i love style needs to get their hair did

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
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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
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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.

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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!