Updos as stable as Nautilus

[Siowiel]

Since passing tailbone, approaching classic now, the Nautilus has become my to-go style because it holds absolutely secure and is fast and easy to do. I simply can't stand the feeling of my updo falling apart, or having to rearrange it several times during the day, but I'm a bit bored with Nautilus, Nautilus, Nautilus.

Do you have any recommendations for me? Would be greatly appreciated! :D

[Panth]

Braided cinnabun with spinpins. Nothing makes that move.

[Nique1202]

The disc bun is a favourite of mine. It's the same principle as the nautilus/lazy wrap but it makes a neat figure 8/infinity sign instead of a spiral or a loop. Speaking of which, if your hair can coil enough to do it, I've heard good things about the security of a figure 8/infinity bun.

[MINAKO]

My current favorite is a centerheld cinnabun held with two small forks. One on top and one underneath to secure the ends. It does last very well on me, but i also damp bun everytime which basically improves the staying power of every updo.

[Anje]

I haven't been doing them much lately, but I have great luck with celtic knots. There's a couple variations on how they're made, but they're typically stable and they look different enough from nautiluses (at least to us -- the general public apparently just sees "bun") that it'd give you another option.

[meteor]

I envy the people who have success with stable cinnabuns and figure-8/infinity buns :) - I'm one of those who has to pray for them to stay put for longer than half-an-hour. :pray:

I have Houdini hairtype, so I do the following buns for a stable hold:
- Braided lazy wrap bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DKLqSQWZos
- Braided nautilus (pencil bun): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHNTQs_lg4 but I follow this technique for wrapping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0k3dD4qX34
- Braided spidermom's bun (double-loop lazy wrap bun) (requires longer than normal stick/chopstick and sometimes doesn't hold for me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCvC_MU0To8
- something I call "Braided Infinity" (requires longer than normal stick/chopstick): double-loop lazy wrap bun with the second loop done over the thumb and changing directions of wrapping... so the wrapping action is just like in a disc bun, but without splitting hair in two, i.e. with the same hair going over the thumb to create a second loop.
- simplified Ellingwoman braided bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_biroGTJ7A

I'm sure knot-based buns (knot, Celtic knot, Neoma knot, etc) work well, too, but I can't get them to hold securely in my own hair and I snap hairs all the time with knots. Does anybody else experience this? Is is normal for knot buns?

[Madora]

My hair is knee length and I love my faux lace accent crown braid (held in place with 10 3 inch crimped hairpins). Runner up: single braided hair bun on top of my head.

[Siowiel]

OMG, thank you!
So many suggestions! I'll be very busy trying them all out (and buying some spiral pins), but if you know any more, I'm certainly not complaining!

[Panth]

I envy the people who have success with stable cinnabuns and figure-8/infinity buns :) - I'm one of those who has to pray for them to stay put for longer than half-an-hour. :pray:

For me, it's two things. 1) Cinnabun must be braided, otherwise it turns into a mess pronto. 2) Spinpins, and how you place them. I've only just figured how to make a stick-held (two, parallel) or fork-held braided cinnabun.

With the spinpins, I have 4 regulars and use them as follows. 1st: in at about 4 o'clock from the outermost edge of the outermost loop, pointing towards the centre. 2nd: as for the 1st, but at about 8 o'clock. 3rd: as for the 1st, but at about 2 o'clock at pointing horizontally (towards 10 o'clock) rather than in towards the centre. 4th: in at about 10 o'clock, but starting on the penultimate loop not the outermost one. Result: the first three pins secure the outermost couple of loops of the cinnabun to each other and to the scalp hair. Fourth pin rides higher, doesn't actually touch scalp hair but secures the innermost loop to the middle ones, preventing the centre from falling out.

[Teazel]

The Gibraltar bun! :rockerdud

[lapushka]

A simple LWB (lazy wrap bun). Easy peasy.

[cocoahair]

I suggest you take a look at TorrinPaige's (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw8NAHElFHyXQTL7u1FBiKA) Youtube channel. She has a variety of buns and even outlines a few styles popular on the LHC.

[ashke50]

I second the braided cinnamon bun with spin pins! That's my most stable and frequent style, although sometimes I have a flexi or a ficcare to hold it up along with some spin pins.
The helix bun is pretty secure, and looks very different to "standard bun".
Or for something completely different, a coronet braid. My hair was about the right length for that by the time I reached classic, and it holds very nicely.