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jacobsen
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When I was two, with a baby fine natural "bubbles" style, my aunt took me with her to the hairdresser and told them that she wanted hers done like mine.
Now I'm in my seventh decade, it's reverting to type, only with some thinner areas! In between, I thirsted for long hair, but even when I had it, the wig ladies in the opera house, when asked what they would do with it, chorused "cut it" (in French.) I would love a Judi Dench cut , but the whirlpool swirl of my double crown prevents it. However, the transition from light reddish brown to grey looks OK, and my present hairdresser goes with what the hair will do. When it starts to cover my ears, I know it's time for a trim. Definitely washn'n go.
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Galloping Granny
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My hair was a mop of curls 80 years ago and it's still got a good wave. For many years I cut it myself but I love the feel of having it cut, and when I'm at Matarangi I go to a local hairdresser with whom I have a special relationship: I'm 'the lady who comes all the way from the capital city to have Maggie cut her hair'. Just off the collar is about right; there was a very brief period when I went as far as a pony tail just to see what it looked like but it wasn't me. The Grandad would get very cross if someone cut it too short, resulting in an Old Lady Short Short Cut.
My darling mother-in-law tinted her hair almost to the end. She said to me 'GG, your hair is going white. You should put some colour.' To which I replied, 'Nana, when you are young you have brown hair and smooth skin; when you are old you have white hair and wrinkles, and that's life.' It's actually still pepper-and salt.
I wonder if it's actually got finer and finer over the years. It's always in my eyes as soon as I step out into the ever-present wind. They ask if I want some Product on it, but no thanks.
The Grandad had a shock of white hair to the end, making it easy to spot him if we got separated in a crowd, even though he wasn't extra tall.
GG
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Niteowl
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I was forced to have very short hair when I was young. Once I got to an age where I could grow it out it's been long ever since, with the exception of one year in my late twenties. While it used to be brown with deep red highlights it is now all white. I got my first white hair at the age of 17. Dyed it after the white streak in the front I had in my late twenties started creeping back. Gave up on dying it over a decade ago and have kept it long and all one length. I too, hate bangs with a passion.
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Brenda Clough
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Hairdressers will tell you that white hair has a different texture and body than darker hair. Also your hair does change texture over time.
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Pomona
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Extremely thick, dark brown hair and way too much of it with reddish highlights--though by this time it's doubtless all steel-gray, as I got my first white hair at 19. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) For basically the first time in my life I'm growing it out long in a fit of rebellion--at least in my neck of the woods, it's the younger women at work who all have long long hair, and the older ones are supposed to have very short old lady cuts. (By the way, guess who gets promoted?) So I said "fuck that" and began growing it out--only to get fired anyway. But the hair growing continues, because the next time I cut it short it'll likely be forever.
I am trying to learn things to do with it that don't look too severe or otherwise wonky on a fat round face. Advice much appreciated! Bangs are from hell, and I will never do them again.
I have a fat round face and love my pixie cut with bangs/fringe! My haircut is based on this.
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LeRoc
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My haircut is based on this
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Aaargh! This is what I get from trying to post a link on my phone. Sorry.
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Cathscats
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Short, greying (since I was 15) and wash and go. When I was in my 20s and the greying was beginning to show, my mother told me to "Get a rinse, as I am not old enough to have a daughter with grey hair." But I replied that if she was old enough to say "rinse" in this context then she certainly was old enough for anything! Anyway, I don't feel like me with dyed hair.
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Tree Bee
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My hair's thick with a bit of a curl. It frizzes at the first sign of humidity so I have to work at it with the straighteners.
I was a blonde child but went darker so once the grey started to appear I had blonde highlights put in - much better!
I now have 2 colours put on, the lighter shade is more ashy so the grey roots hardly show.
Good to have a great hairdresser, don't know what I'll do when she retires.
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ExclamationMark
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When younger dark, almost black and very curly (eyelashes too)
Now white and receding. Number 4 cut - so short. Complimented on tidy hair tonight!
One of the misses M has inherited the dark curly hair: she's looks rather pre raphaelitish
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cattyish
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My hair has always been straight and has been brown for twenty-five years since it changed from baby blonde. I did briefly try bleaching it, and it was horrible and labour-intensive and didn't suit me at all. I envy people with thick hair, and they envy me.
For an opera a few years ago I learned to put in curlers and then, for the second act, wheech them out and make my hair into Victory Rolls. the wave (with the help of mousse and gel spray) lasted for just long enough while I was performing, then fell flat.
For a Gilbert and Sulivan I was required to do tiny plaits all over my head all day, then take them out just before each performance leaving my head looking like I'd been plugged into something high voltage. I then wound the resulting frizz around a fake-flower headdress and put on a ridiculously melancholy expression and a long pink frock made from old curtains. I managed to get the frizz to last two nights.
For weddings I put it up, for work I scrape it back. It was cut professionally about 18 months ago and I hang over the bin to trim the ends when it gets ridiculously long.
I had a really lovely jaw-length trim in New Zealand in 2010. Mr C hated it and wanted to see it grown back as soon as possible.
Cattyish, waiting for the grey, or perhaps to just fade gradually.
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la vie en rouge
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When I was young and broke I used to cut my own hair, longish and straight round. I even learned to put a fair layers in the front. I was always very chuffed when people complimented me and I would say, “I have this hairdresser called la vie en rouge…” After that I cut it into a short angle-cut bob. This is one of the most difficult cuts to get right, so no way could I cut it myself. My hair grows fast so this required trimming at least every six weeks.
I had an amazing hairdresser who I would have trusted with my life. After a while I used to just turn up and say “do what you like”. He always did a great job. Then one day I turned up at the salon and he was gooooooone . A couple of years later, I’m still looking for someone else and I can’t find anyone else who cuts my hair nearly so well. It is one of the frustrations of my life.
I grew it completely out for my wedding and I think I’ll keep it like this for a while. In some ways I think this is less work than short. In the summer, I can just wash it, roll it up and let it dry on its own. A classic bob definitely requires blow-drying and really needs straightening with irons to make it look impeccable.
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balaam
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
My haircut is based on this
My haircut is based on this.
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Piglet
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For almost as long as I can remember I've wanted straight hair; I remember asking my mum (who had properly Naturally Curly Hair™) why other girls' page-boy hairstyles and bobs sat beautifully and mine didn't. She replied, in a matter-of-fact sort of way, "that's because they have straight hair, dear". She was right: every specific hairstyle apart from actual perms seems to require straight hair for it to work properly.
What I actually have is short, dark, slightly wavy* hair which will go its own way unless ferociously herded with hair-dryer and straightening-iron.
It gets washed, blown dry and straightened every morning; if it didn't, I'd look as though I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards. Every couple of months or so I colour it just before having it cut - I'm not quite ready to let the greys take over yet.
* just wavy enough to be a pain in the ar$e, but not curly enough to be properly curly
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Piglet:
She was right: every specific hairstyle apart from actual perms seems to require straight hair for it to work properly.
erm... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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chive
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I used to grow my hair and it got to the point where it was almost to the top of my legs when I stood up. I had to tie it back at work (stupid uniform rules) and because I work outside a lot of the time one windy night shift I got really irritated by it.
I went to the hairdresser the next day and got it shaved to a number 4 on top and a number 2 round the sides. The hairdresser kept asking me if I was sure and genuinely looked a bit scared when she took the clippers to it. I love it because it's so easy. I wash it and by the time I'm out the bath it's dry and I never have to think about it. I get it reshorn about every month or so.
I've had a lot of women come up to me and say that they wish they were brave enough to shave their heads and I always advise them to go for it. The only disadvantage is that my friend's wee boy insists I'm a man because 'girls have long hair.' But then at 3 he's old enough to tease about his gender stereotyping (sort of).
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Piglet
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by Piglet:
She was right: every specific hairstyle apart from actual perms seems to require straight hair for it to work properly.
erm...
Oh all right then - every specific hairstyle apart from ones that only look good on non-Caucasians. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I was as blond as can be until in my 20s. About the same time I started to form the tonsure I have now, it went sort of a light brown grey. Then my moustache started coming in white, and beard more salt than pepper. Somewhere in there I stopped getting the french braids which alternated with the 1975 John Foggarty look. We spent a fair bit of time letting our freak flags fly because we thought we were rebels and somehow cool. No doubt today I'd have a "man bun" and consider myself equally cool (I was never actually cool).
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
A classic bob definitely requires blow-drying and really needs straightening with irons to make it look impeccable.
Ain't it the truth. I actually went to the Bother of blow drying this morning and was rewarded with a neat halo - for about 10 minutes. Then it was back to wispy mophead.
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North East Quine
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My mother insisted on my hair being kept short. I have a bit of a natural wave, and short always meant some tuft sticking out at right angles. I hated it, and begged to be allowed to grow it. I have no idea why my mother wouldn't let me, but she was implacable. She used to come with me to the hairdresser because she knew I couldn't be trusted to have it cut short. I was 18 the last time my mother stood over me and had it cut, and I cried for hours afterwards.
The plus side to this is that while my contemporaries went to University and thought "Freedom! Sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll!" I went and thought "Freedom! Hair longer than my chin!" And so it was. I've never had short hair again. Alas, I've never been able to grow it much past my shoulders. I'd have it waist length if I could.
It's wash n go. I like the idea of doing something with it, but am entirely clueless.
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Melisande
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My hair is extremely straight and extremely long (when I start tucking it into my waistband it gets a trim), and pretty much always has been, though once or twice a decade it hops partway up my back. I had bangs/fringe from first haircuts to about 34, and then grew them/it out. With that, and with the great deal of grey now in, especially around my face, the kids on my younger daughter's schoolbus thought I looked like a witch. I miss having the dramatic contrast of dark hair/dark eyes/pale skin, but I also resent the implication that I should dye my hair to look other than who I am at the moment, even like a younger version of myself. The way I look 44 is a valid way to look 44. And 44 is a valid age to be.
That said, one of these days someone will ask me to dye my hair for a community theatre show, and I will, and I will like it better, and I will be deeply conflicted about that.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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On the subject of cruel things mothers do to your hair, I'm still getting over having a ribbon knotted painfully into mine (see avatar for details). The next episode of sustained hair-pulling was the Home perm - anyone else remember those acrid saucers of pink goop? And when did it stop being an everyday sight to see women with their hair in curlers?
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Banner Lady
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Fine thin mouse coloured hair, crown off centre, neither dead straight nor curly - just a slight kink in it here and there - means I have never been good at doing my own hair, and neither have many hairdressers. Even the occasional perms I tried when younger fell out quickly. A sensitive scalp means staying away from a lot of products.
I hated the fact that older women seemed to always have short hair, badly permed - blech - and loved seeing elegant old European ladies with neat chignons or crowns of plaits. This was ever my ambition, but sadly as I got older my hair got even thinner. My dad went a glorious silver in his old age so I wanted to see if mine would too - but around the age of 50 could not stand that the top of my head was silver and the rest of it still mouse brown with pepper and salt in between.
The turning point was when I had to go to a party dressed as a diva, so I chose someone I could do a passable imitation of - Susie Quatro. The hairdresser obligingly razor cut my hair into a mullet and put caramel highlights through it to blend all the different colours. It was so damn easy to look after it has stayed that way ever since. Still long enough to twist up into a clip or cage if I want to lose the wild mullet and look "neat" but loved that the inner rock chic finally was outed in my middle age.
Thoroughly recommend finding a hairdresser who can razor cut if you have fine thin hair. It is a bit of a dying art, but was the answer to all my hair woes. So was the half head of caramel highlights. Much easier to look at myself in the mirror these days!
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Penny S
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I went through a phase of putting my hair up in my twenties. It was never very long, a bit below my shoulders, there's a lot of hairs, but they are fine. Not enough length for a chignon. I could never get them to lie flat properly. There were always loops of the under hair pushing up through the top layer. Imagine Evita Peron with solar prominences every so often round the scalp. Not a good look, either in a French pleat or the sort of topknot (backcombed ponytail curved under and gripped down over pleat) the hairdresser tried once. I had to sneak home through the back streets and get it out immediately. (Have a look at Prom Queen, down at the bottom of this page for what she was aiming at. She so failed. Updos! )
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Firenze:
The next episode of sustained hair-pulling was the Home perm - anyone else remember those acrid saucers of pink goop?
Remember them? I can still smell them.
And the results were horrid.
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Sandemaniac
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At my age I thank goodness I still have it all (having had a made-for-scientist forehead since I had hair), and that it's still the same colour (blond). Beyond that it gets a wash and a comb and after that it can lump it.
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Curious Kitten
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
erm...
Oooies. I think the braided hawk with black/blue extensions would possible be a bit too extreme for work but I so want it.
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Wash'n'go. Can't be bothered with anything more.
I hate the faff of having my hair cut - it gets done once or twice a year. Mostly at the point I have to make a double loop when tying it up to get it under a clean room cap without it doing an escape trick.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Curious Kitten:
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
erm...
Oooies. I think the braided hawk with black/blue extensions would possible be a bit too extreme for work but I so want it.
Yeah! I keep mine close-cropped, but if I decide to let it grow again...
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Nenya
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Wash'n'go. I have fine straight hair which I wore long for years, and then in a bob which was high maintenance to keep looking neat. Now I wear it short with layers - if it won't fall into shape after a wash and brush it is too long.
I was dark blond until nature's platinum highlights took over so now I have two colours of woven highlights to restore it to something approaching the colour of my youth. Hairdresser's latest comment after the obligatory faff with the back of my hair before she headed off for the colours trolley - "Ooo, you are white now, aren't you?" ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
One of these days I will embrace the white, but not yet. I might go a bit outrageous with it. I'm thinking pink streaks.
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jacobsen
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Very few non-hair colours look right with human skin, IMO.
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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lilBuddha
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Feet are for pavements, but Pink is lovely. And this is gorgeous!
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lilBuddha
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The last sentence was supposed to include this link.
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Piglet
Islander
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Like many women my age, I had my hair cut à la Lady Diana circa 1983, and apart from a couple of fairly disastrous deviations into perms and bobs, it's been like that more-or-less ever since. I've gradually had them cut it shorter, but it's still the same basic layered "flick-cut" with a side parting ("out of the eyes, dear" as my mum used to say).
I rather envy people who have the nerve to have interesting colours added. My boss (also in her mid-50s) gets a lovely riot of colours added whenever she has her hair cut, and it always looks well, but my colouring only extends to covering up the emergent greys.
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jacobsen
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# 14998
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Feet are for pavements, but Pink is lovely. And this is gorgeous!
My mileage varies!
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Feet are for pavements, but Pink is lovely. And this is gorgeous!
My mileage varies!
And naught wrong that it does.
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Kitten
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My hair is thick,course and slightly wavy, I have always tended towards long hair and on the few occasions I've had it short I didn't feel like me, In a moment of weakness a few weeks ago I had it cut into a long bob and it feels ridiculously short, but it does grow quite quickly.
My mother used to try to nag me into having a short crop as a child but my Dad was an on my side so she didn't win, apart from when I was due to start school and she had my waist length hair cut very short with the excuse that it was to prevent me catching nits
My natural colour is strawberry blond but I have a few white streaks at the front so tend to cover it up with die. My mother at age 81 has hardly any grey and her hair which was mousy when younger darkened into brown in her fifties. My Son, on the other hand, at age 31 has a lot more grey than me.
If I didn't have to work, or worked at a place where I could get away with it, I would love to have it died in royal blue and jade green
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Dee.
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Hi all,
I grew up with long lovely red hair and then I hit my 20s and the red began to fade to a slightly redish brown. I cut it short in mylate 20s and grew it back but never dyed it because of a disaster in my late teens whch gave me pink hair for a while.
About 7 years ago I had it cut short and spikey and discovered short really suited my face shape. About 5 years ago still mourning the loss of my childhood red hair I started dyeing it back to its origional red. I have now settled on a short pixie cut and a home dye job about every 6 weeks.
This week I tryed a new red and ended up with Elmo hair. My friends and my husbannd all think it looks funky and I love the fact that in 6 weeks any disaster has mostly faded and grown out and I can have another go!
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Lothlorien
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Hi Dee, lovely to hear from you.
For years my curly, untamable hair was long. It was plastered down with pins etc but little bits still wormed their way out. The brethren group I married into seemed to regard loose hair as seductive and sinful, so every bit was fastened down. Hats at meetings to cover it all.
After we left, I cut it, much to my husband's disgust. He easily cast off any expectations which had been placed on him, but believed hair on women should be long.
For some years recently son's partner who was a very good hairdresser cut and coloured it. I paid her,she did a great job. After they separated I continued but then found the travel of two buses and an hour in the train a bit much.
She cut it last Christmas day and left it to now go silver which suits me. It had not been cut since. Yesterday fiancée of middle son took me to audiologist and we found a local salon with a vacancy. So I now have it very short again. I hardly recognise it. My sons will be happy. They have been nagging for months to gave it cut.
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On the subject of cruel things mothers do to your hair, I'm still getting over having a ribbon knotted painfully into mine (see avatar for details). The next episode of sustained hair-pulling was the Home perm - anyone else remember those acrid saucers of pink goop? And when did it stop being an everyday sight to see women with their hair in curlers?
Yes. My mother used to put my hair into curling clips, with the lotion and the little slips of paper, and I used to have to sleep with these in to be taken out first thing in the morning. I must have looked like a scowling Shirley Temple. When I was a bit older she gave up on trying to make my irredeemably straight hair curly, and I had to wear a hairband instead to get my hair swept back off my face and out of my eyes. I really hated these.
The home perms were fun, weren't they. I ventured on one at the age of 17 and was quite excited as I undid the rollers, only to find that my hair was even straighter than it had been before and because it had just been permed there was nothing that could be done about that for at least another month, and I couldn't even colour it to cheer myself up.
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I just had a h**rc*t. The one before was in April. I'll be fine until September.
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I have just had the shaggy look tamed. It's really cold on my head, now! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Wednesday, Daughter-Unit gave me my yearly hair cut. It was halfway down my...um...posterior, and a bit too long. She took twelve inches off, and now it's halfway down my back.
When it's this length, I either braid it, or wear it in a bun. When it's longer, it's braided or in a braid bun. I used to wear it loose, but in this Personal Summer™ age, it's too hot. I figure my hair will be good for keeping me warm in the next, colder stage of life!
I had strawberry blond hair most of my life, then the dreaded white clump appeared. When I dyed the thing to disguise my age, it stubbornly refused to stay colored. It won. Now my hair is a third white, a third dark red, and a third gray. Oh, there's one strange clump of gold hair. Does that make me a calico?
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My mother tells hair-raising (apologies for bad pun) tales of the things she and her friends used to get up to styling their hair in the 1960s. Sellotaping a curl to your face while you slept was apparently one favourite technique. Ironing it (i.e. with the iron you use for laundry) was another .
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
My mother tells hair-raising (apologies for bad pun) tales of the things she and her friends used to get up to styling their hair in the 1960s. Sellotaping a curl to your face while you slept was apparently one favourite technique. Ironing it (i.e. with the iron you use for laundry) was another .
While sitting in a bath in your jeans and filling the sink with tie-dyeing T-shirts. What fun we had in those days.
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Indeed. Remember the endless backcombing and gallons of hairspray?
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Did anyone else scorch chunks of her hair whilst drying it in front of a gas fire?
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There are photos of me, age 3 months (unable even to sit up!) with curlers in my hair.
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... Sellotaping a curl to your face while you slept was apparently one favourite technique ...
Yup, remember that (although I didn't actually do it myself). I do, however, remember having spongy rollers in my hair on Saturday nights to curl it inwards when I had a page-boy cut.
I needn't have bothered - it wanted to curl outwards, and the rollers made the square root of diddly-squat of a difference. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Quite long, dyed black for now. Crimped unless I'm in a hurry.
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