i love style needs to get their hair did

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)

So glad! Feeling good about hair-dos is totally within everyone's grasp. Also helpful is the fact that modern people expect very very little in terms of competency with pinning/curling/styling hair, so even small efforts impress. Lucky for us.

haha totally. It's like 'oh you look nice' simply bc hair is up (not ponytail). Part of my issue was not owning the force of bobby pins, like I just didnt get all that they could do. figuring it out.

My summer hair in general has been pretty good this year! Due to good shampoo and conditionr and blow drying properly (no product. Every hair product i try makes me break out! so eff it)

What shampoo/conditioner are you using?

I will plug my favorite shampoo ever: solid shampoo from some Internet hippies called Chagrin Valley… Soap? I just search those terms and there it is. My fave summer conditioner is that $2 Suave coconut conditioner. I was buying something at Lush the other day and the clerk asked me about my conditioner preferences and she gave me such a side eye. Judgey!!!!

I am w/ Virginia Plain. Wash, comb, go. Of course I do that in the winter, too. I don't even own a hair dryer.

I'm not sure of I can pull off the style in that tute. My hair is shoulder length but in layers so it's not really that long. I'm going to give it a shot, however.

I use aveda brilliant shampoo and conditioner but also use khiels olive fruit conditioner. My hair is thick and can be kind of dry and frizzy if I use any ol stuff (and my scalp and skin in general is super sensitive, so sodium laurel sulphate and etc causes breakouts + dryness.)

Going to try more pincurls today! :)

Oh and when I learned how to properly use a pro hairdryer with one of those spiky metal brushes a few years ago, it totally changed my hair life. like I bring my hairdryer with me when I travel.

Wearing bouffant again today. People looking at me funny in stores! Must be the 4 inches of teasing.

Above and beyond! Awesome :)

As someone who is already chronically late, I can tell you that this hair stuff ain't helping
lol...

^^ me with updos and my rising interest in makeup, too. "but I ALREADY take forever to get ready.."

You just have to get good at it! Practice on boring Friday nights. ;)

Okay, I tried this again (boring Sunday night) and I definitely don't have long enough hair to do what the nice blond lady in the video did, and I definitely need more practice to turn this from a thing I sleep on to make my hair curly to a thing I can do to my hair in public. Also, standing there sweating in my bathroom and trying to pin curl my hair kind of made the shower I took pointless. Ha. I see some potential, however.

Just bought hair straighteners for the first time (although they won't arrive for a bit)! I use a Braun cordless curling tong thing usually but about half the time they don't get hot enough to sort out my hair. Just gonna use it for straightnin out bits that curl out/in wrongly.

keratin express treatments?

this sounds v intersting to me. i want smooth hair. i think mostly because i've lost patience for blow outs but i'm tired of my hair looking half done all the time.

My bouffants are getting better. Here's today's.

(Off topic, but I really want to make excuses/ask forgiveness for my figure or weight or something else in these photos, but I'm going to NOT, because that's personally undermining and bad for me.)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Headshot1.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Headshot3.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Headshot4.jpg

your HAIR is AMAZING

jesus christ

You don't need to ask forgiveness for anything. You look great. I love that dress a lot and the hair is so fun.

I saw the movie Another World and all I saw through the whole movie was the actress's hair. It's so beautiful that it's all I could see. Your hair is like that too.

Aw shucks! Okay but seriously, this was my 3rd or 4th day doing the style, and it turned out particularly well, but I just used the directions from that youtube thing and went for it. It did take 1 hair elastic and 3 difft sizes of pins: giant 3" hairpins, little bendy hairpins, and bobby pins. And a fine-toothed comb and hairspray. That's it!

You also have a beautiful head of hair to work with! No amount of specially chosen bobby pins would give me that look, for reals.

I don't think I ever would have figured out how to put my hair up if I hadn't discovered these

http://c4.soap.com/images/products/p/ago/ago-051_1z.jpg

GO GO GIANT HAIRPINS INDEED. Sorry. That's several times life-sized, fyi.

Laurel, don't take this the wrong way but I am pretty much going to attempt to become you right about... now. Love the hair, dress, figure, face!

Laurel! Your hair looks amazing! And damn right don't apologize because you have nothing to apologize for. You are seriously the flyest woman on earth.

It's obnoxious to tell you this, but I'm having self-criticizing issues right now so I'm going to say it: I also made the dress! Not recently but for a wedding many years ago.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG. That's obnoxious, but totally warranted. You are a marvel. A vision!

Do you get dressed up like that for work? I am such a slob.

Not every day, but I feel better if I get dressed up! I mean I like casual too, but my preference would be, like, pajamas-level casual. Or holey jeans and band Tshirts. And my boss criticizes if I stray too far one way or the other.

Ah! Amazing! I saw someone with those twirly bits at this posh party I went to and was desperate to do them myself but my hair is way too short.
BUT I have recently had p much the best haircut I've ever had. I can't stop touching it! I <3 my hairdresser so much. This is from someone who avoided hairdressers for years because they always got it WRONG.

ooooh, I wish I could make dresses. Why can't I make dresses?!

Nice work on the dress!!!

Kinder, congrats on finding a good stylist. Hold him/her tight and never let him/her go.

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ME TOO.

You can make dresses! Sewing basics are pretty easy. Making a fitted dress like Laurel's is more advanced but it's totally attainable. Check local community colleges for sewing lessons! /community college plug :)

Everyone can make dresses! This one doesn't even fit particularly WELL, but it's held up for years and I wear it anyway.

girl PLEASE

stfu

People keep telling me that after the wedding I am going to be oh sooo booreed.. perhaps a sewing class is the thing for me! Hmmm!

oh man, ladies have it so easy in the homemade clothes dept, relative to the mens

yeah but all the ladies clothes in stores are for sizes.. 0-4. approximately. we need to be able to sew :(

shirts are so complicated!

Lech: Deadpan haha no really. The back gaps because I'm narrow-shouldered and I didn't take in the center enough, the front gaps because the shoulders are sized for someone taller than I am, the waist is being cinched by my giant belt, and I made the hem too short so it's kinda above the knee where a 4-yr-old's dress would be. See! All those things wrong with it and it still looks okay! You, too, can make a badly fitted dress thing with a non-hidden zipper!!

Argh, I really want some cool up-do ideas but I fail at them. Anyone got any ideas? My hair is REALLY long (all the way to the bottom of my back), and it's heavy. I also have bangs. I have tried to follow tutorials but they all seem to have hair about just below shoulder length, and then when I attempt it mine is just too long to execute in the same fashion.