Buns for iii hip length hair?

[Olga-Freya]

Hi! Thanks to my good genes I have long hair since my childhood, with my longest was calf length with solid blunt ends, but I used to have something between knee and midtight length most of my adult life. Last year I realised that I'm not care about my hairlenght as much as before anymore and chopped to tailbone lenght for the first time. Now I'm past classic again and I want to try more "average' lenght - I think I'll try hip/lower back lenght now. But I like to wear my hair up and I'm worring that my usual braided lazy wrap bun wouldn't work with that lenght and my iii hair with very little tapering. I'm thinking about getting very slightly U-shaped hemline, but I don't think it will help much.

So, do you know is it any hairstick/hairfork buns that would hold iii hip lenght hair? Thank you!

[giraff]

Lucky you with that gorgeous hair! I recently asked a similar question in the waist to tailbone thread (https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=5483&p=3990203&viewfull=1#post3990203), and didn't hear from many with iii hair. I think mochichichi was the one who said that gibraltar and cinnamon bun works, but the other replies was from ii hair. From what I remember, the consensus was that many buns are difficult at hip length.

I'm at hip with iii thickness, little taper, U-shaped hemline and fine hair, and find that I have to use claw clips for most bun for them to stick. Granted, I'm not a very experienced bunner. But I'm a decent braider! :eyebrows:

Welcome to our thread if you decide to go for a hip cut!

[mochichichi]

I am a barely iii with a blunt hemline and minimal taper. I have been wearing a gibralter most days since waist; I think around hip/TBL I was using one stick with a scrunchie to keep all the ends from sticking out, but as long as you tuck in the tail (with little taper the tassle likes to poke out like a little antenna) I have found that braided buns tend to hold pretty well the entire time I've been growing so I would guess your usual style would work? But I also bun pretty tight, probably tighter than I should have when I was in the lower back region. I've been experimenting with an orchid bun which appears to work. I'm not sure if I would have been able to do it at hip, so it might not work shorter--unfortunately I didn't try it at that length. Another style I've been able to get to hold at most lengths are heidi braids (looped 1.5 times and sewn down).

[Sarahlabyrinth]

My suggestion would be to just try various buns and see if they work.

[MusicalSpoons]

I would try bunning and leaving out the excess ends, tie a scrunchie around where the excess starts, then take out the bun and see where the scrunchie comes on your body. Then you'll know the minimum length you need to bun your hair comfortably.

[lapushka]

I started to tentatively bun at hip with iii hair. If I were you, I'd wait. Do a log roll, something like that. But when I got to classic my buns were still too tight (and I suffered the breakage to prove it). It's just not enough hair to bun in a way that it doesn't pull. IMHO. But you don't have to take my word for it. I would split the hair, and do half-ups, half-up buns.

[KokoroDragon]

My hair is right on the cusp of ii and iii - 3.75" to 4" depending on my shed rate. I found that the popular stick buns like LWB and nautilus were too tight until around TBL. Before that, the stick buns I could wear comfortably were a disc bun and a braided cinnamon bun.

[lapis_lazuli]

I would try bunning and leaving out the excess ends, tie a scrunchie around where the excess starts, then take out the bun and see where the scrunchie comes on your body. Then you'll know the minimum length you need to bun your hair comfortably.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I did it for fun, and the minimum length for my bun seems to be around waist, which is shorter than when I first started wearing it, so good to know.

[The Lizard Wife]

I have never had hip length hair, so I'm more lingering in this thread for advice when I get there myself, but.

I am very doubtful that my own hair would be long enough for a braided lazy wrap bun, or any braided bun, at hip length. I'm currently almost-waist, 4", with a u-hemline and some deliberately-trimmed-in taper at the ends. I can, if I have my hair up high enough, if it's dirty, put it in a disc bun with a single wide stick (a fork makes it too tight; not sure if that's tender scalp, user error, or the nature of my forks). The disc bun works for me because it splits the hair in half to wrap, rather than trying to wrap the entire ponytail such as in a lazy wrap bun, so I actually have ends left over to wrap around the base. I suspect if my hemline were still blunt this bun would not be working so well at this length, but maybe at hip it would be fine?

[mochichichi]

You can also do the actual bun with less hair and then wrap the remainder around the base if it's a bit too short.

[barnet_fair]

To add a possibly irrelevant case, I have HL iii hair with taper, and an LWB with a single stick or fork holds fine. I think those with little taper and blunt ends will have a much harder time here - thickness at the top is perhaps less determinative.

Braided buns have never worked for me and like The Lizard Wife I think it'll be quite a while until they do. It could well be because I don't braid tightly, but it also eats up so much length that I have barely anything to work with.

At BSL my taper was negligible and the disc bun worked. YMMV.