ok fellow dopers, i need your advice. about a week ago my mum spent 3 hours putting my 4-5 inch long, thick hair into lil braids, and it looked badass. now the braids are still in, altho some of the hairs have come out. this isn’t the problem. the problem is that the teeny rubber bands on the ends keep coming off, and due to the fact that it’s behind my head i cant actually put them back on myself.
now, next week i’m on holiday with a few of my macho friends (who aint gonna put the bands back in my hair for me) and i need to know, is there some way of doing something to the hair/bands to stop them coming out. they’re already as tight as they can get…
Epoxy?
i thought seriously about glue, but i want to be able to get it out eventually. would something like beeswax on the ends work instead of bands? or with bands?
get a girlfriend- take her along to do it for you
You can get a great invention called “soft wax” from most salons or maybe even grocery stores. The stuff acts like gel but doesn’t affect your hair in such a glossy, gross manner. That is to say that it’ll keep it place but it won’t look like you’ve got a lot of stuff in your. Don’t know if that’s what you’re going for, but you could try and just wrap up the ends of each braid with some wax one morning and see how it lasts through the day. If it doesn’t go, you might just be screwed.
Hope that helps you.
~ARose
thanx for the suggestion ARose. i think i’ve sorted the problem with beeswax, which lasts longer than soft wax (i used to use it instead of gel) and i’ve sorted stopping the bands falling out (a hell of a lot tighter. was nearly doing them with chopsticks!)