i love style needs to get their hair did

laurel i love the first one!
i used to LOVE LOVE LOVE spray wax when i had shorter hair.
yay!!!

i love the first and the third. not crazy about the second at all. the first looks like a whole lot of styling invoved though? my vote is for the third. so cuet!

also on beauty product buying - smashbox is having a 25%-50% sale RIGHT NOW

i love this style of haircut, with the layered long thick whisps in front - do it, laurel!
i'm thinking about growing my hair long again. it needs some serious attention right now though, as any semblance of layers have grown out. i like the front longer like in these pics!

Okay! Plan is to make my appt for Sat and unveil the new hair-did in the evening. Door Number Three it is!

<3

:-)

loreal mousse sublime: has anyone used this?

i am feeling like i should dye my hair?

I wish my mother would stop nagging me to dye my hair. I like salt-and-pepper hair.

Is there a particular hair style that works well for wearing a helmet? Is there a helmet-hair-proof hairstyle (besides the Sinéad O'Connor)?

Straight styles with fine hair that lies really flatly on the head to begin with? Requires actually having straight, fine hair.

That is the type of hair I have. Well it has a bend to it at the bottom but overall it loves to be flat.

Well then what's the problem?

My hair looks groos & flat when I take the helmet off but I guess that is just an unavoidable thing.

I was kidding, sorry about that. Helmets just do that? Usually this is where people say "Wouldn't you rather HAVE a head attached to your body to have funny-looking hair on it?" but I wouldn't say that because I don't even wear a helmet for that reason.

I was going to say I have an unnatural attachment to my head, but no, my neck is pretty natural.
I can't decide if growing it out or leaving it short wld be better but that is an eternal question.

i have tried all lengths, and nothing cures the helmet head HOWEVER sometimes wearing a scarf between head and helmet helps to smooth things. we pretty much have the same hair, so i can say with confidence that this may help you.

i also commend you for wearing a helmet
helmet head is much more attractive than head trauma

otm.

i got my hair did today :) first time since early january. one of those cuts where there's all this hair on the floor afterward but the hair left on yr head doesn't look all the different. layers, baby, layers. diggin it.

i keep thinking "body wave" but i am so scared.

aka a perm??

my friend the hairdresser would prob suggest just sleeping in rollers whenever you want more waves/volume, but i also know that perms, i mean body waves, are still a thing that people get for sure

yeah it's just like, a larger barrel/looser curl. i always look retarded when i do rollers because i can't get things going in the right direction, etc. but whenever i take a lot of time with a curling iron i love how it looks. i dunno i mean i just love the idea of something like this:
http://static.becomegorgeous.com/img/articles/whats_a_body_wave_perm.jpg or http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Uploads/PressReleases2/Chemical-Body-Waves-83264_image.jpg
but i could never achieve these looks on my own.

do you have any natural wave in your hair already though?
i think those looks are totally achieved by rollers and curling irons and hair-dryer skillz! (and possibly a few choice hair extensions)
perms are better now than they used to be, of course, but are still kinda damaging, obv

Yeah I honestly just don't have the time/patience to do that look using rollers/irons on the reg. Requires tons of product and never lasts as long as I want. My hair is pretty straight. It waves a tiny bit now that it's long but not in any kind of useful way.

Since I stopped dying my hair a year ago I was thinking I could stand a chemical process and maybe curls would make up for lame/dull color?

*shrug*

The problem I always found with perms is that I still had to mess with rollers/curling iron/etc. The curls "took" better, but if I just let it dry naturally, my post-perm hair would be a bundle of frizz.

I'm going to try out that Loreal 10 minute mousse semiperm color stuff tomorrow, btw.

Oh def lemme know how it works out! My mom's here and her color looks great - she said it was a clairol mousse.

I'll do before and after photos if I remember! I got a medium golden brown shade.

I actually asked my hair stylist about body waves recently because I was thinking of growing mine out and getting one. She said that she really doesn't recommend them for people who want to wear their hair wavy and that the only time she really does them is for people who have really thin hair and need the volume but that they'll then blow it straight.

got my hair cut, realized there's a lot more grey in there than i thought! ugh. i'll have to start dying it within a year if this keeps up

hate that! there's this really wiry one that always calls attention to itself after i blow dry :(

I tried the mousse and it was more of light caramel texture. sucked ass.

that said, tza, i cant see how look number could be wrong in anyway. its perfect

yeah tza i think jaq and enbb otm about getting a body wave - you would still have spend almost as much time on your hair every day.

well, i am having the best hair days of my entire life - this has been going on for a few months now, after a lifetime of pretty much bad hair days 90% of the time. oh and i have cut down to only washing my hair 3 times a week. i didn't think i could ever do this but with my job it makes it easy (i'm not dealing w/ppl). plus, after a couple of weeks of only washing every second day, it started looking a little less greasy on the unwashed days. and the days when i do wash it, it looks better than normal.

Thanks sunny - I decided against this stuff after reading the directions. Supposed to be left on for 30 minutes, not 10 (read the description online where it said just 10 min). And you're supposed to keep the gloves on the whole time to keep "lathering" it up occasionally. I don't think so. Also remembered the last time I used a Loreal color product (Feria), it fried my hair. I'll stick with Hydrience.

xp My hair becomes unmanageable if I don't wash it every day.

I know about hair dyes for men that allow you to keep some of your grey, are there any for women?

why dont you just use the mens?

try a rinse

and yeah pretty sure anything packaged for men is the same save maybe a different fragrance

If you're thinking about something like Grecian Formula, keep in mind it's a lead acetate solution and only makes hair various shades of black in the long run.

Is Grecian Formula even sold anymore? It's not what I was thinking about anyway. My husband suggested that I get a red rinse, but I'm worried that I'll either look trashy or like mutton dressed up as lamb.

And salon work is 100% out of the question for money reasons.

I think you can get DIY lowlight kits? - would that work?

I pull out my wiry grey hairs, which is a terrible, terrible habit as it means I have little fluffy hairs constant growing out on top of my head.

I've never heard of those, but I'll look into it. Also, I'm close to 75% grey, so the plucking hairs method won't work for me.

Both Grecian Formula and the Just for Men Touch of Gray are both still sold, fwiw.

Grecian Formula with the original leaded formulation?

Mine's dyed so I only pluck out the little wiry ones that grow anew. I'd be 50% grey were it left to its own devices.

I'd be bald if I tried that, and I had trichotillomania as a child (which is probably why my hair's so thin) so I really don't want to risk a relapse.