Hair donut frustration :(

These things are your friend: dirty hair, mousse, mattifying/texturising/Dust-It products, backcombing.

Yes, my hair is likewise so thin and fine, GHDs can't really curl it, friends find it surprisingly weird when they try and curl it and it just limps back down haha. Have you got the dancer style pins rather than normal bobby pins? The donut can work with fine hair but you'd need a certain length to trap the ends well.

Noted, new shopping list made!

Last time I backcombed my hair it just looked like a tangled mess I don't have enough to be able to make a smooth layer over the top.

My hair is crap!

ETA - what are the dancer style pins?? My hair doesn't curl either!! Lol

Have you tried rolling the donut down your ponytail? (YouTube it) That's what I do. I think pinning would be too tricky to do on myself?

The trouble is my hair looks greasy so quickly if I don't wash it - I don't want greasy looking hair on my wedding day!

I think I'm going to have to wear it down to be honest. So annoying!

Well, fill it with product and then spritz it with shine spray. Job done.

Dancer pins are a bit thinner looking and like pulled apart bobby pins, basically they're designed to be poked into the mesh of ballet dancer donut buns, whereas bobby pins you have to grip your hair I'm guessing? With the dancer pins you stick them right into the donut and the grip should be better. Also loreal elnett the sh!z out of it after

There are different sizes of doughnut too, maybe a smaller one would be better for coverage?

I have a cheap one from Primark as I've found all others either too big or too small. I put my hair in a low pony tail (roughly straightened but I always do it clean with no products) I spread my hair over the doughnut and put another bobble round it. Then move my hair to cover all the gaps. If there is any hair sticking out the bobble i move it all down and tuck it under. I don't like clips/grips and don't use them as my hair is too thin. Oh and plenty of hairspray (but only on the bun) I've even worn it for work and it stayed covered and in place for a whole shift of running around.

Surprised as it was £1 and the best hair thing I've bought and I really never thought it would work as my hair is thin. Also can't do the day old hair. Mine looks terrible after a few hours never mind a day!!

I am worried this is what would happen to me! Like other people have suggested maybe you need to find a smaller bun and the other type of pins.

Sorry l meant smaller donut!