Using Hairsticks on stubbornly fine hair?

[Lady Danger]

I tried searching this topic but couldn't really come up with the right combo of words to find results. I love the look of hairsticks. I've longed for years to wear them. However, my hair is (as you can see from my stats) just soft, baby-fine, stick-straight and really stubborn with being held by anything. The only thing I can get to successfully secure it is a plastic drugstore-style ficcare, and that's because they don't weigh a lot. Even beautiful regular ficcares fall out of the hair.

Am I doomed to never being able to wear hairsticks? And if not, any guidance would be welcome!

[Tinose]

Something you might consider is some of Quattro's work on etsy. I haven't received mine yet (ordered one as a birthday present for me after drooling over them for weeks ), but I've found that very narrow sticks tend to stay a lot better than the thicker ones, and he makes very lightweight titanium and aluminum ones with microgrooves that are supposed to make them stick better. (I highly suspect those microgrooves are the result of going over the stick very lightly with a file, but hey, if it works it works.) Unfortunately, his stuff's on the expensive side.

In the realm of things that might help your hair stay up that aren't sticks, I tend to wear my Zannclip daily because its hold is just absolutely secure and it's very lightweight and comfortable, but I'm also enough of a dork that I find the spring aspect neat. I just got in my order of Flexi-8s, and those seem like they'll do the same thing. The thing about them is that they have a stick, and then something holding the stick on the outside, which compresses the hair it's holding and generally makes it stick better, while still being very lightweight.

Good luck!

[Redheaded Raven]

I have baby fine hair and hair that likes to spit out hair accessories and toys at a whim. I would recommend using thin wood hair sticks.
My hair doesn't really do well with most metal ones they slide out too easily. I find that the grain of the wood seems to help hold them in. I haven't used Quattros sticks and I do know that others swear by them, but I just don't like most very thin ones as they seem to pull too much in one spot for me.

Plastic ones don't work either. I do like bone ones but not everyone is comfortable with bone.

When my hair was shorter I used a hair elastic or "rubber band" to ponytail my hair then put it in a style and then insert the hairstick. That enabled me so that I could wear hair sticks.

Good luck.

[marikamt]

Okay- my suggestion may be incredibly simplistic but.... what about a sock bun w/ the hair sticks as "decoration" ???
I think it would look like a humongous bun held by sticks.......

[katana]

Hi -

I have no idea if this will help or not, but in the reviews, there's one for this site: http://www.theloversknot.com/ - the reviewer mentions that this is a good option for someone who wants something like Quattro's sticks but is leery of the price. (review link: http://reviews.longhaircommunity.com...uct/152/cat/10 )

(er, also. My very first post. If something is screwy, please let me know.)

[Delila]

When I was first learning how to persuade my hair to behave itself in an updo, I had most success with a Goody clip/comb thing. It had teeth you'd slide into/under the updo, and a clampy bit that fit over it. I wore those for a LONG time.

Stick-wise, I had to find sticks I could cut down to shorter lengths, the extra length made the longer ones too heavy for my hair to support.

I'd suggest getting some double ended knitting needles, bending them to make large hair pins, and using several of those to secure your updos. I have/use some Quattro ones, but they're hugely over priced, IMO, even if they do seem determined to last forever.

[Lady Danger]

I have baby fine hair and hair that likes to spit out hair accessories and toys at a whim.

This made me laugh out loud...it's exactly what my hair does! I swear sometimes it projectiles hair accessories.

Thank you all for your suggestions! I'm going to look into them.

[Jeni]

I have a hard time wearing hair sticks for the same reason, they just slide out of my hair. I pretty much live in my wooden forks though (they hold great!). The sticks I have that hold the best are wood and not straight/totally round (bumpy or spiraled or more dagger shaped). Also I'm a freak I guess and find that thicker sticks hold better then thin ones for me.

Some styles work better with sticks then other do. I can hold a (tight) cinnamon bun with a stick and of course I can use one in a chinese bun. I can not get one to hold a lazy wrap bun (slides right out since I cant get it tight enough) or an infinity/figure eight (slides down and ends up crooked).

You could try just using the stick as decoration and use hair pins to actually hold the bun in place.

[rags]

I'm the same as Jeni - I can only use sticks for certain styles. For lazy wrap buns, for example, I need a fork. Sticks just come right out.

I second the Quattro notion - his sticks do hold for me, but if I get too big of a topper they will overbalance. My hair can't hold the weight of it.

What I've actually had the best luck with of anything is Ketylos. The hardwood ones work better for me. Something about that shape just works so much better than a straight stick.

[Redheaded Raven]

This made me laugh out loud...it's exactly what my hair does! I swear sometimes it projectiles hair accessories.

Thank you all for your suggestions! I'm going to look into them.

Yes my mom used to tease me that she could find me by the trail of hairpins. lol

You also might try a hair stick that has a bump in the middle of it. Some folks swear by it as a "lock" in their locks. Hehehe.