Looking for a video tutorial

[WyntreBlossom]

I love love love my hair sticks and hair forks. But sometimes I just want to throw my hair up in a messy scrunchie top knot or bun and call it a day. I used to do this all the time with my shoulder length hair but now that im around TBL i find it almost impossible to do the way i used to without it just falling into what looks like a very poorly done ponytail. I use silk scrunchies, NOT classic elastics, and i do not use any products or sprays or pins. Id love a video tutorial for this sort of style just to mix things up a bit! Anyone know of a good one? All I could find on youtube were people with shorter "long" hair

[akurah]

I do a variation on this sometimes. when I do this, I will use two to three scrunchies.

One is to make the ponytail base, either at the nape or top of my head. Two wraps of the scrunchie for base, don't make it too tight, you need room to get more hair under it later. Please note positioning in photo is for demo purposes and ease of me taking a picture of myself.

https://i.imgur.com/GiXLAET.jpg?1

I then grip the ponytail in one hand below the base, spread my fingers very wide, and wrap the length around my fingers.
https://i.imgur.com/ZNSj9bS.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/rx01g4r.jpg?1

Once all the hair is wrapped, the second scruncie is wrapped around my hair "ball".
https://i.imgur.com/dt56Cl8.jpg?1

I fold it up into the looser first scrunchie.
https://i.imgur.com/lDvW1vO.jpg?1

I almost always secure with a 3rd scrunchie to keep it all together.
I made it very low down on my hair to enable the pictures--I usually do this against my head.

This might not be your goal, but this is my version of a messy scrunchie bun to keep the hair from falling down or tangling up.

[TreesOfEternity]

For a “messy” top knot I make a lose cinabun on top of my head and hold with two hair sticks, it looks poofy, a little messy and I like it so much to spice my librarian-go to-bun a little bit haha.

[leayellena]

I started with a braided nautilus like make the first wrap, the length comes later as a knot bun. it's a mixture between the nautilus and the knot bun. I'm still not sure it's a neoma knot or I inventerd something completely different. tie it with a scrunchie. the scrunchie will squish the bun into looking like a beebutt. I think it's good for a beebutt version on longer hair.
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36483&d=1554969289
sorry for the big photo.

Here's the unbraided version:
https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36482&d=1554968243
in this case a few spin pins or a fork or a stick may also help.
for this one I started with the ponytail, then wrap a nautilus, then with the length going on to a knot bun.

I feel I should make a tutorial out of these.

[MusicalSpoons]

It's not quite what you're looking for, I don't think, but for effortless/messy 'just get it out of the way' and I don't feel like making a 'proper' bun I put it into a ponytail with a scrunchie then make a loose LWB or Nautilus with a fork - you might get away with a stick at your length. The ponytail base means the rest of it can be loose, and maybe fits the definition of messy too? I don't know. It doesn't hold for very long, but I don't know how long messy topknot buns are supposed to hold anyway :shrug:

I do akurah's one sometimes too but without the ponytail base. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong and why it literally only stays in for about 5 minutes :laugh: :doh: