This is an easy bun that can be done on hair of varying lengths. It is very secure; I find I rarely need to redo it over the course of the day, and I have rather slippery hair with lots of layers. It is also exceedingly comfortable. It doesn't pull and I
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Although I invented this bun independently, I was not the first person to do so, so I cannot take full credit for it.
First, gather hair into a ponytail (this didn't really need a picture, did it?):
Bring the hair up and wrap it around your fingers:
If I'm using a shorter stick, I'll only wrap the hair around my index and middle fingers rather than the whole hand. If you have shorter hair this might work better than wrapping it round the whole hand.
Next, wrap the tail around the base of the loop:
Split the loop in two and fold the right half to the left and the left half to the right:
Secure by placing the stick in one loop, under the middle, and out the other loop: