Thin/Fine Hair Thread

**RainbowHawk** · October 21st, 2011, 09:17 AM

I have to second spin pins. Most things slide out of my hair (unless I put *all* of my hair into them, and even then sometimes. . . :/) but someone on the curly thread recommended spin pins and I finally bought a set of minis. I think I'm in love.

**CarpeDM** · October 21st, 2011, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by UP Lisa

Interesting that your hair is that slippery, since you list it as F/M.

I have a rather challenging hair combination which unfortunately there isn't a more accurate option for. I have both fine straight hair and thick wiry curly hairs, makes for lots of fun to manage LOL

**CarpeDM** · October 21st, 2011, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by DoubleCrowned

Hello, Carpe!
I recently started using ordinary hair pins rather than bobby pins, and they are working well. Here is my technique:
As you hold it to put it in, squeeze the hairpin gently, so that the space between the ends is narrowed a little.
Stab straight in at 90º to your head until you feel the ends on your scalp.
Allowing it to grab some of the hair next to the scalp, turn the pin the direction you want it to go, start to push in the new direction.
Relax your grip on the pin so that the ends are free to spread apart as you continue pushing the pin into position.
As you are pushing the pin into the do, weave it back down to catch more scalp hair if it does not feel secure.
Get a second hairpin and put it in the same way, getting it to cross or weave through the other pin(s).

DC!! Where have you been? I've missed you

I will try this out, but what specific hair pins are you using?

**CarpeDM** · October 21st, 2011, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by RainbowHawk

I have to second spin pins. Most things slide out of my hair (unless I put *all* of my hair into them, and even then sometimes. . . :/) but someone on the curly thread recommended spin pins and I finally bought a set of minis. I think I'm in love.

Maybe it is the technique that I am missing. I hear so many people love these, but when I tried them they just fell flat...

**cmg** · October 21st, 2011, 12:49 PM

Spin pins

Just googled that. Never heard of them before. How do you use them? Ar they just like a mere wire or is there some snap or trick or something?

**uptosomeone** · October 21st, 2011, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by cmg

Spin pins

Just googled that. Never heard of them before. How do you use them? Ar they just like a mere wire or is there some snap or trick or something?

They're metal corkscrews that you literally screw into your bun. No trick besides that! They're amazing...I use one or two of the littlest ones and my bun is secure for an entire day!

**KiwiBum** · October 21st, 2011, 05:45 PM

This is kinda off topic, and I apologize if someone else already mentioned it, but do any of you other fine-haired chicks have a problem with wind making your hair oily/stringy? It's usually colder wind that I have the most problem with (warmer wind doesn't seem to have the same effect for some reason). I mean, my hair can look great but if I'm outside for more than a couple minutes on a breezy day my hair becomes a tangled stringy mess! Maybe it's the dryness in the air during colder months? It's extremely irritating.

**FrozenBritannia** · October 21st, 2011, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by KiwiBum

This is kinda off topic, and I apologize if someone else already mentioned it, but do any of you other fine-haired chicks have a problem with wind making your hair oily/stringy? It's usually colder wind that I have the most problem with (warmer wind doesn't seem to have the same effect for some reason). I mean, my hair can look great but if I'm outside for more than a couple minutes on a breezy day my hair becomes a tangled stringy mess! Maybe it's the dryness in the air during colder months? It's extremely irritating.

It doesn't make my hair oily, but it does seem to suck the moisture out of it and make it stick together (and out in all directions). We get arctic wind where I am, it's very dry here especially in the winter. I remember being other places and loving the wind in my hair, but here, I hate it, it's so hard to detangle after!!

**uptosomeone** · October 21st, 2011, 07:29 PM

I definitely get the dreaded Stringies. It's so annoying, and is one of the reasons my hair is damaged...whenever it got bad I'd rrrrip the brush through it.

**DoubleCrowned** · October 21st, 2011, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by CarpeDM

DC!! Where have you been? I've missed you

I will try this out, but what specific hair pins are you using?

Aww, thanks.
The hair pins I use have been kicking around with my bobby pins for eons, so I don't know the brand. They are thin, round wire bent in a U but the arms of it are splayed like a V. The arms are gently crimped midway into three little waves and the tips are smooth. They work well enough to hold a bun on the top of my head overnight.