somethingwicked
March 2nd, 2009, 03:49 PM
Okay, I just have to share this in case there's someone else like me out there looking for something similar. Plus, I've gotten SO MUCH from this board, rattling around the archives and cruising current posts off and on, I gotta give back :)
Anyway, I started doing some of my own maintenance on the cars, and where a quickie scrunchie bun would work for most other activities to keep my hair out of the way, I didn't want to crawl around under a car with my hair exposed, even wrapped up. When the weather was cooler, I'd just go ahead and pull it back and wear a zipped up hoodie with the hood pulled up, but I grabbed a do rag at the dollar store to try and it is PERFECT! It's the kind that I've usually seen the gangsta types of guys wear. It's kind of satiny (which does cause some slippage, but nuthin a couple of bobby pins won't help), but I can put my hair in a bun, tie it low across my forehead, then the "tail" part that the guys usually let hang down their backs covers the bun neatly. LOL, it looks hideous, so I'm dreading the day I take one of my cars to a meet to work on it with help, but it saves the hair, and that's what really counts, isn't it? But these things are available at almost every $1 store I've ever walked into, they work better than a bandana, so they fit the bill nicely.
So, hopefully this will help someone, sometime, who needs to get their hair pulled totally out of the way and protected.
Thanks again, everyone, for all of the information that you share here on a daily basis!
Anyway, I started doing some of my own maintenance on the cars, and where a quickie scrunchie bun would work for most other activities to keep my hair out of the way, I didn't want to crawl around under a car with my hair exposed, even wrapped up. When the weather was cooler, I'd just go ahead and pull it back and wear a zipped up hoodie with the hood pulled up, but I grabbed a do rag at the dollar store to try and it is PERFECT! It's the kind that I've usually seen the gangsta types of guys wear. It's kind of satiny (which does cause some slippage, but nuthin a couple of bobby pins won't help), but I can put my hair in a bun, tie it low across my forehead, then the "tail" part that the guys usually let hang down their backs covers the bun neatly. LOL, it looks hideous, so I'm dreading the day I take one of my cars to a meet to work on it with help, but it saves the hair, and that's what really counts, isn't it? But these things are available at almost every $1 store I've ever walked into, they work better than a bandana, so they fit the bill nicely.
So, hopefully this will help someone, sometime, who needs to get their hair pulled totally out of the way and protected.
Thanks again, everyone, for all of the information that you share here on a daily basis!