today's hairstyle is BOG MUMMY

[kaberett]

(i.e. HEY niqaeli I FINALLY TRIED OUT THE THING)



This is recently-washed hair, after a day of Doing Stuff including Going To The Gym, and was also my first attempt, so -- yep, it's messy, and also I will... do better at dividing my hair next time, but I'm tolerably pleased with it as proof-of-concept. It is indeed remarkably comfortable to wear.

Also: shittydinosaurs_feed is now a thing that exists.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

oooo

[niqaeli]

It really is quite comfy, isn't it! It re-distributes the weight of the hair nicely; I prefer a french braid slightly for that but it's much harder for me to cleanly french braid my own hair (I can take breaks doing the bog braid, doing one section at a time and tying it off with an elastic; a french braid sort of just has to get done all in one go).

And, yeah, fresh-washed hair is a lot more pain in the ass to wrangle in this style.

[ninetydegrees]

Ooh! That looks great. I'm bad at braiding my own hair but this looks like something I could do, even with my fine hair. Thanks for posting about it!

[kaberett]

HA, whereas I do French braids as my everyday default and am... rather tidier... with them... than this.

[kaberett]

I think niq flagged it up to me in the first place! And I have spent genuinely over a year going "....... I should really get to that", so I am very pleased that I now have got proof-of-concept :D Because it'll be much easier to do next time, yes yes.

[hilarita]

Oooh! If you do it again, I would really appreciate a view of the side, as I'm having real trouble working out the rope braid structure. I mostly just do a standard plait on mine, as it best shows off my stoat tail.

[delight]

Oh, this looks great!

[kaberett]

I actually went "... rope braids are hassle and I can't be arsed" and just did more tiny braid-braids (though the other way up to give me a bit of texture down the side of the head); actually, give us a sec...

[kaberett]

I'M VERY PLEASED IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO GO INTO THE ROTATION.

[sonia]

Cool! Now I'm going to spend the next year going, "I should really try that!" :-)

[ilyena_sylph]

So cool!!!

[niqaeli]

It's a very flexible basic concept and you can absolutely just do a standard plait on the bottom two sections of hair! It'll make it a 9 strand braid on the bottom braid instead of a 7, but honestly no one can tell the difference without examining the braid closely with it down (instead of in the final bun).

[lunabee34]

That is so cool looking!

[watersword]

So cool!

[katzenfabrik]

That is SO COOL!

There’s no way I’ll grow my hair out long enough for this before getting cross and cutting it all off, but I am trying to grow it right now and this is a nice inspiration, thank you.

[hilarita]

ahaha weasel! Thanks so much! I'll give it a go soon.

[ludy]

Cool!


When i had long hair i always struggled with centred braids and usually did two side ones with varying degrees of fanciness.
I didn't cover back then - this does look like it would be a comfortable way to distribute the weight of long hair under a wrap

[fyreharper]

!!!!!!!!!! BOG MUMMY BRAIDS!!!!! :bounce squee flap:

Ooh and it sounds like maybe this is a hairstyle that I have the correct length of hair for instead of Too Much??

[kht]

I might give this a try. Thank you!

[kaberett]

Ahahahaha yes. Quite.

[kaberett]

I am super impressed with it!

[kaberett]

ISN'T IT. And when I redid it this morning I got it substantially neater, so rapid improvement is on the cards. :D

[kaberett]

Ahahahaha, much sympathy, yes. (Whereas I just don't cut it short because then I'd need to have Scissor Noises or Clipper Noises near my head, urgh.)

(Fun gender things: turns out that post-top-surgery + vest top + slightly more bicep + ... Fancy Hair... actually really works for me? So THAT is nice.)

[kaberett]

It is doing a really REMARKABLY good job of keeping my hair unobtrusively out of the way and this... might just be What I Do for lab & allotment now.

[kaberett]

Oooh, would love to hear about results if you do!

[kaberett]

My hair is long enough to sit on and this style could happily accommodate more, so yes! :D

I am super super grateful to niq for flagging this up in my vicinity in the first place.

[kaberett]

It's certainly sufficiently comfortable that I'm planning to do it for lab work (which involves wearing a hooded lab coat, and if you're me also wearing a headscarf because I cannot STAND having loose hair touching my face, but it's difficult to fix that while wearing lab gloves in a way that is ACTUALLY SAFE and also fast enough to not lead to me screaming).

[lunabee34]

That's awesome! I never learned to braid my hair when it was long, so I am impressed!

[naath]

pretty

[kaberett]

<3

[naath]

But sadly I think I have too little a)hair b)dexterity to make it work. How does one rope braid?

[fyreharper]

Mine is at the length where it gets sat on if loose, but not if braided, so perhaps similar! It is also at the length of “unless I clip the braid up in thirds while dancing, it tends to thwack people on the spins” :p Definitely contemplating this as a possible solution, especially for when I forget to bring the big hair barrette!

[fyreharper]

Two-strand rope braid is the easy kind of rope braid - divide hair into two sections, twist both sections in the same direction, wrap the two sections around each other in the direction that they want to go in. If you are at all familiar with spinning/plying yarn, it is basically that!

[fyreharper]

TODAY’S HAIRSTYLE IS BOG MUMMY!! I ended up with a tail-hanging-down version because I did not think to bring pins with me. We shall see if it survives dancing this way! My mother thinks it is really cool and my sister is horrified at the concept XD

[kaberett]

WOO.

[fyreharper]

Worked great for dancing! (Was not the bounciest sorts of dancing today but still.) So pleasing! Thank you for the introduction to this thing!

[kaberett]

Very welcome, and delighted to hear!

[naath]

oh, I can do that.

[fyreharper]

:)