i love style needs to get their hair did

so excited to see your hair, laurel! :D
in solidarity/because it has become necessary, i made a hair appointment for next wednesday! a cut and a "gloss" - it's with a hair stylist who is also a friend-acquaintance who has been wanting to do my hair for ages. it may end up a shade of red, just fyi.

Omg it's short!

Yay! Pics? I'm a huge fan of the bob. Cut my hair from waist-length when I was a teenager and never looked back (although I was a wuss at first and went to just above shoulder length which kind of looked terrible, but I didn't realise for years).

Omg laurel pics now plz!!!

I am really happy with my hair today. It feels nice. I don't know what I did differently, though! How can I repeat this?

yes, pics!

Dudes, here it is!

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

Better pic!

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

I was chewing carrot on the side, there. Not chaw.

LOVE!

can not get over how adorable this is

Very cute! Did u get it dyed too? It looks darker. I like it a lot. I am a big bob fan though, I knew I would.

No color but the blonde is gone!

I also love your necklace btw.

Haha it's from that hideous jewelry party. Only good thing in the entire catalog, imo.

That looks fantastic!

STYLISH

i love it!
mostly i love your face but the haircut is also v v v v cute

seriously, it is a great haircut! love love love

Looks great <3

Oh wow that is really pretty!

wowowow!

Laurel, I love your hair!

Thank you, everybody! I feel really lucky it came out so awesomely. Getting a "good" haircut used to be a rarity for me, it was so hit-or-miss, but I love this stylist and she always knows what I mean.

I know this sounds ridic but it makes you look like extra way younger. Not that you looked old in the first place.

Every once in a while I still get asked when I graduated from college like it wasn't that long ago? So my apparent age is way off already, apparently!

ha, i was gonna say - you look so young and hip and stylish! i mean, not that you didn't before, but you look ~~extra~~ hip/young/stylish

If i was hip or stylish before it was IN SPITE of my hair. Now it is because of it. :D

Okay, who's next for a chop? Rrrrrobyn??

Yeah my first thought was that you looked a lot younger too.

You look stunning, Laurel.

Very cuet, Laurel.

Exceeds the awesomeness I had anticipated! Marvelous!

Ty ty ty!!! It is still awesome this morning!

now that right there is a haircut

i just got a haircut today and i feel great

i should get a haircut every day!

omg I had a dream about laurel's hair last night

Getting a haircut that you like the best feeling ever. I am counting the days.

Short hair gets SO greasy. This is distressing.

I have to wash my hair more often when it's at that length, like every other day. I can get a third day out of it if I pull it back from my face.

I've been thinking about length vs. oil for awhile. When I first stopped daily shampooing, my hair was short and after the initial days of greasiness, I felt the need to shampoo once every week or so. That continued for as long as I kept getting it cut and trimmed. Once I let it grow out to where it is now (past collarbone by several inches), it's gradually changed to once a month or so. Is there an optimal length the sebaceous glands produce for? idk. Have also been thinking human carb cravings are plants' way of taking over the planet lately, so might just be turning into a crackpot.

jaq, do you use a boar bristle brush? i tried buying a cheap one but i'm not sure i like it. or do u use powder?

i've cut down to once a week, which gets greasy at the end, tho not unclean feeling like it used to be. my hair is pulled back anyway.

I got 2 different natural bristle brushes - one is way too soft and doesn't get through to my scalp, but the other one is stiffer. I detangle with a nylon ball-end bristle brush I think of as a blowdryer brush (though it isn't really - too small and not curved), then do the 100 strokes thing with the boar bristles once or twice a week.

When I was doing the initial no-poo experiments, I made up a bunch of different dry shampoo formulas: baking soda, cornmeal, cornstarch, ground oats, cocoa, cinnamon, all mixed in various proportions. I liked oats and cocoa the best with a little baking soda, but they all made my head itch so I don't use them any more.

Yeah, I think maybe your head just produces the same amount of oil but since the stands are shorter the oil gets deposit is more concentrated? idk. Also I feel like you can just pull unwashed hair back and you can't do that with short hair. I feel a little bit better hearing this from others - at least I know it's not just me!

Probably gross but with really short hair, I could go a long time without washing it because the oil was just kind of like texturizer or styling product. Longer hair - yeah, I just put it up in some configuration and nobody's the wiser. I'm telling you - chin length to mid-neck length is the hardest to leave dirty. For me, the ends would look really ragged and limp and stringy, too. This doesn't happen when it's longer, or if it does, I can fix it by just brushing it.

anyone tried Mason Pearson brushes? not sure i could ever drop $50-250 on a hairbrush.

Whoa. I couldn't spend that much money on a hairbrush without building it a little shrine in the bathroom.

i considered MP brushes, but yeah whoa with teh price. could not justify that expense, tho the reviews are glowing.

i bought this for $14 instead. orig got a cheaper one but it was too soft. (diane boar bristle brush at amazon)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CieMX67EL._AA300_.jpgamazon link

haven't used it much, mostly because i can't be bothered. i dunno. seems a good brush tho.

I got mine from Amazon too - this set of 2: link. I had got a spendier one from Ulta at one point, but it fell apart the first time I washed it. I've had this set for over a year.

I started using some argan oil every once in awhile - either stroke it onto my wet hair after detangling with a wide comb, or put a drop or two onto the brush bristles and go to town on dry hair. Seems to keep the frizz and static factors down.

i got my hair cut i got my hair cut! and 'glossed' darker! and...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6307540380_67cb845ae3.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6307016337_052e0bec7a.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6307015251_a3fb58acf4.jpg

rrobs you look beautiful and you look like a fucking boss. I love it.