Have you ever known anyone who wears a bun in their hair as normal fashion?
I remember my Grandmother used to, but I haven’t seen them for years.
So, apart from athletes or for specific activities, do you know of any person who wears or has worn a bun?
In my twenties I did. It started out as a red lipstick and huge hoop earrings thing, then turned into a librarian thing. Then I got over it.
PS: turned 20 in 2000, gave up the bun in 2006.
Me, sometimes. My hair’s too short at the moment, but I’ve been known to sport a bun when it’s longer. Couple reasons: it’s easy, it keeps my hair off my neck and out of my face, some styles are actually fashionable (there was a “messy bun” fad a few years back) and sometimes it’s actually a hair prep procedure: if I put my hair in a bun during the day, it will make lovely waves when I take it out at night, without having to break out the curling iron and spend time on it.
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I might, but I don’t know how to make my hair do stuff.
My hair is too thin for a bun, but I do sometimes do a french twist.
Huh? I see them all the time. I don’t know any woman who only wears a bun, but I see plenty that have it in their rotation.
It is about the only memory I have of my great grandmother, she died when I was 5.
She had coal black hair down past her waist and every morning she would comb it out and roll it up into a bun, and every evening she would take out the bun, comb her hair out and put it in a long braid.
I know from pictures she had some grey streaks in there but I don’t remember them.
I always wanted long black hair like my grandma.
My mother kept my blond hair in a pixie.
My Mom, born in 1939, always does. Still does. I’ve rarely seen her with her hair down. She’s a former flight attendant with Philippine Airlines, so maybe it’s an old habit from her working days.
But, granted, it’s not very common at all. I can’t recall anyone else who does.
Oooh, go to YouTube and look up “sock bun”. It’s really easy to do and comfortable to wear, but requires a bit of lipstick or mascara to avoid looking like a matronly prairie woman.
I do, my hair is, and has always been quite long. Sometimes i do so when it’s really hot and humid, because it’s the coolest. Sometimes a pony tail is not safe, like around machinery. When I was younger I did it when a wanted to appear older. I also work in service and have long dark hair, if my customer ever finds a hair in there food, I know it’s not mine. If anything could be worse then a hair in your food, it’s got to be a two foot long, black hair in your food.
I see them often, as well.
I don’t know if work counts as a specific activity, but when I was a teenager I worked in a grocery store. Part of the dress code was that your hair couldn’t touch your collar.
I had waist-length hair at the time. I would pull my hair back into a ponytail, braid the ponytail, then wind the braid up into a big bun. One day I got dropped off at work a little early and I hadn’t done my hair yet. My co-workers were shocked to see how long my hair was and wanted to watch me put it up.
There’s a teen girl at my church, senior in high school, that wears this…bun, I guess you’d call it. She has long straight hair and she pulls it up to the very top of her head, maybe a little closer to the forehead than that, and inserts, I don’t know what. Then wraps her hair around it. It roughly the size of a small pumpkin and it looks totally ridiculous. Never mind that it is slightly off center. If it were a hat, you’d call it rakish but she comes off looking like she stepped off the train from Whoville.
My husband and I entertained ourselves by watching other people’s reactions to it. I thought it would be a one time thing as she would realize how stupid she looked but no, she’s worn it since. I wish I had a picture.
My 11 year old daughter wears a bun pretty regularly. She does a lot of ballet, so she’s used to putting it up that way, but it’s very flattering on her, so she does it other times too. It keeps her hair out of her way, it looks neat and fresh, and emphasizes her face.
Ditto, except my hair is plenty long enough. In fact, it’s half the reason I keep my hair long: it’s actually lower-maintenance (for me) than shorter hair, which requires me to do shit besides brush it and roll it up.
Plus: yeah, pretty waves and ringlets later. 
The man-bun is a hipster trend right now, too, I think, or recently.
My paternal grandmother, Abuelita, did. I only saw her without it once; specifically, I saw her shook her hair loose and brush it 100 times before going into bed, this one time we’d all piled up into her house and I was going to sleep in the bed that had been Abuelito’s. She could sit on her hair! I knew you needed long hair for a bun, but I would never have thought it was that long.
Okay, now we really need pictures! Man bun? Say what?
Just yesterday I saw a girl at work wearing a bun. I had to comment on it because a) I’ve never seen her hair anything but down, b) it made her look so schoolmarmish, which is not her personality, and c) how the fuck did she make it look like that?
Weird.
Wow, what a coincidence!
I just saw this insane TV commercial yesterday for the first time - the “Hot Buns” - which, I admit, I thought was going to be about something totally different.
But as I watched it, I too thought, “Who wears them today?!” They just remind me of strict old librarians who would glare at me across the room.
I’m a fan of the “messy bun” when I need to get my hair up and out of the way. I don’t really do ponytails and it’s quick and easy. I sometimes do my hair up in a type of bun when I have time that has the front and side hair twisted until it reaches the nape of my neck and then all the hair is twisted into a neat bun and secured with a band or decorative bobby pins.
I don’t know anyone who wears a bun every day as their primary hairstyle.