(Hi I'm new here so I hope I'm doing this right. Sorry if I mess up. ^^;)
Cute hair bun covers. Often seen on Chinese anime and video game girls. Gaia Online has them as an item you can put on your avatar, called Bao. I've searched Google up and down and I can not find the real version of these anywhere. Any information you can give as to the real name of these things or where I can find them would be helpful. Thank you!
Chun Lee from Street Fighter?
lol gaia.
Actually, that's what I was thinking too... afraid I won't be any help. :(
Well from my searches on Google and chatting with people on Gaia I have managed to find this much: the hair style is called Odango but this may just be a term made up within the Sailor Moon series. (I have never watched it.) This is the most informative site I've found so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odango All others are Sailor Moon fansites. I also tried searching on Ox Horns too but got information on a very very large and bizzare hairstyle or just combs and hair ornaments made of ox horn.
I asked a nice lady in the local asian gift shop and even she couldn't remember the name of these things.
*"There's no real name for it in Chinese, as far as I know. (Trust me. I am Chinese and has been living in Asia for 14 years. O_o) Mostly we'd refer to them simply as "bun covers", which is actually a pretty universal term. But again, most ancient chinese ladies doesn't often sport bun covers-on the contary, it's the guys that does. xD
Most likely, elastic bands (Or simpply hair ties) should be sewn on the underside, but in Chun Li's case, you could simply get away by wrapping those long pieces of fabric around it and securing it with bobby pins. It might not be as secure, but it's kind of useful if you aren't equipped with the skills required to sew elastic.
And "Bao Bao" most probably mean "buns", a cute generic term for odangos."*
lol, wakabamark
I figured they might be called 'bun covers' but perhaps in Chinese? I do not know Chinese. Searching the internet for 'bun covers' brings up the kind I see in the US a lot. Either the hard kind made of metal, wood or plastic with a pin through them or something like the cloth ones the Chinese wear but crocheted or made of beads. Most do not look at all asian.
in ragnarok online, those buns are called "Bao Bao"s too =)
“Bao” just means bun in Chinese. They have char siu bao (manapua) at my local dim sum restaurant, which means basically pork buns. Chinese buns are typically very round and plump looking. The hairstyle looks just like buns on your head.
“Odango” is just a cute way of saying dumpling in Japanese.
Thank you. I figured that out when all my good searches brought up recipes for pork buns and such. Hahaha. Even when I added the word hair into it. So I'm guessing this is simpley a hair style similar or wearing a barret or a bow in your hair. It has no specific meaning or is part of ceremonial attire or anything.
This thread is informative and whets the appetite at the same time.