i love style needs to get their hair did

Me too! I have a strong cowlick above my right temple so bangs have never been a good option; I need serious weight on those hairs to control them but less weight everywhere else, for lift. The bob is my natural territory, even if I have been visiting side-parted long hair for a few years.

you're lucky you have so much hair -- you could do anything with it. might as well bob for summer!

any tips on managing really fine hair? any recs on products?

John Frieda Frizz-Ease stuff.

my hair is opposite of fine so i have no good ideas. but depends on how you want it to look? i know many people with fine hair - some of them use 'beach hair' type products (incl salt in water in spray bottle) and some use anti-frizz and hair dryer.

i haven't had my hair cut in over 3 months. so ridic that a hairdresser friend of mine (not my best-friend hairdresser, who moved awaaaaay) emailed me asking, sweetly, when i'd like to book an appointment. lol, it's time.

Guys IMPORTANT DECISION: I always said if I lost a little weight I'd dye my hair a chestntty brown and now I have. WILL I HAVE REGRETS?????????

no! you look awesome as a brunette!

pros: not constantly trying to tame brassiness
kind of sick of blondes
hair extensions would look bitchin

cons: v v hard to go back if i change my mind after the fact
im older now and darker hair highlights everything wrong with yr skin and theres plenty of that

well i bought some dark brown hair dye but i dont think i can go through with it until im really angry about something.

Fuck you, bitch!

(Just trying to help. Did that do it?)

no. this is going to be like getting rid of the hiccups.

props for trying though SM

I guess I got angry enough <3

<3 <3 <3

my hair is sooo flat since i moved :(

i think i am growing out bangs.

OMG KISS BLONDE GOODBYE at least for now. Wow!

Still no budget for fancy haircuts, so I'm putting mine up in a cinnamon-roll bun every day. It looks fine, but I'm sick of it. And the more annoyed I get, the shorter it's going to be..........

My hair is finally approaching "normal" length again after my crop last summer. Am sorta tempted to let it keep growing and see what I'd look like with long hair since I haven't had it since . . . high school? I think it would be fun but I doubt I'll have the patience.

but Laurel does it SMELL like cinnamon because that would rule

You can't really smell the cinnamon over the sodium lauryl sulfate.

I am getting a haircut next week!

I don't have bangs any more for the first time since I was...six months old, maybe?

long-locked ladies, how do you prevent damage? i've never had hair this long so i never thought about it, but my hair is looking very sad at the ends now. don't want to cut, tho!

Hmm. I seem to be immune to split ends, but I do get breakage, prob from putting it up so much with pins and elastics. One tip is to put shampoo only on your scalp, not wash the long parts. Then flip upside-down, and start conditioning from the ends, they need it more. Work your way up the hairs but don't condition the roots. Then rinse in cooler water, still leaned over. Pin it up while you wash the rest of you, so you don't get soap on the hair and don't rinse out all the conditioner.

I don't know anything about after-shower products, I don't normally use them. Probably should learn about smoothing serums or whatever.

i think the big issue is blow-drying/styling, but i can't not style, because my hair looks HORRIBLE w/out a blow dryer. and if i use shampoo/conditioner that's too moisturizing, i start feeling like my hair is too greasy/flat. sigh.

Ohh, I haven't blow-dried regularly in many many years. About to cut most of hair off, though -- would have gone today but F discouraged me from trying his (cheap) barber -- I would have risked it for a $25 bob versus the $85 it will be elsewhere. Then I will also have styling woes.

This haircut is very disappointing.

I even brought a picture of myself! Next time I am asking for more layers and no blow drying straight.

Aw. Is it something you can work with? Mine usually gets cut ok but then they spend ages sleeking it down when I just go home and spend ages sticking it out.

I washed it this morning & then styled it the way I usually do, and it's much better. I still think I want it a little more layered though.

Getting mine cut tomorrow. After having really short hair for the better portion of the last year, I'm sort of digging the length atm. I normally go for my old standby which is an angled bob but am considering growing it a little for the first time since HS. What do you guys think of the pics below? I like both but think I like the one with long bangs best. Any other ideas?

http://makeupforlife.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/heidi-klum-short-hair.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IebItt7suOE/TCdZjcu7YAI/AAAAAAAAAIU/T2YNQXjtD40/s1600/heidi_klum_short_bob.jpg

i like the hair in the 2nd pic much better.

I like the first one! But I loved your hair super short, e!

Btw I finally found a tube of schwarzkopf bonacure sealed ends styling stuff and omg my hair is like 100x happier now :)

Ah! 1-1.

I guess at this point the question is whether to cut bangs like in the first pic or not because I still have a way to go length wise before anything else becomes an issue. I liked my hair short too T but I'm just more comfortable with it a little longer and the upkeep for really short hair is sort of a pain.

i like the first one better because it's a little more...stylish? the second one looks like standard working ladycut. it's not bad, nothing wrong with standard professional ladycut, it's just not as interesting.

really though they're not that different.

i need a haircut too and i'm wondering if i should get plugs or a wig or extensions or something because (sob) thinning.

Yeah, that's why I like the first one better too. It just has something that's a little more unique about it.

I think I'm just going to bring that pic - 1st one to the place and ask the stylist what she thinks. This is in my hometown and I've known her for years and really trust her opinion. If she doesn't think it'll look good, maybe she can suggest something else at least a little interesting.

A, I don't really know much about thinning hair. :/ Don't they make stuff for that though? I think there is medicine you can take specifically for thinning hair in women.

please tell me the name of this medicine. do not want to use the verb "to bald" in relation to myself.

I have a friend who just recently got hair extensions because her hair is thinning out. Another friend of mine has alopecia and she just started wearing wigs a few weeks ago. Both girls look really great and only people who know them well can recognize they did anything.

pls tell me more about these extensions!

I'll ask my friend and get back to you! All I know is she got them and they look fab.

So I finally got my hair did. No photos yet cos my blow-drying SUX compared to the salon's. Have determined I need a new blow-dryer with nozzle thingy, and a cooler setting than the one I have now (which is probably 5-8 years old). So I'm taking recommendations, gratefully, for your favorite model!

The salon blow-out was glass-smooth and had no kinks or bends, just a gradual bow all the way to the tips. She used Paul Mitchell's "Super Skinny," which I will try as soon as I have 15 disposable dollars, and a flat paddle brush, which I have, and a nozzle thing on the dryer (see above) which I think funnels the air down to a faster moving column all going in one direction. Is anyone here a blow-drying genius who can elaborate???

why does there have to be so much blow drying? i thought your hair was pretty straight?

I used to understand the whole round-brush-shaping-hair thing but styles have changed to something much straighter and less bouncy than when I last had a short haircut, plus my hair is different now too. HEELLLLP

xp because if it dries naturally I can't sit still like a buddha for the whole time it takes so it gets kinks in it from me absent-mindedly putting it behind one ear or something. And the ends don't all flip the same way.

huh i don't really have any advice for you, unfortunately.

i guess i have become an absolute sloth when it comes to my hair. it has been 8 mo since i cut it, it's long and stringy and i wear it up every day. someday i will get a haircut, but right now this is working for me. also don't want bangs til sweaty weather is over. i just don't care what it looks like because it always looks like crap. it's kinda sad, really.

Hey, I hadn't had it cut in 18 months and I haven't dried it in...maybe 2x in the last year. Or something. But I want to be PROFESSIONAL and SLEEK now. Secretly I liked having hair long enough to pile up on top of the head, but it was a casual look and born of laziness mostly. Never really went with my style in other areas.

i have to blowdry mine every day, too, but i'm TERRIBLE at it - and i never bother using a brush. i think the key to perfect blowdrying is basically being willing to spend 30mins max doing it, which i just don't want to do.

i really need a new dryer too - i bought a fantastic remington one just a few months before i left NZ but i couldn't bring it with me. i asked my husband to buy me a replacement for when i got here and he got me this crappy revlon one, which has a 'cool' setting that is really just 'low'.

All the instructions point to not even STARTING to blow-dry until the hair is 70-80% dry already. Which is ridic, I do not have time in the mornings to sit around drinking tea and smoking cigarettes while my hair air-dries.

But the Super Skinny product is a silicone one that apparently drives water out of the hair faster, which I'm all for. Also thinking of going with this blow-dryer for being fast even at medium heat, and quieter than the competition.

yeah, i would basically rather deal with kind of shit hair than miss out on an hour of sleeping in every morning.

Laurel, I have the T3 Evolution which is what some salons use and also that haircutting reality show i cant remember the name of now. It was $99 but worth it because of two critical reasons: 1. the heat is constant. A lot of hair dryers have heat bursts that you don't notice but they end up frying your hair. 2. It used to take me 20 minutes to dry my hair (thick!) but now its closer to 7 min and thats from straight out of the shower wet. I think the slower the drying the more the humidity you're creating by turning the water into steam ergo more frizz? Thats my theory anyway. Anyway, Im not sure why its faster because it doesn't seem hotter than any other hairdryer I've used. Maybe its the consistency of the heat.
Only downside is if you turn it off halfway through it sometimes doesn't turn on again until it cools down a little. I guess thats a safety feature but its annoying. FWIW it has never stopped while its been on.

Laurel was it the Super Skinny serum that she used on you? I was surprised to find there was a whole line of SS stuff - shampoo, conditioner, spray etc. I ended up buying the smallest size of the serum to try it out and like it so much I think I'm going to get the big one. It's great!