If you wear your hair up...

[FlyMeToDunoon]

Do you get a headache?
I have started wearing mine tied back or pinned up with kirby grips after growing it out from short and I get a headache every day.
I have tried putting it up damp but this hasn't made much difference.
Also if you put your hair up wet or damp how on earth do you avoid looking mad when it has to be taken down for any reason later. Mine just sticks straight out from my head like a mad professor who has been electrocuted.
Also my head then hurts like hell.

Mine is usually up in a bun sort of thing and yes it hurts a bit and can give a Bride of Wildenstein look. Compound this with the mad professor hair when it drops a little and I am grateful that we live remote and people rarely me.

Try a pleat or French roll then pin it up loosely.

rarely see me.

I would like to perfect a pinned up loosely look but tend to end up with a wispy falling down look.
I can't really do any kind of styling.

mad professor is better than hallowe'en witch (i raise you a crate of john frieda)

unfortunately i work in a customer-facing role. sometimes i forget that i am wearing one of my 10yo's stripy bobbles to tame the 'do'...

i only get headaches if i wear one of her plastic hairbands though...

I think it's quite a lot to do with the clasp or whatever you use to hold your hair up with. atm I'm using smallish crocodile clips to hold up a french roll type thingy, which is how I always wear my hair. If you use just one clasp, there is the danger that the weight of your hair "hangs" on just one section, which is fairly agonising.
I put mine up wet (gather hair at the nape of your neck, twist it up the way to make a roll, tuck the ends in, or leave spiky on top) and when it dries it has nice curls in (briefly) when I let it down. OK, it probably looks a bit wild, but I prefer it that way - can't stand poker straight, straightened hair that just hangs there. It's sometimes sore by the evening, but actually it's so used to being up that it actually feels a bit sore when I let it down iyswim. I think 'coz the hair is going in a direction it's not used to.

I've worn my hair up everyday since I was about 7 so no, but I agree that sometimes it hurts if I let it down. I think the key thing is a good hair band that can take the weight of your hair , not some little plastic thing.

I started to get fed up with the 'pulling' feeling just in front of where my hair was held in a band/bun, so have recently begun to wear a really loose plait slightly lopsided so it falls over my shoulder. Did this for a Wedding on saturday and it looked quite pretty.

(however I'm very faddy and will no doubt get fed up and go back to bun soon!).

It depends how you're putting it up. Tying it back into a ponytail and then into a bun with grips gives me a headache. But I twist it onto the back of my head and use a couple of those little crocodile clips so it's quite loose. That works ok

Lots of suggestions to work on, so thanks everyone.
I think I need to invest in a massive supply of different clips and bands and try things out.

Ok today I have let my hair dry down, bought lots of small crocodile clips for roll/pleat at the back and small bendy clips for shorter front hair. Done up quite loosely. So far [1 hour ] it feels fine

Agree with MentalFloss that a decent hairband is good for ponytails. I use more than one -- either two thick ones or three thin. It gives a perkier pony and less 'dragging'. You can also then get the ponytail itself tight enough to stay up without yanking on the roots. Are you pulling things very tight? If so then doing it damp would probably make it worse because your hair will stretch when wet then contract as it dries, thereby pulling your scalp.

agree that putting it up while still damp is not a good idea....that gives me a headache...the extra weight of it beign wet and pulling on your scalp....ow.
Enjoy experimenting with all the new clips and bands and hope you find the perfect style for you...I'm still working on mine. :)

Also, if your hair is long enough it's worth learning to use hair pins rather than kirby grips. Kirby grips are very pinchy things, whereas hairpins can hold your up do so it stays in place through engineering rather than through a metallic death grip. I am finding this impossible to explain, and lots of people find them tricky at first, but really I recommend that you give it a go. Probably no good if it's not below shoulder length though.

I'm a convert to hair pins too - my hair's just longer than shoulder length, and for the last few months I've been twisting it into one rope, winding it round itself into a bun and then just shoving three or four hairpins in. Amazingly it holds up, looks 'done' and is prettily curly when i unpin it at night. Extra marks for the 'why, Miss Jones!' factor, and the way it adds an extra day between washing, as it stays cleaner.

I used to use hair pins but as my hair has got longer have found it more difficult. I now use hair sticks almost all the time. Even with my long, thick hair I can get it up with one - a few twirls, stick it through, wiggle a bit to loosen off to prevent headache, and voila.

You can get some really posh nice ones, or get some cheap but still good ones from places like Claire's.

Agree with wildfig hair pins are much better for the Miss Jones moment -- nice waves rather than crazy kinks!

SirB I have a history of snapping bargain hairsticks (when my hair was a bit longer, admittedly) where do you get fancy ones?

Don't put your hair up wet or damp is skanky and will smell awful!

Oooh, hair sticks. Where from? I remember wearing my hair in a series of leather-squares-with-stick type things when I was at school, but now my hair's long enough to put up again 20 years on I can't find any pretty bun holders.

(That sounds wrong somehow.)

wildfig

Well a loose pleat/roll held up with a spring clip and the shorter top/front bits held back with those bendy hair clips is working for me today. It does seem that damp or wet hair feels worse later on.
I am so enjoying having it off my face for a change.

MadamCastafiore, I am interested in your comment. Can you explain how can putting your hair up wet make it smell? I have never noticed an odour dd's hair. She trains with a swim squad and often has wet/damp hair in a pony tail (freshly shampooed).

The hair wrapped together tightly won't dry properly and so will end up smelling - plus when your hair is wet it is stretchier than dry hair so may break if tied when wet and stretchy beyond it's dry tension level.

Thanks for explaining . I do try to get dd not to tie it into a tight ponytail to avoid breakage though.

Try doing a sock bun without making a ponytail first. My hair is halfway down my back and it's the only way I can wear it up all day with no headache.

what is a sock bun?

This bun is also fairly comfortable. It uses only sticks. I find any style you have to band first always gives me headache.