i love style needs to get their hair did

has anyone tried Kerastase Concentre Vita-Ciment?

phil LOVES kerastase products. his hair is quite lustrous, so maybe he's right.

i just ordered 4 vials off ebay for $35.
mua loves it too!

bell fwiw i think your hair is really pretty!

strawberry.net looks like a good place to buy kerastase stuff. free shipping and pretty good discounts on most of the products.

thanks tza
i'm just finding it so dull lately

yeah, i stopped dying my hair in december and lately i'm feeling like it's super dull and maybe needs a boost, but i want so badly to have a head of virgin hair for once! (the last time was like 7th grade)

you could try a clear glaze...?

i was using the deva brown shampoo and conditioner that are supposed to deposit a little color but they didn't really do anything. yeah, maybe clear glaze is the way to go for a perk up!

my hair is always long and i never do anything to it so i am thinking of getting a bob. is this too soccer mom-y or could it potentially be cute? also will it work even if i don't have, like, katie holmes-hair?

bell labs, have you ever used bumble & bumble hair stuff? it makes my hair pretty shiny...

lol girls

I really really needed to get off my ass and get a haircut today but hasta la that plan

haha horseshoe did you know there is an entire website devoted to screengrabs of movie chicks in bobs

that is a little weird? will it tell me whether i should get one me me me?

Bob World

ha! okay, i don't think i can pull off the maud lebowski bangs.

i guess this is kind of the look i want:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/GFY092007/91951675.jpg

oh wow she looks so good! that's the girl from dreamgirls right?

yeah jennifer hudson <3 <3 <3

total would (if i were not a heterosexual)

gorgeous

my lovely friend is paying for me to get a hair cut at a really nice salon as a farewell present. can't wait!

bell, i have heard that flat irons really damage your hair if you use them regularly, so that might be causing the frizz/split ends.

woah her hair looks way better there than in the movie.

rr, that is a great present!

bell: you should try out bed head's after party. it is a really great thing to smooth over frizz after flat ironing, etc. and is not too heavy/greasy and makes your hair rly shiny and pretty. i swear by it. 1 bottle lasts at least a year, too.

so i'm thinking this kind of thing:

http://www.thehairstyler.com/images/celebrity/Celebrity_357.jpg

except my neck is only half that length, so it would look longer on me.

i think that would look cute on you! you're going to stay red, though, right?

no, i haven't been red for ages now. i went brunette for over a year, but i haven't dyed since november. probably go back to brunette in about a month or so.

You can get blow dryers that don't damage your hair now. I think they work. They're like those straightening irons which also don't damage hair and definitely work.

speaking of which, mine decided not to turn on yesterday. what's a good dryer?

Ughghghghghghgh need HAIRS CUT. Want it to look like this alla time:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/48269904_ba3594c9fa_o.jpg

That photo is like 8 years old, mind you. I don't look quite so teenaged anymore. Maybe it's time to hack off the mane, though, I'd forgotten how clean and shiny it used to be.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/allocryptic/Photo3-1.jpg

bona drag, bitches

i need a good 'product' that would basically mimic 3-4 days of not showering

i.e. my hair is weird and floppy right after its washed but if i dont wash it for a few days it gets less floppy and more malleable

i used to use twisted taffy and crude clay from sebastian. one left a shinier finish, while the other was totally matte (can't remember which is which).

as long as it doesnt get stiff and crunchy i dont really care about shine

there's always good old murray's.

elmo you are so beautiful!

can anyone recommend a clear gloss? i was looking at the drug store the other day, i swear there used to be a garnier or clairol one but did not see it.

I need a haircut v v badly. There is a fabu gay man who lives down the street from me who cuts hair at his home in exchange for doing yard work for him or whatever. I think I might give him a shot. His name is "J0hn Cava1ier".

ok, i need hair advice please!

i've been going to a decent place but ended up with a pretty stodgy stylist, so i'm not loving my hair. am going to a hip edgy place tomorrow, so would like thoughts on what i should ask for. i don't love my hair, but several people have said how much they like it with no prompting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/colettes/2557532070/

(i'm in the glasses)

any thoughts? i like having bangs of some sort, but my instinct would probably be to go a lot shorter...

I had that haircut for a while at age 22, elmo. Lolz.

i need a good 'product' that would basically mimic 3-4 days of not showering

-- max, Monday, June 23, 2008 2:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i.e. my hair is weird and floppy right after its washed but if i dont wash it for a few days it gets less floppy and more malleable

-- max, Monday, June 23, 2008 2:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^yes. Please post it here if you find anything like this elsewhere.

colette, I imagine you could go a bunch shorter with good results...but then again, I operate on this theory that women have much more room for error as far as haircuts go when compared to guys; simply b/c women's faces are "prettier", and generally more striking than are guys'. To be honest, the only time that I remember looking at a woman's haircut and thinking that it was kinda meh and did not flatter the rest of her appearance has been when someone was sporting a particularly egregiously trendy haircut, or an especially bizarre throwback to some bygone era of hairspray, teasing, permed-out craziness.

guys i have the same "problem" in that my hair looks better after a couple of days of unwashing than it does the day i shampoo it. i had some goop that worked pretty well which an ex- passed onto me, but it got confiscated at the airport a couple weeks ago, and i can't for the life of me remember what the hell it was called, or who makes it...

colette - since you can't make it any longer*, do you have photos of short cuts you like? i'm certain that you would look lovely with a very very short cut, why not go for it?

*unless you get extensions and honestly, who does this aside from celebrities/actorz?

as for hair goop i have v short hair and i use aveda molding clay for men (it's matte and doesn't make my hair look greasy but makes it look mussed up enough to mimic several days of not-washing)

also smells lovely

that sounds great, but aveda stuff is super expensive, though, right? what is something relatively cheap, like rite-aid/walgreen's cheap, and that is still effective in this way, but is not a bucket of lard or something?

I had a friend who used to put shaving products in his hair...

garnier's surf hair goop is OK at making my hair look messy, and it's often free after rebate at walgreens...

it's a little expensive, but if you only use like a pea-sized glop every other day, it lasts months and months. i think the stuff i bought was ~$20 and it has lasted 3 months so far with two people using it.

bona drag, bitches

-- elmo argonaut

elmo can i say in a non-gay way that i <3 u

xp - and there is a ton left

yeah, i used to use some aveda lotion on my windburnt face that smelled amazing

funny thing is, i am not even vaguely metrosexual; i usually leave the house looking like some variety of disreputable bum, but i am fixated on certain "beauty" regimens-- like lately i refuse to bathe with any other soap except this one

http://www.themillenniummall.net/70004.jpg

it's a little expensive, but if you only use like a pea-sized glop every other day, it lasts months and months. i think the stuff i bought was ~$20 and it has lasted 3 months so far with two people using it.

ah, okay...i wish i could remember the name of the glop that i was using, b/c it was similar...it wasn't a "little dab'll do you", but more like a speck and a half. i think i could have stretched it out for a year or so, at least.

along the same lines, i'm a big fan of l'occitane soaps, for washing my face; I could probably make a bar of that last for a decade...plus it comes in those cool metal tins

plus the l'occitane soap that i've used in the past smells like god's saliva!

max, i am a big fan of spray wax. it works like a pomade/paste but is less heavy. but you still get the malleability i think you are looking for. i have one from the 'beyond the zone' line at sally's that is pretty cheap (i think it is supposed to be generic bed head, which would obv. be more expensive).

I liked Matrix's "Dirty Trix" pomade, when my hairs were short. It might be a bit $$$ tho?

And I really liked the bed head spray wax, too...now I all want to buy the Sally's version even though it would do shit for my hair at its current length.

i got clairol natural instincts 'shine happy' at target yesterday. will report back on dullness improvement/lack thereof.

I bought some of those John Frieda shampoo, conditioner and anti-frizz serum for Redheads and it's made my hair VERY soft and nice, I like it. Unfortunately the need for a hair cut/colour is so great no one can tell that my hair is actually super soft and awesome :( Best part: shampoo/conditioner was $1 each at Dollarama because they are re-doing the packaging and selling old stock cheap.

i can not rep enough for the sulfate-free shampoo! using giovanni atm bc devacurl is $$$$ and even though devacurl makes softer hair, i'm still sold on sulfate-free forever.

dollarama!

tho i am happy with my aveda sap moss shampoo&cond right now
i just had to yell dollarama!!

so tired today

I love Dollarama! I would estimate 18% of all my stuff is from there or made using things from there. It's the best place ever.

DOLLARSTORE!!!!!!!!

:D

Dollarama is so much more than a dollar store, Tehresa... those outside Canada will never understand :)

perhaps, but DOLLARSTORE!!! is an attempted meme that ethan and i will not let die.

DOLLARSTORE!!!!

oh hahaha sorry dear. okay. DOLLARSTORE!!!!

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

so my hair is not any shinier now but it is apparently a shade lighter?!~!?

fuck. now i'm gonna have to dye it.

uh oh.

When Home Hair Treatments Go Bad

was not expecting that at all! if anything, i expected it to do nothing.

oh no!
so it's not even a colour you're into, i'm guessing, right

yeah it just looks like pukey

like, chemically lightened but not in a good way...

tza, john frieda has a line of glazes for different color hair types. i use the medium blonde on my light blonde hair and I can really see a diff. each time i use it. my hair color goes from flat and dry looking to shiny and multidimensional.

oh!

what did you use?

I just saw Barbarella for the first time ever and, while the movie is barely watchable at all, I do crave and covet her hairstyle(s). I wd like that hair all the time.

seriously

your hair could totally do all that, laurel!

hand sex - no, big hair - yes

i used natural instincts 'shine happy' clear gloss.

ugh.

the frieda stuff - you have to use that like, a few times a week, right? i feel like that would cancel my sulfate-free shampoo kick.

i've only seen barbarella with the sound off at mod nights but i feel like i've seen it that way about 50 times.

yeah, every couple of days, T.

so my hair appt is for tues but i'm nervous cuz the guy doing it this gay japanese dude who apparently has an 'attitude' according to my friend. hairdressers with attitudes scare me, cuz they always say mean things about my hair (mostly because i wait like two years between haircuts, have uncoloured roots, flakey scalp etc.)

i always feel so judged whenever i go

just kiss their ass a lot and be like 'i'm sure you will do a fabulous job'

and say things like 'i trust you.'

i do that anyway, because i'm so scared they'll do something nasty to my hair!

***warning, long rant ahead, please feel free to skip!****

i'm pretty darn tolerant of haircuts, haven't ever even been close to tears after a cut, and woke up this morning and was so pissed at the cut i got last night that i nearly cried in frustration (stress about moving has me at the edge, to be honest).

i went in, said i wanted edgy but not ugly, told her this was too long for me, that i wanted the back really short, and that i kind of liked having bangs. she said she would take the back up a ton and leave the front a little longer "for interest," and totally restructure the bangs.

well, after a full hour of her cutting, my hair looks pretty much exactly the same as when i left. except flatter, since she thinned it out. the back is a little shorter, but in 2 weeks it will be too long for me, and the front literally is exactly as long as it was when i went in. bangs are a little shorter, but no real difference.

so i'm pissed at myself for wasting 3 hours i should have used packing/cleaning and instead traveled to and from a not-great haircut, not to mention wasting $50. i don't think she's actually bad, she just didn't do what i wanted and i thought i'd asked for, at all. toby thinks i should call and try to go back to have them "fix" it, but that seems really weird to me, and i'm not able to think rationally about it.

any advice?

er, it looked the same as when i arrived. and when it goes behind my ears (which i do without thinking about it), it actually looks MORE mom-ish than it did before.

you should definitely call and ask for the cut to be fixed.

maybe say something like, "perhaps i wasn't clear when i spoke to the stylist, etc etc. this really isn't what i wanted at all, and i'd appreciate it if i could come in for a clean-up."

won't they just blame me for not expressing myself enough, and possibly mess it up more?

talking myself down here:
-- i don't care if they don't like me, i'm moving in a few days (i do care, but don't want to)
-- if it comes down to it, i'm actually prepared to take toby's clippers to my hair and just get rid of it all, and suspect it would be an improvement on this.

xpost-- that's a good way of putting it, when i say "clean up" are they going to schedule me 15 minutes? because this really needs starting from scratch.

yes. people do it all the time!
xpost to collette

god i am so glad i have a non-crazy, non-egotistic, awesome hairdresser. srsly i understand the stress involved when this is not the case, aagh. i am even thinking about going back to short(ish) hair later this summer b/c i trust her to do something great that suits me.

you are the client! they did nothing of note to your hair! if someone owns the place, talk to them, but if the woman who cut your hair is just renting a chair there, i guess things are different. but still, someone's gotta be in charge.

yeah, she's one of the two owners, so there's not really anyone else i could go to. i'm drinking caffeine to steel myself to call her, thanks for the advice, guys!

COLETTE
you can do this
you paid them $$ and they have to fix it
if all else fails, get a pixie!

yes, i will bring you along and say "make my hair look like amanda's!"

Colette, it is very standard for stylists to fix their mistakes. A lot of them even give free bang trims between hair cuts.

What you are describing sounds like a cut I have been seeing a lot lately, which is a thinned out bob with shaggy bottom edge. Sometimes shorter in back like the famous bell labs' reverse mullet pic. I love the cut but my hair would be too wavy to do it.

Now that I got a professional to establish my bangs in the first place, I trim them myself. I kind of do this:

How to Trim Your Own Bangs

The important thing here is that you are making little snips up into the bang, not cutting across. Cutting across may result in "psycho bangs."

colette, i know how you feel! years ago, when i needed a haircut, i went to a salon where one of the girls needed a 'razor' model. she said she would do any style i wanted, it just needed to involve razoring. this was around the time meg ryan had the shaggy kind of cut, so i took in a bunch of magazine cutouts and told her i wanted it shorter (my hair was almost butt-length) but layered etc etc. so a few weeks later i turn up for the cut. she hacks awhile for what seems like hours, and my hair is quickly disappearing. in the end, i had one of those horrible styles that were popular at the time with stupid young redneck girls: a long fringe parted to the side and slicked down, with a fluffy kind of duck tail at the back. i was DEVASTATED. but what could i say? it was free!

this is basically why going to the hairdressers terrifies me and i don't go very often.

repost from rolling 2008 beauty thread:

hair serum! for dry hair! any reccomendations?

god having my hair mid-length is getting soooo oldddddd. even if i dry/iron it straight, as soon as i am in humidity the ends turn up and i look like i've spent hours perfecting a 'flip' that is just not cute. argh. GROW FASTER, HAIR!!!

ugh i am having the same issue. i wish i hadn't cut it! but i knew that was going to happen.

i have no patience with it right now! esp now that it's a color i'm not overly fond of.

hair serum! for dry hair! any reccomendations?
I will fully rep the John Frieda stuff, my hair is super damaged but it makes it nice and glossy :)

I'm sorry about the shitty haircut Colette :( I think if you paid for a super short hair cut you could probably call and be like "okay so in three weeks it'll be too long again, can I expect a free trim?"

Anyone in Toronto should have Miranda do their hair, http://hairbymiranda.ca. She's fantastic and listens and gives the free bang trim when needed.

my Kerastase Concentre Vita-Ciment came in the mail yesterday! it will be interesting to see if it's as magical as it's made out to be (ie here http://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp/ItemId=70977/Concentre_Vita_Ciment/Kerastase/Treatments)

I will fully rep the John Frieda stuff, my hair is super damaged but it makes it nice and glossy :)

I had good luck with other John Frieda products, so might try this

just stopping in to say that i have the beachiest beachb hair ever right now and you should be very jealous

hint: burts bees rosemary & mint shampoo bar + salt water washing

awwww. this will be me in like, 24 hours!!!

The girl in front of me at yoga the other day had such a good boy's cut and I asked her where she did it and it turns out the same place I used to go when I had short hair. Now I am wishing for 50s-style boy's hair again.

I know this thread is meant to be for the ladies (you have to imagine me grinning in a sinister way and winking as I say that or it doesn't work) but I think I need some sort of haircut, and since I've not had my hair cut by anyone who I didn't live with or who wasn't me in the last, oh, ten years, I don't even really know what to do. I want to get something cool, an actual haircut, but not a "haircut"

suggestions?

^I'm in this same boat, more or less.

Hair's way too long right now, and I can't think of anything to do but trim it. I DO NOT want to have short hair, I tried it once a couple years ago and it was awful. Any ideas for men's long hairstyles?

Here is a hastily taken iSight photo for illustrative purposes.

http://tinyurl.com/4twegt

I want to get something cool, an actual haircut, but not a "haircut"

No idea what this means.

Nicka, you seem to have really beautiful hair but on the non-short side for mens, I got nufffink to recomend.

i said this to ned and i feel like a hairdresser should understand what it means (mine does): you want a 'wave around the head' style haircut. which is like tousled and free but not long

I got lucky on Friday, the hair cuttery around the corner from my house appears to have been shuttered so I ended up spending $36 at a real salon and came out looking awesome. I'm back to my later air force look.

A "haircut" is what fashion students have. It foregrounds the artifice of the cut.

People with haircuts read style magazines instead of fasion magazines and wear vintage instead of second-hand.

nice tom!

ikr you're getting very deep

It foregrounds the artifice of the cut.

I'm calling bullshit on this. I think any short haircut does this, only long(er) and more unkempt 'dos do not say "I am a haircut". It's ALL artifice, after all.

"haircuts"

http://www.koelncampus.com/icoaster/files/sigue_sigue_sputnik.jpg

got my free hair cut today! not a good photo, since i had a long day, much of it spent in the wind. but the dude did a fab job - kept all the length, chopped off the split ends, cut in a few choice layers and gave me a nice sweeping fringe. oh, and i dyed it this morning:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3113/2627751004_4bc2db6566_o.jpg

So Nice!

Aww Rubes, that's a lovely photo - I especially like how pleased you are!

you look great!

Ruby you and your hair look great, I wish I were even half as photogenic as you always seem to be.

RRs got some photo friendly angles for sure

i am actually the least photogenic person i know, and used to DREAD having my photo taken. then i bought a digital camera last year, and while playing round with it and getting used to using it, i figured out i have ONE good angle (see above), so pretty much all pics of me are from that angle... totally vain, i know!

whenever i tell ppl how unphotogenic i am, they always say 'but you look so nice in all the photos i've seen!' - that's because it takes about 20 shots to get a good one, and i don't keep the bad ones!!

i need to get my hair cut again, because i hate it.
i have to go to a different person, even though i love my girl, she has just been too distracted and given me two shitty cuts in a row. i'm thinking about trying this place devachan? has anyone heard of it? they are supposed to specialize in curly hair, and it's run by the people that do the devacurl products.

also i kind of want the rihanna haircut...

ohman you should just boot it up here and get your hair cut by janet, my hairdresser who is awesome (and inexpensive!). she's going away for end of july thru august tho :/ she will change yr (hair) life.

wait...janet who was in ny with you?

yes! (she was a little whoaa on that trip b/c of a boy etc. she really is amazing. and amazing with hair.)

ah. well y'all are welcome back any time. i do remember janet had really nice curls

i am really ready to stop straightening my hair.

when i rang to make my hair appointment, they actually asked me what kind of hair i had (long, fine, lots of it) so they could match me to someone who was good with my hair type. guy did such a fab job - after getting a razor cut years ago (and the resulting split ends) my last hairdresser converted me to thinnning scissors. but this guy said that to take the weight out he would just cut like a few choice layers, cuz thinning already fine hair actually makes it frizzy!! did not know this!!

it's weird: he cut in like maybe four or five layers i think, yet it while it actually looks longer than before (?!) it feels HEAPS shorter and way way lighter. amazing!

but omg was i sad when i could not blow wave it anywhere near like it was yesterday :(

bell, you should totally try devachan. it has a great reputation, and the deva products are great. if it's good enough for the knowles family...

also: razor cuts = evil.

also: bell, if you want to stop straightening your hair then i wouldn't recommend a short cut. i love mine and will probably never grow my hair out again, but if i don't straighten it then my peggy moffitt look turns into lesbian soccer mom.

also: if i had straighter hair and nothing to do in the morning but style it, then this is the haircut i would have:

http://k53.pbase.com/o4/20/805020/1/92023794.dCvmxEH6.PeggyMoffitt.jpg

yesss my stylist used a razor on me last time i was in and i have so many split ends! and yes, oh to have perfectly straight hair like that...

oh that wld look super cute on you but yeah haha maintenance x5000
xpost

i'm going to show that photo to my guy next time i go in, though, just to see what he says. he is moffitt-obsessed and might actually want to attempt it.

hmmm devachan cuts are $135. that's way more than what i've ever spent on a cut before...but maybe it's worth it?

there is apparently someone at beehive trained in the "deva" method though who charges $80...

holy shit $135

i knowwwwwww

i mean i respect the art of hairdressing/styling but cmon this kind of thing is diva level weird. but i guess there's a 'designer' argument at play here, i do not know. what i do know is that hair needs to be cut every 6-8 wks if you've got a styley cut, so $135 o_O NYC

i have been poking around this naturallycurly.com site and these people seem to spend a LOT of money and time on their hair. like it's just not that important to me...i want to go back to curly to SAVE styling time.

i am thinking abt adding to my recently lightened hair with tastefully done strawberry blonde highlights/strands soon ooh summertime
xpost

yeah and it's summer! who needs to be hanging out with their hairdryer not me

yeah devachan has some $180 hairdryer that looks like cthulhu on their site
http://store.devachansalon.com/stores/d/devachansalon/catalog/Deva_SunDryer_Fuser.jpg
i mean sure it looks cool...

oh lol the other day i bought a 'microfibre hair towel' in teh dollarstore (for a dollar) thinking it was just a small towel for hair but it is actually a weird turban-like towel and it is kind of hilarious. supposed to be good for curls tho as it gets water out of hair quickly. i don't know. will use it tomorrow morning and report results.

xpost
HAAAAA cthulhu hairdryer

ha! they used to sell those turban-towels in the lillian vernon catalogue. i always wanted one!

I have several!

I'm about to try washing my hair with apple cider vinegar...will report back with the results

Oh good! I love that. I'm not sure it's a "wash", though, I think it's more of a "rinse" and then I shampoo and condition afterward. It will apparently strip dye out, though, so it's not useful for colored hair.

Lol oops it definitely stripped the dye out of my roots (the only part I dye). Its ok though bc I was going to touch them up next week anyways. So far it has a really weird texture but I'm going to let it dry naturally and see what happens.

Haha oh no! Oh well. I hope it worked, otherwise -- I always find my hair SO much softer after a vinegar rinse than before.

I am getting bangs on Friday!

i think i am breaking up with my hairdresser today.

are you trying a new place?

i don't have an appointment yet, but i'm going in for a "bang trim" and i'm just going to be like "so.........look how shitty my haircut is." i've been going to her for like 6 years so it feels like i need to say something :/

good luck. the last time i wanted to switch from someone, i was dreading it because i'd gone to him for ages, saw him pretty often socially, had mutual friends, etc. fortunately, he ended up having some kind of massive freak-out and quit without telling anyone where he was going. saved me from having to tell him that i'd started "seeing" his best friend.

maybe he found out hence the freak-out!

haha! i think the massive amounts of paranoia-inducing drugs he was ingesting at the time had more to do with it.

oh, lucky! ha. i am hoping maybe she will offer to fix my hair, since it is so obviously wrong in every way. i mean, she should know by now not to use a razor on my hair - there are more split-ends than non split-ends.

you're well within your rights to say that you're disappointed by how the cut turned out.

hai i love style,

i has no style

all i want to know is: longer hair or short hair? specifically on me.

i prefer longer. lots of people agree.
my gf thinks short. lots of people agree.

what to do.

k thx in advance x

i made an appointment to get a haircut tomorrow! either a bob or some other short cut if the hairdresser doesn't think a bob would work with my sort of wavy hair. my hair hasn't been short in 10 years! so excited you guys!

my hair is short i love it omg! i brought in the picture of Jennifer Hudson from upthread. sadly i didn't get magically transformed into her, but still. i love it!

Want photo!

no camera :(...maybe i can rustle a picture up by making a friend take one.

I'm so excited.. tomorrow I am going in to get my hair did! I'm going to get it dyed as bright and vibrant a red as she thinks I can pull off - I I think however instead of my recently angled bob (Justine Elastica) I may tell her to just make it a short, rounded bob (Donna Elastica) though.. I found after a week or two the long bit at the front started to behave poorly and curl itself :(

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v275/193/94/534845374/n534845374_3448921_455.jpg

Me (and the boys.. and er, the girls..) - I figured I should post a midnight drunk picture, because that's my usual state. Any suggestions/criticism to what I wrote above are welcome! I think I am too heavy to pull off properly short hair.

cuet!!

i think you could manage short hair!

I dunno - I'm so tall (6'1") that it starts to make me look like a professional woman's basket ball player ;)

http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v72/224/57/516053577/n516053577_39509_255.jpg - that's me in high school - but I think that was the best my short hair ever looked - and I have a cowlick so I can't do proper bangs.. oh, stupid genetics!

Oh I also have a cowlick right in the middle of my bangs. I still think I look better with than without because I have a scar direcly in the center of my forehead. I straighten them but they look hilarious when it is the least bit humidity.

i'm being nagged to get mine cut again. should i bite the bullet or stick to my guns? it's still really short, by my standards.

cut it!

bell_lllabs your scar is so cool! i don't think you should have your hair cut or straighten yr bangs with the purpose of covering it up!

yeah be like tina fey or harry potter and wear it with pride!

haha it is actually not that cool and looks like an acne scar (it is actually from tripping and hitting my head on a nail that was sticking out of the wall)

my coolest looking scar (a bunch of crazy scar tissue on my arm) is from rollerblading. like everyone is always "ooh what is that cool scar from it looks so tough" and i have to say "rollerblading". i have the lamest scars ever.

Let's have a thread about scars and gruesome-ness.

don't wanna cut it ;_;

Well don't cry about it here, we're all for haircuts.

I got my red, but she.. barely cut my hair?? I may go back for a bang cut soon, but then I'm thinking - they're also almost as long as the rest of my hair - maybe it's time to grow them out! Anyway, I think that the colour actually makes my skin look less pink, which is good:

http://photos-577.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v308/224/57/516053577/n516053577_620758_6250.jpg

I looks great!

I am so bored with my hair right now. I have no idea what to do with it. Ugh.

hahah - that should have read IT looks great. I'm not looking so great today as a result of above hair complaint. Boo.

LOL you looks great too ENBB ;) Thanks though!
I am kinda bored with my cut, had hoped the red would make it feel different.. but surprise, relatively same cut is relatively the same :P

love the red!

i am really bored, too. growing out is soooo boring that i'm like 4 min away from going back to my angled bob and a nice chocolate brown, though i've been thinking about some cool reds lately, too.

i'm out of my devacurl, trying to figure out if i should buy more of it or something else (maybe kerastase?) my hair has been kinda greasy on the devacurl, i think. i am kind of paranoid about having greasy hair since i have been mocked for it before...i dunno. i hate my hair.

giovanni has some very nice sulfate-free shampoos. there is a tea tree oil (i think?) one that is more "clarifying" as well as a really nice moisturizing one. they both foam a lot more than devacurl. they are also like $6 instead of $17.

my hair is still nice but i don't think it's as soft as when i was using deva shampoo.

i like the giovanni smooth as silk quite a bit. the fact that it's half the price of devacurl is a big point in its favor, though all things being equal i guess i do like dc a bit more. i just can't get over the price of kerastase. i know it's concentrated, but so is dc, and i don't really want to go back to an sls-based formula.

i actually just bought a new bottle of devacurl bc even though giovanni is cheaper, i feel like the bottle of devacurl lasts longer and is overall a better shampoo. maybe it is psychological, though.

i bought giovanni 50/50 shampoo and conditioner yesterday ($1 off with your duane reade card!) but i am afraid it gave me dandruff today. all i know is that i shook my head during a meeting and a large flake fell off and it was embarrassing. i don't know if this can actually happen from using a shampoo for one day but my scalp feels abnormally dry.

it's also pretty frizzy. but my hair is a disaster no matter what i use lately.

hmm, i don't think a shampoo can give you dandruff after 1 use. did you have any styling products?

i found a shampoo called 'real solutions' today at dr that was like 5.99 and is sulfate-free. we wil see how this works out...

do you guys use conditioner with this low poo dealie?

i didn't need conditioner with devacurl lo poo, but i definitely do with the giovanni stuff.

yesterday i splurged and bought more kerastase stuff (off ebay, which seems to be the cheapest way)...i got the resistance ciment thermique, which is a leave in conditioner and heat protectant. for $30 bucks. i've never used a leave in conditioner so i'm kind of worried it will be too greasy.

i tried the concentre vita ciment earlier and didn't really get the magical results i was hoping for, but it's a salon treatment that came in little vials and i was probably just not doing it right.

my plan now is to grow out my hair for a couple more months and then get it cut at devachan.

i didn't use conditioner with devacurl, either, but i did use a leave-in serum after washing. with giovanni's smooth as silk (also sls-free), which is what i have currently, i use a conditioner.

Am I the only person who wasn't all that impressed with Devacurl? I liked Giovanni.

Ok - I need recommendations for a haircut.

I have fine pin straight hair but TONS of it. It's almost at my shoulders now and it's so heavy and shapeless and I hate it. I look best with chin length cuts and have always (like since 9th grade) ended up with some variation of a graduated bob. I'm getting it cut next weekend and kind of want to try something new.

Anyone seen anything really great lately?

just wanted to check in & say that my haircut is growing in v. nicely -- lots of natural waves on top with minimal need for product -- though i think i might want to get the sides trimmed back soon

has anyone tried taking supplements to grow their hair out faster? i have heard this actually works.

I take 5 mg of biotin qd for hair/nails--one of the few supps that has shown an actual effect in actual clinical trials. Can't say I've noticed a huge difference, but it has only been a few weeks.

I found my fall haircut! It's bob-ish but with some stacking and BANGS (hence the wait until cooler weather prevails). Can't wait to go back to having an actual hairstyle instead of my wavy summer uber-casual unstyled look.

Ok someone just came in the office and said he loved my hair and that by no means should I cut it. Now I'm wondering if I should maybe grow it. hmph. I don't know what to do! Not actually expecting answers on to cut or not to cut more just venting. Although I guess I could post short and not as shortish comparison pics.

ugh yes! i have been growing mine all summer and blow drying as little as possible bc of heat, but i just feel so sloppy! i know some people can pull off the breezy summer look, but i think i need more structure to balance the roundness of my face.
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^ That's my problem too. It's not so much the length I dislike it's how unstructured and boring it mine looks right now.

ENBB was the person who told you this male or female? if it was a dude, i think you should feel free to disregard. /sexist

HAIR

CUT

TIME

guys tend to have weird hang-ups about long hair.

Mandee - it was a dude, yeah.

Lauren - yeah I know that's what I was thinking.

That's it - next weekend it gets chopped.

ugh yes with the guys/long hair

srsly. i hear they also like bangs. cept for the one time a guy in a bar said he would date any girl there who did not have bangs (everyone had hipster bangs).

they also are the number #1 offenders in curly hair hate crimes

i have also noticed they tend to be magnetically attracted to blondes. yuck. (sorry to offend any blondes, it just gets old sometimes).

haha, bell - totally!

x-post. Really? Most of my male friends (not to mention my own RS) all have a preference for dark hair.

guys tend to have weird hang-ups about long hair.

-- lauren, Thursday, August 7, 2008 3:20 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, this is what i meant

but they don't even mean it; all these dudes told me not to cut my hair and then i did and they liked it.

okay i guess maybe they were lying to be polite, but still. it was the right decision!

woah - I don't know why I called you Mandee! I saw the ho. . . and assumed it was homo . . . Sorry horseshoe!

i think the bangs thing is true, but i kind of get it. i tend to really like bangs on people too. they look moronic on me because i have curly wispy hair and have a cowlick in the middle of my head but still, i keep at it.

lol it's okay i find it flattering to be taken for Mandee. your hair is v. pretty, btw, judging from the wdyll thread!

but they don't even mean it; all these dudes told me not to cut my hair and then i did and they liked it.

yeah, it's odd. some guys will defend long hair to the death, but there seems to be a bit of a disconnect between theory and practice.

yeah, even though you seem to worry about it lots on here, i think it always looks vv pretty!

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OMG I REMEMBER THAT GUY who wouldn't date girls with bangs. He was...kind of otm in that situation, though, as I recall.

yeah he was. though i felt bad bc i have bangs!

ooh iirc rrrobyn and jbr were also present that evening!

anyway, enbb, i like to look at mahogany's (where i got my hair did in the uk) web site for inspiration when i'm bored. how about this:

http://www.mahoganyhair.co.uk/gallery/gallery_view.php?id=10&image=46

was it in brooklyn? around christmas time a couple years ago? was my brother there? if so, then i was there. i don't remember this guy saying stuff about bangs. i don't think i had bangs at the time. i feel like i don't even have bangs now, just, like, a lot of hair that happens to go over my forehead.

enbb wld look good in a haircut like that
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ooh i think that would look great on E!

yeah, that night, rrrobyn!

omg, ENBB, you should get that hairstyle lauren linked! i bet it would look great on you! fuck a long-hair-fetishizing dude!

lol xposts

that was a fun night :)

"I saw the ho. . . and assumed it was homo" -- !!

It was at Daddy's, that's all I remember. I didn't think it was a time when rrrob's brother was around but I must be forgetting something.

I have nothing else to contribute, what with not really having hair. But I will say that guy comments on hair can be ... somewhere between open-minded and fickle, which is to say that if you have long hair we may sincerely say "oh, that looks so beautiful, don't cut it, it's so nice!" and then if you cut it the next day we may look at that and sincerely say "oh hey, that looks great, you look so different and awesome." Like I think it has less to do with lack of sincerity or lack of judgment and more to do with just going with the flow and not thinking too critically and liking whatever happens to be going on.

Newsflash: straight guys like girls, not too fussed about the particulars.

my little sis was also there - she made fun of me for le bangs.
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Umm I don't think that's it at all, Laurel

It's possible that men just have a narrower range of hair options and so we're just not as practiced at conceptualizing big changes and different ways a single haircut can be worn and all that, so there's more likelihood of just seeing things and going "that looks great!" -- kind of like people who don't know what kinds of clothing cuts will suit who, but once it's on will find you magically looking better

they also are the number #1 offenders in curly hair hate crimes

-- bell_labs, Thursday, August 7, 2008 3:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

really?? every guy ive been out with has been all 'oh leave your hair curly!!" even though it looks like a freakin poodle perm.

i have also noticed they tend to be magnetically attracted to blondes. yuck. (sorry to offend any blondes, it just gets old sometimes).

-- tehresa, Thursday, August 7, 2008 3:30 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

TAKE THAT BACK TZA!!!

Actually, ever guy ive know has had a thing for brunettes or redheads. i dont know any blonde fans :(

Wow I really like that haircut Lauren!! I wonder if it would work. I think I'm going to serioulssy think about printing that out and ask my hair dresser next week. Thank you!!

you're welcome! i hope it works for you.

i really think you should go for it, e!

i am officially over my hair today. keep wearing it up bc it looks so crappy. down today but even after a brief blow dry it's looking idiotic again because of the heat/commute. how do all these people keep their hair so perfect while commuting in the summer? it boggles me. since i told myself i would grow it out and i never last this long, i may keep growing but dye it (which i haven't done since december). also i wish it would be less hot so i can have the cool fringe bangs again bc i combed them that way this morning and liked it but they completely cover my eyes right now and it's too hot to keep them looking good. ugh. i feel vain right now.

also i realized this am that i am in flat iron withdrawal but it is just too hot to deal with that + blow dryer right now.

Hey rrrobyn (or anyone else who remembers), iirc you got some kind of bitchin' hairdryer a while back. what kind was it again?

ooh yeah and bell what was that straightener-dryer thing you got and how is it working out?

this is the one i have, sunny - elchim pro - not that i have even turned it on in the last couple of months... lol summer hair

do you love it?

i hate the flat iron i got, i think it has ruined my hair. i have never had so many split ends. it's this one here:
http://www.overstock.com/Health-Wellness/Turbo-Ions-Croc-Wet-to-Dry-Flat-Iron/2387100/product.html?cid=123620&fp=F&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=10623869

i never really use it on wet hair because it makes a sizzling noise that scares me. it worked fine for a couple of weeks but since i have been using it the texture of my hair has actually become more coarse.

i miss the crappy old iron that i have, which i think worked well with my hair because it didn't get as hot. now even all of the cheap ones at the drugstores advertise that they get super, super hot. so i'm not really sure what i should use.

I think a lot of them have dials where you can turn the temp to where you like it.

mine has a digital heat setting - but the lowest heat it allows is 290 degrees, which is apparently still too hot for my hair.

yes i totally love the elchim! it's greatness - hot & v fast. i'm just into my 70s style curly summer hair these days, plus it's been too hot/humid for blowdrying, for me.
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i have been trying the past couple weeks to stop using a flat iron because it seems like it is just frying my poor hair. i have some heat protectant coming in the mail though, so maybe that will make a difference.

i'm still lusting after the solano platinum that my hairstylist uses. i've found for as low as $85, but i can't quite bring myself to purchase it.

yay, rrrobyn! ill check it out.

bell, i think my flat iron has a max temp of 200 degrees. Ill check later.

guys: i think i may have HYPERKARITOSIS like the neutrogena t-gel commercial says. actually, i've had persistent dry scalp for over a decade but it comes & goes depending on weather & the length of my hair. medicated shampoos make my hair as dry & manageable as straw so I refuse to use them on a regular basis, besides which they make one's head smell like a nursing home.

any help? i'm don't think i'm allergic to anything that would cause this and no dermatologist has ever given any diagnosis of what might be causing this. i'd prefer to solve this by taking supplements or adjusting my diet rather than medicating my head.

you know lauren, i've spent at least $50 on two dryers in the course of the last year, so if it is a good dryer that won't break maybe it's worth it?

use devacurl!
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or a less stripping sulfate-free shampoo? perhaps? might help?

OK. I bleached my hair and I think it's sort of too brassy but just a little. I want to fix it before Friday when I get a haircut so the stylist doesn't yell at me!

i don't think it has to do with my current shampoo use -- i only shampoo every 3 or 4 days so i don't think i'm stripping my hair

try a toner? you can find them at beauty supply stores.

Yeah that's what I think I need. I wonder if they come in diff colors or if toner is just toner.

they come in different shades so you can pick the right blonde you are aiming for - ashy, strawberry, etc. - iirc

persistent dry scalp for over a decade but it comes & goes

This is what I had until I recognized it was the SLS doing it. The coal tar in the T-gel (which I used daily for years even though you shouldn't) would numb the itching and keeps the flakes down, but since I quit that, went to SLS free shampoo and only shampoo once a week or so (but rinse every day), my scalp is so much happier.

hm!

i had never heard about the perils of shampooing with sulphur compounds! do a lot of shampoos include them? thanks tza & jaq, i will look into this

wait does this mean that shampooing with selsun blue (which is v. sulphated iirc) has actually exacerbated the problem rather than helping??

possibly - that's what was happening to me with the T-gel. Some people are sensitized to SLS, but it's in so many things. Toothpaste is another major one that can cause trouble for some.

SLS is sodium laurel sulphate, which is really a cheap detergent btw, not the same as the stuff that lets go of free sulphur ions. You'll also see SLES (sodium laureth sulphate) which is milder than SLS.

what kind of shampoo do you use again, jaq?

i've gotten down to washing hair once a week! it is better, hair hardly looks oily by the end of the week too but i do need to rinse a couple times in btwn b/c of biking and exercise. scalp still dry in places, however :/ and i don't use sls or anything. i think that taking salmon oil really helps! i just remembered that! and i haven't taken it in months - ahaa

well shit. if this continues i will have sourced my entire personal toilet from $$ whole foods $$

I've been using the Miss Treated from Kiss Your Face rrrobyn, smells like rosemary + mint. I had been doing the baking soda thing, which also really calms down irritation, but stopped that when I got some in my eye (OW!) - it worked well though and I'll probably go back to it. I think fish oil, or just eating more oily fish, can be good for skin/nails/hair.

many xposts here but I have a super solano (it's red) recommended by my hair dude--at first I was put off by how heavy it is, but now I'm used to it and like it a lot. It has been much more reliable than the many cheapie dryers I've gone through over the years.

i think i'll probably cave and get one when my current dryer breaks. that's the real issue - there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the one i have now, which is about 2yrs old and going strong.

what is the benefit of more expensive hairdryers? do they just dry your hair faster? or is there less damage?

I doubt there is less damage--in fact stronger motor + killer heat levels probably are MORE damaging, but make for faster and more, er, professional-looking results due to SHEER POWER.

it takes about 15 seconds for the solano my hairstylist uses to dry my (short) hair, and it looks more polished.

and speaking of polished, i'm liking garnier's surf hair. i got it last week after finding out that kusco-murphy's beach hair has been discontinued (in the u.s., at least). it's quite cheap, and it seems to cover all the bases for me (gives slight hold, some texture, some smoothing, and an overall matte but not dull finish).

yeah i <3 surf hair.

i think the advantages of a more expensive hairdryer is that it drys hair faster(which, for me at least, = less frizz and less time with a flat iron) and, more importantly, the temperature is more likely to be even.
Cheap hairdryers tend to fluctate greatly in temperature which can equal a bad styling job and, even worse, a drastic temp spike which is a 2 second route to burnt hair.

'dries' and 'fluctuate', of course

so, yeah, i think they do less damage

less time drying definitely equals straighter, smoother hair. with a pro dryer, i don't need to use the flat iron at all.

WANT

remember how i got that 'great' haircut like less than 2 months ago? well, i was wrong and i hate it. it's so blah and i can't do anything with it, and my fringe - sorry, 'bangs'- is really awful and never looks good no matter how hard i try. i'm thinking about going a lot shorter, maybe to mid-neck length.

also, i used to have this great remington hairdryer that i sacrificed before coming to the US (different plug thingy, would need an adaptor) and my bf bought me a revlon before i arrived... but i don't really like it. it's only 1875w and i want at least 2000 and the cool shot is really weak (and cool shot is super important for my hair).

I got my hair cut today by my awesome ex-junkie pirate looking hairdresser who CORRECTED MY COLOR FIASCO FOR FREE. I <3 him. A lot. I am now very blonde but not at all brassy. It's sooooooo much better.

hey guys! i started using an SLS-free shampoo earlier this week and am already starting to see less dryness and flaking on my scalp -- hopefully this is the solution i've been seeking for over a decade! so awesome.

pics pls, e!

glad sulfate free stuff seems to help so far! i really don't think i can ever go back to sulfate-y shampoos, and there are plenty of affordable ones other than devacurl, too.

i bought regular devacurl this time, as opposed to devabrown, which i got last time, and i think i don't like it as much, which is odd since it is the one w/out extra 'color-depositing' stuff in it...

The haircolor I've been using looks like it's been discontinued :{ (Hydrience). I bought some Feria yesterday, though won't use it for several weeks.

Good news on the shampoo, elmo! I know it was a revelation and a relief when I got it sorted out, and something so simple as changing shampoos.

i am now trying to figure out if i should go have my hair dyed or try to do it myself which may be difficult since it's somewhat longer now and may require two boxes. it is v frustrating because i let it go so long to find out my 'true' color only to be kind of underwhelmed by it. if it was naturally like 2.5 shades darker i'd be ^_^ bc then i wouldn't have to lose the tiny gold strands by using an allover color :(

I'm tempted to get mine done professionally, but oh the $$$. I've got so much gray that I end up with highlight/lowlight effects with a level 3 all over color.

anyone ever had aveda color? i can go to the institute here and get it done cheaper than if i went to a real salon. i'm not too worried about a student messing up a single process color, but i don't think aveda is esp. known for their color, either...

*Additional product charge of $10 may apply to refreshing,
extra length, and/or high-density hair.

high-denisty?! lols. can't they just say "thick"?

But what if you just had one strand of hair that weight 34 lbs.

Feria (at least when I tried the black and blonde 6-7 years ago) is utter garbage, and I am shocked and dismayed to hear that Hydrience has been discontinued :( I have been having my hair professionally dyed (bright colours) right now but when I was a blonde I was a Hydrience girl. :(

the kerastase ciment thermique is doing very good things for my hair.

cool!

i think i may take the plunge and book a dying appt!

me too. mainly because i am afraid of damaging my hair more with at-home dying! though, i'm not sure if professional dying is any better for your hair? all i know is that i have 92435945 broken hairs by my crown and i don't know what is causing them to break.

my hair dye is organic supposedly, and my hair doesn't seem to be any worse than it ever was... I am not one to talk about smooth hair as I bleached it for five years and still blowdry/straighten but my hair is so nice and soft and lovely... though my ends are fading, may be time for a trim again, ugh.

here is a sort of press release thing from the people who make the dye my hairdresser uses:

Goldwell's Elumen Hair Color
Jayne Morehouse
Date: 2/6/2002

Introduction

One of the most exciting new technological developments in professional hair color is the new Goldwell Elumen. Now, there's more to share. Elumen is the first oxidant-free durable hair color that works without peroxide or ammonia. Using a purely physical process, Elumen's brilliant, direct-acting, negatively-charged color dyes are drawn deep inside the positively-charged hair shaft and held, as if by a magnet. But there's truly no fear, no commitment. With Elumen Return, the hair colorist can remove the hair color immediately and gently with no damage simply by reversing the magnetic charge.

What's more, Elumen repairs hair, smoothing porous and damaged sections not only on the surface, but deep inside the hair shaft, providing a healthy, smooth surface that reflects light brilliantly.

Elumen's new technology offers many "firsts," giving you a truly new story about hair color. Deborah Gavin, the creative colorist from High Tech Hair Studio and Spa in Philadelphia and the spokesperson for Goldwell's Elumen, is a great new source on Elumen, new color trends and technologies, and caring for colored hair at home.

Remember, only Goldwell, the worlds' largest professional haircare company, offers this new patented technology.

semi-permanent hair dyes are supposed to actually be good for you hair - they don't contain all the harsh chemicals that permanents have, and they condition the hair. i used to exclusively use permanent hair dye (i've always dyed my own), but am now on the semi stuff.

which reminds me: time to dye again

i bought the Kiss My Face shampoo that jaq suggested and used it today and it didn't bother my scalp and my hair didn't get dried out or anything! wows
we'll see what happens with future use

i don't think there is gonna be a drastic difference in damage-ness from box to salon unless your salon uses some really fancy product. i want to go because i have too much hair that i can't see and worry about missing random spots (which i have been known to do) and sometimes feel like they have better colors?

i want to dye my hair i think and i can't bring myself to pay $70 for single process application. anyone know of a good demi/semi-perm dye? i am really nervous about this bc i am afraid i am going to miss lots of strands and then have that weird half-assed look.

what do you guys think of me dyeing my hair the magenta/hot pink colour of the flowers on my shirt here?
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v320/224/57/516053577/n516053577_748176_3823.jpg

Also that shirt is my new favourite! I got it at H&M and it makes me feel excessively girly and pretty. It's got a little cutout hole at my cleavage and two long pieces of fabric you can sort of tie.

but I have been kind of wanting lately to self-dye my hair again because I always hear people talk about how they died their bright blue hair themselves, etc.. but I don't know how and the concept of toner and 30 vol and whatever else you need to know sounds too difficult.

ffm, i love your current colour! and that shirt is ultra cute.

i have been trying a drastically new thing with my hair... only washing it every second day! i've shampooed/conditioned every day since i was about 13, and ppl/hairdressers have been telling me for years that i have to stop and at least cut down to alternate days. but i've never been able to - my head itches and it feels greasy and i hate the smell. but i've managed to do it for two weeks now! and it's getting less greasy btw washes. and now that i'm not *really* a smoker, it doesn't have that awful smell.

RR, my scalp/hair is so much healthier since I stopped shampooing every day, it's hard to believe. I shampoo maybe once a week now, rinse really well every day in the shower, treat the ends w/ jojoba maybe every 2 weeks. I had been doing dry shampoo of oats/baking soda initially but found it wasn't necessary.

finefinemusic, maybe it's my monitor, but the magenta looks more of a dusty rose on my screen. I love the bright color you've got now. fwiw, my daughter tried to go bright teal on her own (her hair's naturally a dark blonde), and it just never worked satisfactorily. Dull undertones and leached out really fast.

It does have a touch of dusty rose to it, hmmmm.. I can't find a picture but I used to have magenta hair in high school and LOVED it. because I went from orange to red, my hairdresser mixed orange into the dye last time to even out the roots, and as it fades it gets orangier and orangier :P maybe I will give "red" another shot to give it a chance to fade more normally next time...

I found a picture of myself with manic panic teal hair in high school! heh. didn't last long though and I remember I used to sleep with hair dye on my head and saran wrap over top, on a pillow covered in a couple of shopping bags. whee!

jaq: my scalp had been itchy on and off, and that has also lessened HEAPS since i cut down on washing it. i give a good brush before i jump in the shower and then i just rinse it really well. i also started using a trader joe's sls-free shampoo when i got to the US.

I need a haircut v v badly. There is a fabu gay man who lives down the street from me who cuts hair at his home in exchange for doing yard work for him or whatever. I think I might give him a shot. His name is "J0hn Cava1ier".

guy cannot cut my hair right now b/c he is fighting w/his boyfriend.

what's a yeti to do?

i have a haircut appointment on thursday, and i think i want to go shorter--anyone have short haircut recommendations? (currently my hair's in a longish bob.)

hi guys! i just totally got my hair cut. looking beautiful, kid

i got a trim last week that ended up costing way too much and now my bangs are totally fuxored :(

loooool I asked for hair advice on the LJ madradhair community and someone PM'd me on Myspace to send me what I thought was going to be a picture of a girl with a haircut he'd suggested.. but it was ME, photoshopped!

http://a92.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/49/m_bd80ed290ea3ef9f9bfe69c29a96fffb.jpg

that looks so awesome!!!!

I kind of like it but I've had super short hair before and I'm not sure it's really me.. but the picture KILLED me when it loaded! You never expected to see your photoshopped self staring back at you.

haha yeah that wld be surprising...

i like that haircut but i think it's too old for you, tbh. by which i guess i mean, my mom has that haircut. but my mom is super cute and fairly hip to things and gets her hair cut at the cuetest little aveda salon in t0fino. it's a great haircut, just maybe not right now?

haha i forgot to change my changing user name and now it is creeping me out (in a non-sexual way)

yeah, that's something to consider! I went to the bathroom a few mins ago and I was sort of contemplating my hair and I realized that my Insane Cowlick of Doom would prevent the hair from properly going against my face anyway, damn the cowlick of doom!

I think I am going to do something about my username, I realized it's very googleable the other day and sometimes I forget I'm on a public board and I run off my mouth haha

i love my haircut, but i realized that there's nothing i can do at this point if i want a change save for start to grow it out, and that's going to be a real pain.

I am putting together a birthday and Christmas list for my boyfriend, and searched CHI on Amazon. I have always heard that they are $200 but they are on sale right now for $80 - am I wrong about something? I am pretty sure my current flatiron is one inch but it seems.. too good to be true?

http://www.amazon.com/Farouk-CHI-Inch-Ceramic-Hairstyling/dp/B0009V1YR8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1222360698&sr=8-1

you can usually get them on overstock for $100, so $80 isn't too much of a stretch. that's a good deal, though. i wonder if they're about to bring out a redesigned product or something along those lines.

I feel like past experience has taught me that overstock hates Canada, but I'll check them out too for other birthday ideas ;) I may just have to order this CHI though...

oh FFS, the CHI can't be shipped to Canada for whatever bullshit reason. :(

.....but Overstock proudly announces at the top of their page... Now Shipping to Canada! Theirs is about $90CA which is lovely. Lauren, you've come through for me again!

oh, great! glad to help.

hey whats that dry shampoo you gals are always repping?

i am thinking of getting my hair dyed with a little red added in. nothing tooo shocking, but i think i might be ready for some color to warm things up a bit? i am bored.

hmmm...i go the opposite in winter - away from the warm colors. dark hair is difficult.

winter:

What are the Cool Tone Colors?

Jewel, blues, greens, pinks, purples, blue greens, magentas, blue based reds.

What are the Warm Tone Colors? Earth tones, yellows, oranges, browns, yellowish greens, orange based reds.

So now that you know the terminology, let's see how you can choose the best color for you!
Blonds
With grey and silver playing a dominant role it is important to tone down the gold in your hair. The sun and beach in the summer always pulls out the golds and yellows in high lights and blond hair so it is time to pack that away with the summer clothes and bring it up to speed. Opt for ash toners and silver undertones in the blond. You don't want to 'grey' the hair but these tones can make the hair whiter and brighter to add softness to the now paleing skin. If you are adding highlights and lowlights keep this same effect in process. It also doesn't hurt to play with biege tones as well. Some women with peachy skin tones may find that the ash is too dulling. Keep in mind that the fashion colors are bold, so softness around the face will leave the beholders eyes to linger over the whole package, and not get distracted.

Cool Ladies - Opt for Ash blond, Icy blond, Pearl blond, Beige blond. If you are chossing a color by number, look for numbers with zero, one, or eleven in the title (ex. 9/11 or 10/1 or 8/0) The number after indicates the tone and these numbers are blue or green aditives.

Warm Ladies - Golden blond, Golden Beige blond, Honey, Milkshake. Look for numbers with 2, 3, 4 (ex. 9/02, 10/23, 8/4)

Brunettes
A dark shade hair with these hard colors in fashion can be tricky, but can also act as the best finish when done right. Look out for too much warmth in your color (ex. reds, eggplant, copper). Browns can look red very easily; especially as the color fades, so keep the darkness in cool tones.
If you are having the color done professionally ask the colorist to use a clear toner over the color. The toner will add great shine to the color without making it feel matte.
This time of the year it is best for brunettes to hold the richness in their colors. If you are thinking about adding highlights I would advise to keep the highlight only a shade lighter than the base. You will still get the demension from the highlight but this will keep the color looking rich.

Cool Ladies - Natural brown, Dark brown, Coffee, Cocoa. Look for numbers that are odd except without 3 at the begining (ex. 4/11, 5/01, 4/77).

Warm Ladies - Chocolate, Hazelnut, Chestnut. Look for even numbers ( 4/64, 4/14, 5/02).
Red Heads
You are so lucky when deep wines and purples are the upcoming trend. Don't fear ladies, you can sport your red locks and still look great in this season's fashions. If you are a red head stay away from copper or blond highlights; keep your color strong. Eliminate orange and copper undertones, if the red is pure or stlighlty dipped with purple undertones it will compliment the fashion colors the best. There is no need to think you have to completely make your red eggplant, because it will actually overpower the colors of fall and leave you looking pale and washed out. Keep the red powerfull and you will look great this season.

Cool Ladies - Magenta, Eggplant/Aubergine, RR-Red red, Blood red, Ruby red. Look for numbers or letters. The numbers will always have one even and one odd or will be double with red ( ex. 8/66, RR, RV, RB, 6/54, 5/36)

Warm Ladies - Fire red, Copper red, Candy red, RC- red copper, R-red, C-copper, CR-copper red. Look for numbers that are even and letters will never repeat (ex. 6/23, 4/44, 7/6, RC, R, C, CR)

I know with this seasons cool wardrobe hitting the shelves, you think it will be hard to pull off the fashion when your a warm girl. If you stick to wearing the lighter shades of cool tones around your face it will actually compliment the warmth in your skin tone.
For example never wear black too close to your face, breack it up with a grey or ivory. Warm tones tend to look drained or tired with pure white so opt for the ivory or cream. All greys look good on warm ladies as well as all browns so mix and match the fashion to include these tones and you can look fantastic just like the cool girls.

man i love beige blonde

my natural coloring is actually cool. i think when i said i want to warm things up i meant, any hint of red (i would probably stay in the cooler reds) would give me a little more warmth than my current pale skin + brunette look.

I got some birthday money so I am getting highlights today from Le!gh at Wh!stle. She suggested going super-blonde but I am afraid of the fakery so am opting for something more subtle to start out. She also gave me a shorter bob with whispy bangs that seems less flat than my previous bedraggled look though one of my young library patrons was not impressed.

go for the super-blond! it would look good on you.

i think it would really look good, too! and if it is just highlights it won't be too much of a shock all at once.

haha! I am just afraid of looking like a typical Upper East Sider with a fake blonde bob, but in my stylist's hands perhaps I would look more like a Dutch child? oh no--the indecision. she also said the super blonde would be more maintenance (mo money)

virginia plain i have no ida what you look like but i think everyoen should go superblonde at least once in their life so they know what its like

plus its blonde so it easy to come back from if you hate it

i will never go superblonde. it is just not... possible.

i would love to do white blond, but like tehresa, i think it's an impossibility.

i went from dyed black to white blonde. IT IS POSSIBLE PEOPLE!

its a pain in the ass but its possible

it is just not possible with my coloring/look/etc.

hey i still need some advice on this dry shampoo biz. does it just make the oiliness disappear or doesnt it kill odor too?

i did get all my hair bleached once, when i was 15. i wanted to look like miki from lush, so when i went to england for xmax w/o my parents, i took all of my spending money and had it done at a cheesy salon in croydon. the woman got my hair to a sort of gold-ginger after about 3hrs and was like, "it's going to fall out if we keep going." i had to fix it myself later that day with manic panic.

that's a fix i can get behind!

oh, re: the dry shampoo, the bumble and bumble stuff that i had didn't do anything about odor. it just absorbed the visible oil.

does this work well on bangs? i find that generally, my hair might not need a washing, but i think because of forehead oils, makeup, washing face the night beofre, and sleeping, my bangs are generally gross and unshapely in the morning.

good q. i didn't have bangs at the time.

obv it won't help with shape... but i just feel like i can't not wash them in the morning or by 2pm i am feeling really gross.

down with fake colors, no justice no peace, etc. *hides*

ss i noticed that stila sells a dry shampoo version of its scents - you could have perfumed hair??

maybe if it smells like bananas

i got a trial size oscar blandi dry shampoo spray today. will report back.

I'm so proud, I dyed my own hair today with the fancy dye (that I bought off eBay).. and nothing fell out/turned weird colours/stained anything! Viva me!

it's a huge image so I won't embed it, but: http://i34.tinypic.com/16glu1c.jpg

She did the subtle lights that we agreed on, and it ended up looking nice and blond to me at least, though she said it wasn't really that much lighter than my natural color and it was the lights in the salon making it look so bright. I asked her what her interpretation of really blond was, and she said, you know, like Agness Deyn. I didn't realize she wanted to dye my hair white blond (!) which would be more of a stretch for me, because traditionally I use highlights to just approximate the color of hair I had when I was younger, and I certainly never had white blond hair. But now I am intrigued by the white blondness.

that looks fantastic, ffm!!

i'm sure yours looks great, too, vp! i kind of wish i could do white blondness. instead, i'm living vicariously through my friend who can. she was blonde, but was questioning going super white and i was like YES YES DO IT and now every time she considers going blonder i'm like NO WHITER!!

FFM that color looks delicious. VP pls post pic of hair color.

my dream blonde is the same as heidi montags color

its hard to get a non air brushed pic of her but this is close (ignore the billionaire tool clinging to her)

http://earsucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/heidi_montag_spencer_pratt.jpg

tehresa, b&b worked fine on my bangs but i think i have a much lower standard of hair cleanliness than you do. so, uh, judge how you think my hair looks and make a decision! now that i'm blonde i've ditched b&b and do the baby powder thing again.

also i want to go more blonde, much lighter and cooler, the way my hair used to be, but my hairdresser won't do it because "i don't need to be more blonde". i wasn't a fan of what she did to my hair last time either (i've been going to her forever and this is the first time i've been like wtf so maybe it was just a bad day?). i'm thinking of going ahead and cheating on her. so inexpensive nyc salon suggestions are welcome.

Sunny the latest issue of Bust gave three thumbs up to something called "Lulu Organics Hair Powder in Lavendar and Clary Sage," saying among other things that it smelled amazing. It is, however, FORTY BUCKS which seems silly.

My hair is getting lighter via getting gray. I'm standing firm in my embrace of this process; gabbneb would be so proud.

fuck hairdressers and their opinions of what you should look like. really...FUCK

oooo! thanks quincie!

i had a $5 coupon, so i got some john frieda clear glaze today. the reviews on m-alley are stinko, but i'm hoping for at least a little boost.

oh give us the lowdown when youre done. I use the JF platinum to champagne glaze but its disappearing off shelves like they arent making it anymore.

similiar occurance w/ JF platinum to champagne conditioner

i'm using it tomorrow morning and will report back, never fear.

i used to use the "midnight expressions" shampoo/conditioner, and my bf made so much fun of the name.

haha

hey im sure you all have beautiful straight or wavy hair but has anyone heard about something called a hot comb? I saw it on the tyra show the other day and its was straightening the shizz out of this ladies hair!

shizz = shitty frizz

my best friend has used one since she was a kid. i tried hers once but couldn't get the hang of it. hers is really '70s-looking and bulky.

oooh that sounds intersting!

i am trying to figure out a) what color i should do b) where to get it done c) if i should keep growing this mess or chop it off again d) if i should buy a curling iron so i can pretend i have long pretty waves even though i just have mostly straight hair that does weird things that are not waves.

it is a lot of pressure.

Sunny I need your help! I'm almost sure it was you who was extolling the virtues of I think it was White Rain hairspray? For controlling the shizz? Anyhow I can not find the post and need more details!

was it white rain or aqua net?

Heidi Montag's hair is very brassy and fake looking to me.

My stylist told me that when you highlight hair it gets more body (which I need), because the process breaks part of the hair and that makes it stick up or something. She said the tendency of healthy hair is to lie flat.

What products should I use? I am hair illiterate.

I can never get anyone to give me 50s style bangs bc they are all convinced that it categorically looks bad.

Joan Woodward had it going on

http://www.stinalisa.com/joannewoodward.jpg

i had a $5 coupon, so i got some john frieda clear glaze today. the reviews on m-alley are stinko, but i'm hoping for at least a little boost.

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oh give us the lowdown when youre done. I use the JF platinum to champagne glaze but its disappearing off shelves like they arent making it anymore.

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the dollaramas in canada got a massive shipment of copper to scarlett red glaze and they were selling for $1, so I picked up 5-6 bottles each of shampoo, conditioner and glaze - also got a few the year before when the blonde stuff came up for sale in dollarama! I think that they are repackaging and sold their old labelled stock.

FWIW I love the glaze and find the shampoo/conditioner make my hair really soft

yeah i love them too but suddenly platinum to champagne has just disappeared. all i see are clear, , brunette, red and "honey to caramel"

VP ive got to deal out a big ol' RONG to you on Heidi's hair color. maybe you ned to see it action on the mtvs. when the sun (ie camera lights) shine through it it GLOWS.

Not the best positioned photo but this is as close as i have gotten so far:

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/783/20070321008gq9.jpg

quincie i cant remember where the white rain thing was. you'd think it would be here! ill do a search.

Try this:

AUGUST: the month that's ALSO a cool ADJECTIVE: a WDYLL thread

My hair is getting lighter via getting gray. I'm standing firm in my embrace of this process; gabbneb would be so proud.

http://www.theradreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/19w_borat_wideweb__470x2720.jpg

forgot to use the glaze this morning. i think i'll give it a try as a treatment on dry hair tonight post-gym.

I liked the Frieda shampoos! And my boyfriend of the time liked the smell. Unfortch the shampoos for medium-brown darken my blonde streak so I gave it up.

Honestly re color, I think if you have pale skin with rosiness, you can get away with anything from medium brown to pale yellow-blonde, and to the coppery reds. I've even had black hair before and altho my eyebrows needed a little boost to match it, it didn't look half bad. (Think Dita VonTeese, who I believe is naturally a blonde, and a couple of other people I know who've been dying their hair black for so long no one even knows it's fake anymore).

For the duskier skin colors, incl the Sicilian velvet olive my friend Caro used to have, I just can't imagine anything but that perfect dark brown...I think that's where the red and purple highlights come in.

re: hairdressers deciding how you should look, it's doubly frustrating because i've had the color i'm thinking of before and SHE is the one who did it for me! so why was this a good idea a couple years ago, but now it is a bad idea and i'm stuck with a darker, redder shade?

i am too scared to do it myself, going lighter.

serious home bleaching is always better when done by/with friends. that way you have someone monitoring your hair at all times, and you can chain-smoke together and make jokes about spontaneous chemical combustion.

Argh, I finally used the Feria I bought 6 weeks ago, thinking it would be similar to the Hydrience shade I loved. But no, it is very much light reddish blonde now, rather than a warm golden brown. Also, much more frizzy ;_;

The other thing I liked about Hydrience is the the package of pre-coloring conditioner stuff - which was Pantene, but why can't I just buy separately?? All I could find was a L'Oreal primer online.

Feria is a dodgy one. Sometimes its great, sometimes not.

The only blonde i will use is l'oreal preference dream blonde which also comes with a pretreatment primer/conditioner for the ends of your hair so they dont get damaged in the process. my fav shade right now is called "Alluring Peony" which, of course, I call "alluring ponies"

schef maybe an ash blonde (to get out the red) immediately followed by the blonde you want?

i must see a photo of Laurel with blk hair

ya really. i had no idea of her secret goth shame!

Umm. I did it to go as Veronica Lodge for Halloween...was supposed to be temporary dye but guess what? Black doesn't wash out. I only have two photos from that night, but apparently my (Italian-Am) then-boyfriend quite liked it.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/ModestMakeout.jpg

Cute! I think black hair makes everyone look great for the first week (and ho-hum when the novelty wears off for 80% of the people)

Home-made Veronica sweater and blue comic book-style highlight visible here:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/ModestPonyboyVeronica.jpg

awwwwwwww

Sorry, that was a little TMI.

sunny, i want to use the dream blonde but i am afraid of putting it on my whole head to lighten up everything properly. because it's already been bleached (i lol dyed my hair black early this year and had to have that removed). what are your opinions on the matter, as a lady who seems to be an authority on blondes?

Do you guys have Blondissima in the states? That's what I always used when going from dark to blonde, then a honey blonde on top to even the bleached hair out. Never Feria though.. sorry you had to learn this the hard way, Jaq!

well i bleached my hair twice in the last year too with that l'oreal superblonde and i got some breakage from it. the dream blonde isnt increasing the breakage. in my long and sometimes tragic experience with blonding, its only the blue stuff that does the damage.

have you dyed your hair with anything with henna in it? that can be a real bitch to get out and it might be worth waiting to grow it out?

there is blondissima here. also if you opt for l'oreal superblonde it will get out the red but dont leave it on too long. also be aware that where it says its one step to color on the box its an out and out lie unless youre trying to pull off a Donatella Versace.

once the superblonde makes you white blonde, most blonde dyes will just wash out ie youll have white hair but i have found one that will (VERY suprisingly for me) hair a very nice shade of blonde:

http://www.walgreens.com/dbimagecache/133985.gif

i have noi idea why but this is the only brand and color that will bring you back from white post-superblonde

I cant see laurel's photos :( workblocked

I use the L'Oreal Superblonde for my streak but I only leave it in til it's brassy yellow, I don't wait long enough for it to be whited out. Esp not with re-doing the roots and overlapping slightly every couple of months.

yeah. thats a smart way to go.

if youve had the evil henna on your hair you go with the real bleach you get this littl eprogression: black/red -> brassy orange -> clown orange -> clown yellowy orange -> dayglo yellow -> paler yellow -> ahhh blonde

maybe paler brassy yellow -> OMG WHITE -> ahhhh blonde

haha! i have never put henna on my head so i think i am safe. maybe i should try superblonde? i'm just scared to throw more bleach on top of my whole head but why not.

just remember to grab a strand of your hair and tug on it every 5 or 10 min. you'll know if its still strong or if you need to get thst bleach out NOW.

LAUREL holy shit you look HOT!!!!!

I agree!

Yeah Laurel, that Veronica Lodge look really suits you!

i remember seeing those pics some time ago and thinking how good it looked! i also really like that length on you!

I concur: I am surprised how much the dark hair suits Laurel.

Ally: I like you reddish-brown the best, but maybe that's just because that was your color when I met you, so I resist all deviations from that.

i love blonde ally!

though i think she can pull off any color she wants!

i don't think the glaze did anything. my hair felt a bit coated after i washed it out, but there there doesn't seem to be any noticeable difference. and it stinks! it's got a really sweet, heavy, slightly floral fragrance.

hmmm...weird. i shall steer clear. thanks!

i'm going to try it as a postconditioning rinse a few times a week, i guess, and see if that does anything.

oh what did you do before?

i did it as a "treatment." you apply it to dry hair, leave it on for 20 minutes, then shampoo it out.

after all of this blond talk i really want to bleach my hair! i'm having edie sedgwick fantasies. my friend in college would use manic panic's virgin snow, which is basically a toner - it takes out the yellow and makes your hair a really pretty, silvery white.

I got fed up with the straw-feeling damage from the feria and yesterday impulsively got about 4" chopped off:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2907299427_0fff78eb45_o.jpg

it looks good! you know, i've used feria exactly once when it first came out and i could never do it again after what it did to me.

hmmm i've had only good experience with feria - i used to use a lot of their reds. but i've stopped using permanent colour the last few times and now just use a semi: it fades out better and seems better for my hair condition.

yeah the cut looks great, Jaq, though I don't think I know what it looked like before. It's liberating, chopping off all the fried hair, isn't it? I <3 my Elumen dye so much, my hair always feels so soft and isn't nearly as damaged as it used to be in my bleached blonde days!

I have too much gray for level 2 color, RR. I may go for pro color next time; am thinking about getting some interim darker semi color done next week maybe. Just having it short again is liberating too finefine - it was as long as it's been in 30 years (just to shoulders, w/ grown-out long layers). Is the Elumen a salon brand?

i'm feeling the need to cut great chunks of my hair off, too. hasn't been above my shoulders in a couple of years almost. right now it's just looking kinda manky and blah, and i think having it shorter would further enable my attempts to only wash alternate days.

Now that everyone and their mother has an angled bob I am particularly looking forward to getting a new haircut next week. BANGS!

If anyone has seen the latest Chanel ads in Vogue (the one with the brunette in the bicolored tights), that's the cut I'm going for.

http://frillr.com/files/images/Chanel%20Fall-Winter%202008%20.%202009%20Ad%20Campaign2.preview.jpg

Bad picture, but maybe you get the idea.

Oh and duh "the brunette" is none other than Claudia Schiffer!

i got my hair cut yesterday sort of like that, but no bangs

also i read that first as "claudia schefter" !! :)

wow..claudia still rockin hotness

hey schef, i was in walmart yesterday buying dream blonde shade "glistening magnolia" (ie fuckin light blonde) and I noticed a dream blonde lightener/red banisher in a blue box. maybe that would do the trick?

ooh interesting. quincie, i've done that cut before. it is fun! go for it! also, i have done angled bob on and off for 15 years and yeah, it is kind of annoying when it's suddenly popular and your cut feels not good anymore!

i am currently just below shoulders... i am at the make or break point of growing it out LONG or chopping again. for now, it is awkward, so i think i dye?

you might as well give it another couple of inches before you chop it. you've put up with growing it out until now, so don't give up when the goal is in sight!

i know! i have to keep reminding myself of that!

it's totally hair-cutting season, eh

i haven't dealt with my hair for a very long time, months. somehow the colour grew out really well, but this week it hit the point where roots are looking reallly dark and just a bit beyond rocknroll to lameland and everybody who's used to me with lighter/blonder hair is suddenly whoa look at how dark your hair *really* is!!

i'm just gonna go get it cut and get my hairdresser to do whatever she feels is right re: colour. might just go back to dark hair with some highlights

i can't believe i'm now a person who cares abt colour in my hair

also: hi, i love style, i still <3 u
i have been busy
in a good way tho

xxxpost to Jaq, yeah, Elumen is a salon brand. :)

Comparisons made with my new haircut thus far: Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, Anne Hathaway in Get Smart, Kate Blanchett (sp?) in the most recent Indiana Jones. So far I am quite happy with these comparisons.

Mr. Que was a bit put off, but he claims it is just because it looks so different. He's all "well it is like if I dyed my blue." Um, no it's nothing like that, actually.

Sounds great to me, Quincie! I always loved that haircut.

I am trying something new today.. wearing my bangs straight-across rather than parted on the side as I usually do. I have a pretty raging cowlick that prevents me from trying but this morning it just sort of clicked and my bangs allowed me to spread them across my forehead. I wish I had my camera so I could fish for opinions!

Yay for new haircuts!

I found myself in Ulta on Monday where, lo and behold, they had plenty of Hydrience on the shelf! I bought all the boxes of my fave 42. So hopefully it is not gone forever, but maybe just not being carried by the places I used to be able to buy it.

i am getting my hair did tomorrow
it has been a while
i look like heart
but with roots

oh i wish there was ulta here. but i think the closest one is long island.

i am still thinking about coloring...

my hair now kind of rules!

everyone shld just come up to mtl or their hair needs

and robyn quota

don't tempt me!

*f*or their hair needs
i am drunk on turkey, wine and song whatever

xpost awyeah :D

whoa I'm kinda lost with what just happened here.

rrrobyn had an awesome hair-dying experience. then she went to thanksgiving dinner and got drunk. then she said we should all go to mtl for hair and robyn fulfillment, which sounds like a great excuse to go to mtl to me, and she thought that was cool.

b-b-but Thanksgiving is not until next month???? And I don't have a clue what mtl is??? *cries for failure to understand*

canadians be foolin u!

canadian thanksgiving is in oct. mtl = montreal.

A+++ rrrrobyn transalation skillz

i mean i guess if you did not know about canadian thanksgiving it would have been confusing but there was not much to translate otherwise! maybe i am just used to the awesomeness of rrrobyn!!!

http://i35.tinypic.com/2qu2plz.jpg http://i34.tinypic.com/2vv75fm.jpg

smoooooth.

i want your apartment!!!

thx i <3 mah apt

btw my hair is sweaty from running not disgustingly greasy in the 1st pic - not really sure what possessed me to post that photo to the internet

lol us tricksy canadians, using weird acronyms (t-dot represent!) and having holidays on the wrong weekends... not to mention sticking "u"s in where they aren't normally...

anyway guys I usually wear my bangs to one side because of massive cowlicks of doom, but I have been experimenting this week and am kind of liking them straight across, though they aren't as perfect as most peoples'... opinions??

also my hair is kind of two different colours and that is sad but people keep stopping me on the street to complement the colour so I think I can live with it.. dyeing it a few weeks back saved me from having to get it cut and now I am unsure whether I want to cut it or grow it.. ahh, decisions. I may let it grow out even more so I can do a more angled bob next time.

http://i38.tinypic.com/2mmaecw.jpg
http://i38.tinypic.com/16a4r9g.jpg

joe sixpack - i think the cut looks great! At first I thought they were front/side views of the same cut instead of before/after and I was a little scared.

i very much like them straight across!

yay! I feel like a "poser" (Canadians: "hoser") because they are bumpy and uneven and I am not, you know, whatsherface with the bangs from PRAus.. but my big dumb forehead has been hogging the glory for 25 years, I want to put it away for a while!

omg what's her name.. those bangs were INCREDIBLE. i feel like every time i try to do the straight across bang, i can't get a hair dresser to cut them thick enough so that they'll lay well - i think that's a trick to it. if they are too thin, they mess up too easily. i see all these girls w/ the perfect bangs but they start like, halfway back on their heads. meanwhile, my hair dressers never want to give me the weight i desire in a bang. maybe they are looking out for me? i don't know.

ok tips plz! can i get away with a mahogany shade? what do i do to make growing out less tedious?!

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also why does my neck look like that of an 85 year old?

oops

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I also suffer from the cowlick that makes the straight-across bangs somewhat challenging--the trick for me seems to be hitting them with a hot blow dryer as soon as I get out of the shower, getting them dead dry while combing them down with a fine-tooth comb. The rest of my hair I let air dry a bit as I do the coffee/paper/b'fast routine.

It is my back-of-the-head cowlick, however, that creates a major challenge. Doesn't help that I can't see it too well while attempting to tame it.

BTW finefine your bangs and color are v. v. adorable.

i have this one section of hair in the back right quadrant that ALWAYS flips out. no amount of flat ironing can fix it. it has a mind of its own.

I think you could probably do mahogany but the slight shadow on your face obscures the skin tone slightly.. but you're talking to a girl with darkish red hair on top and almost orange ends, so take what I say with a grain of salt :P I think that the new hair colour helps make the growing out a little easier - it made my own split ends look a little better when I re-did them recently, though I did a shit job and I am losing colour fast on the ends (I bleached my hair for 3-4 years straight so it barely holds colour - you can see how some parts look kind of silvery/pinkish)

I also like to mess around with new styles when I am growing it out - sometimes I do a crazy mass of bobby pins holding my hair back in a birds nest sort of way, or this week I have been fiddling with my bangs to make my hair look different but still fun.

The PRAus girl with the bangs - Pavlova? I am all mixed up because I'm still watching AusNTM with Paloma on it.. such cute names! oh, googled it - Petrova! I can't find one damn picture of her but yeah, I have been snipping away extra pieces of hair and pretty soon 99% of my head will be pulled forward to create a fringe to rival hers. I think my hairdressers have been looking out for me but also lazy: everyone has said "oh with that cowlick you will NEVER be able to wear them straight across" and while it is bumpy and not sleek - well, neither am I.

vvcool that winner (no names incase Sunny d/ls it) was as nice as she seemed! I was rooting for the #2 but all three were so fun.

yeah lighting not so good in my room. i am very fair with mostly pink undertones i think (unless someone who knwos me has noticed something different and would like to speak up). i generally only wear cool colors. i was thinking maybe something kate walshy? she's a little darker these days - not that bright red she had before.

weird, i am googling her and sometimes she has nice fair skin and otehr times she has this weird bronzey color. i hate when pale people try to sunless tan.

ooh yeah, something a little like this? http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/stylewatch/gallery/red_lips/kate_walsh.jpg I think that colour's very pretty and since it's a pretty natural shade it's bound to look flattering! I have pinkish skin (obviously, I gave you a closeup up there) and I find extreme dark or extreme light work for me, but medium browns make me look bor-ing. Sadly if you look at my eyebrows - medium brown is my natural colour. Thank god for hair dye.

hahah yeah I noticed that too - I try to discount celebrities' skin colour altogether since it's always so schizo.

yeah, i like that shade! i want something to make me pop a little more but that's not TOO outrageous. i lovvve your shade but i don't think i have the time/patience/money for upkeep at this point in my life. i also have medium brown natural color. it's kind of awful. i grew it out for 8 months then gave up and put a semiperm on it that ended up making it look black. it's calmed down now (6 weeks later) but i am bored again.

hahaha I don't have the money for my hair either so I stopped going to the salon and bought the dye to DIY it and it has been fading faster than when I did it professionally - but for a lot less money at least! I think a brown with a nice cherry hue to it would really work, especially since winter is coming (don't know where you live or if you have a winter haha.. I'll share some of mine if you don't)

yeah cherry is a shade i <3 very much so i was thinking of a brown with cherry in it. now i have to find someone to do it. argh.

i live in nyc. sometimes we have winter. sometimes not so much. but trust me, i spent 6 years in rochester, ny, just across the lake from you, so i have had my share of lake effect!

oh man i have already found a pair of awesome glasses on googles4u! must go get exam STAT!

mwahahahaha the funny thing I read whilst googling the company is that their glasses come in the weirdest packaging - glasses themselves wrapped securely in a hard shell case but the case is pretty much mailed in a cloth bag? very weird but shipping is free and it's coming from pakistan so ... there are a few different blogs with pictures of their glasses and comments on the quality and the general consensus was for $25 (glasses, frames and free shipping) it was a damn good deal. I ordered these:

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glee!

oh, you mentioned lake effect and now I am remembering how cold I am about to get, hahaha. today is a ridiculously beautiful sunny day in toronto (probably the last til march) and I am stuck in my office! booo!

i think these look intersting

http://goggles4u.com/images/26445.jpg

ooh adorable, I think I was looking at a similar pair in blue but ended up spending the rest of my money at zenni 'cause the glasses were a little cheaper and I was feel Christmas-related guilt

i love bangs. i am never going without bangs again. a 1" flat iron works wonders.

true!

but yeah, t - i think to get the thick curtain effect, you have to go deep. my situation is different because of how short my hair is, but my bangs are like my whole head.

i love your bangs!! i wish i could pull off an awesome geometric cut like yours but it is not in the cards with my face/body type.

well, you never know. the woman i went to before sean basically refused to cut my hair like it is now because she thought my face was too round for it.

eff these whack opinionated hairstylists, man

holy crap i am TOTALLY getting new glasses from that site!!!

I got my hair cut on a whim yesterday and got it nice and sleek short at the back, kept it longish in the front, and had the woman even out my poorly cut straight-across bangs. I feel adorable! Wheee! No picture yet, but I'll get one up eventually. I cut off 90% of my damaged, formerly-blonde hair and it all feels so much healthier!

I'm going to get this. I don't know how to describe it, but this kind of really thinned out with a blunt bottom is really popular in LA.

http://hairstylesdesign.com/members/gallery/photos/50-1.jpg

Oooh, I like that! I am getting my hair chopped again on Friday and may have to ask him to thin it out. It's too poofy and boring at the moment. I am really tempted to get the cut Lauren recommended last time I just don't know if I have th guts!

ugh i still need to make an appt. schefter needs to send me info for her colorist!

enbb, get the cut!!!!

OK I got my hair did and it's so short! I think I like it but am still in shock. I was just really bored with old hair. I look a little startled and sleepy cause I just woke up so ignore that. I'm gonna play around with it when I style it tomorrow.

eek.

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I didn't get the Lauren cut because I didn't print out the pic before going in. :-( If I can go this short though I can probably go that short. Maybe next time.

the one i posted might be a bit shorter on the sides, but i think it's actually longer/thicker in the front. in any case - cute!

I got a wig (bagged) at Ricky's for Halloween. It is supposed to be a chin length black bob, but when I tried it on at home, it looks nothing like that. It's sort of a mop, with some longer pieces in front. And it cost $20!