• I've worn it this way since 1977. I see no reason to change.
• Life without sculpting clay, gel, rollers and a hairdrier is inconceivable.
• Wash'n'go
• I put my twice wekly visits to the salon down as professional expenses
• What hair?

 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I tried letting it grow. It looked horrible - thin, limp, straggly with an annoying bend on one side of it. I cut it back, shorter than I wanted but it seems to work better that way. With the passage of the years I've had to cut it increasingly short, at this rate by the time I retire it'll be a Number 1 haircut.

I colour it. I used to use auburn but that no longer goes with my skin tones and I've switched to dark instead. Other than that it's wash'n'go. I never bother with a hairdresser, I don't want to pay a small fortune to have something cut off and thrown away when I can do a quite respectable trim myself for free.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I cut it when I feel like it, which happens every 8 months or so.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
I've kept it pretty short and curly (permed) for about 20 years. It's wash-and-wear with no fussing on my part. The last five or so years I'd had it slightly colored as well.

Last spring my long-time hairdresser retired, so I got some recommendations from friends. I tried the first one for several months, but she just wasn't the person for me. I've just started with a new one who seems to be great. She may recommend some changes, so we'll see how that goes.
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I used to have long curly hair. It was semi-afro style, and a bit of a mess.

One day, I decided to have it cut short - to half an inch, rather than the 9 inches it used to be. It looked much better. So I have kept it short ever since.

These days I get it buzzed to a #2 cut every 6 months and that does me well. Easy and manageable. I normally reckon that if I have to dry it or comb it, it needs cutting.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Mine is now very long indeed.

I find it easy, I can tie it back every day and up on hot days, but if I need to be posh I can have a snazzy 'updo'.

I can't decide on fringe/no fringe 'tho and keep veering between the two.

I'm growing the colour out to ascertain my natural colour, I have about 8 inches natural now. I'm mouse mouse mouse but hardly any grey. Once it's all mouse I will decide on some suitable, subtle highlights.


 

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Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
As the daughter of an army officer we lived all over the world so I was taken to the army barber with my brothers...
After we settled in the UK I insisted that my parents let me grow my hair and they eventually did but my Dad maintained it was better short. It was long, thick glossy and wavy and a rich ash brown.
At 17 I realised that my Dad had in part been right and although my hair was lovely it dwarfed my face and so I saved up my money and took myself off to Vidal Sassoon's salon to have it cut- I saw a TV programme about him and for some weird reason decided that was the only place I would trust.
Apart from two other excursions back into long hair (first at the request of husband and then later my daughters) it has been a short, pixie cut all my adult life.
When I started going grey I experimented with colour and had a lot of fun and varying degrees of success....the henna disaster in particular comes to mind.
Then I moved to Kenya and decided that the colour options here looked a bit dodgy so I let it be and most people including me like it grey. So I have a youthful pixie cut from my Kenyan stylist on my elderly grey hair!
 

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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I found a really good hair stylist who cut my hair to a good short style - on the cruise ship! I'm now weighing up the possibilities again.

when I realised that people thought I was a brunette, while I thought I was mousy blonde, I started having highlights, so I looked the way I thought I did, but once I started greying, I stopped, as the colour looked more like what I thought again. I'm still not entirely grey.
 

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Posted by Diomedes (# 13482) on :
 
I have 'difficult' hair. The hours hairdressers have spent restraining or straightening my curls have been hours wasted - however pleased they are with the end result I know it will only last an hour or two at the most. My hair loves to live in the west of Ireland, the damp atmosphere suits it very well. Unfortunately I have to live elsewhere!
 

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Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
I wash'n'go pretty much, never colour it now (the last time I had colour/highlights was 2001). The grey is really showing now, highlights-style, it has been for some years, but I have found a great hairdresser who is always very complementary about it and says people pay a fortune for colour like it. He is in Glasgow, but although we moved from there 4 years ago I still go there to the same guy, as I so appreciate that I have found someone who gets that I am not going to spend hours straightening/styling/curling/bunging gunk on my hair but will just give it a blow dry for a couple of minutes. I only go twice a year, so I don't mind paying a little bit extra.

I quite happily use Lidl shampoo, it seems no better or worse than any of the more expensive ones I've tried. I might have to concede and start buying a conditioner as well though, as it has got particularly dry over the last couple of years, and goes really frizzy in damp weather.
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 

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Originally posted by Boogie:
I can't decide on fringe/no fringe 'tho and keep veering between the two.

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The grey is really showing now, highlights-style, it has been for some years, but I have found a great hairdresser who is always very complementary about it and says people pay a fortune for colour like it.

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When my hair first started going grey that's the way I felt. I had strangers come up to me in the grocery store and compliment me on it. My then hairdresser used to try to take credit for my lovely highlights. But then it got greyer and greyer and I looked a lot older than I felt, so I started to color it just enough to "turn back the clock" a few years.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Ahh, henna.... I always associate it with crocheted maxi dresses and patchouli incense. The powder made up into a green mud that smelt like stewed tea, but it did condition beautifully. Colour varied - probably the most...interesting... result was the summer I applied it onto sun-bleached hair. Orange. No two ways about it. Plus my favourite outfit at the time was a bright pink boiler suit.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Sadly, the only hair dye I am not allergic to is henna. So grey it is.

Currently my hair needs cutting. I had 7 inches cut off earlier this year, not for the first time, and went back to short for the summer.
 

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Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
I won't fuss with my hair, and therefore it must always be wash and wear. For some years after I began to go gray I had my hairdresser color it. But then my California relatives announced that hair coloring was Probably Dangerous for the Environment, so I had to quit. My hairdresser allowed that she could cut it so that it would look like I Meant To Do That, and so I told her to have at it. And it does indeed now look as if I have artfully streaked it myself!
 

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Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 
My head is due its twice weekly shave.
 

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Posted by UKCanuck (# 10780) on :
 
I'm pretty much a wash-n-go kinda guy. I'll spiff up the top with an itty-bitty dollop of wax if I'm feeling fancy but, otherwise, it's so short that I don't even need to comb or brush. In fact, the only mirror I have in the house is a small travel one for shaving. As for colour, progressively silvery. If I ever coloured it, it would be something like purple or green.
 

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Posted by Pomona (# 17175) on :
 
I have very thick dark brown hair (darkest, almost-black shade) which is just starting to get silvery grey hairs. I got it cut into a pixie cut almost a year ago now and it was the best decision I ever made - my hair is so thick that it took a long time to dry after washing and was so hot and heavy in summer. I just wash and go, using a little hair serum if it's feeling dry. I love Palmers products despite not having afro/black hair.
 

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Posted by Sarasa (# 12271) on :
 
I have baby fine hair that used to be naturally blonde. The blond is now out of a bottle. For the last few years I've worn it long, usually up in a librarian style bun (I like a bit of type casting). I'm considering going back to the short crop I had before, but can't quite make up my mind.
 

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Posted by Jengie jon (# 273) on :
 
A good cut every four to six weeks and for the rest wash, dry and out. I had it permed twice and henna'ed for a while when it started fading. I was upset that it was not going grey!

I do fuss about the cut, as despite being short and straight my hair still manages to be contrary. I find a hairdresser who can cut it and stick with them. I have also had the same style for over a decade. I am short haired but with the rate of growth if I ever wanted it long then I think that would take about six months only as it has totally grown out in five weeks and displaying its contrariness.

Jengie
 

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Posted by Jonah the Whale (# 1244) on :
 

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So, are you

• I've worn it this way since 1977. I see no reason to change.
• Life without sculpting clay, gel, rollers and a hairdrier is inconceivable.
• Wash'n'go
• I put my twice wekly visits to the salon down as professional expenses
• What hair?

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Originally posted by Firenze:

So, are you

• I've worn it this way since 1977. I see no reason to change.
• Life without sculpting clay, gel, rollers and a hairdrier is inconceivable.
• Wash'n'go
• I put my twice wekly visits to the salon down as professional expenses
• What hair?

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Wash'n'go probably describes my hair - it's longish, and I have it cut about once or twice a year. Possibly also 'I've worn it this way since 1977' - I was three in 1977, and my hair was also longish and wavy and unstyled back then. I've had a couple of different hairstyles in between (not sure that 'styles' is quite the right word, but they could be categorised into short, awkward in-between length, and long) but they were all wash'n'go.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
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. 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.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
I have a 1-2 cut every few weeks - if it gets to the stage where it needs any more attention than a towel dry and a quick rub with my hand it is too long. Back when I was a wee lad of about 30 I had it shoulder length and it was a pain but I was vain and wanted it like that until one lunchtime when I disappeared to the barber and came back with it short - it's stayed mostly short since. I am also receding a little so this looks loads better. Last time Saheer tried to get me try a 1-2-3 but I stuck to my guns. I have occasionally had a Number 1 but prefer the 1-2.
 

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Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
I've had it short for the last couple of years.

Right now it's Blue and Pink but it has also been Red, purple and brown, Blue and Purple and just Purple in the last few months.

I am living my teenage years later in life.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:

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.

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Extremely thick, dark brown hair and way too much of it with reddish highlights--though by this time it's doubtless all steel-gray

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I love stell grey, I want steel grey. I even considered dying it steel grey - but would then have to deal with dark roots
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sarasa:
I have baby fine hair that used to be naturally blonde. The blond is now out of a bottle. For the last few years I've worn it long, usually up in a librarian style bun (I like a bit of type casting). I'm considering going back to the short crop I had before, but can't quite make up my mind.

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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. 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.

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I have a fat round face and love my pixie cut with bangs/fringe! My haircut is based on this.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
My haircut is based on this

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Aaargh! This is what I get from trying to post a link on my phone. Sorry.
 

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Posted by Cathscats (# 17827) on :
 
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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Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
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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Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
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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Posted by cattyish (# 7829) on :
 
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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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
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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Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :
 

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
My haircut is based on this

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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
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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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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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.

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Oh all right then - every specific hairstyle apart from ones that only look good on non-Caucasians.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
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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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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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.

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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?

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Originally posted by Curious Kitten:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:

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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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Yeah! I keep mine close-cropped, but if I decide to let it grow again...
 

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Posted by Nenya (# 16427) on :
 
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?"

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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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Very few non-hair colours look right with human skin, IMO.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Feet are for pavements, but Pink is lovely. And this is gorgeous!
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
The last sentence was supposed to include this link.
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
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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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Feet are for pavements, but Pink is lovely. And this is gorgeous!

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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!

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My mileage varies!

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And naught wrong that it does.
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
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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Posted by Dee. (# 5681) on :
 
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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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
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.

[ 28. November 2015, 03:23: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

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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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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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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I just had a h**rc*t. The one before was in April. I'll be fine until September.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
I have just had the shaggy look tamed. It's really cold on my head, now!
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
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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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
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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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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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 .

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... Sellotaping a curl to your face while you slept was apparently one favourite technique ...

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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.
 

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Posted by argona (# 14037) on :
 
Quite long, dyed black for now. Crimped unless I'm in a hurry.
 

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