Test Hair 3: The Ultimate, No-Fail Way

So, we've covered Test Hair with a wiglet, Test Hair in a french twist, now it's time for test hair that cannot fail.

Test Hair

Testing is a nightmare. Not only do you have to worry about skating you have to worry about your hair. And I have the classic baby fine blonde hair with all the body of a well cooked noodle. It just hangs there, and escapes from just about any barrette, pin, ribbon or headband. I've tried bun doughnut that's supposed to be a net form for you to arrange your hair over. Said baby fine hair just won't cover the form. You can see right through the hair to the doughnut underneath. Even if I hot roller my hair, use a can of spray, and enough gel to decorate the set of Aliens, by the end of the five minute warmup, my hair is straight and floppy.

I finally found a way to keep my hair neat in tests. I wear a hair scrunchie.  These also go by the name pony tie, circle wiglet, hair wrap, and pony fastener.

Hair scrunchie

I started with a cheap one from Ulta, but I just bought a nicer one from a wig shop. We'll see how that goes and if it's worth the money. Anyway, I've seen some decent ones for $10 or less, so they're cheap enough for an experiment.

They're dead easy to use. Pull your hair back into some kind of ponytail, bun, or doubled over pony (depending on the length of your hair) and plop the scrunchie over it.

When I wear this for work I just use bobby pins to keep it in place. But for skating, I use Goody hair screws called a Spin Pin. Trust me those things are never coming out. And if perchance they do, they're easy to see on the ice.

Goody Spin Pins
How to Use

Maybe you want something more elegant than a fluffy/spiky set to your hair. I find the scrunchie useful for that too. I just plop a hairnet over the scrunchie before I put the pins in, and tug the whole kit and caboodle into something that looks like a bun. Then I screw the pins in.

Total time, 5 minutes.

And now for the obligatory cat picture. A cat in a bun.

"Coach, what do you mean this isn't the kind of
bun you wanted me to wear?"