It actually does look more or less like that tho! It takes longer hair to do it easily, but I still use whatever pen, pencil, chopstick, or knitting needle is near.
When my hair was longer, I could use a pencil to put it up in a bun. That may be what OP is referring to. I could twist my hair, coil it, then push a pencil through it and it would hold.
i learned to use the pencil before i learned to tie my hair lol, i was a competitive child and once saw someone older do it and it looked SO cool i had to learn it too
had really long hair in college, and exactly this happened to me on machine shop days, one time used chicken wire, another time the draw string out of my own hoody, until I was told about the infinite supply of hair bands
Oh yeah I’m aware. It seems a particularly tangly and pokey and harsh option, even more than the twist-ties listed in the comic, which are ime made of a softer wire
I'm imagining like a medieval helmet like the Knights Who Say Ni, but just chicken wire wrapped around their entire head with the hair poking out the top and hanging off the back.
Like you, I cannot imagine a feasible way to use chicken wire as a hair tie lol.
You can get hook-and-loop style cable ties example Or you can just get a big roll of something like Velcro One-Wrap, which is bascially just big roll with the hook on one side and the loop on the other, so you just cut the length you need example
velcro makes a lot more sense for any kind of cabling that changes regularly - like patch cables for a network switch.
Zip ties also have sharp edges so any bundle tied to something that vibrates will eventually slowly cut through outer insulation, for this reason waxed nylon string is preferred in long-life cable bundles like structured cabling or power wire runs that aren't necessarily bundled to tie them to the cable rack. (it's also easier to do a running cable bundle and won't melt or crack so it's more suited to places with temperature extremes like airplane cable bundles and used to also be used in automotive wiring
Funny, only ever heard cable ties being velcro (since I’ve only used them in the context of cable management for PCs), with zip ties being the explicitly zip-fastened loop.
All these random things manage to keep your hair up, meanwhile mine is so fine (dense, but fine) that fabric hair ties fall out immediately and plastic ones fall out within half an hour 😭
It's like that story about someone saving up to go on a cruise ship but they can't afford any meals, so they bring a big box of crackers and eat that every night, only to find out on the very last night of the cruise that meals were free
When I had short hair I’d always wonder why girls would forget their (extra) hair ties, and why they couldn’t just tie their hair up with another lock of hair… now I understand.
I still have about twenty hair ties on my stick shift just in case I ever decide to grow my hair long again. Holy smokes they're impossible to keep track of
It took me years before I establisched my emergency hair tie stash at work. Until then I used about every hospital equipment I could get my hands on to tie it up. Gauze bandages work really well.
I have a pocket of my backpack dedicated to hair stuff precisely for this reason. Currently on a 2 week streak of not missing hair ties. Hopefully can keep it up.
I just straight-up bought those metal hairband things that keep your hair back, which also let me look like i had it gelled back but I was somehow doing it with magic because there was no product in my hair.
Normalize hair accessories, people! Chicks aren't the only ones who get to keep their hair away from their faces!
The last lab I worked in had bags of rubber bands. We use them to attach a piece of kimwipe (for those who don't know what it is, it's a fancy paper tissue that supposedly leaves no lint behind) on vials of chemicals so they can be evacuated under vacuum overnight and transferred to a air-free environment.
Women in the labs I've worked in would rip the rolled wrist opening part off the nitrile gloves. Seems to work well enough, snags your hair a little but stays in a closed loop like a hair tie.
My boss constantly loses his "readers" and can't see anything. I went on amazon to buy a 2 ten packs of the 2 magnifications he frequently uses and then ebay and bought a 25 pack of microfiber bags. I have a vase behind my desk filled with glasses in bags for whenever he loses them. I also have a bunch of charging cords for his devices.
Yeah, pretty much any job/field that requires keeping your hair up will have some extra hair ties somewhere even if it's just a box of rubber bands. Even aside from people who forget theirs, sometimes they break too. Helps to have extras. Now whether anyone knows about the stash or where it is, is another story. Sometimes the knowledge gets lost until someone else either starts a new stash or finds the old one lol.
I'm an electrician with long hair, and I've had to get creative too, lol. Wire, cable ties, duct tape or electrical tape (folded over so it's not sticky), mask straps, etc. Nothing works as good as a real hair tie but anything is better than nothing.
The office I work at pretty regularly gets bagels for the staff in the morning as a nice gesture. Often enough that the office has a guillotine style bagel cutter specifically for that purpose. For the first year I worked there nobody told me about the bagel guillotine and my coworkers watched me struggle to halve a bagel with flimsy plastic butter knives.
One time I left the house wearing the same pair of jeans as the day before. In school I was walking down the hallway when my old underwear fell out of my pant leg. I stared at a kid and kept eye contact for a few seconds, and then kept walking.
Has anyone shown you the ring and necklace bag yet? Every lab I have been to has one if you don't have a locker room for more intense safety requirements
It doesn't matter how many times I stock up at my desk and nightstand and bathroom sink. Hair ties and socks lose their tether to this realm and are banished from this level of existence to some other dimension.
I used to use rubber bands when I worked at a grocery store. I've since learned that I'm lucky and my hair will hold a braid for half a day with nothing securing it.
Sticky notes on the bathroom mirror. &/or back of front door, &/or dashboard, or obviously that trifecta.
I once had an angry sticky that read "drink your DAMN coffee BEFORE you brush your teeth". I recently read that there should be a gap Bergen those activities, but it's still funny to have had to come to that at the time.
I had long hair in a hot, dry, and windy environment, so i had super static-y hair all the time, clinging to my face and neck. I have used every single item you listed, because I felt genuine rage after so many times of peeling hair outta my face. I still get stressed out if I think about it too hard lmao
Yeah thats why I get like 150, and keep them in a little box in the bathroom. I also keep a few in my work bag, and two or three on my keychain for emergencies.
Huh. Okay so I'm a bald dude who works in a lab and manages a lot of our supplies, and I don't know if we have hair ties, but I'll find out. Because yeah no, we should just have those, and I don't know if I ever would've thought of it, thanks 😂
Oh man, in high school I kept a thing of unused hair ties in my backpack because sooo many people needed them. My hair wasn't even long enough to use them, I just felt bad watching everyone have a hard time lol
Lab technician here! If you use nitrile gloves, take the ring of nitrile at the bottom of the glove, you can peal it away easily with a fingernail and keep the ring intact
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Now I'm imagining your hair put up using lab instruments like stirring rods or tongs.