Hair styles

[Irulan]

Short, short, short for me! I can't be bothered with styling or even drying my hair, so it has been short for years. I get an interesting bicycle-helmet look where my hair forms ridges from the vents on my helmet. Here's a shot of my head after a happy day's riding on a tour of Hawaii:

I've seen that look before, on a guy:

[doc]

I know this is no help at all, but I've got VERY curly hair. I leave it at, or a little past, my shoulders. (Much longer when wet) Short hair = Bozo the clown. Boy short hair = Q-tip head. Both looks are to be avoided.
Good news, curly hair is all interlocked together. So I put my helmet on, push everything towards the back and I never hear from it or see it again. People always know its me. I always hear "was that you riding on such and such road yesterday? I saw a helmet and a lot of curly hair sticking out" Yeah. It's always me.

[SnowMouse]

That's hilarious.....a windy ride, no less!

[LBTC]

Hey, Snowmouse! I had super short hair until I was about 20 myself...for my formative years, that's just how my mother thought it should be. I often was mistaken for a boy. I hated that. When I was a teenager I just didn't know how to go about growing it!! When I got to about 20 I wasn't making enough money to afford the hair cut every 3 weeks that short hair required, so....bite the bullet and grow it. when it got long enough to put stuff in it to hold it back (that was totally new to me!!), nothing looked good and I realized it was because my hair was the colour of the mice and deer that live here. voila....one little box and some help from DH and my hair is the colour it was as a child! I've had litttle more than a trim in the last 17 years, and I can't imagine being without it.....although I occasionally, on hot hot days, pine for the buzz cut I had in grade 11. I seriously did not look like a girl with it, tho....

so, yes, I can tell you, blondes do have more fun

did I have a point??

so how do you do a loop braid?

Namaste,
~T~

[shewhobikes]

I finally have a cut that is short and choppy enough so that I can scrunch it around with some product while blow-drying for 5 minutes and have a look that says, "her hair is sort of fgoing everywhere.. was that what she meant to happen???" ha! and the helmet then becomes not much of a problem.

[bounceswoosh]

I finally have a cut that is short and choppy enough so that I can scrunch it around with some product while blow-drying for 5 minutes and have a look that says, "her hair is sort of fgoing everywhere.. was that what she meant to happen???" ha! and the helmet then becomes not much of a problem.

When I've tried to use a blowdrier or product on/in my short hair, I've realized that I have no idea what to do. It ends up just looking wrong, nothing like what my stylist does. I have one day every 6 weeks or so (my hair grows quickly and probably gains about 2" in 2 months) where my hair looks good, and the rest of the time I just pretend I don't care!

[SnowMouse]

LBTC.....I know everybit about what you're talking about....and I had a hairdresser call my hair colour mousy brown! When I started growing it out it had no style, and the word mop head was appropriate....and I'm still learning new ways to tie it and so on. My favorite way to wear it for skiing is in a low pony tail, with 3 more elastics lied at equal distances to the end. I left it at it's colour, because it's so dry, that colouring it, destroys it.

I do two loop braids simply by splitting the hair in two so you'd be making two pony tails, but I braid each one and then tuck them under....then the Heidi name starts flying about! I find this the most comfortable way to wear my hair riding.....although it's just no good for when you're in a hurry.

[Irulan]

When I've tried to use a blowdrier or product on/in my short hair, I've realized that I have no idea what to do. It ends up just looking wrong, nothing like what my stylist does. I have one day every 6 weeks or so (my hair grows quickly and probably gains about 2" in 2 months) where my hair looks good, and the rest of the time I just pretend I don't care!

my hair people know I'm active, and that it has to look good by either air drying it or just running a comb through it wet. No "product" for me.

How many of you keep a hat in your bike bag for post ride helmet hair?

~I.

[bounceswoosh]

my hair people know I'm active, and that it has to look good by either air drying it or just running a comb through it wet. No "product" for me.

That's true for me as well, but it still never looks quite as good when I'm done with it than when Sarah is. It makes sense; it's her job to make people look good.

How many of you keep a hat in your bike bag for post ride helmet hair?
~I.

Not I; people are usually too busy gawking at the blood and the mud to notice my hair =P

[DeniseGoldberg]

I've seen that look before, on a guy:

Oh - now you're making me jealous. He has much better ridges than I do, but then again it looks like his hair is longer than mine too, and I just can't compromise there!

[alison_in_oh]

Oh - now you're making me jealous. He has much better ridges than I do, but then again it looks like his hair is longer than mine too, and I just can't compromise there!

Hee, you really pull that 'do off, Denise, but I don't think I have the facial structure. Your pic does remind me though of how my husband grew his hair out for our wedding...the honeymoon in Hawaii did some fascinating things by way of helmet hair! Unfortunately he learned his lesson and has never again let it get that long...so now he just gets what we call "Darth Maul" sunburn marks on his head!

I think helmet hair (in my case, wisps of hair cemented to my face by sweat) is a badge of honor. And anyway I tend to start and end rides at my house (making my ride partners meet me here if necessary!) so I don't end up wearing helmet hair in public very often.

The post-ride stench is another story entirely.

SnowMouse - if you want to color your hair without damaging it, consider henna. I've done mine twice now and it looks great, natural, and best of all it's healthier than before dying it! I like being a redhead every so often.

I'm tempted by those TE ponytail holders and headbands.

All - anyone see the movie Constantine? Gabriel's cute short blond curly style was part of what made me start thinking about hair again! I thought, "That's long enough in the front that you could stick it behind your ears and/or headband it under a helmet!" And I learned when I was 18 with a perm that curly hair still looks good when it's greasy and sweaty!

But I am really trying to keep chemicals out of my hair for now, so no perms for me (despite having them on and off since I was small!) Hubby liked it curly too. Ah, well.

[SadieKate]

You guys are making me laugh!!! I know all too well the dreaded helmet hair look. Not fair that hubby doesn't get it.

How many of you keep a hat in your bike bag for post ride helmet hair?

My friends have learned that if they bike with me long enough, they get a winter hat knitted for them. . . http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sadiek.../ph//my_photos This doesn't even come close to the actual fashion collection!

[Veronica]

Do you think maybe you have too much time on your hands?

V.

[SadieKate]

Better than eating, cheaper than therapy. Besides, you wouldn't believe the math required to design a properly fitting hat let alone a sweater. Might be a good project for those rugrats you call students.

[Trek420]

short gal, short hair. till my college days loooooooong ago it was long, down to my waist.

it's at my shoulders now and I can't wait to see my styleist and get it cut short. I sweat a LOT so I wear a headband but that's just to keep the sweat out of my eyes.