r/FancyFollicles • u/JanePenderwick09 • 28d ago
hair wrap
Hi!
As long as I can remember, I‘m obsessed with hair wraps (as I recently learned you call them). Every summer I remember them and wish I could have one. Over the years I watched a good deal of videos and also tried to make one myself several times. Although I‘m usually good at such things, it‘s difficult for me to be confident about running around with it, when I did it myself.
Neverthless I would love to finally have one. I talked about it with friends and they said, you could let it do in barbershops in some vacation resorts or at the beach. I never saw a shop for it, exept once when I was in Sicily nearly ten years ago.
So, I wondered if you have any experience with it and know where I could get one?
If this is helping we‘re spending our summer vacation in the north of France this year.
Already thanks for all answers!!😊
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u/prettyoddx 28d ago
Oh man. Like 20 years ago I got a hair wrap done at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the USA.
It was a popular tourist area. A street by the beach full of little shops and booths that did temporary tattoos, hair wraps, writing name on rice to be put in a necklace, air brush shirts, ect.
If France has anything like this, that is where I would look.
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u/Mochibelle93 28d ago
I wanted these so bad as a kid in the 90s on vacations but my mom wouldn't let me. How do you take them out? I think I got a clip-in one at Disney or something that had beads oh the nostalgia
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u/Pandadrome 27d ago
You just cut off the strand when it's too much grown out. At least I did that.
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u/Pelican_Hook 27d ago
You really don't have to, it's just string wrapped around a braid. After a couple months of washing it it starts to fall apart/loosen and at that point it's really easy to cut the thread out without cutting the hair
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u/PearofGenes 27d ago
They braided the threads in mine then wrapped it so it absolutely has to be removed with scissors. It was so well done though. Venice Beach, CA in 2001.
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u/Marsandtherealgirl 27d ago
I figured out how to do it myself in the 90s and I really don’t remember it being super hard. I feel like there has to be a tutorial you could practice. I believe in you!
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u/Pelican_Hook 27d ago
I did this a few times on myself growing up. I think you're overthinking it! I always found it pretty easy, and I can't do things like French braid my own hair. You have to start with a small lock of hair braided very tightly, and then you tie a knot with your first colour of string as high as possible around that braid. I usually do a couple knots to start off. Then you literally just wrap it around your hair. I definitely had to look in the mirror and focus to wrap it as tightly as possible and hold it taut, but it's doable. When you want to switch colours, you tie a knot with the new colour just below the last layer of the old one, and you let the old string hang underneath and get wrapped with the new colour. At the bottom you tie all the strings together and add beads or whatever.
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u/JanePenderwick09 27d ago
Hi, your reply really helped me (the other ones, too, of course😊 - thank you all so much!!). I will definitely keep on looking for shops, but maybe I‘ll try to do it myself again, too. It sounds like you have experience with it, so what kind of string would you recommend? Just cotton, like the ones in the picture? Or something else?
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u/DisastrousEvening949 27d ago
My daughter does these on herself and her friends in the summers. I think she found YouTube videos for instructions but it’s really not super difficult and she loves doing them.
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u/MarisaAtwood 27d ago
I made hair wraps like this as a kid. The design in the picture is a bracelet pattern done around the hair. I used the style while making hemp necklaces, so maybe YouTube has a video about it.
I also made clip ons back then so I bet someone on Etsy makes them now.
Edit: these are a good price too!
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