The Random Hair Thoughts Megathread

**Corvana** · May 20th, 2022, 08:22 PM

My buns won't stay in today... Even if they were super grabby and awful and would knot up if you thought about them at all, that last six inches of hair was apparently integral to my bun ability

I have to remember how to bun for shorter hair (and with thicker ends).

**Lady Stardust** · May 21st, 2022, 01:51 AM

Originally Posted by Corvana

My buns won't stay in today... Even if they were super grabby and awful and would knot up if you thought about them at all, that last six inches of hair was apparently integral to my bun ability

I have to remember how to bun for shorter hair (and with thicker ends).

Blunt ends are really tricky! Can you do it in stages? Do a half up bun, then wrap the lower half around, either in one go or in two sections?

Otherwise, 2 or 3 smaller buns. It’s always nice to have an excuse for space buns

Congratulations on your fresh ends

**Bat** · May 21st, 2022, 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by GrowlingCupcake

My original plan was to get the ends of my hair professionally bleached, and dyed. Now I'm wondering if I should just try bleaching my hair on my own. I've never done it but it can't be that hard, right? Of course, it's also short now so probably harder to do on my own but it would be so much cheaper...

Depending on how much underlying pigment is in your hair it can be easy or a disaster, I recommend going to a salon or if you have time and don't mind a student doing it going to hairdressing school will be cheaper.

Edit: I saw your hair in another thread do not do that at home, it will go orange,

**embee** · May 21st, 2022, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by Corvana

My buns won't stay in today... Even if they were super grabby and awful and would knot up if you thought about them at all, that last six inches of hair was apparently integral to my bun ability

I have to remember how to bun for shorter hair (and with thicker ends).

+1 for Fairytale ends! (Been there, done that, blunt hemline can be a big pain.)

**Joules** · May 22nd, 2022, 03:58 AM

I think I'm finally in the truly long hair club: I can't wear my hair down anymore. I like doing so sometimes when I'm just lounging around to give my scalp a break, but lately I've been...getting tangled in it? Does it make sense? Like, even if I put it all to one side, my ends would still find a way to either get stuck under my back or bottom or wrap themselves around me so that I'd need a moment to get up and untangle myself from this mess. Yeah. No more freedom for my hair, loose braids to the rescue.

Also, it's finally at Classic when stretched. I'm not ready to call it yet because it's barely past tailbone with shrinkage, but still!

**squirrrel** · May 22nd, 2022, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by Joules

I think I'm finally in the truly long hair club: I can't wear my hair down anymore. I like doing so sometimes when I'm just lounging around to give my scalp a break, but lately I've been...getting tangled in it? Does it make sense? Like, even if I put it all to one side, my ends would still find a way to either get stuck under my back or bottom or wrap themselves around me so that I'd need a moment to get up and untangle myself from this mess. Yeah. No more freedom for my hair, loose braids to the rescue.

Also, it's finally at Classic when stretched. I'm not ready to call it yet because it's barely past tailbone with shrinkage, but still!

Good going, Joules.

My laugh is that while I have worn my hair in plaits 99% of the time for years I have recently joined a dance school where they make a thing of hair: there are one or two classes where you would keep it up regardless but there are some that if I go at the right stage of my wash cycle I will occasionally try leaving it loose: mostly because we are a performance based school and if I can learn how to dance with it down carefully then it could look good in the as and when of actually doing a perfect…

**knobbly** · May 22nd, 2022, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Joules

I think I'm finally in the truly long hair club: I can't wear my hair down anymore. I like doing so sometimes when I'm just lounging around to give my scalp a break, but lately I've been...getting tangled in it? Does it make sense? Like, even if I put it all to one side, my ends would still find a way to either get stuck under my back or bottom or wrap themselves around me so that I'd need a moment to get up and untangle myself from this mess. Yeah. No more freedom for my hair, loose braids to the rescue.

Also, it's finally at Classic when stretched. I'm not ready to call it yet because it's barely past tailbone with shrinkage, but still!

We are at the same spot I think because this has been my experience lately as well. I’ve been wearing a snood or my satin sleep bonnet around the house when I want to have loose hair (due to headache or just tiredness) instead of letting it down for more than just a few minutes.

**Kerrtu-Kevät** · May 22nd, 2022, 12:16 PM

My hair stays up better if it has braid waves before I bun it, That's interesting to know

**Corvana** · May 22nd, 2022, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lady Stardust

Blunt ends are really tricky! Can you do it in stages? Do a half up bun, then wrap the lower half around, either in one go or in two sections?

Otherwise, 2 or 3 smaller buns. It’s always nice to have an excuse for space buns

Congratulations on your fresh ends

Thank you! It was actually more that I was making my loops too big, apparently

Once I made them smaller (I was previously using my whole hand with my fingers spread apart, but now my fingers need to be back together) I stopped having my buns fall out

Originally Posted by embee

+1 for Fairytale ends! (Been there, done that, blunt hemline can be a big pain.)

They are luckily still a little fairytaled, but the difference is still very striking! They're like 3-4x thicker, even if they aren't "thick"

**rosenester** · May 22nd, 2022, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by GrowlingCupcake

My original plan was to get the ends of my hair professionally bleached, and dyed. Now I'm wondering if I should just try bleaching my hair on my own. I've never done it but it can't be that hard, right? Of course, it's also short now so probably harder to do on my own but it would be so much cheaper...

There can be a bit of a learning curve here… like processing time differs for me from my nape hairs and scalp to the lengths, and you want to use the right developer. My hair only requires 20 vol, which does not come in traditional box sets from the drugstore for bleaching…. Keep researching before you dive in and set back your growth goals!

Edit: didn’t look through other comments, but I see Bat already responded…. I agree, treat yourself with a salon visit!