Knot Bun

For this bun, hold all your hair in the left hand as if to do a ponytail. Using your right, bring the hair up over and around the left hand and grasp the hair with the fingers of your left hand.  Hold the hair on top of your left hand with your right hand while pulling the length of hair in your left fingers through to form a knot.  Wrap the length around the base of the knot you have made to form the bun and secure.

Variation 1 - follow instruction above except before wrapping the length around the base, but after having made your knot, braid the length.  I have secured with 2 hairsticks as shown photo 1 (back) & 2 (side).

Variation 2 - Curl the ends of your hair.  Follow instructions above, but instead of tucking your ends under, arrange the curls all around and then secure. Back, side, & front views:

Variation 3 - hold all hair in the left hand as if to do a ponytail.  Using your right hand, reach over your left shoulder and under your left arm holding the hair to grasp the length and wind it around the base once or twice depending on length and grasp it with the fingers of the left hand that is holding the pony. Now take the length through the loop of hair you just created starting the bun just like tying a knot. Then wrap the remaining legth around the base of the knot and secure.  I secured it with two hair scroos and used the hair stick just as decoration in photo 1.