There was a Busboy(?) with the most beautiful, alarmingly red, curly, shiny long long Wild hair!!! (sorry, so many descriptors…it was amazing…just amazing!)
I looked discreetly at the guys face. Oooohhh, he had to be 60yrs old. At least a roughly aged 50yo. I was caught staring at him. It was so shocking. He nodded, hair falling pleasantly forward, I nodded back. The End.
Except it made me wonder…you know how my brain slides around, like that…anyway;
If you had hair as a youth and thought Wow, wonder if Pert shampoo really is radioactive, how will my hair look/be when I’m middle aged?
(I never worried about this then, but… if you did…)
I remember a co-worker about thirty years ago who wore his long wavy blond hair in a single braid. One day at a company picnic he undid the hair to re-braid it, and when those long rippling golden locks spilled into the sunlight an entire tablefull of female co-workers (yes, including me) literally burst out clapping and cheering. (Kind of workplace-inappropriate, actually! Would not do that today.)
Well, maybe this is the thread for it: a couple days ago, I had a lot of my hair cut off! About ten inches. So it’s just to the top of my shoulders now, and everyone is being very kind to tell me that it’s cute, but I’m not so sure. I forgot that the reason I don’t cut my hair short is because I don’t feel very feminine.
On the other hand, I was sick and tired of the long hair always being in my way, and always looking the same. I had an idea that if I took exquisite care of my hair, it would become healthy and beautiful. Alas, I was only half right. It was the healthiest pile of scraggly crap around.
So now I’m trying to change my attitude. I’m gonna blow dry it. I’m gonna iron it. I’m gonna color it if I want to (but I don’t). But fuck it. It’s my toy and I’ll break it as I please.
Lil’wrekker gave me a left over bottle of activated toner. Use it, sez she..
So dummy me, did. Our hair is similarly color treated. But I always forget there’s probably 10 inches of grey under my treatments. You know, outta sight, outta mind?
Her hair turns out a lovely shade of shiny tawny blond. I got 4 color striped-y hair.
Aaaaaccckkk!
(@Dung_Beetle I hated it when I was coerced into cutting a significant amount of hair off. Never again. I feel your pain. I grieve for your hair)
I had beautiful, thick brown curly hair as a kid. The first gray hairs appeared in my late 20s and now it’s pretty much completely gray, and a bit receded, but still there. My hair in my teens was so thick that when I got to boot camp it had to be thinned before they could shave it off.
The new fad at work is people putting tinsel in their hair. It looks pretty and apparently you can keep it in for weeks and wash it normally.
I have short hair that gets shaggy after about 6 weeks. I’ve been getting it professionally colored/cut since I was in my early 30s and it still looks fine.
I’ve done radical cuts a few times. Not really sure what motivated the first one-- growing up, maybe. But I had very long hair all my childhood from the time I could talk my mother into allowing it (about age 5) as a teen, and through college. It is curly, and allowed to grow to where it stopped by itself, it came to my butt.
Around age 24, I got it cut. Not a crew cut. It was still long enough to curl. But it was short. There was no other word.
About year later, I learned about an organization that provided human-hair wigs to kids with severe hair loss from things like idiopathic alopecia, progeria, burn scars-- permanent things, not things like chemo.
So I grew it back out, and it took about 18 months.
Cut it again, and that time I donated it.
Did it once more a few years later.
In between and after, there were things going on in my life, and I couldn’t, and now it has too much grey, I’m guessing.
I used to have a friend that was an On-Air Radio personality and would do commercials for the station. One he did was for a hair growth/restoration crap product. Funny thing was this guy was hairy like The Cowardly Lion and had a mustache like a push-broom. Cracked me up to hear him talking about growing hair and picturing him.
I hate it when I get a hair in my mouth. I’ll fish it out and its a nasty grey one… still attached to my head… clear around the other side or the back of my head! I should cut it off. Pain in The Ass!
Beck is lying to us, by the way. She has beautiful hair!
I’m intrigued by hair fads. For a long time, curly hair was out and everyone was using hair straighteners. Before that, curly hair was in, and straight-haired people were getting perms. Before THAT, straight hair was in, and curly girls were rolling up their hair on juice cans.
My daughter has long, wavy hair, and when she was in high school, the straightener never got cold. My son has curly hair, and in high school, he hated it so much, he slathered it with product. I couldn’t talk him out of it. I even recruited some curly-haired students to talk to him. (“Dude, girls love the curls!”) Luckily, his now-wife got him to stop drowning his hair.
My own hair is troubled. It’s curly, except in some areas, where it’s almost straight. It also went through a frizzy phase. When I a kid, some boys called me n----- hair. It was very confusing: my hair wasn’t tightly curly, plus I thought Black hair was pretty, plus that was a very bad word.
It’s so weird how we earthlings put so much stock in what’s really just a bunch of protein filaments.
I have a great head of hair. It’s half gray and half brown now, but if anything it’s thicker that ever. Ms. P has a little more gray than I do, but she’s got wonderful wavy/curly hair. Our daughter had really straight hair as a kid, but it has a lot more body now. Son has hair very similar to mine. Other families have a right to be envious of our collective hair.
There’s actually a huge demand for donated grey or grey-blend hair, because so many older people with hair loss would like natural-looking age-appropriate wigs. When my hair gets a little grayer, I’m planning to grow it out as much as I can and then do a big chop to donate it.
Ooh, I should tell people my grays are actually tinsel. I like that idea.
I’m a natural redhead but I’m quickly going gray. I tell people I’m going strawberry blonde. It’s amazing how much darker my hair used to be.
When I was in high school I had waist length hair or longer. At times I could sit on it. I met my now ex-husband in my long hair days and he would always pout if I cut it. A few days after we split up I got my hair cut to shoulder length and then not long after that I went to chin length which is where it is now. No more long hair for me, I can’t stand it getting in my face.
When I cut my hair short in college, everyone said it looked more feminine. Generally I keep it short. It’s fine and straight, and I use no product other than a little conditioner to manage the silver hairs, which have more loft. Most of my hair is still brown, as was my mother’s into her 70s.
The End.
I should cut it off. Pain in The Ass!