Fashion: Hair: Accessory
Heat-shrink hair-band   (+2)  [vote for, against]
For those that have eight thumbs and two fingers

My 3 yr old daughter doesn't sit still while I try to make some pig-tails. It's not something I have mastered: even my best effort is re-done by the wife in moments.

So armed with the hair-drier and some short heat-shrink plastic tubes, I think I might stand a chance.

Of course, they would need to be low temperature acting, and brightly coloured.
-- Ling, Mar 08 2006

braiding - plaiting http://www.widemedi...0/backstage/1kh.jpg
[po, Mar 08 2006]

Ah, just use cable ties.
-- jutta, Mar 08 2006


How do better hair binders solve the difficulty of braiding?
-- Aq_Bi, Mar 08 2006


Braiding? What's that?
-- Ling, Mar 08 2006


Thanks, [po]. The tone of my voice didn't translate very well. I meant: I can barely grab a handful of hair and twist an elastic band around it, let alone braid it.

But with fewer words.
-- Ling, Mar 08 2006


ah!
-- po, Mar 08 2006


I thought that they made some sort of head harness to restrain your toddler.
-- Jscotty, Mar 08 2006


That is what the pigtails are for. And why children of all genders should be left with uncut locks.
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Mar 08 2006


(Speaking from experience) there's a lot to be said for shaved heads.

But what are you trying to achieve here? Getting the hair plaited, or stopping your wife from doing it over?

P.S. Heat-shrink tubing appears to be widely used for hair extensions, whatever those are. So it looks like you're on the right lines.
-- DrCurry, Mar 08 2006


Damn, its true! [DrCurry] either has seen it or thinks it to exist allready.

tsk, tsk
-- Susan, Mar 08 2006


There's always the Topsy-Tail.
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 09 2006


Tubing used for hair extensions resembles monofilament fishing line, only hollow. It's used as a tie, not a tube.

If these become fashionable, we wouldn't have to hear "Looks like Dad did your hair again today. It looks... nice. Really.", anymore.
-- Shz, Mar 10 2006


Susan: actually, I think *everything* exists already; but in this case I saw a link. It wasn't interesting enough to post, though.
-- DrCurry, Mar 10 2006


Now heatshrink headbands, there's an ide... ow ow OW
-- BunsenHoneydew, Mar 11 2006



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