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.
― tehresa, Monday, 28 July 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bell_labs, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
it's also pretty frizzy. but my hair is a disaster no matter what i use lately.
― bell_labs, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm, i don't think a shampoo can give you dandruff after 1 use. did you have any styling products?
― tehresa, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
do you guys use conditioner with this low poo dealie?
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― lauren, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― ENBB, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone tried taking supplements to grow their hair out faster? i have heard this actually works.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― quincie, Thursday, 7 August 2008 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ENBB, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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. xpost
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
^ 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, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
HAIR
― Laurel, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
CUT
TIME
guys tend to have weird hang-ups about long hair.
― lauren, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Mandee - it was a dude, yeah.
Lauren - yeah I know that's what I was thinking.
That's it - next weekend it gets chopped.
― ENBB, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh yes with the guys/long hair
― bell_labs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
they also are the number #1 offenders in curly hair hate crimes
― bell_labs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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, 7 August 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, bell - totally!
― lauren, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post. Really? Most of my male friends (not to mention my own RS) all have a preference for dark hair.
― ENBB, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
-- lauren, Thursday, August 7, 2008 3:20 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
yeah, this is what i meant
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
woah - I don't know why I called you Mandee! I saw the ho. . . and assumed it was homo . . . Sorry horseshoe!
― ENBB, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
lol it's okay i find it flattering to be taken for Mandee. your hair is v. pretty, btw, judging from the wdyll thread!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― lauren, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, even though you seem to worry about it lots on here, i think it always looks vv pretty!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost to bell
OMG I REMEMBER THAT GUY who wouldn't date girls with bangs. He was...kind of otm in that situation, though, as I recall.
― Laurel, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah he was. though i felt bad bc i have bangs!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh iirc rrrobyn and jbr were also present that evening!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― lauren, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
enbb wld look good in a haircut like that xpost
ooh i think that would look great on E!
yeah, that night, rrrobyn!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
that was a fun night :)
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"I saw the ho. . . and assumed it was homo" -- !!
― nabisco, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Laurel, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Newsflash: straight guys like girls, not too fussed about the particulars.
― Laurel, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
my little sis was also there - she made fun of me for le bangs. xpost
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 August 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link