The AlopeciaBoy Network
Living Life Alopecian Style!
Bandana Lessons 101
Learning to tie the Alopecia way...
Find yourself a normal size bandana in your favourite color or style.
Measure about a handsize down, or a palm's width towards the center...
And fold that part away from you so that you're holding it like this...
Your fingers should be here holding this part of the bandana by now...
Keeping your fingers there, kind of flip it so the folded part is at your forehead...
Then let the back part fall to the back of your head like this...
Slide your fingers along the sides til you get to the tips of the side corners like this...
Pull the ends together and fold one corner under the other to form the beginning of a bow.
Pull it tightly, pulling the tips down if you want. You don't have to make a knot - it will hold!
And that's how you tie your bandana the Alopecian way!
I keep mine roughly about where my eyebrows would have been and it suits me fine under those hot summer sun days!! You can wear it swimming, and even then they don't move around to much if you pulled the ends together snugly. Great for getting back in the game of life! Stay cool everyone!!
Instead of buying a bandana, you can also cut any favourite material to size: 53 cm by 53 cm square.
Feel free to hem to your choice - ragged, ribboned, laced - use your imagination!
Some of the girls on Heather's MSN group have really great ideas - as a guy I prefer the ragged loosely cut edge when hanging out in casual environments, I wear nothing on my head to social events and going to the movies or nightclubs if I do wear one, it's a normal bandana.
But the following is a great way of tying a bandana so it doesn't slip off, and you can even go swimming, jogging or lawn wrestling gators with them, and they don't budge!
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