i love style needs to get their hair did

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!