One of those "Aha!" moments!

[Fencai]

So, I've been trying different buns now that my hair is long enough, and the weather has finally turned hot here in PA.
I dont always want to wear a hair toy to work since Im running all over the office prepping for our big show in Miami in a couple weeks, so Ive been using bobby pins to secure with.
By the end of the day, my scalp is tender and I had some itchies, so I thought I was pulling any rubber bands too tight, or twisting too tight, but no that wasnt it!
Yesterday, I finally got to Sally's and bought some hair pins, because I was getting tired of stretching out my bobby pins.
This morning, I put in my rope bun, and decided to use my new hair pins... and well... let me tell you! I only used two, and I cannot feel them in my hair!
DUH!!!! :doh:it was the bobby pins that were making my scalp hurt!!!
I had all these memories of my childhood come flooding back to when my mother used to ram them into my scalp to the point it felt like she was pinning them straight into my brain! My father was the one who said to use the hair pins instead!!!

Dear Ole' Da' was right again!!! I had to chuckle, but its just one of those "Aha!" moments!!!

[mellie]

That's cool that you made that discovery!

I found that hair pins are quite comfortable too, compared to clips or scrunchies.

[Arctic]

I love then too! They come in few different sizes, and colours. The nickel free versions are also available for those who are sensitive. <3

ETA: http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/LingonberryMist/20080829004_sm.jpg

[JamieLeigh]

I'm right there with you on the hair pins. They're infinitely more comfortable than the regular old bobby pins, and I think they hold better too since they don't seem as stretch-able. :)

[Heidi_234]

I love then too! They come in few different sizes, and colours. The nickel free versions are also available for those who are sensitive. <3

ETA: http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/LingonberryMist/20080829004_sm.jpg
Wait, you use them to hold a bun, right? Because I thought regular bobby pins (like this (http://carys.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/ist2_47660_bobby_pins.jpg)) are to secure wisps of hair to the hair on the scalp (as if you have bangs, and you securing them back with them). Am I confusing something?

[ReddishRocks]

Wait, you use them to hold a bun, right? Because I thought regular bobby pins (like this (http://carys.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/ist2_47660_bobby_pins.jpg)) are to secure wisps of hair to the hair on the scalp (as if you have bangs, and you securing them back with them). Am I confusing something?
LOL - No, I think you've got her point exactly! She has discovered hair pins are better than bobby pins for buns, which may be a big duh to some, but I made the same mistake as the OP because I didn't know about hair pins!!! :p My mom has straight-ish hair, and always wore it down when I was younger. HER mom has always had short short hair... this hair pin knowledge did NOT get passed down. ;) I struggled for years with using bobby pins to secure buns and wondering why in the heck it wouldn't work or why anyone would even try!!

Hooray for minor miracles of hair engineering! :D

[carinkla]

before I got on longhair fora I would also have chosen bobbypins because I did not know hairpins existed. Fortunatly the hairdresser who did my bridalupdo knew. but still she had to use 60 and two cans of hairspray ;) Guess how I spend my wedding night. Bu t to remain on topic. When we removed them of my bun I realsed the different with bobbies and started using hairpins

[Fencai]

LOL! yep one of those tiny things that didnt get passed on to me.
My mother always had long hair, but used scrunchies to hold her bun, not pins, so the only ones I ever had were the bobby pins.


hey carinkla- we did the same thing for my wedding.. only DH counted 97 pins that he took out of my hair that night, plus all the hairspray!!!

[Heidi_234]

Oh okay :o I didn't know pins can secure buns up until recently, so the 'not knowing' thing goes both ways lol.
btw, while we on the topic, there are large hair pins like this, I mean LARGE one, few inches long at least, they are great too. Almost like hair forks, but not really. :p

[enfys]

I can use kirky grips to secure buns, but I think that was just because I had to be adaptable because it was all I had. The bun pins I later got never did it for me. I can imagine kirby grips hurting depending on how you used them. If I remember I'd pin as I went on a cinnamon bun, rather than leaving it until the end. Maybe that made a difference.

My hair's silly.

[Toadstool]

oh wow I always wondered what those hair pin thingies were for!

[ncurls]

I don't know. Those hair pins don't work for me! Maybe my hair is to thick? They just get bent out of shape and slide out! :(

[nowxisxforever]

I don't know. Those hair pins don't work for me! Maybe my hair is to thick? They just get bent out of shape and slide out! :(

Try Amish hairpins:

http://plainlydressed.com/images/amishhairpins.jpg

http://plainlydressed.com/veils-accessories.html

[Bene]

i've always seen hairpins, but since i don't pin anything back, i never really knew what they were for. i guessed they were the bobby pin's more rotund cousin.


although, i do remember seeing them in an old loony toons episode where bugs bunny was in transylvania and he was being chased by this witch. she would stand still, and then poof, she was off and flying around, but in here wake, you'd see these hair pins kind of falling down/left behind. since then, i'd always thought of them as old lady/witch pins.

[slz]

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/LingonberryMist/20080829004_sm.jpg

And all this time I thought that was what you all meant when you talked about bobby pins :D - the "real" bobby pins I wouldn't put in my hair if your paid me, it pulls half your hair out when you take them out.