again.

Day 66-67: Two braids both days.

Day 44: Cinnabun held by Ficcare.



We have the same birthday! :)

Well happy upcoming birthday!!!!

Hair up today in flipped cinnabun. I'm going to try for new or rare (to me) styles most days for the rest of this challenge. I liked it so much I made it my avatar. :D

ETA: This is day four for me!

Today is Day 168. I washed with shampoo last night and as an experiment did not use a conditioner after. My hair is up in a stunningly shiny cinnamon bun secured with a buff used as a scrunchie.

Day 4 of 60: Banded Pony/Caterpillar (the ties will match the outfit I'm wearing this evening... black curdoroy skirt, a pink top, and black & pink knee-highs).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/May142008Upload004.jpg

Yesterday's half up morphed. I twisted it up and used my biggest claw clip (Senor Cleep) to hold it. Then left the rest of my hair to cascade down over it. Even my stepmom said it was pretty. :joy:

Day 10 of 30: A braided bun held with a new stick I got from Claires yesterday.

I wish my updos looked nicer they are soooo messy oh well, hopefully they will be better by the end of the month.

Day 11 of 30: washed my hair, had a damp bun up all day, and now at 11 pm my hair's down and drying

Day 28: I'm wearing my hair in what I think is a flipped cinnabun. I made it by forming the first loop, flipping that loop up, and then wrapping the rest of my hair around the first loop like a normal cinnabun (except that the last loop was tucked underneath the bun to get it out of the way). I used my chopstick to hold it up - my hair hasn't budged all day! :) Well, my chopstick has twisted slightly, but only 5-10 degrees or so.

Day 134: Cinnabun held with an octopus clip. I've almost got too much hair for the clip, now, which is good because yay growth, but a little sad because it's one of my favorites. It's red with rhinestones and matches my glasses exactly.

Day 135: Peacock twist held with a Ficcare.

Days 3-9 of 14 I had a really bad past few days so all I've been doing is low pigtails or a messy ponytail.
Now that I'm trying to get back to normal-I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things here.

Day 45: Cinnabun held by Ficcare. I am so in love with this darn clip!

I'm contemplating doing a full-on "up every day" challenge at some point pretty soon. But I don't think I'm quite ready yet.


Well happy upcoming birthday!!!!


Same to you! :)

Meli, thanks. What the heck i will count drying time which i worked out to be 1 day a month. So on every first i will skip a count i suppose :S
199- 4 strand braid.

Day 10 of 31: Sleep rope braid bun stabbed at random with a chopstick until I had to leave the house, at which point I put it up under the bun cover with the clippies. I really need to comb it out, this bun cover is such an enabler to my laziness :o

Day 127: Currently "up" in a pile of henna atop my head. Shower cap and turbie are the hair toys. And I'm about to take a nap as such. Need to be conscious at the DPS to take my driving test in the AM. And I woke up too early to stay up until 10am or so. Haha.

Also, welcome to the challenge Amara!

Day 115: folded braid with barrette

I'm trying to do 'wear hair up till it grows 5cm' (which would be about two inches I think), that's when it'd be 90cm long. I'm traveling to Ireland for a week in June and I know I'm going to wear it down there, but apart from the trip, I'm going to try and wear it up. Today is day three :D And my hair is actually down at the moment, but I'm going to do something rope-braidey when I go out tonight.

This is really difficult for me, I'm not used to wearing my hair up at all.

I've been wearing my hair up now for nearly 6 months and am so used to it now and just loving it! I'm wearing my hair in a simple cinnamon bun with sticks today; I just don't have time to fuss right now.

Day 12 of 30: bun with my new Baerries fork ;)

Day 5 of 60: Cinnabun with clips.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/2008/May152008Upload004.jpg

I rarely wear this these days. Because the style always winds up to the left or right of center and because I have lots of little hairs that drive me crazy. I really don't like my hair right now... :(

Day 169: Cinnabun w/buff scrunchie right now, changed from buff covered braid for the ride in to work. Still kind of damp from being sweaty, but I'm going for a long ride this afternoon and didn't see the point in washing it.

Ajoifulnoise - it's nice to see you back in the challenge! I love your updos and your hair is beautiful, whether or not you like it right now!

Teesha....today makes your milestone 200 days!!! YAY!!!

Also, [B]welcome to the challenge Amara!

Well thank you!! I like it here, I could get comfy and stay for a while! :D

Day 5 of 31: Rope braid bun. This is a new style for me and I think it's pretty! Also feels very secure - I think it feels securer than even my trusted mutant infinity bun! (I can't get an infinity bun to look like a figure 8 on me, I call it my mutant bun)

Yesterday I decided this challenge should be accompanied by a challenge to find some new styles! I won't say I'll do a new style EVERY day, because some mornings I know I won't have time, and some styles that are "old" I like too much to avoid. :D But I do want to make sure I try at least 10 new styles during my challenge (which lasts until my birthday, June 11). I'm watching this thread for ideas on what new styles to try! Got some new hair scroos (had four, lost one, now have 7 - I LOVE these things! If you haven't tried them yet, do it! They're cheap and they make so many styles VERY easy) So, new styles: 2 down, 8 to go...

Day 4: When I went out today, six rope braids in a bun. When I got back home, just a very easy I-don't-know-what-to-call-it bun held with one of my new hairsticks :D

Day 11 of 31: Infinity bun. With chopstick. It's pretty boring.

Day 29: Today was a French-braided bun, held by my chopstick. I never got around to washing my hair last night, so my hair was rather oily. Yet I still got a complement on my hair today! :)

Day 11 of 30: I am tired today so I put it in a ponytail and pulled it 1/2 way through so its a loop. I had a few glasses of wine last night and it always effects my sleep :( it was a bad idea.

Ajoifulnoise - it's nice to see you back in the challenge! I love your updos and your hair is beautiful, whether or not you like it right now!

Thank you! :flower:

Day 128: It's in a loose-ish english braid. I did leave it down to go fail my driving test after my nap (prefer to have it down for ID pictures), though I -very- loosely braided it with no ties and pinned my bangs back for driving. My air conditioner is broken and I don't want my hair getting damaged while whipping around into my face and impairing my vision.

Can't say how many days are left in the "up every single day" portion of my challenge, but it ends soon.

Day 10 of 14 I did a messy ballet bun held with a makeshift flexi 8 thing(directions were posted in the Mane Forum...forgot who posted it)and my dragon Quecraft stick.Stayed up nice but when I was at Target trying on clothes,it came loose and ended up in a ponytail.

Day 10 of 14 I did a messy ballet bun held with a makeshift flexi 8 thing(directions were posted in the Mane Forum...forgot who posted it)and my dragon Quecraft stick.Stayed up nice but when I was at Target trying on clothes,it came loose and ended up in a ponytail.

Ballet bun? There's a specific type of bun for ballet? I've made some that I thought looked like a dancer's bun, but didn't know there was a specific one... huh...

174--English Braid
175--Pony tailed Braid

Day 5 - Just a very simple idk what bun held by a hairstick, and a flat four strand braid held up by a hairstick when I went jogging earlier today.

since i totally failed out of the leaving your hair down challenge, i'd like to join this one :o. i think i'll shoot for a month up and go from there. this will be a good opportunity for me to try out (read: massacre) some of the beautiful styles i see on these boards. today it's in a cinnamon bun held with my new (first) ficcare!

Day 13 of 30: hair down to dry and then up with my new flexi ;)

I decided to try out Nightshade's Equilibrium Bun today and am very much liking it. :cheese: I'm up to day 178 I think (though I might be a few days more). I know I had at least 10 days of updo time in November. Goes to show how it's gotten easier... I've lost count! :)

Day 6 of 60: A cinnabun held up with... *drum roll* My first Ficcare!!! It just came in the mail this morning. I am in love with it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/2008/May162008Upload003.jpg

A warm welcome to the challenge, betsala! And congrats on that new Ficcare! I hope you love it as much as I love mine!

I had planned a hair down day for today, but it's up. Cinnamon bun in the Ficcare, still very damp from last night's SO wash. Very soft, very shiny and nice! I might give in and wear my hair down tonight for dinner out, but I'm just not sure.

Oh, today is Day 170.

AJoifulNoise, your new Ficcare is very pretty. I love that color on you!

Day 68: English braid
Day 69: Two braids
Day 70: English braid

My hair is still dry and frizzy since I shampooed four days ago. I have somewhat less flyaways, though... Braids are about the only thing that works at the moment.

I have decided to stay in this challenge for a total of three months, thus I have 20 days left now. The reason for this decision is that I originally joined to stop obsess with S&D-ing. It really did help me stop obsess with it, but as the weeks passed by, I noticed increased tangling and have now come to the conclusion that my hair simply needs frequent S&D. Especially since I want to cut away as much damage as possible with S&D only, rather than trimming. I'm beginning to feel like I'm cheating, as I have to let my hair down for S&D-ing. Of course I could just change my rules, but for now I feel more comfortable with having a break from this challenge. Especially since the summer sunlight reveals more damage than I can see in other lights, and I want to cut away as much old damage as possible during the summer months. I will stay for the 20 days left to the three-month mark, with slightly modified rules to allow more S&D. I might very well return to this challenge in the future when I hopefully don't need to S&D so much - or in the autumn when the sunlight gets too sparse for effective S&D.

Day 12 of 31: My sleep rope braid is up in the bun cover with the little clippies. I'm going to wash it later, so it'll be down to dry then. EDIT: After it dried (which is did way fast in this ridiculously hot weather!) I stuck it back in the bun cover. It's amazing how short of a time it takes to train yourself into thinking that up is the "right" way to have your hair!

My boyfriend is graduating on Monday, so all of his family is going to be up here for the event -- I think I'll take my second week's down day sometime while they're here and wow them :p

day 11 of 14 my front sections clipped back with mini claw clips,my length pulled into a low ponytail and my just-found-at-my-moms-house-forgot-I-had-it brown leather slide.

Ballet bun? There's a specific type of bun for ballet? I've made some that I thought looked like a dancer's bun, but didn't know there was a specific one... huh...


I should say-its what I call a ballet bun.Its a really high,almost at the top of my head,bun.I accidently created it one night and it reminded me of ballet dancers....

AJoifulNoise, your new Ficcare is very pretty. I love that color on you!

Thank you. :D We're very much in love (though, I must admit he's a little clingy...)

Day 30 (of 30, kind of): Today was a simple braided bun.

I originally said that I was going to try the challenge for 30 days. I was intending to go longer, but I decided to try 30 days first to see how I liked the challenge. I also liked that my last day (today) was supposed to be the day of my last final and that a design report was due. So the timing worked out well (and I could celebrate by letting my hair down!). Except that my professor decided a week and a half ago to extend the deadline for the design report to next Wednesday, so everything is not wrapping up neatly (though I must say "thank goodness" about the deadline extension). So, since I got it into my mind that I could let my hair down once the semester was over, I want to extend my challenge to Wednesday. I'm sure I'll continue after Wednesday, but I'll probably modify my rules some. But not until Wednesday when everything is over! :)

Day 12 of 30: Another lazy day I took the day off and have been playing Halo 3 (uggg I'm a little sick now) so it has been in a messy english braid. My album is a travisty:(

Day 117: folded braid with pink ficcare!

A warm welcome to the challenge, betsala! And congrats on that new Ficcare! I hope you love it as much as I love mine!

I had planned a hair down day for today, but it's up. Cinnamon bun in the Ficcare, still very damp from last night's SO wash. Very soft, very shiny and nice! I might give in and wear my hair down tonight for dinner out, but I'm just not sure.

Oh, today is Day 170.

AJoifulNoise, your new Ficcare is very pretty. I love that color on you!


thanks islandgrrl! my ficcare is fast becomeing my "go to" hairtoy.

day 2 for me, and my hair is in a folded english braid- fixed with my ficcare of course. :D it is a large maxima in a turquoise color, which i was afraid might be a bit bright ( i bought it on eBay and the color selection was nonexistent), but it looks really nice in my red hair.

Oh can I join in. I know i am a newbie but I am desperate to get my cottie, dry, fine hair in better condition, this could be part of the answer. I only know 4 updos - rope braid, engish braid, french braid and a cinnamon bun so I will need a few ideas if that is ok. First day tomorrow. I am kind of excited to be learning new things to do with my hair.

Oh can I join in. I know i am a newbie but I am desperate to get my cottie, dry, fine hair in better condition, this could be part of the answer. I only know 4 updos - rope braid, engish braid, french braid and a cinnamon bun so I will need a few ideas if that is ok. First day tomorrow. I am kind of excited to be learning new things to do with my hair.

Welcome to the challenge! I learned a lot from the following sites:
www.longhairloom.com (http://www.longhairloom.com) Look under "Styling Station"
www.dreamweaverbraiding.com (http://www.dreamweaverbraiding.com)
And, there are some good tutorials here, under "Articles"

Day 7 of 60: Braided bun with ficcare.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/2008/May172008Upload009.jpg

Day 12 of 14 a banded ponytail.

Day 31: An inside-out bun.

Day 6 - I had olive oil in my hair in the morning, so I made a four strand braid and made a bun of it held with a hairstick and wrapped a scarf around my head.

Day 129: Had it in one of those folded in half ponytail things I used to do constantly. Where you don't pull the last loop through. Only I do it as such that my curls stick up on top.


Today's Day 130 and it's still in the fairly heavily oiled french braid I slept in. Haven't looked in a mirror yet but it's very comfortable. Will update this post if things change.

ETA: Wound up in a peacock twist held with my ficarre. And now that I'm home from work it's time to go shoe and undergarment shopping.

Day 13 of 30: low, loose side pony tail.

Day 12 of 31: Bun cover with the clippies, first in my sleep rope braid, then loose. I think I'm going to be swimming later today, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do for that (I'm not sure that my shower cap would hold up to keeping water out, and I don't have a swim cap).

Day 118 of one-year challenge: Infinity bun with black-and-white aquapearl ketylo

Day 1 of 30. Simple rope braid, though I am tempted to try a figure of 8 bun, but I might not have enough length. Also i need to get better sticks, mine are a bit weedy.

Day 46: Sock bun
Day 47: Down day
Day 48: Cinnabun with a Ficcare

I'm not very creative, but I'm getting rather good at making my Ficcare cinnabun look like an actual cinnabun instead of a turd. For me, this is rather impressive. I told my husband that I "need" to go out and buy more Ficcares, even though they are $40 each. He seemed totally okay with this. (We've only been married a little under 2 years--I suppose we should enjoy this while it lasts.)

AJoifulNoise, congrats from one Ficcare Newbie to another! It looks beautiful on you!

day 203- i had it in a boring cinnabun.
AJoyfulNiose, i love your natural hair colour! I want it!

Day 13 of 14 a cinnabun right now.It's a early wash day for me since its getting hotter outside.

Yesterday was Day 171. Cinnamon bun w/Ficcare.
Today is Day 172. Same as above.

I did end up wearing my hair up all day on Friday. No day off!

Day 180: Just in a simple messy twist today. Yesterday it was in some sort of a french twist for hiking. Both days it's been heavily oiled with coconut oil to work on my ends.

AJoifulNoise, congrats from one Ficcare Newbie to another! It looks beautiful on you!

Thank you! Aren't they great? I now understand why they are so addictive!

AJoyfulNiose, i love your natural hair colour! I want it!

Thank you. I'm still kind of longing for red, but I'm determined to love my natural color.

Day 8 of 60: I started out with a half-up pony tail. I had braid waves and aparently my hair "glistened." Or so said a lady at my church. :inlove: But, it's raining so my hair went kinda flat and poofy at the same time (woo!) and it's now in a cinnabun with my ficcare.

Day 6: Twisted pigtail buns held with hair scroos.
Night 6 was the first *night* I haven't also worn it up. I was sleeping at a friend's house and all I had were my hair scroos... anyway, I just finger combed my hair up over the pillow and it stayed mostly untangly. I usually braid or bun my hair for the night, because I'm an active sleeper.

Day 7: Tried a french twist with a ficcare but it pulled too much, so i switched to a flipped cinnabon.

Day 14 of 30: hair up in a scrunchie bu.. and down at night for my date ;)

Day 15 of 30: bun with baerries fork

Day 7 - cinnabun held with a hairstick. Oh and I tried a sock bun it didn't turn out that well.

Day 49: Cinnabun with Ficcare.

Day 13 of 31: Up in the bun cover at the moment. I may do a deep conditioning treatment later today (chlorine from the pool! aaaaagg!), or I may be lazy and jut oil it some more.

Edit: I put it up in a funky two-rope-braid bun thing with a chopstick and some pins to go out to dinner, and now it is full of oil and conditioner, in a ziploc baggie (who needs shower caps?!) hidden under a red bandanna held on with a hairtie.

Day 32: I was inspired by the square/box 4-strand thread, so I did one of my own, this time doing a Dutch-braided version.

Day 14 o 30: A rope braid ponytail.

Day 119: Double braided bun with LongLocks hair sticks!

Day 2 - its a wash day. Going to try a simple figure of 8 bun - did some experimenting and it looked ok yesterday so going to try today.

I just found an old post I made in the archived LHC boards and it turns out I'm one day ahead of where I had thought. :) So I'm actually on day 182. Good news in my book. :D

I'm wearing my hair in a double-braided crossover updo today. (I know that there is an official name for this but I can't find it right now. It's where you make two braids on each side and then insert a hairstick through them both close to the scalp and cross the braids up and over and wind them around, crossing each time, until you get to the end.)

Day 57: chinese bun

Haven't been updating at all for about a month, but still on the wagon! I've had my hair down for about an hour two times (not counting drying) but I realised it's awfull! I can't even understand how I managed to have my hair down 50% of the time shudder:Well, on special occasions when theres no need to have a bag/coat/carry anything, but how often is that..?

Day 131: French twist with ficarre for most of my shift. Then a coworker decided to pull my hair (not in a way that would break anything) because I didn't make any coffee... Tried to put it back up in a french twist but it hurt. So now it's in a low, loose, folded over ponytail and I have the hood of my jacket up to protect myself from more hair pulling by the cruel coworker. I may try to make a low cinnabun with the ficarre or make my fifth day curls look decent down before I go take my driving test.

ETA: Yep. Wound up with a surprisingly comfortable cinnabun at my nape held with my ficarre.

5/17--Day 176--English Braid
5/18--Day 177--Pony tail braid
5/19--Day 176--I washed this AM, so it's drying right now...Most likely will pull it back into an English braid.

hmmm figure of 8 bun looked like it was heading towards turd bun so i have gone for a cinnabun.

Day 50: Low ponytail with scrunchie. I oiled the heck out of my hair last night and decided that washing it a day earlier than normal would be prudent. I don't like to do much besides gently put it in a scrunchie while it's wet or even damp.

Day 16 of 30: braided bun held with flexi

Today is Day 173. Dirty hair is up in a cinnabun secured with a randomly grabbed hairstick this morning. Oh...it's a single MeiFa with an amber bead on the top (my hair ate its mate a few years back). 192 days left. Ten days until the halfway mark - SIX WHOLE MONTHS!

Day 8 of 60: Twisted this way and that with a ficcare. In otherwords, it keeps falling out so I keep twisting it up in a dfferent way. I am having a bad day.

Day 14 of 14 a low ponytail with my Quecraft dragon slide.As seen in my profile picture,basically.

Last day of challenge.Going forward with 21 days now.

Day 14 of 31: Down day for the second week. I had it just clipped back with a pretty barrette from coveryourhair.com until lunch, at which time I worried that I'd spill food in it, so I rope braided it and clipped the end up so it made a big loop. Now it's in the bun cover with the clippies -- even on a "down day" I feel weird leaving it loose! It hasn't taken very long at all to change my views!

Day 132: Sleep braid. Tomorrow I think I'll leave it down for awhile after I wash it. Wanna make sure I remember how to make it look good down.

Day 183. I'm wearing my first Ficcare today. It's made a simple updo like the French twist even simpler to do. Can you tell I'm loving this hair toy? :D

Day 3 - Having a down day today as I've just had my ends blunt cut and it looks great. Will be back to buns and things tomorrow

Day 51: Cinnabun with sticks.

I seem to have gotten fairly proficient at getting a cinnabun to stay up without putting my hair in an elastic before I bun it. And more and more often, it's actually looking like a cinnabun and not a turd. Yay me!

I seem to have gotten fairly proficient at getting a cinnabun to stay up without putting my hair in an elastic before I bun it. And more and more often, it's actually looking like a cinnabun and not a turd. Yay me!

:spitting:I just choked on my tea in a laugh when I read that.

Congrats on getting better with your cinnamon buns, however! :)

177--Cinnabun w/flowers! :)

Day 174. French twist secured with Good Days Hair Pins. Easy.

Day 183. I'm wearing my first Ficcare today. It's made a simple updo like the French twist even simpler to do. Can you tell I'm loving this hair toy? :D

Ah, congrats on your first Ficcare! I recently obtained my first one as well, and I'm totally loving it, too! :)

Day 15 of 21- a high ponytail pulled half way through.Very very lazy hair day.


Edit-I ended up putting it up in a cinnabun held with a flower hair fork thingy I bought from Claires today

Day 9: Figure 8 bun
Day 10: Figure 8 bun
Getting boring! :D
Oiled and buttered, so if it's boring, at least it's healthy.

Day 15 of 31: Infinity bun with chopstick so far. I'm bumming around the house writing a paper, so I probably won't do anything fancy with it just so long as it stays up.

EDIT: After the infinity bun fell out (bah, humbug, I used to be better at those) it went up into the bun cover. Minimal effort required for that one.

:spitting:I just choked on my tea in a laugh when I read that.

Congrats on getting better with your cinnamon buns, however! :)

Hehe, I can't really take credit for the funny, because I stole the term "turd bun" from some thread I found in the forum archive. But I'm glad you enjoyed it. :D

Thanks for the congrats! I am so not good at updos, so every little bit helps.

Day 121: rope braided bun (after a long time)

Day 183. I'm wearing my first Ficcare today. It's made a simple updo like the French twist even simpler to do. Can you tell I'm loving this hair toy? :D

Congrats on your new Ficcare! I just got one, too, and I'm loving it!

Day 9 of 60: Soaking wet cinnabun with ficcare. I had somewhere to be this morning and I didn't have time to let it dry. Then I got swept off somewhere else for the rest of the day. It is just down and drying now. Didn't get any clear shots of my 'do, but there's a side view in my blog entry about the trip I took today. :D

Day 184. Figure 8 bun held up with my Ficcare. :)

day 4 - half up ponytail today - lots of gardening to do so it needs to be out of the way.

Day 10 - don't-quite-know-what-bun held with a hairstick.

day 206: I wore my hair today, in a beak style, this one (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=455&pictureid=4719).

day 206: I wore my hair today, in a beak style, this one (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=455&pictureid=4719).


hey! I've got that same beak-bought it yesterday from Claires.Man-that thing is strong!

Day 16 of 21a twisty bun held with beak clip

I actually used a different clip. But that one i bought from Kliens. It wasn't much, $8 i think. That is why i bought it, there were plastic ones for like 4 but i knew i would snap it in a week. It's unusual pretty i think.
the clip i have in there are no photos of yet i think...yeh. I'll add one soon enough! :)

Day 10 of 60: Right now it is up in a cinnabun with ficcare. I am in a rut! It's just so easy... This evening, before I leave for church, I'm going to take it down and do a dutch braid for a bit of variety.

day 206: I wore my hair today, in a beak style, this one (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=455&pictureid=4719).

Ooh, I like that one teesha! How did you do that?

Day 175. French twist secured with silver hair pin (http://www.patareias.com/HTML/H32.html) (my all time favorite hair toy).

Days 33 and 34: I wore an inside out bun both days.

Day 35: Today was a French braided bun. I oiled my hair this morning in preparation for washing it tonight - I got a really nice picture of the braid waves that I need to add to my album.

The semester has finally ended for me (yay!), so I'm changing my rules and goals now. I'm going to try to keep my hair (mostly) up until classes start in September. I'll allow myself to wear my hair down occasionally (once a week or so) and I'll also allow scrunchie buns again, though I'm going to try to vary my hair styles and not fall back into my old pattern of French braid or scrunchie bun.

Day 52: Cinnabun with Ficcare. I am addicted and can't stay away! :)

Day 16 of 31: Bun cover. The infinity bun fell right out, and even the little clippies aren't holding like usual -- I think that the process of conditioning after swimming left my hair slipperier than usual (that's my story and I'm stickin' to it).

Day 11 woven bun :) It's so easy to do and looks pretty, I'm in love.

Day 122: Woven bun with VK sticks

Day 185. I decided to try plopping this morning and boy, did it make my hair curly! :D (Like the old days when I was little.) I've got it up in very messy updo just held up with a clip.

Day 207: Kaylynne (spelling?) Knot.

178--French Braid
179--Caterpillar pony tail w/a sunflower, then I washed late in the day and did a damp french braid...I'm rocking some awesome braid waves now.

Day 176: I'm not sure what kind of knot it is, but I started like I would a cinnamon bun then grabbed the top and started twisting so the rest of my hair kind of wrapped itself around the base, tucked the ends in and stabbed it all with my trusty silver hair pin. It looks surprisingly nice and un-turdlike.

Day 133: Left it down from wash till after the doctor's appointment. Then it was alternated between an unsecured braid, pinless bun/knot thing that won't hold, and a folded over ponytail with scrunchie. Was working on the car then driving the thing with no AC for four hours. French braid to sleep.

Day 134: Was running around all day. Cinnabun with Etta Mae fork in birdseye maple.

Day 135: More running around and lots of phonecalls and things and yay drama. Cinnabun again with the same fork. I'm away from home and only brought a scrunchie and this fork.

And Day 136 technically starts about now. It's in a french twist that's about to turn into a cinnabun... with my birdseye maple Etta Mae fork of course. I think I brought some short bone sticks (only brought toys that won't stab a baby in a head should he headbut me while I'm holding/playing with him) but right now I'm too stressed and pissy and lazy to go dig them out of my bag.

At least I don't have to work tonight 'cause it was pre-approved time away. Even though it worked out that I didn't actually need it.

Day 11 of 60: Started out as a dutch braid, but it didn't look very good so now it's in a cinnabun with my ficcare.

Day 17, 18 and 19 of 30: don't remember but it was up ;)

Day 36: An inside-out bun.

Didn't I say that I was trying to vary my hair styles . . . ?

Day 17 of 31: Sleep rope braid up in the bun cover.

I haven't reported to this thread for a while, because I keep getting those #%&*@ server busy-messages all the time... :rant:

Day 71-72: Braided bun, inspired by the gorgeous video from Eresh. To my surprise I was able to make it secure without tieing the braid off - no more damage from elastics in this kind of bun. :cheese:

Day 73: I had a migraine so my hair stayed in my sleep braids all day.

Day 74: English braid

Day 75: 4-strand rope braid. (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=557&pictureid=12789) Turned out quite good for my first try. I have had trouble with split ends from rope braids, but it seems like I can get away with it if I leave a very long tassel. I think it's my taper that causes the problem, because the twisting gets tighter and tighter as the taper increases. I can't bun them that way, though - I tried with this one, and while it has potential of making a great bun, I simply don't get enough coils to hide a long tassel neatly at my current length.

And today, day 76, I have had my hair in braids of various numbers and thickness due to a S&D-mission. My ends are breaking like crazy since I shampooed ten days ago, and for me, broken bends cause more tangles than split ends do. And more tangles = more broken bends... I'm not too happy with my ends at the moment. *repeats like a mantra "I will not cut my hair, I will not cut my hair" :meditate:* I know my hair will recover sooner or later, I only have to be patient and do lots of preening to move the sebum down.

day 208- chinese bun

Day 123 (of 1year-challenge): Chinese braided bun with willowthewisp hairsticks

Day 177. Okay, my hair is happy today, gorgeous, soft, shiny after a honey treatment. But darnit, it doesn't want to play nice! So far it's been in a braid, a cinnabun with sticks, a cinnabun with silver hair pin, a cinnabun w/ficcare, a plain pony (that lasted about 2 seconds), and it's now in a french twist w/ficcare, but I can feel it slipping steadily off the right side of my head! I have a feeling it's just going to be style after style today, but I'm keeping it up somehow!!!

Day 37: A Chinese bun.

I didn't want to put a ponytail holder in my hair, so I just twisted my hair like I was starting a cinnamon bun, then put the stick through the base of the twist, divided the hair into two straids, and did the Chinese bun. I used a bobby pin to secure each of the ends, but I'm not sure that I needed them.

Day 12 of 60: Figure 8 with two sticks. This is the first time I've tried inserting the sticks parallel to each other instead of X-ing them. It is surprisingly stable and not pulling on any hairs!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/2008/May232008Upload001.jpg

The sticks did not hold up well to the flash... They are actually frosted with silver butterflies on them.

Day 17 of 21- half up held with a claw clip then my flower pin stuck in for decoration.All the rest of my hair pulled back in low ponytail.It was super easy but looked really nice...



Day 18 of 21
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/cyodice05/SN851165-Copy.jpg
a small sock bun with two decorative forks.Why is my hair showing brown instead of red is beyond me....

Day 10 (21st) Braided bun, then down in a braid (which is "down" according to my personal rules - I'm trying to protect the ends) because my hair toy started to hurt :(
Day 11 (22nd) Figure 8 bun
Day 12 (23rd) Figure 8 bun, will be down tonight for my dance troupe's show, then washed with a soak in conditioner to detangle gently.

I think I've defaulted into this challenge. I have worn my hair up every day anyway now. I just dont seem to feel dressed if its down now and dont want any damage. Today I did a herringbone braid into a ponytail with the ends tucked up and under.

180--My hair felt sick this AM, so I did a hot oil treatment and did a poo only...Down to dry then English Braid.

I am behind on my pics :( I didn't have a camera for a bit.

Day 15 : 2 braided buns held with one hair stick.
Day 16 : 3 english braids braided into one braid.
Day 17 : Jasmine hairstyle ( caterpilller ponytail) using brown Knotheads
Day 18 : I used a topsytail thing from Claires to flip a ponytail, then I braided it.
Day 19 : Chinese bun. I had to secure the ends with hairpins but it stayed most of the day.

I guess I should go back and redo these styles for my Album since the pictures were part of my goal.

Day 18 of 31: Washed, then left down to dry, tied back with a bandanna to keep it out of my face. Now it's back in the bun cover, and probably still a little damp. I need to comb it, but I'm not sure it's dry all the way.

Day 137: Cinnabun with the same fork I've been using all week. All long grueling miserable in a way I can't talk about awful horrible week.

Day 124: Infinity bun with black&white aquapearl ketylo

Smokie, I hope this upcoming week goes better for you! :flowers:

Tomorrow I am lounging around all day at a friend's house, so I'll probably take a partial down day just for fun. :) Rest of the day - up in a gazillion little braids I'm working on right now while I read LHC!

ETA: I tried my first four strand braid! Success! It was an easy first try since I have 12 little braids in my hair, I divided them into 4 sections of 3 braids each so they were easy to work with. I don't know what a four strand braid will be like in loose hair but it looks pretty cool with 12 little braids, and now I've got the hang of it! (well mostly)

day 209 (it is 1 am but i am writting as what i wore yesterday technically on day 209, it is 210 today though, technically)

I wore a chignon to church, coz i can, and for the morning a pony tail.

Day 13 of 60: Two pigtail braids. They are really fuzzy after all the moving I did today... But, I'll have beautiful waves in the morning! :D

Day 20 of 31: my hair was down for most of the day, so I'm adding an extra day to my challenge.. 31 days now!

Day 13: Up in 12 little braids, then down for braid removal and finger comb and quick pic (will post later in my blog) of my seriously 80s kinky braid waves. Now it's up in a scrunchy bun.

Day 20: I put on my Buff then tied the end of the Buff in a knot so my hair has been completly contained all day. I have MN on my scalp and it looks a bit greast so I did this in case someone came to the door :) and because I was not planning on going anywhere.

Day 19 of 31: Sleep rope braid in the bun cover. I'm going to check back over this thread and see if I've used my down day for this week, and if not I think I'll do something nice like a half-up for the birthday party I'm going to later. If not, I'll just comb it and see if I can get an infinity bun or chopstick rope braid bun to stay up.

EDIT: Wound up doing one twist of a bun held by my metal hair slide and then the remaining hair in a rope braid. It looks pretty snazzy!

Day 19 of 21 a low ponytail once again held with leather flower slide once again.Wash day for me and it needs to be tamed when I wash it.

These challenges are great fun!

Day 38 (yesterday): A cinnabun, twisted in the opposite direction from normal.

181--Ponytail
182--Started out w/a ponytail, now a french braid.

Day 138: Cinnabun with and without fork.

And tonight is Day 139: Top half is french braided, bottom half is in an english braid, the two halves are twisted together and held with a scrunchie. All this was done immediately after setting myself up with a not-at-home makeshift DT (damp hair + a bit of condish). Figured this way the ends will keep getting moisture and I won't have to fiddle with it much.

*Amara*, thanks for the kind words. It's improving. And I think everything's going to be alright. I still can't talk on public forums about what's going on, but as soon as it's all cleared up I'll give y'all the rundown.

Day 20 of 31: Had it up in the bun cover all day. This thing is so amazing for my laziness ;)

Day 14 of 60: Cinnabun with ficcare. I enjoyed my braid waves last night as opposed to this morning.

Can someone explain me exact classic length?

Can someone explain me exact classic length?


Wrong thread, see here (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=4428&highlight=golden+ratio) or the thread you began here (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=5709)

Day 21 of 31: braid!
day 22 of 31: braid again!

Day 189: messy bun with my Ficcare today.

day 210: pony tail...boring.

I thought I posted a couple of days ago, but I don't see anything since May 21. Oops!

Day 53: Cinnabun (I think it was with my Ficcare, but I can't remember anymore)
Day 54: Down day.
Day 55: Down day.
Day 56: Cinnabun with my new Etta Mae hair fork. Love it!
Day 57: So far, cinnabun with my Ketyllo AquaPearl sticks because that's what I do with my hair when I go to work out.

Phew, I need to avoid getting that behind again!

Day 39 (yesterday): I washed my hair, so it was down for part of the day, both for drying and for an intensive S&D. Then it was in a French braid for the rest of the day and the night.

Day 140: Still being conditioned in the top-half french braid, bottom-half english braid, double braided bun thing. Gonna either redo it so it's pretty and go to some bar-b-que with a bunch of catty military spouses or add more conditioner and chill at the house. Can't decide.

ETA: Wound up with a ponytail for the barbque. Took it down to redo and it looked so pretty that I couldn't confine it completely. Now it's in a cinnabun and about to be braided for bed. The spouses weren't bad to my face but I got the feeling I was gonna get talked about a lot after I left. It was very much like stepford wives only casual and with tattoos. Very strange world I'm living in right now.

183-A scrunchie bun

I'm going to join this challenge too in about a week. One of my relatives is graduating soon and I want to wear my hair loose or on a half up at her graduating party but after that it's updo time.

The challenge for me is wearing my hair up at home. After I come home from work I always take my hair down and let it be loose until it's bedtime. Then I do my night braid/bun.

Keeping my hair down makes it tangle, and detangling before I go to bed takes time. I don't really enjoy detangling either. Lets see if I can make my hair tangle less by keeping it up more.

Day 21 of 31: Sleep English braid in the bun cover.

Day 15 of 60: Cinnabun with small clips. With a camo bandana over it. I am so glad I did. The place I went picnicking was crawling with ticks. *shudders* They were on my body, but not in my hair!

Day 190 - Simple french twist today. I'm starting to finally get this hairdo and be able to do it properly!

Day 127: cinnamon bun with momma smurf hair sticks

Day23 of 31: down for my exam, now up in a pony!

day 211: Just a plait.

184--Scrunchie Bun--I'm trying to keep the greys tucked away until I can have someone cover them for me...It looks like I might have to do it myself!

oh i've been away for the weekend and forgotten where i am.

i wore my hair up since friday - wore a cinnabun, half up pony and a simple plat. Today is a wash day (going SLS free and my hair is loving it!) and its in a rope twist.

Hmmm...back after the long weekend.

Saturday was Day 178. I wore it up in a french twist secured with the Ficcare most of the day - down in a braid for the afternoon/evening because I had a headache :( Earlier in the day, though, we went to the local farmer's market where I picked up a new condish to try out.

Sunday was Day 179. I washed it in the late morning and used my new conditioner ( a wonderful concoction made by a friend ). Wow, nice stuff and smells dreamy. Used a tiny bit as a leave in and my hair was super. Up in a damp bun to dry most of the day and then in a braid again in the evening.

Monday, Day 180 was a super busy day. Up in a messy bun secured with Ficcare all day while we drained & ditched our ancient waterbed mattress and installed the new one! Did lots of laundry and housework, then did a honey conditioning thing in the afternoon before we went out for dinner. Hair up again in a damp messy bun.

Today is Day 181. Up in a twisty kind of bun that probably has a name, I just don't know what it is. Ficcare.

Day 16 of 60: Damp cinnabun with ficcare.

Day 20 of 21-a cinnabun held with Quecraft dragon pin.But-being since that pin is top heavy,I have to use a elastic around the bun to hold it together for the pin.

Day 21 of 21- a small sock bun with two decorative metal forks(the do as seen in my profile pic and the do that I just did not too long ago)


Being since its been 3 weeks,I'm having a hair down day.Its the end of my second goal for this challenge round for me.Now I'm going for 29 days(added a day due to taking a break today)The last time I did this challenge-I lasted 28 days and stopped.I'm going to see how long I can make it.

Day 58: Cinnabun with sticks.

Day 191 - Braided bun, worn low.

french plait today

212 - in a ficcare (given to me by the lovely generous morticia!!!) bun

Day 182: Funky twist with Ficcare.

well-I ended up putting my hair up yesterday so I'm still on day 22-28

Day 22 of 28 (yesterday) the style that its my siggy now.

Day 23 of 28 a high ponytail pulled halfway through.The ulimate lazy "bun"

185--Scrunchie Bun, again.

Day 22 of 31 (yesterday): Sleep rope braid held up with a chopstick, in a totally not-stylish, super-messy bun-blob.

Day 23 of 31: Starting out with a rope-braided infinity bun, but that probably won't hold.

Day 24 of 31: cinnabun

Day 17 of 60: After much fighting, it is now up in a chinese bun. I'm not happy with it... but, oh well. I'll keep my ficcare on me and if I get too fed up with the style I can take it down and do a cinnabun.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/SycoTrekkie/2008/May282008Upload003.jpg

I am so boring... :yawn: Two braids for five days in a row... Oh well...

Today, day 82, it is up in a braided bun.

Day 59: Cinnabun with sticks. Sense a pattern here?

Day 14 French braid (yay! I always go Dutch. :D So this took some extra concentration, but turned out just fine.)

Day - Wash day! Down to try, down to enjoy.

Day - Half up (figure 8 into pony tail on the top half) this was a new style! So I've tried three new styles so far during this challenge: rope braid bun, flipped bun, and this one.

Day 15 (the 28th) A figure 8 bun.

He's home! I was stressing out and miserable for the last week because the stupid plane his unit was given kept breaking, so homecoming was delayed and I was having trouble getting in touch with him, etc. But it's all better now! He came home last night.

Therefore the first phase of my challenge ended yesterday. So day 140 is moved and now I wear hair up at work and only count work days as hair up days. Even if I do wind up wearing my hair up on a day off, it doesn't count as a day.

Which makes today Day 141: Very messy peacock twist held with birdseye maple Etta Mae fork. 'cause I'm at work.... which turned into a cinnabun with the same fork 'cause it looked awful and felt like it would fall at any moment.

ETA: I will continue to try and sleep with my hair braided. We learned that now that my hair is longer (like, ten months of growth longer) he lays on it far too easily for me to leave it down ever.

Yay smokie!!! I am so happy for you!! :)
day 213- in a looped pony tail because i just could not be bothered!

Day 192: Just a simple cinnamon bun with sticks. I'm trying to baby my hair a bit today since last night was cassia treatment and so I've left my ends damp and covered with coconut oil before wrapping them into the bun. My bun's looks more full now, however, particularly since I started taking the advice of one of the other longhairs on this site and holding down the first wrap to make sure that it stayed flat rather than going into a bee's butt!

Day 40 (Monday): Pigtail Dutch braids
Day 41 (Tuesday): French braided bun
Day 42 (yesterday): Dutch lace-type braid down the side of my head (curving to the back), which joined with an English braid in the back

It has been at least seven years since I last wore my hair down for a full day. I only ever wear it down for a few hours to airdry/ take pics (after which it is promptly put into an updo).... so, OK....

Day 2556: Cinnabun with U-fork; later replaced by Superclip (slippery - ie dirty - hair day)

:D

I am doing a month up here. =) I need to ignore the fact its coming out in clumps do to my medication, so if its out of sight, its out of mind right? =)

186--French Braid

Day 25 of 31: wash day

Day... 17, I think! Just a lazy bun held with a hairstick.

Day 142: Cinnabun with Etta Mae birdseye maple fork. But the bangs are down today!

And hopefully the boy doesn't have to work this weekend so I'll get to see him. But I'll still wear it up to work. That's the rules.

214 : side pony tail that is loosely plaited.

Day 24 of 31: Spent most of the day in an infinity bun with a hairfork I discovered in a box while cleaning, and is now in the barrette-snood as I was having trouble getting the infinity bun back up.

Yesterday was Day 183. Home sick and in braid all day.
Today, Day 184. At work sick and in a cinnabun w/Ficcare.

Day 60: Cinnabun with Etta Mae fork.
Day 61: Down day. I kept feeling like it was snagging on things today.

I think I'm going to do a full-on challenge where I don't allow down days, just for now. I guess I'll start over from Day 1 so that I can easily track how long I go with my hair really up every single day. My plan is to start on Sunday, since that was my original Day 1.

For now, I'll say I'm going to go for at least 2 weeks.

Islandgrrl, I hope you feel better soon!

Thanks, N3m3sis42. I hope I feel better soon, too. I hate being sick!

Good luck with your challenge!!!

Day 25 of 31: Wash day, left it down for a while to dry. When it got to only slightly damp, I combed it out, rope braided it, and clipped the end of the rope braid up with a pretty barrette. On a whim, I flipped the loop this made up around the barrette, discovered that it was really, really, pretty like that, and stuck a couple pins in it in the hopes that it would stay up. If I can figure out how to make sure it stays stable, I might wear this a lot, since it's very nice for how easy it is.

EDIT: There is a terrible picture of this updo in my album at http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=1158&pictureid=13546 !

Day 143: It's still damp and pulled into a low, loose, unsecured braid. I may wind up in some flavor of bun if I get too annoyed with it. But I get to see the boy in the morning after work so I'm trying for "weardownability".

Day 26 of 31: bun
Day 27 of 31: bun with baerreis

Thanks, N3m3sis42. I hope I feel better soon, too. I hate being sick!

Good luck with your challenge!!!

Izzie, thank you! I really, really enjoy wearing my hair down, but I'm trying to go until fall without trimming and my thin ends are starting to drive me a little insane. Also, I don't know if I just notice it more now that I've been wearing it up or if it's really happening more, but I feel like it's constantly catching on things.

Plus, there is the whole "benign neglect" thing. I really just want to forget about the length for a bit so it can get a bit past waist without me watching it constantly. BSL to waist takes *forever* on me! (Stupid long torso!)

Day 43 (Thursday): An inside-out bun
Day 44 (Friday): Two side English braids (using hair from about the ears forward), joining in the back in a single English braid, using all of my hair.

Day 83: Two braids
Day 84: Herringbone bun (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=557&pictureid=13606)
Day 85: Two braids again...

Day 62: Cinnabun with Etta Mae hair fork.

(yesterday) 187--Ponytail
today--188--English braid...

I couldn't get online all day to update this. :(

Day 144: Peacock twist held with ficcare. It's very messy but DBF seemed to approve. Granted he likes to make my hair as messy as possible... >.>

Yesterday was day 185. cinnamon bun with ficcare. Today is day 186 and more of the same.

Day 26 of 31 (yesterday): It spent most of the day in the bun cover in my sleep braid. Eventually I combed it out and it went back in the bun cover unbraided.

Day 28 of 31: wash day

Day 24 of 28 what you see in my siggy.

Day 25-28 of 28 I was in the hospital due to a asthma attack,so I lived in a scrunchie bun.

My second goal of 28 days is over and now I'm moving on to 45 days :)

Day 27 of 31 (today): Infinity bun, or misshapen blob-like variation on it, with the hairfork. I picked up some long knitting needles at the store today and have been playing around with them a bunch.

189--Braided ponytail