Bun cage.

[Fornarina]

@Alexandrina,
with exception of the last one, they are all from Senzalimiti, about which I saw a thread here. The last one is from MizeBa on Etsy.

@Clairenewcastle,
Sometimes I see those plastic buncages on Etsy, but usually they are too small for me. Do you mean buncages like this on Ebay?

Nowadays some Chinese companies offer here buncages in gold and silver color on ebay in smaller sizes, but IMHO they rather look like muzzles for dogs than for buns.

[tuanyiji]

Nowadays some Chinese companies offer here buncages in gold and silver color on ebay in smaller sizes, but IMHO they rather look like muzzles for dogs than for buns.

That’s interesting, I am Chinese but I have never seen those sold or advertised on our online shop here as it’s really not a fashion trend here. I have also almost never seen other bun cages, flexi-8s, or ficcares, even slides have a very specific purpose for historical top buns, not for everyday.
Hairsticks is way more common than forks, and that usually means a plus size U pin.
Helix can’t be found here either.

[Fornarina]

@tuanyiji,
I've never seen helices for hair in shops in my country or abroad except spin pins. All the helices I bought, were from Etsy Shops known in the online long hair communities only (in most cases).

Many Chinese companies produce mainly for the export and not so much for domestic needs. I have the feeling, that some Chinese companies have people to browse the web to stalk the long hair communities for new inspirations. I have seen hair slides from Chinese manufacturers, which look like Flexi8-like clips, but usually, when the stick is not integrated, the stick is quite long and the Eigth very small in relation. But there are also clips like this with an integrated stick, but of course not XXL-size like from Lillarose.

Then I think that the Chinese manufacturer, who offers the bun cage I had linked previously, launched this product in the wake of a minimalist product line to attract a certain sphere of Western customers, who like it clean, straight, wabi-sabi or whatever you may call that Less is More-attitude. It is still an art to combine lesser amount of material with a solid manifacturing and aesthetic proportions, that the item becomes a "round thing". If buncages would be popular in China, I think it would look much more refined and it would have some flower accents with jade or coral included or simply rhinestones for the everyday wearing.

But I know also the Chinese Shop Metal Art Space on Etsy, who makes very good minimalistic bun cages. I have the zig-zag shape of that. But it was a custom order, because I needed a diameter of 5 Inches for the cage with a fork of 6 Inches length - and all was meted out perfectly.

[aeryss]

Oh wow. I love the unusual shape - I do like the more spiraly Senza Limiti ones I have, but this one is super cool.

[tuanyiji]

@tuanyiji,
I've never seen helices for hair in shops in my country or abroad except spin pins. All the helices I bought, were from Etsy Shops known in the online long hair communities only (in most cases).

Many Chinese companies produce mainly for the export and not so much for domestic needs. I have the feeling, that some Chinese companies have people to browse the web to stalk the long hair communities for new inspirations. I have seen hair slides from Chinese manufacturers, which look like Flexi8-like clips, but usually, when the stick is not integrated, the stick is quite long and the Eigth very small in relation. But there are also clips like this with an integrated stick, but of course not XXL-size like from Lillarose.

Then I think that the Chinese manufacturer, who offers the bun cage I had linked previously, launched this product in the wake of a minimalist product line to attract a certain sphere of Western customers, who like it clean, straight, wabi-sabi or whatever you may call that Less is More-attitude. It is still an art to combine lesser amount of material with a solid manifacturing and aesthetic proportions, that the item becomes a "round thing". If buncages would be popular in China, I think it would look much more refined and it would have some flower accents with jade or coral included or simply rhinestones for the everyday wearing.

But I know also the Chinese Shop Metal Art Space on Etsy, who makes very good minimalistic bun cages. I have the zig-zag shape of that. But it was a custom order, because I needed a diameter of 5 Inches for the cage with a fork of 6 Inches length - and all was meted out perfectly.

Yes, I know some of them do that for export only, but sometimes they sell the extra very cheap or on wholesale, especially during the pandemic when international trade became a problem and they needed the cash to reinvest or something, but now everything seems to go back to normal.

We are now in an age of "renaissance" where more and more young people favor traditional Han or Hanfu styles and flowery/jade hair accessories are on the rise. If more people have longer hair, bun cage is very possible to become a trend, all it takes is for a few big influencers to start using them.

OMG I love that star bun cage, that's such a unique shape and very very pretty on your hair.

[sarana]

Fornarina

Holy cow that spock bun one is DIVINE

[clairenewcastle]

@Clairenewcastle,
Sometimes I see those plastic buncages on Etsy, but usually they are too small for me. Do you mean buncages like this on Ebay?

Fornarnia, that is very like the bun cages I had, small and plastic. In fact, one of mine was bright pick....memories. I didn't have a lot of hair at the time so I didn't have a problem with the size.

[Laurel Rose]

After I started to bun I was seriously considering a snood from TheBronzeJewelers but I wanted to wait to see what size I'd need at my goal length (originally TBL... haha) but they removed them from their Etsy page and now they aren't selling anything there anymore and I'm too shy to reach out for a custom/old stock

If anyone knows of a seller offering something similar I'd love to investigate!

[Fornarina]

@Laurel Rose,
Karen makes a break at all. I have the Death Star buncage from her.

[BunBunn]

I’ve never seen bun cages before but these are so cool