Single hairstick buns?

[Spinder]

Does anyone have links to instructions for different single hairstick buns? I have searched high an low and keep running into dead links, or people posting photos but refusing to link to any tutorials. :(

[Magalo]

Have you tried the lazy wrap bun? It's pretty much the only one I use. There is also the disc bun and the chinese bun.

[Anje]

OK, my first post got eaten by my device, so I'm going to pop in and out editing this to add more. But check YouTube if someone didn't link a tutorial - you can find a lot of them there if you look.

Celtic knots hold well with one stick. https://youtu.be/fOOCbqBQw3Q
So do lazy wrap buns. https://youtu.be/b3LWSGiDBbk
And infinity buns. https://youtu.be/s4IZjosmZg4

I may have to make a lazy infinity bun tutorial sometime, since I'm having a heck of a time finding a video that wraps them the way I do, which is way easier than unfolding a beebutt bun. Edit: Ha, Spirals found one, and WSL beat me to making it! Just as well, blond hair makes for more visible tutorials, I think.

[spirals]

I do an L-infinity nearly every day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzn4gNWIVQ

[Groovy Granny]

LHC has a What's your favorite single hair-stick bun? (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=55128&page=13&p=3119881&viewfull=1#post3119881) thread :)

Doing a search on LHC or youtube will bring you to a tutorial.

[EdG]

The nautilus bun is very popular. Youtube has a lot of videos, many by LHC'ers.
Ed

[reilly0167]

Spidermoms bun is a good one.https://youtu.be/bA2zRuY3oMY

[parkmikii]

Seconding nautilus. I wear it everyday with a hairstick or a ficcare.

[MsPharaohMoan]

The L stands for lazy? Mind blown. Always wondered what it meant. L-infinity is so comfy!

[spirals]

The L stands for lazy? Mind blown. Always wondered what it meant. L-infinity is so comfy!

It's because as you make the bun your hand is in an L shape, more or less. It's opposed to the make a bee butt and flip the top coil over method, which doesn't work for thick hair with a lot of taper. (I end up with a heavy side and a light side of the bun and it looks weird.)

[meteor]

My current favorites are:

Double-loop LWB-like structures (I always start with a braid):

- (Braided) L-Infinity bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzn4gNWIVQ
- (Braided) Spidermom's bun (double-loop bun): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCvC_MU0To8
- Chameleon bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1gwxHBgRM

Other buns:
- (Braided) LWB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DKLqSQWZos (and LWB modified for long hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNK0EPX7G1Q and variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Sqx1uuCdE)
- French Pinless Bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlkGLzboHE


There are lots of other single-stick buns to experiment with, for example:
- Disc bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5sSEBy7HQ
- Knot bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGTXkUhFKE
- Celtic knot bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQAucReptY
- Wrapped stick bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJCzbQTbjy0
- Eqilibrium bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFVvF5R684
- Pretzel bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElSCHnzYtM8
- Pha bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsF9Kp5W9Ig
- Figure 8 / Infinity bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyc-1cT9_AE
- Nautilus bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86ZH0J7xtE
- Ellingwoman braided bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_biroGTJ7A
- Hypno bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFeNYl-OK6Q
- Artemis bun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBjLxJF1zIc
- etc etc...

There are a couple threads on this you might find useful :) :

- What's your favorite single hair-stick bun? http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=55128
- Most secure bun for sticks: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=136737

[Anje]

The L stands for lazy? Mind blown. Always wondered what it meant. L-infinity is so comfy!
Yep. It came out a few years ago as an alternate, easier way to form it than the wrap-and-flip method that you can see in the video I linked. I think it tends to balance better, too. I'm not sure when it started getting shortened to L-infinity -- seems like it's only been in the past 2 years or so.

[meteor]

^ I always thought the "L" is about the way fingers are held in that shape or maybe "lazy" because it's pretty easy to do (once there is enough length). I could never get Infinity/Figure 8 bun to form or stay (I think my hair is too thick for that bun), and I think these 2 buns are very different in topology, only their end results looks visibly similar, but they are pretty different buns. :)
I've also seen L-Infinity being referred to as the "Mirrored Spidermom's Bun" (here's a great video with a stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpyxs6d4o0 and fork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqC7LYOqzhE).

There is also Alternate L-Infinity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrEha6RhvxA), changing direction and order in which the wrapping is done. I think I've seen a video with neko_kawaii doing something similar, but I think this video was somewhere on the LHC, I can't find it on YT, unfortunately :hmm:...

And Double-Wrapped L-Infinity (for added stability for extra long hair): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3EcIu22znA

[languagenut]

Cool thread! Now I know how to make the Disc bun (need to do a little looser next time, though)! I've made a note of all these links.