I have a short bob with bangs. It looks pretty bad (flat) after wearing a helmet but it works for me the rest of the time. :D
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I have a short bob with bangs. It looks pretty bad (flat) after wearing a helmet but it works for me the rest of the time. :D
I went and got 4 inches chopped off. I used to be able to walk around topless with just my hair to cover "the girls" up :) My beloved curls are in the drain. Now my hair just touches my shoulders. This will be much lighter and easier to care for. I won't have Princess Leah orbs to shove under a swim cap or bike helmet anymore.
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Originally Posted by limewave
Oh my gawd, look what I've started!
LOL :D
Wow, Meg...gorgeous hair!
About 7 years ago my hair was about 3 inches from my waist. Step-daughter was getting married so I decided to get the ends (just the ends) trimmed.
Stupid hairdresser cut over 12 inches off it:mad: I was so speechless and angry I just paid and walked out, went home and did something I don't normally do - wept buckets. I think I know how Samson must have felt:(
At the wedding reception hubby and I were photographed dancing and I had my back to the camera. I was horrified at how awful my hair looked. I have wavy hair and it just looked a total mess. I got it cut really short not long after:(
This time no hairdresser gets near my hair. Apart from dyeing it myself at home I'm leaving it "eau naturel" - and it's growing just fine:D
When my hair was down to my bum, I had 14 inches cut off all at once and donated it. Before I went to do it, I thought my DH was going to cry, he was so sad I was cutting it. He got over it in about 2 days. Me, on the other hand, I did cry. She was only supposed to take off 10" and I was mortified for weeks at how short it was. :mad: But it grew out quickly and a better, layered cut (from someone else) made it look cute instead of ghastly.Quote:
Originally Posted by indigoiis
As far as the dye thing, again, I'm 31, and I have a ridiculous amount of gray. I LOVE my natural color, dark brown with pretty natural golden and red highlights. To keep as much of my natural color, but cover up the gray, my stylist uses 3 different dyes, one of them a permanent low light on the gray, and the cost is exorbitant. I've taken a break from dying for the pregnancy, and my hair looks like crap. I can't wait to get it colored again. I didn't realize how much the gray was advancing and I am not ready to let it take over at 31.
Why, thank you! It makes great swiss circling-the-top-of-your-head braids.Quote:
Originally Posted by northstar
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I use to have waist lenght hair and loved it. I use to get those great spiral perms! :D I was very good at doing all kinds of braids. But as I have gotten older my hair has started to thin, alot! :mad: So now I wear it short. Which is easy to care for, and great for biking.
Without all that long hair, I discovered I have all sorts of natural curl. :eek: When I'm not sporting helmet hair, and I actually make the effort, my hair can look pretty darn good. :rolleyes: bikerhen
My hair is between the shoulder blades, straight, thick and fine. I used to do pigtail braids (layered hair doesn't do one braid). My mom picked up a nifty little thing at the Harley shop called a hair glove (www.hairglove.com) and now I use that. She got a leather one since it was the Harley shop but I think I may order the neoprene. Works great but the leather is a bit stiff. I just had to chop off 3" of my hair because the sun/wind from cycling killed it. :( Now I deep condition and braid or wear the Hair Glove.
Hair! I cut mine short a couple of months ago. I'll NEVER go back! My hair is stick straight and very fine. I keep color in it to thicken it up & give it a little body. Hair longer than earlobe length just hangs - no body, no curve - unless I torture it severely in the morning. Even then - a good wind or humidity & I'm back to the drowned rat look.
I can spike it up or not. A good haircut is a MUST. Hair products are heaven sent.
I just turned 53, BTW. I don't see many older women who look good in longer hair. Sorry, but I think it makes them look older because it drags down the features. Gravity will have its way eventually - but I don't mind trying to fake it out a little...
I'm 48, and I have thin hair. It was always thinner than my sisters! Hair gene skipped me. I also have it professionally colored, just started that regularly a couple of months ago, and love the way it looks, over me missing spots...I've been pretty gray for a while now. Vanity, and I also got back into the dating game...My hair is straight, Asian hair, and I have it a few inches below my shoulders. When I ride, I just clip it back and go. It looks fine to me when I peel off my helmet! :rolleyes:
same hereAttachment 4119 Nothing can be done for this hair but grow it and tie it back.Quote:
Originally Posted by indigoiis
I find the color dries my hair too much. I just don't care anymore, too much fussing.Quote:
Originally Posted by indigoiis
I have dark ash blonde wavy hair. It's a dull color. Thin texture. I can't grow my hair very long like I could when I was in my 20's- now it just breaks off at a certain length.
Besides I think it makes me look older when it hangs down the sides of my head.
I like it short- I always cut it myself in a kind of Joan of Arc bowl cut.
I used to color it red for about 15 years- looked great. I always had to avoid exposing it to the sun however- red dyed hair turns pinkish or orange-ish with a few hours of sun! :eek: As I got older it did not look good as dark red, so I went a lighter golden red. I did that for a few years, but then I kept getting more and more sparkly silver hair that I kind of liked.
Last year at age 52 I finally decided that I had enough silver to make my natural ash blonde hair an interesting frosted look, so I just stopped coloring. My hair has been very short for many years so I didn't have to deal with long hair that was a different color than the new stuff growing out.
Now at 53 I love my new silver/pewter frosted hair. Women are always telling me that it looks like a very expensive frosting job. :p
I can very much relate to this!! I'm 52, but what's one year difference? Not much, I think. My hair is about as straight as it comes, and fine, tho' there is a lot of it. Coloring helps give it body and thickness, let alone brightness and a covering of the grey spots. It will never be short again. I think I actually look older in long hair. I adore hair products, especially volumnizer and the sticky stuff that molds hair into place. Eventually, I hope I have the guts to go grey/white. Not there yet.Quote:
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I kinda like helmet hair......... it equalizes good/bad/young/old hair.
Annie
Long, curly, and all one length. I wear it in a ponytail 99 days out of a hundred. No muss, no fuss, no hair products, no coloring. I put the ponytail high and through the retention strap on my helmet.
37, going on 50.
Susan