Hair Poll

[PinkBike]

indigoiis, you look absolutely adorable with short hair!!

i wear mine long so i look less mannish. its very thick and very wavy and a total pain. plus i'm growing out the bangs so they're always in my eyes.
one of these days i'll just get tired of it and go in and have it all chopped off. that's my dream but i currently am not ready!

i went to one of those hairstylist sites and had a blast playing with different haircuts. i think when finally i do it, i'll probably go with a suze orman-type cut.

[Python]

I had my hair very short until 18 months ago when I got fed up with it. It grows quite fast and is now bra-strap length. I usually tie it back in a ponytail when riding the bike and keep it tucked under a buff (keeps the sun off my ears - the itch like mad if I get the sun on them). For work I prefer my hair either tied back or in a French Roll or bun (not the edible type )

Like having long hair because you get pretty hair slides and things you can't use on short hair.

The only other thing I do is dye my hair - have been quite grey for some time now (I'm 50)

[Tuckervill]

My hair is between my shoulders and my bra strap. It's layered, but still long enough to get in a pony tail.

What I've changed recently is going from wearing bangs (for over 20 years) to not wearing bangs--or they're really long so they go back behind my ears. I don't know if they're technically still bangs. But if I let them grow to the same length as the rest I'd look like a hippie chick from the '70s (which is just how I wore my hair in the '70s). It's not attractive on me without the long bangs. Makes my face look too round, as do short bangs as I've gotten older. I should just come out and admit to myself that my face is quite round! lol.

As I've gone past 40, and closer to 50, my formerly straight hair is getting curlier and curlier. Not curly enough to *wear* curly, and only in the BACK. bah! So I have a straight iron. It's been too hot to wear my hair down for about 3 weeks now--can't remember if I like my haircut or not.

So the pony tail goes in below the helmet, and then I take a couple of extra bands and put them an inch and half apart down the pony tail to keep it from splaying on my neck and back when I ride. It doesn't look too attractive with some of the ends sticking out, but neither does the mixed up ponytail.

Karen

[RolliePollie]

According to my trusty yardstick, my hair is 18 inches long. I just got 3" cut off last week I hadn't had my hair cut in over 4 months...my hair gets "scissor trauma" and misbehaves very badly for several weeks after a haircut. I am naturally blonde and have very thick, straight hair. It's almost impossible to get a good haircut.

I put my hair in two braids when I ride. It's great...they hang down in front of my shoulders most of the time or the fly back behind me if I'm going fast. I can't stand just doing a ponytail in back because it's so dang hot on my neck. Plus I think I look like a boy in my helmet if all my hair is pulled back out of sight.

It also seems that people think I'm very young when they see the two braids. Nothin' wrong with that!

[singletrackmind]

Currently nearly waist-length, thick, fine and straight so it goes into a ponytail, or multiple bands down its length as it gets longer. When it gets past the waist it goes to Locks Of Love and there's still enough for a small 'tail or just loose. Too short and I look like Moe, as in Larry, Curly and. Fun.

Worst is the brow-length bangs. I tuck them into my helmet so I can see but then they stick straight up when the helmet comes off.

[KnottedYet]

Baby-fine thin 40 y.o. hair.

It wanders around from chin length to 1 inch spikes to occaisionally just long enough to make a tiny scrawny thin ponytail.

[Pax]

Here is a picture of me a couple years ago when it was fairly short. Don't ask about the animals - I could talk about them all day.

http://www.paradisefarmalpacas.com/i...reshearing.jpg

Here is me with it long, how it looks now:

http://www.paradisefarmalpacas.com/i...s_luna_5th.jpg

(oy vey - I didn't know the photos would be that huge... so just posted links instead.)

I have a buddy in VT who has 3 or 4 alpacas, they are adorable!!!

[Velobambina]

I'd love to wear my hair short. When I was younger and my face fuller, I could pull it off. With age, my face has gotten thinner and unfortunately, short hair would not be flattering. I have a square jaw & high forehead. More importantly, I can't be bothered styling/drying/fussing with my hair. I'm a wash-comb-and-go kinda gal. My hair is wavy but fine.

I've added partial highlights to my single-process hair color to help camoflague the grey more between trips to the stylist. The result is a more expensive color bill, so I've decided to limit myself to just a couple haircuts a year. It's just below the shoulder right now.

On the bike, I braid it and wear a buff. Last year, I had a chin length, layered bob. I've found that wearing a buff, cap style, will accommodate any hair length in terms of keeping it out of your face.

[lph]

Medium length (below shoulders), fine, curly. I'd like to have really short hair, but the one time I tried I didn't like the look of it and I'd feel I'd have to cut it all the time.

On me long hair is low-maintenance in that the curls don't need much fuss to look reasonably ok, and dry, so I only wash it once a week or so. The length keeps it wavy, not crinkly-curly. And I don't have to cut it until the snaggy tips start driving me nuts. Most important, I can get it all into a ponytail and it doesn't get into my eyes. I wear a Buff - actually half a Buff, I cut one in half and it's a perfect headband - under my helmet too to catch sweat and stray wisps.

[indigoiis]

All the talk about the stuff we put in our hair brings to mind the movie "There's something about Mary." That was a great scene.

Incidentally, that was a nice haircut, too.

So, anyway, I made the appointment for Friday at four. This is the look I will be going for...



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

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.

I also have gray which resembles highlights if I don't dye, and 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?

[lph]

I'm with you on the dye problem. I'm naturally dark-blonde going on grey. I don't really mind being grey, but it makes my hair look very matte, and every now and then I'd do a home colour-rinse or something to look a bit glossier...

A few years ago I figured I was worth (and could afford, not least) a real salon colour job on my hair, medium warm brown. It looked gorgeous and compliments were flying, so I settled for doing it properly a few times a year. I hadn't counted on the professional hair colour never washing out, and that brown hair dye turns YELLOW in the sun.

I'd like to cut down on the dyeing and just BE grey part of the year, but how do you start when your hair is shoulder length and permanently dyed?

signed,
-duh.

[Bad JuJu]

I'd like to cut down on the dyeing and just BE grey part of the year, but how do you start when your hair is shoulder length and permanently dyed?

I just kicked the hair dye habit at the beginning of this year. I got my not-very-long hair cut even shorter then just let the dyed part grow out, getting regular haircuts to clip away at it. It's pretty much all my own color now, which is a gradually greying dark-blonde-to-light-brown. I don't mind my grey hair now that it's starting to look better, but when I first started greying it was patchy and watery and just yucky. Now it's kind of silvery--I like that.

[GLC1968]

I'd like to cut down on the dyeing and just BE grey part of the year, but how do you start when your hair is shoulder length and permanently dyed?

I'd just cut mine super short again...

I cannot wait until I can get away with gray hair (and not just look weird). My hair is dark brown and in my youth, it would bleach into these gorgeous blonde and red highlights (by the sun). Unfortunately I've been coloring to cover grey for 18 years now and that just wipes out all sun effects. I'm now about 50% grey if I were to let it go natural. At what age is this ok? I mean...I have real respect for Taylor Hicks, but even at 39, I'm just not sure I could pull it off...you know?

If you are naturally grey...at what age did you let it BE your hair color?

[indigoiis]

The mister says he likes the grey.
But, I am of two minds about it. On the one hand, I look at it as a medal of honor (I'm still heee-eeere) and on the other, it makes me feel crockety.

The salon is going to chat with me on Friday about blending highlights with the grey to make the grey look more like highlights. I will report back and let you know what they say.

[Meg McKilty]

Long long- even longer than this picture. Like, smalls of my back. I love my long hair. I have to deep condition it from the wear and tear, however.