Ok, I really don't belong in this section, but ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

My bangs (fringe) are really bugging me. I think my longterm plan is to grow them out, and end up with an all-one-length sort of bob. Fine.

But they're longish now, and they're bugging me, so I bought some elasticy fabric "alice band" (I think this is the right word in this country?) sort of things. How the hell do I wear them? I put them on, and my hair goes straight back and then foofs out and I look like a giant dork. What am I missing here? (Please don't say 'the right kind of hair'.) Do I need one of those plastic alice bands instead?

they really don't suit me at all and i like them think you need the right sort of hair and head shape.

i was growing my fringe then gave up

try the cloth ones. but basically, you just need to brazen it out until they are long enough. i think. someoene else may have better advice.

It is the wrong sort of alice band, and this is why you end up with the hair sticking out and your head looking weird.

I would do grips, light colour grips for fair hair and dark for dark hair and grip the hair away - possibly do a side ish parting to make it less obvious.

it is difficult to tell as obviously I cant see you, but hoping this makes sense and will help.

I have the cloth ones. My hair is straight and fine.

I have some dress-up events in the next week, and am thinking about either faffing about and trying to 'style' my hair into something ... but one of the events is v formal and 'straight', so was thinking I would maybe just slick my hair back with goop and put on a hairband? I have 3 tiny velvet ones (black, red, blue) and a silver 3-strand one ...

A grip is what when it's at home? A barrette? I will try getting some of those. My hair is very fine and quite slippery, when I last had hair, I didn't really get on with them.

I can braid up or twist my hair, I guess, then put a barrette in it?

Oh, grip as in kirby grip?

I was thinking about kinda twisting my hair against my head, and then somehow using a barrette or something at the end.

clip is good, don't wash it for a few days then you could backcomb it slightly then clip back, just the centre bit looks best for me

ok longish fringes are 'in' I believe right now. Can you change your parting slightly - allows for less in your eyes.

Stick it out..I've always had long hair and on a whim as a student I had a pixie cut!!! Can not even now describe how hideous it was to lose my hair...but with the help of a very helpful hairdresser who kept cutting up the back so it eventually grew out into a bob it was less traumatic!!!

I'd either sweep the fringe to the side and put a pretty clip in it.

Or twist it up and clip it back at the front of your head. I'll find some pics.

?? barrette?

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oh gosh thats a scray link

www.handbag.com/?module=images&func=display&fileId=58001

scary

My parting is already on the side, can't really move it, there's a cowlick.

I've had a shaved head for years, hair is pretty annoying to me.

www.freewebs.com/hairstylecentral/Taylor%201.jpg

I was just going to add that I didn't think you had hair!

If it's already side parted, just clip it to that side.

get a fringe cut again

i seem to spend my life growing mine out then cutting it again

i can't imagine you with hair

it's cold enough...put a hat on

I do wear hats, or bike helmets, most of the time.

I've got a pretty square face, a fringe doesn't really suit.

what do you think of my linked pics?

They both look nice, I know how to do buns, but I just don't have enough hair yet. The second idea might work.

I like you had no hair (always wore it as a grade 6, sooooooooo much easier, but put on a lot of weight and it made me look like something from prisoner C block H, so have grown it)

Anyway, I went to a do on Tuesday, and backcombed it away from my face, a bit like Beyonce in her I I was a boy vid, a uses LOTS of hairspray, if that any help.

It is easier having no hair. I've lost weight rather than gained. Oh, and the haircut was always partly about my belief that I would end up bald (my mom's hair thinned really badly). Only apparently my hair is fine, if anything, it's thicker, because of the grey.

I don't have hairspray, but I do have a range of gels, will have a go with one of those. I almost bought the 'manga head' one.

I wouldn't wear an Alice band! How about a few of those tiny tiny butterfly clips to hold hair off face?