Absolutly you'll be able to use them!!!  I have thick hair, too, and wear them regularly.  My hair isn't quite as long as yours so I usually use Amish hairpins to secure the bun and add the hairsticks more for decoration than for holding the hair.   You can check out my hairstick collection in the LongLocks Collections thread.

You'll just have to experiment with styles until you master them.  At your length, most will be accessable to you.  I'm almost there...the key is practice, of course.  Sometimes you'll wind up with beautiful accidents!

So, start looking for cool & crazy updo's to dream about and practice!!!

My hair's pretty darn thick too, though wavy, not as curly as yours... but honestly? I don't think I'd be able to manage my hair at this length (1/2" above tailbone) without sticks. All it takes, like Sakina said, is a little practice, and you'll be whipping up fancy looking, practical updoes in no time.

As a tip, if you don't want to spend much money but have some sort of sandpaper (or even a spare nail file)... all but one of my sticks, I made myself using a 1/4 wooden dowel I got at a hardware store...  cut into 6" lengths, sharpened a bit and sanded, (and some were painted with nail polish for color) and they work beautifully. I'm still saving up for a pair of LL hairsticks too, though... LOL.

I definately do. even when I first get a scrunchie (even the smaller sizes) I have to double-wrap them, otherwise they slide right out.

They aren't exactly scrunchies, but they are small terry-covered elastic bands.  I actually buy them in the children's section.  I have been meaning to take a picture, but I'll give a brief description and then post the pic later if I can.

Make a small ponytail with just the front section of your hair, about as much as bangs cover.  Divide that in half.  Take a side section of hair, as much as you would if you were pulling the hair of your face.  Using the side section and half of your original ponytail, make another small ponytail.  Repeat on the other side.  Take the two small ponytails and combine them into one at the back of your head.  Divide that one in half, and repeat with two more lower sections of hair.  Combine those ponytails into one along with whatever hair is left.  Band the rest of your hair into a whip.

This makes a kind of diamond pattern on the back of your head.  Since I have so much gray around my face, what I get are diamonds of white hair on top of dark hair.  The last time I did it, I was wearing black and white.  I used a white band, two blacks, one white, two blacks, a white, a black, a white, and a black. 

My hair is aaaalmooost waist length (about two more inches), so it took a lot of bands.  You have to be careful to get the ponytails absolutely smooth with no stray hairs or you can end up with a mess, especially when you try and take it out.

Thanks! I am really looking forward to trying. II thought scrunchies were the safest thing in the world for hair. I guess there are a whole lot of things I'll have to learn in order to grow my hair as long as I want to. Now I'm thinking my ultimate length my be tailbone or hip length. I did actually out it up today in a claw clip, for a little while anyway. I kind of twisted it and pulled it up to make the messy little twist with a bunch of curls on top of my head. It was cute. But I can't sleep in anything but a scrunchie.