i love style needs to get their hair did

Awwwwww I was either out watching the derby or sound asleep!! But that pic looks lovely, and I'm sure it came out very, very nice. Weird that a set of rollers only held 1/3 of your hair, though?? I do my whole head with a set but they are fat ones.

so I dyed my hair grey and I like it a lot but in certain lighting I think perhaps this would have worked better when I was a dewy 20something.

I solved my looking-for-a-new-hairstyle worries by simply parting my hair on the side instead of the middle. Looks much better now!

yes! When I was about 10 I read something about center parts being bad for almost everyone because it draws attention to the nose and any asymmetry; this has been like an unbendable truth in my life and I have parted on the side since!

I have been growing my hair out for my wedding so that I have the length to get a good updo going on. I told my stylist I want something like this. (!!!)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/195899_10150123922823578_516053577_6598396_4100597_n.jpg

but let me tell you! I have so many split ends and whatnot because it hasn't been trimmed or anything in months and I am READY TO CHOP THIS SHIT OFF!!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/222523_10150178844683578_516053577_6965624_6956818_n.jpg

this is from a few months ago but the bottom two inches or so are split end city, ugh

I thought you were supposed to trim regularly when you grow your hair out to make it grow faster. Was that just lady's magazine hogwash?

Also - how about extensions for the wedding? Or a fall? Then you can rock that marvelous updo without fretting about the split ends.

Also - side parts are a great way to change up a hairstyle. And cheap!

I need a trim. And another box of Touch of Grey. And a new life. Another brain would help, too.

eh, I'm getting married in August so I'm good to hold on a little longer for this length! my stylist HAS snipped a few ends from time to time over the last year but not much. She didn't push trims as a way to grow my hair, so..? But I have heard that, you're right!

imo the best thing to do if you're trying to grow it out is invest in some sharp hair-trimming scissors and some coconut oil: once a week, while you're watching tv or something, go through your ends section by section and snip off any split ends, massage some coconut oil in.

shit I shoulda mentioned this months ago! :) do you massage the coconut oil into the scalp or on the ends? I guess scalp. But I am le dumb.

I made it from here in august 2009
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/5816_124665698577_516053577_2401591_732040_n.jpg

to this in june 2011!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253780_10150231501383578_516053577_7427381_90092_n.jpg

nononono NOT the scalp! just the ends. it'll stop them from getting all dry and damaged. once they're fucked, they only thing you can do is cut them off - there's no way to un-fuck them.

aw my hair used to look kinda like that
makes me miss it :(

ahh cool! yeah I pretty much just temporarily fix it every day with lots of leave-in conditioner, sigh. I think sometime in September I'll chop off all the ends but try and keep it longish, I like the versatility - I wear a lot of updos!

Lechie: never too late! :D

There is no possible way that cutting your hair makes it grow any faster or slower. Look into your diet and into pre-natal vitamins or whatever if you want to speed it up. The "frequent trims" thing is total magazine beauty-industry claptrap.

Hamburgers & cigarettes worked for me! groan

Do prenatal vitamins really make your hair grow faster and if so, why? (I've heard that, too, but always assumed it was vitamin industry folderol.)

I don't know, but my mom says her hair and nails were never as happy as when she was taking them.

I just chopped off several inches! Well, a nice korean lady did it for me. My sister is now getting an adorable bob + bangs. I am a little sad about my loss of length but I think thge new shape + lack of fried ends was probably worth it.

Also kind of in love with the korean mtv live concert on the tv in here.

my hair has been growing wild lately so i finally got it cut and i hate it. i haven't had a good haircut in years, guys. bitter.

nb: it's possible my haircuts have been fine and i'm expressing dissatisfaction with life in general by hating my hair

I went a couple of years without a good haircut when I lived in Greensboro. It was endlessly frustrating. Every stylist I went to gave me that asinine flipped out bob that was all the rage in the early aughts.

xp haha that well could have been the case for me, too. I've had almost uniformly great hair cuts since I moved to Chicago.

I KNOW MY LAST GOOD HAIRCUT WAS IN CHICAGO

rip my hair

hs, clearly the solution is for you to move...to New York.

So maybe you should move back to Chicago…

xp damn!

i am ready to do that right now. eff this town and its hairdressers who are obsessed with very severe layers.

xp lol

lol

If there is a fight over you, Jenny will win. She's tougher than I am.

I am strangely flattered that you would say that, although I find it hard to believe (I am a total cream puff, really).

my hair def feels healthier than before cut a few weeks ago but I miss the length a lot :(

I put my hair in pin curls last night on the most random of whims and it is a fluffy sight today. I kind of want to keep experimenting with this. If I can get it right, I think it will be fun.

oh god the heat

someone stop me before i reach for the clippers

don't do it, we love your hair!

^^^^

elmo don't you dare!

clip it clip it clip it clip it

Jenny, I do like pin curls! There are even ways of putting them up that look like hair-dos in and off themselves, and then also look good the next day when it's curly. That's two days' worth of good hair with very little fuss, ime.

Hmmm... I will investigate this. I would like a new way to get my hair off my neck and out of my face.

My way is loosely based on having my hair professionally "put up" once and sort of ham-fistedly stealing the tricks as far as I can manage. Will try to find a video that approximates it? Basically it's just pulling hair back in sections and rolling it into loops around my fingers and then pinning them down w bobby pins. The shape comes from always pushing "forward and up", as my stylist said, so you get more volume at the top.

Think of each successive curl as being "nestled" along-side previous ones? A cheesy word but conveys that they should be just slightly overlapping each other and kind of tightly pushing together to make one complicated-looking interwoven area.

this hair geometry baffles me

but i am growing my hair long again, so i need to learn it this time

Okay this woman. All beauty tutorials are annoying somehow? But bear with this one. I always like this woman's hair-dos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c0GTNjd9ls

I do what she does, except I pin aside my "bangs" area and save it for last so I can make it swoop on top of the other bits and finish the look from the front. Also I continue pinning curls in the back where she just makes a bun, but either way.

"easy" summer look
it is hard! i had to stop halfway through bc my arms were tired and my brain was frustrated! i have no patience for hair, perhaps...
i think i'm just tired. (i know bc i heard myself think "aagh i am never going to have pretty hair and i am never going to have a boyfriend!", to which i laughed, tiredly)
but i finished and i look ridic but at least i tried! and it's curling my hair up at least

i heard myself think "aagh i am never going to have pretty hair and i am never going to have a boyfriend!", to which i laughed, tiredly

You beautiful genius. This is SO a thing that happens.

Um tips...you have to pull the strand of hair in the direction that you want it to sit on the head? Cos you want the hairs to be pulled kind of tight and not...puff out when you get up to the scalp. So if you're going to pin the curl at the back/crown of your head, you pull it that way before you start rolling, so the hairs are under equal tension.

Other tips: I like the way this looks better if I do it dry, but it might be easier to learn the ropes when hair is wet?

Next time yr here, we will Do Hair.

Ha, you guys ... Laurel, you are like a hair scientist and Robin, your hair looked just fine the one time I was privileged enough to meet you.

My summer hair style involves showering plus air drying. If anyone expects any more from me they can just fuck right off. Oh, sometimes pins and/or elastics are added.

I'm sorry for how annoying these girls are, but here's a poor woman's mid-century up-do, which I just tried with mixed results but think I could get used to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UREq5uKkbhE

Bouffant, I guess.

Ok so I tried again in a modified way (level: extra easy) and it worked :) basically just did two pincurls and pinned the back up with a comb (back is pretty short) - looks very loose and pretty, esp after initial curls taking hold. Thank you, L! and thank you vp for niceness :)

My hair and I are now at a show and i am drinking a beer (hair is not drinking tonight)