Saturday 18 May 2019

Pinless heart-shaped bun tutorial

Here's a simple, heart-shaped braided updo that requires no pins or tools at all.


Start with your hair in two braids. I like the Dutch braids, but French should work just as fine.


Find two spots where you have a "gap" where you have fed in more hair to the braids.
You can pick a spot higher up or lower down than I have. Higher up risks making the bun "collide" with your ears which I find really irritating, and lower down will get the finished updo more of a bun-shape than a hart-shape.


Cross the braids at your neck and "feed" the braid up and through at the gap under the braid.


Tighten both braids


Find the spot where the two braids go each their own way at the neck.


Feed both braids down and through the spot where the two braids go each their own way at the neck. Cross them again.


Pull both braids up and through the gap under the braids where you fed the braids through the first time.


Tighten again.


Feed both braids down and through the spot where the two braids go each their own way at the neck. Cross them again.


Keep repeating the process of feeding the braids up and through at the gap under the braid and down at the spot where the two braids go each their own way at the neck, crossing the braids each time. Repeat until you run out of braid length.


Tuck the ends under the bun-formation.


Wiggle/adjust everything a bit and...Done! 


The final result is a low and elegant heart-shaped bun held with no pins or tools at all.


The way the "bun"is spread out like this, gives a very good weight and strain-distribution.

Wednesday 15 May 2019

And now we wait...

Based on the replies I got on my Head&Shoulders review, I have contacted the mother company Procter and Gamble. I have to admit I'm actually very, very curious to see what they have to say about this...

Sunday 12 May 2019

The scrunchie trend...?

I've been reading about how scrunchies are trending in 2019 since... The beginning of last year pretty much?? But I haven't actually seen them in real life anywhere around me since the last two weeks or so (Pinterest is not real life!). I guess scrunchies have a feeling of 80'es/90'es, but in the uncool kind of way so it took a while to pick up? But now it looks like it's actually picking up and it feels like a natural continuation of last years bandanna trend.

But of course now I have a nagging feeling I might have tossed the old (So very old) scrunchies I used to have the last time I cleaned some stuff out of my closet?

Time to go digging around and see if I can find any still... I remember having a seamstress making a scrunchie out of a pair of dresspants I spilled toner on when I changed the cartridge. I had accidentally bought two of the same pair along with some other pairs in the same model but different colours, so I had a very cool matching scrunchie to the pants. Of course back then, scrunchies were very much out so I never used it, but I should still have it around.

Time to start digging...

5 ways to wear the scrunchie trend
These 6 Hair Accessories Will Spike in 2019
The 90s Hair Trends Making A Huge Comeback This Year
Is the scrunchie trend basic or brilliant?
The scrunchie hair trend
Why throwback hair accessories are cool again
Etc. There are so many links to articles about this.

What do you all think about this?
Wearable? Practical? Just embarrassing? Pinterest-only? Clickbait-y for style sties? Nostalgia in a fun way? Or were scrunchies just never actually cool?