SouthernTease
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How long did you HIDE YOUR HAIR
using bunning/pinup styles?
How did it benefit you?
using bunning/pinup styles?
How did it benefit you?
How long did you HIDE YOUR HAIR
using bunning/pinup styles?
How did it benefit you?
I feel like I am bunning or pinning up my hair forever when I dont have it braided up. Sometimes I go through "hair depression"
I feel like I am bunning or pinning up my hair forever when I dont have it braided up. Sometimes I go through "hair depression"
I wore buns since day 1 of my hair journey-- June 2004. Years. The bunning helped me tremendously with length, but it hurt me as well. I noticed that bunning-- even loose bunning was thinning my hair in the low crown (under the holder) and my edges as well. Wet bunning was the worst. My hair pins were also causing me breakage. So after much debate, I stopped the 24/7 bunning to rebuild those weak areas again. I've also stopped relaxing in the mean time. My last relaxer was in May and I don't plan to relax until I see considerable improvement in these areas. The problems are not too visible, since I have alot of hair to mask it, but it is there-- and it is depressing.
Now I am concentrating on more free movement styles like rollersets, spirals, rods, and braidouts. Basically tension free, low manipulation styles. This is working much better for me. Plus I look cuter.
ITA. That is why important to change up from week to week or wash to wash. I never even TRIED the wet bun thang cuz I knew that didn't sound good for me. But I would bun low back one week, then bun to left next week, then bun to the right, (sounds like square dancing!), then do one single braid down the back, then part in midde and do single braids on each side with natural hair one week, then do cornrows one week, etc. to rotate the different "pressure" points. I don't think bunning exclusively in same position is good, at least not after reading all the posts about bunning. I decided to change things up . . .
Yes ma'am! You have to change it up from time to time. And it wasn't so much the bun positioning/clips themselves, because I was "square dancing" moving it all alround it was just having it pulled back every single day that put tension on the edges which were already beat up from years and years of slicking and brushing with that blue magic and brown gel.
bunning consistently has helped me retain my ends. i alternate between that and a weave,
I have a question that may seem really obvious to you ladies as i feel as if I've missed the point... BUT...
When one is bunning as a protective style, to prevent the edges from getting thin, can one not just make the bun a bit looser so that the edges are not tightly pulled?
I know that you ladies have thought of and do this already, but I do not undertand why edges can be weakened if the bun is looser.
I have a question that may seem really obvious to you ladies as i feel as if I've missed the point... BUT...
When one is bunning as a protective style, to prevent the edges from getting thin, can one not just make the bun a bit looser so that the edges are not tightly pulled?
I know that you ladies have thought of and do this already, but I do not undertand why edges can be weakened if the bun is looser.
I have a bunch of super smooth, beautiful hairsticks that I purchased to perk up my protective styles. They're like magical hair fantasies and makes bunning kinda fun.
Okay, when chopsticks become magical hair fantasies, you know you're LHCF addicted.
How long did you HIDE YOUR HAIR
using bunning/pinup styles?
How did it benefit you?
I have worn my hair bunned/baggied since Dec 2005 and doing this is the best thing I could have done for my hair. I'm 2 inches from bs not to mention ADDICTED to keeping my hair hidden