The Importance of Beautiful Hair

CurlzQ · 07-01-2010, 11:09 PM

My hair is one of my favorite features. I have naturally corkscrew curly hair. Click on my profile to see a picture. Luckily its very low maintenance, I just shampoo/conditioner, mousse, scrunch and let it air dry...except it takes about 4 hours for it to dry. I'm not presentable at work til about 10. Blow dryers are my enemy.

I usually dye it whenever I get "bored" and ready for a change. But most of the time its a reddish brown color naturally.

Optical Goddess-- I tried short too and it didn't work for me either. I either looked manly or old women like. I mostly keep mine around my shoulders or just above. Any longer and just like you I shed like crazy.

bunnythisAINT--What do you use to keep your hair so straight and shiny? I can do a pretty good job with a straight iron but it only lasts like 2 hours before it starts getting frizzy and dull. I've used serums but had very mixed results.

GoldenLeaf · 07-01-2010, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by CurlzQ

My hair is one of my favorite features. I have naturally corkscrew curly hair. Click on my profile to see a picture. Luckily its very low maintenance, I just shampoo/conditioner, mousse, scrunch and let it air dry...except it takes about 4 hours for it to dry. I'm not presentable at work til about 10. Blow dryers are my enemy.

I'm very jealous of your hair.

My hair is dead straight and really fine. If I want anything more complicated than a ponytail I have to get a hairdresser to style it, it's impossible, it won't hold a curl or a style for more than about 30 minutes if I attempt it.

bunnythesAINT · 07-03-2010, 01:04 AM

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bunnythisAINT--What do you use to keep your hair so straight and shiny? I can do a pretty good job with a straight iron but it only lasts like 2 hours before it starts getting frizzy and dull. I've used serums but had very mixed results.

First I must say that I am jealous of your hair. I would die to get those beautiful curls! I love hair like yours!
I use this stuff called "It's a 10 Miracle Leave-in product". It makes my hair smell really good and it makes it super soft. I put that on wet hair and blow it out and then I layer off my hair from bottom to top and then put some of the stuff on each layer and straighten it and then a little smidge more to get all those fly aways after.
It sounds like a lot of product but I can get 2nd and even 3rd day hair out of this sometimes!

JustImagine · 07-04-2010, 01:27 AM

So I'm gonna show you guys my hair. >.>

JustImagine · 07-04-2010, 01:28 AM

bunnythesAINT · 07-05-2010, 05:49 PM

This may be creepy but you have an absolutely gorgeous hair color.

Ciao · 07-05-2010, 08:42 PM

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Ooh! It looks so cute! I wish I had the guts to cut my hair short.

Thanks. When I get older
I'm thinking about cutting it shorter. I always
liked seeing the women with the short spiky
hair. After all, it is just hair. It'll grow back.

JustImagine · 07-06-2010, 06:29 AM

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This may be creepy but you have an absolutely gorgeous hair color.

Awe, thank you. :]

I just wish I had more hair. I'm practically bald. -_-

bunnythesAINT · 07-06-2010, 12:06 PM

JustImagine-
No problem! You actually look like you have a pretty full head of hair from that pic, imo!
Jemappellesierra-
I think that it would actually be really nice-looking on you having spiky hair! Especially if it was like the first one.

JustImagine · 07-06-2010, 11:18 PM

I just know how to style it well. >.>

I'm in the process of growing it all out, just to see how thick it will be. Hopefully
if I'm good to my hair it can get a bit thicker.

timkerbelle · 07-11-2010, 06:56 AM

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I hope hair isn't important. I know I've cried a lot about it. My hair has always been extremely thin and now it's quite on it's way to balding. It always looks limp and greasy and just disgusting. I hate short hair but decided maybe that would be best. Now I have semi-short ugly hair that still looks thin and greasy. Hair dressers are terrified to color it b/c it's so thin and don't want anymore to fall out. I had my first gray hair at 21 and they're all over my head now. No hair cut looks good on me. Always looks gross.

I hate my hair as well. As for the colour I can warmly recommend a natural hair dye. Lush makes a very nice henna mix in a few different colours - pure henna which is orangey-red depending on your own colour, marron which is a beautiful auburn (an my fav), brown and black. There is no "black henna" in the products ( the stuff that causes horrible allergies), instead they use indigo and coffee to alter the natural henna. It actually thickens the hair slightly, and will not cause the hair to fall out, at least I have never heard of any adverse effects of it.

Castor oil is also supposed to help with hair loss, and I have actually got a bit more hair around my front (little baby hairs).
Make sure you don't brush your hair more than absolutely necessary, as fine hair is so much more prone to breakage. I would recommend scalp massage and gentle pulling on your hair to strengthen the follicles (may just be me but it seems to work)

I have also stopped using shampoo except for the once or so a month that I dye it with the Lush colour (I use shampoo then to strip the hair a bit and make the colour take better). Instead I use conditioner only to wash my hair. It never looks greasy or flat or anything, so at least for me it seems to work well.

Best of luck with your hair, I know the pain of being unhappy with your fine hair!

katylil · 07-12-2010, 01:12 PM

I'm very impulsive with my hair. When I get an idea in my head about a style I like, I'll usually be at the hairdressers a couple of days later to get it done. I've had it long, short, medium, layered, straight, middle-part, side-part with full fringe, a straight fringe... everything and anything. At the moment it's past my shoulders, with a side part and full fringe pushed to the side. I'm waiting for September (when I go back to uni) to get it properly styled again and get my blunt fringe back! I also want it to grow as I'd like to have it long, mid back length, again...

Naturally, I'm a blonde. It was white when I was a baby and then gradually got darker until, randomly, when I went to the hairdressers once, it became a mousy brown that did NOTHING for me at all. So I lightened it with natural chamomile (sp?) and kept it at a golden blonde.

Then last December I broke up with my bf and decided I wanted to be a brunette. So over the last few months I've had it dark brown, light brown, purple (dont ask), mahogany, auburn, and it's currently a nice medium chocolate brown shade which I love.