Amusingly enough I'm wearing my hair more or less that way this very minute (I confess, though, it looks better on Djuna barnes.) No hairpins needed - I have v. fine hair, but it does have some curl. Grab it as you would for a ponytail and keep twisting until it sort of turns under itself. Tuck in ends.Right now it's held purely with something shaped more or less like this (http://lameiwigs.en.alibaba.com/product/50101419/200326064/Hair_Ornaments/hair_claw.html). (I used a couple tiny clips to hold stray bits that clip didn't catch - bobby pins work too.) I can also hold it with a hair comb (http://www.adorable-hair-accessory.com/crystalcomb9.html) (I think the kind with zigzaggy teeth hold better) or hair fork (http://www.argusdesigns.com/products/fork/f_exwood.html). I have a fork with three 'tines' nad it holds extremely well. The key to holding hair with combs or forks is to push them in first in the *opposite* direction of how you want them to go, then reverse course and push all the way in.
Incidentally I think this style would look way better on you than it does on me.
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Date: 2007-09-18 08:14 am (UTC)Incidentally I think this style would look way better on you than it does on me.