Figure 8 Bun... Is it good?

[Little_Bird]

Hello there!

After threads about how much I'm shedding, here's a positive one about figure 8 buns.

I'm thinking about taking my hair in a figure 8 tomorrow. I never used one out of the house. Are they good to walk around with? Do they stay a lot of time? Is it easy to do without a mirror?

If you got some hints about figure 8's, I'd like to know them :)

And by the way, I think my shedding is decreasing, slowly but surely :) ... Or at least I think so!

[plainjanegirl]

I just did my first one last week and I found it was very comfortabe yet stable.
Good luck! Post a pic for us if you can.

[AJoifulNoise]

Mine tend to be very stable if I do them at certain lengths. When I hit those lengths, the figure 8 holds like a rock. I tend to secure it with either two sticks or a ficcare. The sticks look better in my opinion. I also tend to do it on damp hair.

[Little_Bird]

Yes, that's what my sister thinks too... I use to do it on her hair and she loves it really...

I wonder if it tangles the hair? I am always skeptic about twisting hair, I always think is tangles it all up!... How's about that?

I'm gonna try it tomorrow... I love trying new styles, as it's always so rare!
And plainjanegirl, yours looks very prety!

And by the way, my figure 8 looks like this:
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/LittleBirdLongHair/Site/14-Figure8Bun.jpg

Only I'm using a green twisty stick tomorrow :D

[Isilme]

a figure eight is my staple bun. It doesn't tangle my hair at all. I secure it with a ficcare.

[Gumball]

Buns create less tangles than braids do in my hair (for the most part, day and style depending). Whenever I wear a figure 8 I hold it with two sticks and it stays really secure the entire time. The only things that I run into as problematic with them is at certain lengths sometimes my hair might unwrap just a little bit around the base of the bun (where the ends are) and when that happens I just tuck it back in and go about my business. Usually it's pretty easy to do without a mirror, but oftentimes I like to check in a mirror after just to make sure it's nice and vertical (and sometimes to see if I have my sticks in to my liking). I also find when I do a figure 8 with two sticks that inserting them parallel to each other results in much less pulling of individual hairs or small sections of hair as opposed to when I used to insert them in an X.

[AJoifulNoise]

I wear twisted buns a lot. They don't tangle for me. I think it has to do with twisting all the hairs in the same direction.

[spidermom]

My hair really seems to hate being twisted. I've noticed split ends running in diagonal rows, which makes me think they happened because of twisting. So the bun I do doesn't require any twisting and looks similar to an infinity bun. The figure-8 didn't work for me at all. It was always sagging and twisting and falling out.

[FrannyG]

It looks great, Little Bird. You can wear that anywhere. As long as you twist gently, you'll be fine. :)

[Anje]

It looks very nice, Little_Bird!

Figure-8 buns aren't my favorite. My main problem with them is the vertical stick, which does not seem to catch scalp hair correctly for me, and tends to cause pulling.

[maskedrose]

I secure mine with two sticks and it holds like a rock!

[Krifantasy]

I actually just did my first successful figure 8 bun tonight. I got myself some nice sticks tonight and have been playing with some different buns (I usually wear mine in a cinnabun). I really liked the figure 8 bun, my hair felt solid (not sliding out at all) and I can shake my head and it still feels good. I used one stick. I also found that doing it sideways worked just as well and meant that I could wear it lower on my head and not stab myself with the stick.