Not too many times do you see a red 'fro on a teensy, tiny white chick. I’ve never had the joy, but I’ve seen it blow-dried out and there’s still alot of it.
We can’t all have God-given beautiful tresses. Although, now that I’ve left Canada, perhaps you could step in to the good hair.
Tee hee.
You can’t believe how glad I am to be able just to shave my head bald. Although Mrs. Dante likes it when I have hair, cause it’s so thick and curly. The main reason I shave it actually.
I do have to admit that seeing a woman with a thick mane of hair makes me weak in the knees, not to mention somewhat of a hypocrite.
Alice I think we may be related!!! I washed my hair Wed nite, and it was still wet when I got home from work yesterday and took it down. I dont mind my curls so much as the absolute thickness of it all. I have enuff hair for 4 people. I have done everything to my hair-- cut it REALLY short, straightened it, used massive amounts of hair products. The short cut never works because I need it cut every other week cause things poke out. The straigtening was great-- lasted about two weeks before the curls came back. Currently its about shoulder length when dry and the middle of my back when wet. This is good because I can pull it up when it goes crazy.
And don’t you LUVVVVVV it when people tell you they wish they had your hair? I wish they had it too!
My hair was fine but THICK. I would put it up with a pony-tailer and it would still be wet in the middle when I took it down that night.
Then I started taking the pill to regulate my cycle. Three months later - BAM! My hair started falling out. At any time of the day, I could run my fingers through my hair gently and pull out a handful. It’s been a further two months. Now I have hair that is two shades darker than it was before, fine, thin, and straighter than it was before. Before, when I put my hair up in an elastic, I could only wrap it twice - now I can wrap it four times. It tangles a lot more, and it gets staticy more, but I expect that I’ll be most appreciative come summertime.
I so feel your pain, sister.
My hair gets dubbed the “Medusa” hair because it’s curly and sticks out in all directions. It makes knots like nobody’s business.
Bloody hair. sigh
Chicks with long curly hair turn me on - big time.
Obviously, you’ve never seen my Medusahair HomeSlice. It’s scary stuff, man.
See “fro” is not quite the right word. It’s more like a traffic pilon - you know orange and triangular - it’s about halfway down my back now, which is good, and bad.
Good, because gravity pulls it into submission.
Bad, because I wake up with a massive, ferret sized mat on the back of my head each morning that takes about 15 minutes to comb out.
Perhaps I should just get a wig.
As an aside to Audrey, I do get complemented on my hair. However, I’ve usually spent about an hour beating it into submission before that happens. 
I have similar problems. Its not curly, thanks to gravity, but very very very thick. It’s long for the first time in my life, and it is gorgeous (imagine portia DiRossi’s hair, but a coppery auburn.)
I love my hair, but I can’t do anything with it. On day one, I wash it. I can’t dry it, that would take up a good 90 minutes, make me resemble Carrot top, and double my electric bill. It goes in a bun for the first few hours (until the weight gives me a headache.) It stays wet until I wake up the next day. Day two, I just let it hang there, looking pretty.
That doesn’t sound all that bad, except there’s nothing else I can do with it. Barretes break under the strain. Elastics snap. Braids resemble hemp rope, and will stick out at a 90 degree angle, not slither gracefully down my back. I’ve bought a ton of different “hair-doo” inventions, but my tresses laugh at their punyness.
All I want is a little variety!
Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I hate having thick hair! I would rather have sort of medium thickness hair but ooooh no. I wind up with hair so freaking thick you could choke a horse. I hate it!! Yes, I realize the dream of a lot of people with thin hair is to have hair like mine. I don’t want hair this thick, though. If I blow dry it, it takes almost an hour just to get it half-way dry. I can put it up in a bun, leave it all day and the center and bottom of the bun are still pretty darn wet when I take it down at the end of the day. Ugh. People always tell me,“Oh you have such thick, beautiful hair. You should let it grow out really long.” I find it hard to keep myself from strangling them. My hair is so thick it’s heavy and it hurts my head if I let it grow too long. Once, I let it grow to my waist and I had to get it cut to shoulder-length because I was getting massive hair-headaches from the strain the weight was putting on my poor scalp. My hair, whether due to the immense thickness or just crappy hair genes, is stick straight and will not curl. If it DOES decide to curl, I have to put massive amounts of hairspray on it to keep it that way. I can’t get a perm to make it even the slightest bit wavy, either. The one time I tried that (and the stylist assured me it would only give me a ‘body wave’ whatever the fuck that is), I ended up looking like a poodle for six months straight until it grew out and then I had hair like that girl in “The Princess Diaries” before she got it fixed and became all princess-y. Yuck. I was the joke of the junior high school pictures that year.
If I knew I wouldn’t look wierd with no hair, I swear to Goddess I’d shave it all off.
IDBB
I should point out that despite the volume, my hair is also baby fine.
This means that it gets loaded with static at the drop of a hat, and tangles on itself with no outside influence, whatsoever.
Not to mention that getting my round heat brush (used to try to tame the beast) caught in it happens with startling regularity. And I took Beauty Culture! Imagine if I was a novice trying to deal with this thing!
I was a little surprised to see you post about how big it is, you know. It’s always looked rather straight to me.
I know of the big-ass mat in the hair, which is why I sleep with it in a pony tail. Trust me.
What you have enjoyed in the past is nothing short of a hair-care marvel, brought about by the careful application of about 14 hair products including balms, sprays, gels and mouses, not to mention strenuous treatment with a variety of heated implements that could get a KGB spy to crack in less than 7 minutes.
I beat it. I cajole it. I whip it. I gel it. And though this heroic effort, I mannage to achieve hair that is of a reasonable volume and dimension.
Lets just say, that should I make the mistake of going to bed with wet hair, I can put the Bride of Frankinstein to shame.
I wash mine. Sometimes, I comb it with a wide-toothed comb. On occasion, I will add a lovely styling lotion which I have had to import through Mom’s exports. I will trade you, if you like.
Why would you want to trade your lovely, red, stylable, coifure, for the beast that I have on my head?
And don’t say it’s because of some perceived flaw in yer hair, lady - we all know it’s fabulous.
I have really really curly hair (Ringlet-ty). It’s really thin/fine too, but because it’s curly it doesn’t look like it.
It used to bug me, but now I know how to handle it. I can put a bit of defrizzer-gel stuff in my hair and leave it to dry (no brushing) and I will get compliments.
I can do pretty much any style a person with straight hair can do (plaiting, braiding, updos etc), as long as I do it while the hair is still wet.
It’s great when there is an occasion where most people go the hairdresser and get an updo with ringlets, I can do it myself in 10 minutes! 
(There are downsides, fuzzies and frizzies and enormous knots that can appear if I don’t take care. It also won’t grow any longer than about the bottom of my shoulder blades. And my plaits are never nice and thick. :()
Last Monday, I cut my hair off short for the first time in my life. I towel dry it now, and it’s pretty much styled. This is a kind of freedom I’ve never had before (I’ve never had super long hair, but it’s always been about shoulder-length, and quite thick and stubborn.) Now I just need some jazzy highlights, and I’m good for summer!
I keep having dreams about this really stylish do, with a nifty blond streak in the front.
I don’t know what my hair would do if I tried to put a blond streak in it.
Don’t listen to her, alice! Drugs aren’t the answer!
Ok, so it would have been funnier way up higher in the thread.
My hair is starting to bother me. I’m going to get a haircut.
I used to have this problem myself. My hair is somewhat fine, but frighteningly thick. And long- god, was it long. I never had a hair cut until I was 16 years old. And I don’t mean styled- until my sixteenth year, no scissors ever touched my hair. It was down to my ass, and I had to sleep with it in a braid every night or I’d wake up with a woven floor mat growing from my head. So then I got it cut to the middle of my back, after an unfortunate incident with some gum. And then when I turned twenty, I freaked out, and in a fit of rage shaved my head. It was really cool- I can’t tell you how amazing it was to watch long strands of hair being sheared off my head. And washing it! It was awesome. It was as though my head had finally joined the rest of my body, instead of being swathed in hair. I loved it. But alas, after a few more shavings, I had to let it grow again, so that I might find a job. (You’d be shocked how many people are unwilling to hire a woman with a shaved head.) It’s now just at my chin, but the thickness has turned it into a helmet. It starts at my scalp and goes out some twenty feet. Worse, when I tilt my head up, the shape of my face and jawline makes my whole head look like a penis. This had been pointed out to me at horribly inopportune moments. But there’s nothing I can do. I have it thinned, and it goes right back to helmet in a matter of weeks. I’m thinking of getting one of those kicky little short cuts, with the spiky, poofy bits all over.