i love style needs to get their hair did

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.

Biotin is supposed to be good for hair too

i need to talk about the crazy hair magic my hairdresser pulled on me back in august, and then pulled on me again a couple weeks ago:

i have a decent amount of hair but it's super fine and super flat. i like big hair, wavy hair, textured hair, frizzy hair.

i've been seeing this dude for 2 yrs only bc he's less than a mile from my house and he's decent. but when i decided to go shorter in august and explained what i wanted (the same thing i've tried explaining before), he suddenly got me and 1 hr later i had the exact hair cut i'd been envisioning for a couple years and it looked awesome. then i found it was pretty easy to style with a little product and a diffuser. then i found it was even easier if i did the headband-curl thing at night (no dryer). then i found out how fucking MAGICAL it was when i put wet hair in a tiny ponytail and then put a tight hat on it all day.

i can let it air dry and it looks great.

it's the kind of hair cut that you see me, you won't be all 'omg i LOVE that haircut' - it suits me, but it's the manageability, given my experience with my hair, that makes it incredible. i've never ever been able to not blow dry my hair in order for it to look decent, unless employing something like the headband-curling thing, and definitely not on shorter hair (it's jaw length when it's freshly cut).

i don't think i've been to the same hairdresser more than 3 x before, and definitely no more than twice a year, but this dude has my life-long allegiance.

good haircuts are such a game-changer, and having someone who can replicate good haircuts over and over and over is goddamn gift from heaven!

Yes! I was convinced that he wouldn't be able to pull it off a second time but he did!

i'm planning a major haircut this weekend and have been up and down. The position I have settled into is that this is my liberation from hair. So sick of feeling beholden to caring about the state of my hair. i just want it to be so short that i am free of thinking about it.

<3 <3 <3 <3 my goal as well

i haven't actually looked forward to a haircut this much in a while. last year i went to a random salon in san francisco when i was on vacation in june and then gave myself a supplemental haircut in the fall. it's time!

Will it be...transformative?

idk, it's the same old me so probably not!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Transformers_Marvel_Comics_Spider-Man_vs._Megatron.jpg

http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/11910177_477443489101689_1611503484_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTA3MTc1NzExMzU5MDIxMDM3MA%3D%3D.2

short hair needs upkeep tho, I dream of growing my hair long so I don't have to bother with it... I guess if you like what you get and are happy to go get it cut like that every so often at least you don't have to actually think too much about it.

i would gladly grow my hair long if i could, but i can't. short is the only option for low maintenance and stress.

Done! Definitely the right decision.

I have spent too much time at naturallycurly dot com,

while at times going way way way over the top (keeping a daily spreadsheet tracking dew points, products used based on dew points, and results? No thanks), naturallycurly dot com has definitely been helpful in coming to terms with my 2b/c waves (yah I know my hair type, who am I kidding).

LL I'm glad you are pleased with the chop! So refreshing to get a good cut.

I feel like I've got a new head. Also it took me like 15 min to get ready including shower.

welcome to the short hair don't care club :D

so much shampoo/conditioner saved imo

So much TIME not drying hair I don't like and just put up into a ponytail anyway!!

naturallycurly dot com has definitely been helpful in coming to terms with my 2b/c waves (yah I know my hair type, who am I kidding).

still not sure whether I'm a 2c or a 3a

but through that site I found another that had easy tutorials for retro hairstyles for curly hair, and then I realized that there were combs and bobby pins that are not tiny, so that I can actually do things with my hair.

i haven't cut my hair since my last post, and boyyyy is it looking raggeddy as fuck

1. i don't wanna spend $100 on my hair (and going anywhere other then the guy i've been seeing would get me a haircut i couldn't up-keep, or could've cut myself)
2. i bleached my hair last may in order to dye it lavender, but my usual 'this is too hard, fuck it' attitude kicked in as i was applying the bleach so i did a pretty horrendous job of it and will let myself be too easily shamed by my stylist if i go see him
3. i've been in an extended phase of trying to look invisible, which means i put no effort into how i look and tying my hair in a topknot is all i can bothered to do. if i go back to the great cut i got last time, i'll have to put some effort into it everyday.

i do, however, really like what the bleach did to my hair - gave it lots more body and texture, along with damage and split ends.

i finally got one of those tangle-teezer rip-offs and it is a miracle worker.

I think the secret to good hair is just in the water you wash it with, not so much the products you use. Italian water gave me amazing hair that never got greasy. Faroe Islands water also great.

Now I want to get one of those fancy water filters for my shower head.

Yes!!! Italian water was noticeably different for me too. Our water is super hard.

keep putting off getting highlights done because it always looks stripey the first time (old ones have long grown out)

The water where I am currently is super hard too and I think it's causing more of my hair to fall out/break. I just discussed this with an Italian (from Campania) who was also talking about her hair falling out here and I was like IT HAS TO BE THE WATER.

My most recent shampoo love this year is klorane in mango butter. I've tried other flavors but I love love love this one.

I am also constantly thinking about when I should try to convert over and try completely white hair. I think it's about 80% grey now on the top and sides, the lower back is still mostly dark brown. I've been dying it since I was 16 but it's such a pain. It's past my shoulder blades so i would need to lop most of it off. I've been kind of obsessed with Loora Wang's hair (shaved on the sides, long on top) ever since I saw those tik toks of her and her sister.

I never thought much about going grey until my mum recently stopped dyeing her hair and I was like oh yeah I dig that

At this point I think the hair will maybe be the last thing for me. As problems go it's an OK one but I do agonize over it. Wearing wigs for the rest of my life, I guess I would be OK with it, but at some point I should find someone I can trust and find out what my practical options are.

hair product update

i splurged on Jonathan Van Ness “Air Dry Creme” from his new JVN line of products (u can get it at Sephora)

holy cats. soft shiny bouncy curls w no scrunching & no hair dryer. as advertised! 10/10 no notes.

i have naturally curly hair but its dry and thin & trashed from home box dye. i used about a quarter-size amt, worked through damp hair concentrating on ends, combed it through w a wide tooth comb, gently scrunched the ends just to start the curl…boom. thats it.

shiny af, nice piecey curls, not crunchy or anything.

i tried it one time scrunching a lot but it doesnt seem to need it? works better if you just leave it alone imo - at least if you already have a curl pattern of some kind

(this is not an ad, i swear) i love this stuff!

Thanks for this! Just chopped off 18” and looking for something to bring out the natural wave in my hair.

get into it! it seems to have good ingredients & also doesnt contain silicone

This is relevant to my hair interests, thanking u

i got you, hair hive