Gee, if all you guys think it is such a grand idea, why aren't you joining me next time I go for a chop?
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Gee, if all you guys think it is such a grand idea, why aren't you joining me next time I go for a chop?
:D
Eh.....
I always used to donate my hair to the Cancer Society's wig fund- it grows so quickly I could always afford to lop off a foot and mail it away.
As it is, I don't think I'll be going short again for quite some time. It's taken a year to get to where I am now, and the sides are still shaved down, because I need to hack at something!
When I was younger I gave about two and a half feet to locks of love, but because it is so thick i am sure for normal hair it would be more like 5 feet!
The hairdresser said the same thing to me! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by K.M Roberston
Now my hair is touching my shoulders again and can be forced into a pony tail.
And I am already wondering when I can donate again next :eek:
Years ago, the week before I started highschool my mom cut my hair very short and we had the terrible idea of cutting a fringe. I have fine curly hair, but I keep it straight. Even so it tends to get 'poofy'. Anyway, my hair was in a short 'poofed-out' bob that reached my ears and she cut my fringe wrong so that it started just higher than the middle of my forehead. So basically I ended up looking like button mushroom. It was terrible starting a new school that way! I actually cried, hehe.
I have hardly any pictures of myself for those two years. I still have nightmares about it and refuse to cut my any shorter than shoulder length now :D
The good thing is my parents always let me decide what I wanted to wear or do with my hair, etc. The bad thing is that my parents always let me decide what I wanted to wear or do with my hair, etc. :lol: :p
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
I have not always made the best "hair" choice either... When I turned 17, I cut my hair so short that I could barely hold it.. with a fringe long enough to cover my eyes and sideburns to cover my cheeks.
The day before my university graduation ceremony, I had another very short haircut but this time it was more "normal" - though still shocking for people who knew me with very long hair for 3-4 years.
It is good to experiment while young :D
Definitely! Now, I'll never be tempted to cut my hair short again because I know I look terrible with it...and everybody has mostly forgotten the whole thing as well :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Oh, I don't know about that... 20 years on, I am still doing the same thing! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
No I had so much trouble with my short hair and it took so looooong to grow back, that I will NEVER do it again :D EVER :D
90 F and high humidity =
http://www.arizonafoothillsmagazine....frizzyhair.jpg
(Not my picture)
Except in my case I wear a hard hat so it's flatter on top and bigger on the sides, kinda bozo-ish.
Yes, exactly... That might as well have been a picture of me.
I have to blowdry my hair with round ceramic brushes and then I go over the bits you can see with a ceramic iron... And then, hopefully, it stays in place...
Don't you just miss the 80s?
I know I do because my hair always looks like that ^ too.
I can never straighten my own hair even though I love straight hair. Even at the hairdresser's it takes two people about 45 minutes to get it done.
My hair is fine (I would add 'luckily' but it's not always a blessing), so it's easier to torture it into being straight. However, I can never wear it curly without a truck load of mousse otherwise I'll end up looking like an Bichon Frisé with really long hair. :sick:
So I'm doomed to spend half an hour on drying my hair...
heh :D. Right now I have long dark brown (once black) hair, tomorrow I'm going back to short blonde hair!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
You guys with long thick hair are SO lucky! My hair is "baby fine." :D And short. It doesn't really grow past my shoulders, nor is it flattering when it's long. Sigh. I have to wash and blow dry it every day because it doesn't have body either. I still remember finding that out. I was in the seventh grade, and a friend told me. It was worse than finding out about the birds and the bees. :lol: So every day is a potentially bad hair day for me.
that looks like my hair if i blow dry it...Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I'm having a no hair day! (again)
Hehehe... This is what Bailey looks like!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Not sure if it is lucky as such. A very good friend often tells me that I have got thick hair to match my thick head! But he is follically challenged so we know that it is his jealousy getting the better of him! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Well, look on the bright side... One worry less... And you must be saving a lot of money on hair products and such! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Ugh. My hair is currently down to the bottom of my shoulder blades, and still shaved in a mohawk strip. *I doubt I'll ever be able to let it grow out, now...* but when I wear it down, not in a ponytail or anything, I still have people telling me, 'Wow! Your hair is so thick! Blahblahblah...'. When I pull it up and show the shaved sides, I tend to get a look like this: =O
If I still had a full head, I'd weight about 30 more pounds :lol:
Anybody else use John Freida? I get the frizzies big time, and also style/straighten/blow dry frequently, so I use John Freida Frizzease... it is expensive, but it works MIRACLES! Shampoo, conditioner, leave in conditioner, and serum. *thumbs up*
(P.s. big hair for the win. I often spend hours with a blow dryer, round brush and hairspray TRYING to make my hair look like the above photo!)
John freida has stopped working on my hair... I use a pantane brunnette serum now instead and a hena based conditioner... and an elvive shampoo. the combo actually works.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeccaT
Jeez all i have to do is turn a blow dryer on. Have you tried by drying your hair upside down?Quote:
(P.s. big hair for the win. I often spend hours with a blow dryer, round brush and hairspray TRYING to make my hair look like the above photo!)
All you need is a little mousse and a lot of hairspray and blamo you have to scooch down while driving so your hair doesn't hit the roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeccaT
I wonder if I can still make big hair? Maybe I'll try this weekend since I can't watch TV.:lol:
John Frieda also doesn't work for me, like for Niamh, because my hair is so fine - I have a lot of it though. I can't use all the serums and creams because it causes build-up on my hair. So I have to use Gill for dry scalp (I have seriously sensitive skin and other shampoos give me eczema, and Gill makes your hair REALLY soft too!) and I have to use a salon conditioner. Then every other week I also have to use a deep cleaning shampoo. My hair is a lot of trouble... :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by BeccaT
Heh, I can just leave my hair to dry naturally for that :pQuote:
Originally Posted by BeccaT
Ditto. When it is like that, I can audition for Cathy from Wuthering Heights! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
Maybe I should go back to having my fringe like this:
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5097/hairr.png
Oh no, I hope you're not serious! You'll get lung cancer from using all that hairspray! :p
Friends and fellow-sufferers - if I may call you that - that Big Hair look is caused by aiming the hot air from the dryer underneath the hair. It's called 'root lift' - if you lift the hair on a brush and aim underneath, it lifts the hair away from the scalp: if you roll the hair on a brush and aim the heat on the top of the hair, the hair lies closer to the head. How do I know? Well, it's surprising what you learn watching make-overs on day-time tv...... No, no, I've given all that up nowadays, honest, Guv, but they filled the time when I was convalescent a few years ago.
Would you believe I didn't know until I was twenty-five that I had naturally curly hair? I was apparently a little toe-rag about having my hair washed/brushed/combed/touched even, so my mother took me, all of two and a half years old, dumped me in the hairdresser's chair and muttered through clenched teeth, 'Cut it all off, she's driving me mad!' And insisted thereafter that I kept it cut short - and as she and my father were keeping me in my studies, I felt I ought to keep to their requirements....until the day I sat behind instead of beside my friend, Pauline, and felt a surge of envy at the sight of her smooth golden tresses and conceived the desire to have hair just like hers. The fact that her honey blond silken locks cost her dearly, not just in time but in hard cash too escaped me, as did the fact that I had blue-black hair that behaved like wire and it was never, ever, going to flow and gleam like hers. Nevertheless, I set to and let my hair grow - the most difficult part was ignoring my mother's pointed comments about 'looking like a poet/ a besom in a fit/as if I'd come through a hedge backwards' etc, etc. But as time went on, my hair, which normally grew at a rate of knots when I tried keeping it short, seemed not to grow at all when I wanted it long. One day in exasperation I pulled at the ends to see just how near my shoulders it had grown - and discovered it was nearly touching my shoulders, but when I let it go, it sprang back in tight, though unruly, curls. My hairdresser prescribed a perm to straighten it but warned me it would ruin my hair which would never be the same again. I persevered for a few months more, had a special hair-do for graduation which involved hours having it dried on big rollers then redried by hand and I loved it, though my mother declared the centre parting made me look 'like Jane Eyre' (very literary hair I have....). The mortar board sat neatly and safely on top next morning - until it rained... No amount of pins would keep the wretched thing securely on the mop of tight curls that resulted from the damp air! I sidled off to the hair dresser and had it 'shaped' before I started my new job. And my mother loved me again. But I've never had my head as severely shorn since - a little natural curl, aided by 'root lift' has been my style ever since. I know it needs cutting when it takes more than a couple of passes with the dryer to set it in place.
That is what I used to do!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kasie
Kasie> I loved reading the story of your hair; you should post it in your blog as well so that it does not get lost in here.
:)
Glad it raised a smile, Scher - it was a disaster (to me) at the time! My mother never said, 'I told you so' - she didn't need to, it was written all over her face.
Ummm - I don't have a blog....
We can change that right now:Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?do=newblog
:D
I can't settle on a color.... I was dark brown for a while, then a medium red, then a purplish red... and now blonde-ish. I already know I'll be going back to a wild red once I tire of the blonde! I have a visual timeline of these through photos, they're like stages of my life.. :D
I have to laugh, because I love big hair. I just don't have the patience to do it. I have all the equipment and shocked my younger sister when I tried to indoctrinate her into the backyard hair secrets that we all swear were done at the salon by the dam hair dresser. I also didn't learn to "do" my hair until I was in my late twenties.
Well, I guess here I can claim my hairitage roots, because I grew up in Jersey in the 80s in the midst of the BIG hair phenomenon. Thank God, I moved away. However, I still get a body wave once a year to be sure I am maintaining some kind of volume in my pin straight hair.
I once saw a picture you posted of yourself and I think you'll nice with any red...Quote:
Originally Posted by higley
I only got the hang of my hair in my early twenties. So all through highschool I hated my hair because I could never get it to do what I wanted.Quote:
Originally Posted by jersea
Same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
So, yesterday I did go to the hairdresser's and had a haircut. Now I have a wavy bob (they cut off about 5 inches), leaving me looking somewhat like this:
http://modern-hairstyle.com/wp-conte...ob_haircut.jpg
I am liking it so far! :)
Very cute.
I am enjoying it so far! :)
Pretty Scher! So where are the actual photos? Unless you really are Halle Berry in disguise ;)
Wow Schez, I never imagined you looked like this! :lol::pQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Well, if you ignore her blond hair, blue eyes, striking cheekbones, perfect nose and, most importantly, "come hither" looks, we look pretty much the same!