tigereye
March 6th, 2016, 07:19 AM
Hi everyone :)
So a few years back, I bought a glass octopus hairstick from EmergentGlassworks on etsy. I loved it, and it was perfect in my thick hip-length hair at the time. Then someone convinced me to cut my hair and I didn't have enough hair for it any more. Cue a year or two later and I had enough hair again, but shortly after, medication my doctor started me on (and the mini pill I was on at the same time) caused a massive shed in which I lost around 45% of my hair (which is part of the reason I've not been here on the Mane Forum much these past couple of years)
About a year ago, my doctor finally took me off the worst of the meds, and a few months back I came off the mini-pill too. My hair has thankfully been growing back in since the mega-shed, and while it's not quite back to where it was before all this, my ponytail is finally a iii again.
So, I've discovered I can wear the stick again, but it doesn't feel all that secure like it used to. I think because, although I'm at classic now, most of my thickness is hovering somewhere around waist, and because, being glass, it's heavy and needs more hair to hold it. Lazy wraps just don't work, and both a cinnabun and my regular day-to-day nautilus pull in weird spots that they never did before.
So I'm looking for sturdy buns to hold it until the rest of my thickness grows down. I've found a pretzel bun on wet hair works, but it slides down sideways on a dry one.
So a few years back, I bought a glass octopus hairstick from EmergentGlassworks on etsy. I loved it, and it was perfect in my thick hip-length hair at the time. Then someone convinced me to cut my hair and I didn't have enough hair for it any more. Cue a year or two later and I had enough hair again, but shortly after, medication my doctor started me on (and the mini pill I was on at the same time) caused a massive shed in which I lost around 45% of my hair (which is part of the reason I've not been here on the Mane Forum much these past couple of years)
About a year ago, my doctor finally took me off the worst of the meds, and a few months back I came off the mini-pill too. My hair has thankfully been growing back in since the mega-shed, and while it's not quite back to where it was before all this, my ponytail is finally a iii again.
So, I've discovered I can wear the stick again, but it doesn't feel all that secure like it used to. I think because, although I'm at classic now, most of my thickness is hovering somewhere around waist, and because, being glass, it's heavy and needs more hair to hold it. Lazy wraps just don't work, and both a cinnabun and my regular day-to-day nautilus pull in weird spots that they never did before.
So I'm looking for sturdy buns to hold it until the rest of my thickness grows down. I've found a pretzel bun on wet hair works, but it slides down sideways on a dry one.