i love style needs to get their hair did

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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.

Shirts are insane. Menswear is a deadly, deadly trap which I will never meander too close to if I can help it.

that's fair, elmo. or unfair. you know what I mean.

anyway, i just came here to say that i'm breaking up with my long hair. it's been a good run but lately i've been feeling... smothered. i've decided that we need to see less of each other.

I think the future of really REALLY long hair and up-dos is in braids, Mandee! Because braids shorten the overall length, so you get a thick braid that's not as long as the loose hair, and you need REALLY LONG hair to get long enough braids to wrap around your head or w/e. Can you french or fishtail braid?

homosexual: could you possibly braid (?) the inner bulk of your hair, pin that down, then use the wisps from the edges to smooth over and make it bee-hivey? (I have NO experience with hair longer than my shoulders)

Oh, don't bother with braids for that, it's all teasing under there. You'd just use less hair for the padded part and more hair for the comb-over, but the problem is that you still have to think of something to do with the ends. Which is where the one ringlet over the shoulder comes in, I think?

http://myhairworld.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Wedding-Braided-Updo-Hairstyles-Fashion.jpg

Mandee didn't I just "like" a pic of you with braids piled atop your head on FB the other day?

I wish my hair was long enough to braid or otherwise put up. I've considered growing it just so that I could do so but I just can't do it.

I've gotten better at putting mine up because in the long run it's SO MUCH EASIER than leaving it down. Leaving it down requires more frequent washing, and some kind of style, which I do not have, and more haircuts, which I do not get because I'm disorganized and also cheap. Up-dos can hide a multitude of grooming sins. Also, weapons.

http://www.weddinghairdotoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/long-hair-updo.jpg

laurel you look awesome!! wows

this up-do hair stuff still intimidates me more than calculus, i kid you not
but both take practice

and i'm not sure which is more useful to me at this point in my life...

What has calculus ever done for you? Srsly.

An updo for short(er) hair!!

http://www.hairstylesguru.com/images/curly-prom-updo-in-blonde-hair.jpg

This entire site should be cross-referenced with that "hair styles for Mormons" thread, wherever it went.

http://www.dreamweaverbraiding.com/index.htm

that looks like hair calculus to me
but possible!
xp

some of those braids look like fish-like mammals!

I learned those funny braids at summer (church) camp one year, but they were called "fishtail braids" so you are otm!

Laurel!!! you look amazing!!! !!!!!!

I like this hairstyle, too! It looks really intricate from the back.

I'm on a hunt for long hair updos for Mandee, in case you were wondering.

xp Thanx, hs!

oh god what if you all braid yourselves up into becoming ILX sister-wives

lets make this happen

Only if you marry us all.

I'm just not very good at doing hair, including braids. I need an easy style :(

I also have the kind of hair that never seems to be teased/back-combed properly

I thought that about mine too? But when I let it get kinda dirty, like day 2 or 3 after wash, and add in hairspray...amazingly, it does tease.

has someone posted this site for long hair styles? http://rapunzelsresource.wordpress.com/

(laurel, you have amazing hairstyling skillz, and you look great)

You have to recite the bible verses after you finish the hairstyles so the Lord helps keep your hair in place and bouncy, but never stiff or sticky.

That rapunzel page is GREAT! The thing about all those long-hair old-fashioned styles, though, is that they mostly all start with pulling your hair straight back from your face into something, and I don't like the way my face looks when I do that. One hallmark of professional-level updos, I find, is securing bits that show from the front at some place HIGHER than the back, so that they add height or volume or some shape to the top and sides of head. It's tricky, but I think the difference is worth it.

Probably not such a thing if you have bangs or layered bits in front, those would soften things up automatically.

Laurel. I know everyone has already said it, but wow.

The Rapunzel site is actually great! Those are perfect for my long-ass Mormon hair. I just did one of her Edwardian buns or whatever today, and it worked great!

this is... genius!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYxS1ohz4Ao&feature=player_embedded#at=440

I have to tell you, I watched that from my hotel bed at 2am and was astounded.

I'll be damned.

think i might by a stretchy headband today and try it out!

buy, even!

hair is up in this thing right now. will report back if successful!*

*should be noted that - like everything i do - i kind of half-assed it, so it may be disappointing.

That is freaking awesome!

I'm going to give it a try, too, assuming my headband like that is not too tight and I can roll it up and get away with wearing it out in public.

OK so on curling and updos - I sorta tried both and it didn't really end up as planned. What I did get was a kinda messy wavy half up thing that I sorta think looks OK? I'm basically just dying to find something that can keep my heavy-ass hair out of my face on hot summer days. I think maybe I could work this?

http://i51.tinypic.com/wujs7b.jpghttp://i53.tinypic.com/1hf76f.jpg