Guest Blogger: The Nester on Hairagami

The Nester is a mom, a wife and a home stager and redesigner who
recently left all her clients and moved to a new city.  Instead of
going to fabric stores all day she now spends her time homeschooling
her three boys.  She scratches that design itch by writing about
creative, frugal ways to make your house a home on her blog Nesting
Place.  She is also the design point person for a new online magazine
called Blissfully Domestic.

I went to my local CVS and spied this amazing-looking contraption called
Hairagami.  The girl on the label had her hair pulled back into a
lovely tight bun.  Oh how I need that!  With hair well past my
shoulders, there are just some days where I don’t want to feel
one strand touching any part of me.  Armed with my hard-earned ECBs,
I purchased that cute, possibly life-altering tool.  I can’t
remember how much it cost but I’m pretty cheap so, it couldn’t
have been too much.

Visions of
Izzy from Grey’s Anatomy filled my head.  A perfect
delicate-but-not-fussy, tight-but-still-graceful bun was just what my
hair needed.  When I got home and opened the package I was at first
confused.  There was a circular black velvet covered rod that with a
little force could be straightened and separated at one end into two
rods. 

Yep, I was confused too. 

The instructions weren’t all
that helpful but they were folded all cute you know, like origami!

"Okay,”
I thought,  “so after I grow two more arms, this should be
child’s play.”  After a few unsuccessful attempts to get
all my hair between the two rods, I figured out that this was not
meant to work with layered hair.  That wasn’t gonna stop me.  I
marched onward, determined to somehow get my hair tucked into a nice
tight bun.

After many
attempts that included using the wall, my leg, and the counter as
leverage, I finally had something that resembled a bun.  My bun was
not tight and not high like Izzy’s.  My bun was more like
Granny Clampett and her loose, low buns.

I’m
keeping my Hairagami  just in case I ever get the urge to sport an
unkempt, loose, low bun.  But, there’s really only room for
one — okay, maybe two loose, low buns on this body so, I guess I’ll
continue to wear them on my backside as opposed to my head.

~ The Nester