Hair toys spotted in the wild

**C.H.** · July 5th, 2011, 02:12 PM

Have you seen any nice hair toys while out in public?

I'm surprised to find that I have yet to spot any hair sticks, let alone a fork or Ficcare--and I live in a large city. I've only been aware enough to look for them since I joined LHC about a month ago, but still, are they really that rare?

Come to think of it, a family friend did show up to a celebration last week wearing a small flexi-8 in a half-up. I got all excited and said, "Oh you have a flexi-8!" And she was like, "A what? My mom gave this to me..."

**PianoPlaye** · July 5th, 2011, 02:40 PM

I've become more discriminating as to sorts of hair elastic, but I've yet to see hairsticks etc "in the wild".

**1953Diygal** · July 5th, 2011, 02:46 PM

I saw a woman with long hair at Wally World and she had her hair up in hairsticks (they appeared to be chopsticks). I remember it got my attention right away.

**dajanchen** · July 5th, 2011, 02:54 PM

I saw a ketylo once in the wild. Elastics are quite common here.

**Alvrodul** · July 5th, 2011, 02:59 PM

Not too long ago - a couple of weeks or so - I saw a woman on the metro with her hair up and wearing a hairstick.

Mostly, when someone wears their hair up at all, the hair is usually held by a hair elastic, or perhaps a hair claw.

**Narya** · July 5th, 2011, 03:01 PM

I saw a young girl (maybe 10yo) the other day with a "glassy" hairstick. I thought it was clear plastic with swirling color stripes inside, but it could have been glass. Did not dare to ask, though: the creepiness factor raises when it's a child you approach to ask for her updo...

**C.H.** · July 5th, 2011, 03:38 PM

I think if I ever saw someone with a hair fork or Ficcare I would seriously suspect them of being an LHCer.

**wendyg** · July 5th, 2011, 04:06 PM

Alvodrul: the Metro of which city? I was in DC a few weeks back, traveling every day between Columbia Heights and Judiciary Square. (Plus some other trips.)

wg

**Alvrodul** · July 5th, 2011, 04:29 PM

It could hardly be you - I live in Oslo. And anyway, this person was not a Renegray, she had reddish hair.

**PrincessBob** · July 6th, 2011, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by C.H.

Come to think of it, a family friend did show up to a celebration last week wearing a small flexi-8 in a half-up. I got all excited and said, "Oh you have a flexi-8!" And she was like, "A what? My mom gave this to me..."

I go to a party every 4th of July to reconnect with old friends. One girl who last year was really gushing over her EZcombs/Hairzings, swearing they were the best thing ever. I cannot get them to work in my abundance of hair, sigh. Anyway, I arrived this year wearing my Emerald XL Flexi-8 (as a secondary anchor on a coffin-pinned figure 8 bun) and she was like "Wow, I really love your beaded thing!" Another lovely lady at the party was wearing wooden hair sticks with silver frogs as toppers in a cinnabun. I hadn't met her before, and when I commented on them, i don't think she understood, because she looked at me sideways and didn't respond. It's not that she's a cold person, probably just shy.