Hair styles

[alison_in_oh]

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.

Yay knitting!

[Barb]

My hair is pin straight and baby fine. Think a million strands of thread coming out of my head!!!! I cut it short a year ago and really like it. Now I'm thinking a perm would be good. I definately have to do the blow dry with product route and I am NOT good at it!!! Cross your fingers that my perm will leave me with a wash n go 'do (please not a wash n go fro!)

[JanT]

Short. It's the only way to survive the Phoenix heat. I know it's time to get it cut when it sticks to my neck, and feels crunchy with dried salt at the end of a ride! I used to wear it long and in a pony tail when I ran half-marathons, but helmets require short hair. I found how great short hair is when I lost all mine to chemo, and thus got to wear it at various short lengths. When I found out I could get ready to go to work in half the time, not having to mess with the curling iron to look respectable, I never let it get very long at all. Gel, and blow dry with a curling brush. With helmet head, I can just use my fingers to rustle it up again and look halfway decent. Well, except in July, August, and September, when the head melts. Then, no one else looks good either! Who cares?

[LBTC]

sadiekate...wow! those are awesome!!

snowmouse....I have dry hair tooo....and have been dying it for 15 years.....but it's pretty healthy because of several things: I never comb or brush it while it's wet, I never use a blow dryer, I try to not wash it every day, and, in fact, I wash it at night and sleep on it wet (it takes about 4 hours to dry if it's not braided or anything...) the only product I ever use is something called silk and I only use it if I am braiding my hair wet which requires me to break rule number 1. I LOVE being a blonde!!

Barb, have you had a perm before? Just curious. I've had a few and....well, if a perm lasts more than two weeks I"m incredibly lucky . this hair does not hold curl. it's pretty fine, too, so just curious if you'll run into the same problem!

If anyone tries those TE pony holders, please do a review! It will probably be a few months before I make another purchase online....if I get to it first, I'll buy them anyway and do my own review!

OH! and how could I forget the inverted ponytail?? Yeesh, I wear that at least as often as a ponytail - works great with the bike helmet because the bump is spread out to either side....I find my helmet cinches up perfectly, and I can start the pony at almost a normal height, not really really low....

Happy hair, everybody!

Namaste,
~T~

[SadieKate]

Thanks, Alison and LBTC. Nice to know some people appreciate handwork. Some people tile and work on ships, others knit.

LBTC - Geez! I'd heard about the fracas up in BC. That's awful to actually be threatened. Sounds like some of these people just have no concept of respecting others. The one and only time I was threatened on a bike, the "threateners" told us that the area was closed for a special event that day and when we persevered told us that we might get shot by a stray bullet. They said all this was in their state permit. Unfortunately for them, the state attorney who wrote the permit (as well as the retired attorney who wrote the previous year's permit) were standing there with me. Moral of the story, don't threaten the safety of the wife of the guy who holds that kind of power over your organization. This guy (as you can tell, my hubby) loved giving them a little "hello" grin at the next meeting when they had to petition for the next year's permit. Guess what the happy ending was? So, hang in there. There are happy endings.

[massbikebabe]

Short!

I was always pulling my hair up or braiding so I finally cut it boy short and never went back. I tried growing it out again 2 years ago and my kids and husband thought I looked sick and tired with my hair long...so I cut it again

karen

[LBTC]

Some people tile and work on ships, others knit.

...and I take pictures!
http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/picsie_chick/my_photos

LBTC - Geez! I'd heard about the fracas up in BC. That's awful to actually be threatened. Sounds like some of these people just have no concept of respecting others.

You hit the nail on the head, Sadiekate! No respect. They don't respect themselves, anybody else or the trail! Just figure everything is theirs to mess with any old way they please. very sad.

what have you heard about the fracas up here? it feels like we're so out of the loop...that nobody out in the world would have any clue of mountain biking's dirty little secret in williams lake....

I loved your story, though. Gotta love being able to show 'em what for!

Namaste,
~T~
...still waiting for the happy ending...riding hard anyway

[bounceswoosh]

OH! and how could I forget the inverted ponytail?? Yeesh, I wear that at least as often as a ponytail - works great with the bike helmet because the bump is spread out to either side....I find my helmet cinches up perfectly, and I can start the pony at almost a normal height, not really really low....

What's an inverted ponytail?

[LBTC]

What's an inverted ponytail?

make a ponytail
part the hair above the pony tail tie
grasp the pony, pull it up towards your head, push/pull it through the parted hair above the pony tail tie

it looks quite fancy and it's super easy!!

Namaste,
~T~

[Raindrop]

I'm in the short hair group too. I started with long hair and it's been getting shorter and shorter every year. Luckily for me, I have a hair stylist that I barter with (I train her, she cuts and colors my hair). It allows me to get it cut every four weeks and play with color. Right now I have dark brown (natural) interspersed with blond and fushia streaks. I know, it sounds a little punk. But it was my gift to myself after leaving the corporate world.

In any case, I still get helmet head and I haven't seen anyone running away screaming as a result, so I guess it's ok.

[Veronica]

Hey - I wasn't dissing the knitting. It's beautiful stuff. (When is it my turn? Can you get cashmere yarn? ) Sometime I'll have to show you my cross stitch collection.

Tiling was not relaxing. It's still not done. We have to grout and seal. The project that never ends.

V.

[SnappyPix]

Short and curly one here. Had a brief, half-hearted attempt to grow it a few months back; I had a vision of how I wanted it to look, but it never bore any semblance to reality, I'm afraid! I actually managed to get to the interim stage - the one where every single day is a bad hair day and you want to apologise to everyone you meet for the state of the nest on your head. What a joy that was. Wiggy hair for weeks on end.
Now back to short and curly. Love it. The whole girly coiffeuring thing passed me by, I'm afraid - a constant mystery. What on earth do you DO with those instruments of torture? How did you learn to put your hair up like that - you know, where you twist it for a nano-second and it looks fantastic?!! Was it a college course that passed me by? Was it taught by the follicle fairy in the middle of the night? I'm quite happy to run a little bit of waxy gel through my neglected locks and, hey presto ... scrunched up, zany girl look (I like to think). Unmade bed, more like - but what the heck, it's easy to manage!

[cyclingnewbie]

My hair is collar length with bangs. I pull the front up to the top of my head and put an elastic thingy in it and catch the end of that ponytail in a lower one that catches the hair at the back of my head and makes a tail below my helmet. Any strays usually stay behind my ears, once I have my helmet on. My problem is my bangs. I push them up into the helmet, but post ride they are wet and standing up and over and all around. Sometimes I carry a hat in my trunk bag. Or, I use a headband to pull it all back and off my face after a ride. Somehow, standing around with other riders after a ride and fixing my hair with a headband seems so vain. I never know if I'm supposed to just walk around looking like heck and scaring people or, take the time to pull my hair back.

[Veronica]

Who cares what the other riders think. Do what seems comfortable for you. It's not vanity, it's comfort.

V.

[Jo-n-NY]

Because I know how much work goes into knitting as my mother in law knits and crochets, you do beautiful work SadieKate.

and LBTC your pictures are fantastic.

My craft is really not as creative, but I make soy wax candles.