Hair Poll

[cinnamon_toast]

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.

[limewave]

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.

[indigoiis]

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.

Oh my gawd, look what I've started!

LOL

[northstar]

Wow, Meg...gorgeous hair!

[Python]

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 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

[HappyAnika]

But then, last night, I said to Mister Indy, Listen, I'm Cutting My Hair. He looked a little wistful. I don't think guys like short hair on girls. Whatever. It does grow rather fast, so, if I hate it, I'll grow it.

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. But it grew out quickly and a better, layered cut (from someone else) made it look cute instead of ghastly.

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.

[Meg McKilty]

Wow, Meg...gorgeous hair!

Why, thank you! It makes great swiss circling-the-top-of-your-head braids.

[bikerHen]

I use to have waist lenght hair and loved it. I use to get those great spiral perms! I was very good at doing all kinds of braids. But as I have gotten older my hair has started to thin, alot! 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. When I'm not sporting helmet hair, and I actually make the effort, my hair can look pretty darn good. bikerhen

[Aggie_Ama]

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.

[Dogmama]

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...

[deedolce]

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!

[Zen]

Although I don't really look like her, my hair does.

same here Nothing can be done for this hair but grow it and tie it back.

I am trying to get away from dyeing it so much... don't like putting all that crap on my skin and into the water table!

Am i just going through a phase?

I find the color dries my hair too much. I just don't care anymore, too much fussing.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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! 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.

[annie]

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 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.

I kinda like helmet hair......... it equalizes good/bad/young/old hair.

Annie

[Susan Otcenas]

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