I hate the consistency. I have VERY fine, VERY straight hair. My hair will not hold a curl or any other styling, no matter how much junk you put in it, unless it has perm in it. I have a LOT of hair, so it doesn’t appear limp, but it takes FOREVER to dry, especially if I pull it up while it is still wet. I also have seven cowlicks (3 in the front, 4 in the back). Right now, it’s permed (I recently went back to perming after a 12 year hiatus – I simply got sick of fighting it and the humidity), about shoulder length, with bangs, and parted on the left side.
I love the color. It’s medium to dark brown with blond and red highlights. I have a few silver hairs; they started appearing about a year ago. Many people compliment me on the color. I don’t use any rinse, but my hairspray and mousse have henna to bring out the red highlights.
I’ve had the same hairdresser for 18 years :eek: . She has a really cool, almost Steel Magnolias-ish one seater behind her house. She has given me all my perms (which last a year in my hair ) and cuts. Once, Freshman year in college, I got desperate and went to beauty school, which managed to cut against every single cowlick-- it took my hairdresser 3 months to fix what they did, and she threatened me within an inch of my life if I ever did that again. After that, I decided traveling the distance between college and her place (about 60 miles) wasn’t that bad, considering she’s a good friend and a damn good hairdresser (she’s the type that if you describe a new cut, and she thinks it won’t look good, she’ll try to talk you out of it or modify it so it will look good on you). Her place is about 10-15 miles from where I live now, but I still visit her about every other month.
Medium-brown, just past shoulder-length, and needing-a-new-style.
Thin hair, but LOTS of it, making it look thick. It’s “wavy”, but not curly.
Again, needing a new a new style! Any suggestions?
Dyed a particularly fetching shade of red, pretty straight, medium thick, a little bit past my shoulders and layered some. I also have the layered sideswept bang thing working. I hate salons and all the money you have to give them, and I never get the exact style I’m going for, so I’ve been cutting my own hair for a while now. I have an array of special haircutting gadgets, and I’ve gotten pretty good at using them, at least on my own head.
I don’t really use a hairdryer or products unless there’s something special going on. I’ve mastered the Asian-looking messy bun. I can do one in half a second, and it looks good on me, so I keep my hair up a lot, with the sideswept bangs down over my eyes.
Lately, I’ve decided to grow out my natural color, which I’m told is “ash”. It’s going to be a pain having half-red, half-ash hair for a while, but maybe I could get a look going. :dubious:
You all saw the Japanese gymnasts hair? That’s essentially what mine looks like if I don’t put any gel in it. Straight, dark brown/black, thick, and sticks out almost perpendicular to my head at every point. God help me if I fall asleep while it’s still wet.
My hair is currently shoulder-length, has some choppy layers, two stupid looking bangs that I’m almost through growing out, and is almost wavy enough to look like I have a perm. The color (naturally) ranges from golden blonde to reddish brown, for an interesting “roan” look.
In the past, I’ve had Sharon Stone short hair, and have shaved it once. Here are some pictures of the various looks of my locks.
And now, a short poem:
Ponytail, o Ponytail, how luscious thou art
flowing frothfully like shaken-up beer.
Long and lanky, alas thou art not
Yet beauty is in thy fibers, however short they may be.
…Maybe
shrug a friend and I used to write stuff like that in high school.
slightly longer than shoulder length, mostly grey and rapidly thinning. my daughter, the beautician, ran her fingers through it not long ago. she said: “dad, remember when you looked quite a bit like jerry garcia? pretty soon, you will look like mick fleetwood.”
When I was a kid, I had butt lenth, platinum blonde straight hair. Supermodel hair. Then puberty struck hard.
Now I color my hair red. I’m trying something – it’s bright red on the crown, and dark, almost burgundy underneath. It’s past shoulder length and so curly everyone thinks it’s a perm. It’s layered with some bangs. I recently went back to my 90’s Stevie Nicks do, which is the hairstyle equivalent of gravity for me - can’t fight it.
This afternoon I stopped by the barber to get my second-ever flat top.
It looks and feels great. My hair is dark brown, definitely receding at the temples, but no bald spot on top. This was the main motivation for the style – I don’t want to look like I’m trying to hide anything by combing a thick forelock over a balding temple.
The only problem I have with this style is that even though it looks like it should be as trouble-free as a crewcut, in reality, you have to fuss with it with mousse and gel until it is trained to stand up correctly.
I was also surprised how long it takes the barber to do a proper flat top. It seemed like it should be pretty easy to cut most of a fellow’s hair off, but I guess it takes a lot of careful trimming to do a good job of it.
As I type right now…Maybe 1/4 inch stubble of grey on the sides…and nothing on top. ( I have more hair on my tummy than on my head!) Beard was grey, but I’ve just trimmed it to a ‘stash and a goatee’. This is the first time in 25 years that I’ve not had a full beard. When my wife returns home from her Thelma and Louise trip to the Grand Canyon with her friend, she will be surprised.
As a child, absolutely white hair. Then Puberty changed it to a strange greyish brown…I suppose I would have been ash blonde had I been a girl. Once I let it grow out to about 4 inches long, and it was completely curly. I looked like a strange version of Ronald McDonald.
Warm brown, uncolored unhighlighted. Forty inches long, from part to tips–ends at the fat part of my thighs. So heavy it pulls itself pretty flat and straight; when shorter it used to sometimes, on good days, summon some body. Lots of wispies and cowlicks around the edges; when I wear it up they escape, and most people–I have discovered over the years–assume that I cut those wispies on purpose. Fools!
Long (about the middle of my back) dreadlocks. I’m naturally a dirty blond, but I’ve bleached them and dyed some of them…they were blue & orange, but the orange has faded to yellow. I think black & pink might be the next colors.
Mine’s about waist length, very wavy, very dark reddish brown with some silver strands. It turns more red if I get enough sun, which hasn’t happened since high school. My wife is always trying to get me to wear it down, but I don’t like to do that because it reaches out and grabs things or gets in my eyes and mouth. I usually have it in a braid or ponytail, sometimes bound all the way down with hair thingys every few inches. Is there a name for that style? I get the stupid wispy things too, if I’m forced to dress up (which I loathe) I’ll use a tiny bit of hairspray to hold them down. But if I’m lighting a barbecue or moving boxes or something, I’ll put on a bandana or a hat instead.
Bald on top and haven’t cut it in 20 months and have a pony tail that I’m enjoying very much. I’m going to go with it until the first of the year when it will be an even two years and maybe go with a buzz cut, we’ll see.
As the grey was rolling in I’ve also taken to dying it back to it’s younger shade of brown.
Very thick, wavy/frizzy that tries hard to be curls, medium brown, with natural red and blonde highlights. In photos, it always looks much redder than it really is. Until a week ago, it was almost waist-length, and I’ve had it butt-length in the past, but that got very annoying very fast. However, since my hair cut, it is now down to about the bottom of my shoulder blades with layers, and I absolutely love it! It’s much lighter, plus the curl side of the equation has been winning out to a certain extent, though the rain the past few days is making it frizzy again.
I came home from work one day to find a stranger in my bathroom. He claimed to be my husband, but I had never seen my husband’s chin so I couldn’t be sure!
That actually was really disconcerting. I wouldn’t have recognized my own husband had he been walking down the street.
Reddish-brown, sprinkled with an alarming bit of gray (for a 26 year-old fella). Quarter-inch on the sides, longer on top. And thick! I am in no danger of going bald. Thinning shears are my friend. My hair is so thick it’s hard to do anything with it other than keep in short and tszuj it up a bit in the front. If it gets too long, my already enormous head looks gigantic. I am still scarred by the days my mom kept my hair too long and combed them into a massive pompadour!
My hair is medium brown, and about to my shoulder blades, with bangs. It’s usually pretty straight, but it does have some wave, brought out by careful air-drying or excessive humidity. It’s rather thick [mine, too, takes forever to dry], and usually passably shiny. It’s usually pulled back in some form or another… today it’s in a braid. [In my head, wearing my hair “down” ammounts to only pulling the front back.] I routinely consider growing out the bangs, but sometime over the next couple of weeks, they annoy me and I trim them back. I also consider going short all over… but am much too scared to actually do that–I like my hair too much as it is.
) and cuts. Once, Freshman year in college, I got desperate and went to beauty school, which managed to cut against every single cowlick-- it took my hairdresser 3 months to fix what they did, and she threatened me within an inch of my life if I ever did that again. After that, I decided traveling the distance between college and her place (about 60 miles) wasn’t that bad, considering she’s a good friend and a damn good hairdresser (she’s the type that if you describe a new cut, and she thinks it won’t look good, she’ll try to talk you out of it or modify it so it will look good on you). Her place is about 10-15 miles from where I live now, but I still visit her about every other month.
