i love style needs to get their hair did

Your hair is fantastic, LL!

thanks guys! i will try to snap a better photo today because this isn't really representative of how colorful my head is atm

Looks awesome!

Awww! I love it! Can't wait to see the full view.

I've had my hair in rollers all day gearing up for birthday dinner, wish me luck! Never tried to curl it at shoulder length, I figure if it's terrible it can at least become an updo!

also this IS hair related, sorta: I nair'd off the blonde mustache that my body has been cultivating and I feel great! I was getting pretty whiskery. Now the hairless skin around my mouth feels so weird though, hah!

What, during Movember? (I am not sure how I feel about Movember)

lovely lechera!

When I was going to the massage class that I met my husband at, one of our classmates dyed her hair with red wine--it came out a lovely reddish-purple color. Does anyone know anything about how to do this?

my version of dying my hair with red wine would be: drinking a glass of red wine while waiting for hair dye to process.

I'll go for that.

some kind of fixer would have to be involved, not sure what, e.g. when i'm dyeing fabric at work, 98% of the colour would wash out if i didn't also process it with soda ash (not recommended for your hair, though!)

There's other types of mordants that could be tried, although I'd personally draw the line at human urine.

As I told my husband, it's still NOvember.

So I have a little rash on one side of my former mustache :P Luckily(?) I've been sick for a week now (in the 'congestion only stage') so I can pass it off like the constant nose blowing/proximity of tissues to my mouth has created it. Lesson learned: don't be a cheap asshole, pay the damn $5 to get it waxed by a pro.

hi guys. just here to report my daily "i hate my hair." i hate my hair.

how do you feel about your hair today, horseshoe?

my hair is SO fucked up from over bleaching and children pulling chunks out everyday but i have discovered bumble and bumble 'brilliantine'. Such a hair saver. My hair looks better than it did pre-bleaching when i use this stuff. Soft too!. Shiny too! I didnt think it was possible. A few days ago I bought the thickening spray and surf hair but havent tried those yet

haha pretty good, strangely! maybe i can stop being so damn mopey on this thread.

yay for your hair revival! b&b products are the stuff ime. they fix everything.

my hair has become all kinds of better (much less dry) since i stopped putting it up in a towel after washing it - now i just press the water out with a towel as best i can and then put khiels silk groom in it and let it air dry for a bit and then blow dry. so much better. i read this is a magazine, the blotting rather than toweling method for curly/wavey thick hair. thanks, magazines!

I always think of Hello, Dolly when I use the b&b brilliantine.

The surf spray smells like the beach!!

Called to schedule trim today and my stylist no longer works at salon. Noooooooo. I love him. What do I doooooo?

find him on facebook?

Can't so far. I think he gave me a card with his number like a year and a half ago but it's going to take me forever to find it in the black hole that is my apt :(

Oh man this just happened to me but they told me the salon she'd moved to...

ime they will only tell you like 1 out of 10 times

i just tried on my new costume wig for the first time and it was magical

pix plz

Try Rene3 at Fringe in Georgetown. She is lovely and she is good, and it's not crazy expensive.

There's a difficult to see one on the WDYLL thread but here is another one that's a little easier to see

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7185/6858397475_29da6dd656_z.jpg

is she who does your hair? because i was thinking of asking for your stylist as your hair always looks lovely.
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I love that wig!!! I've never worn a wig ever but now I'm intrigued. Where did you get it?

You make a good blonde tbrr! Good contrast w eyebrows.

OH I need to dye my brows again today, thanks for reminding me.

Thanks! I've worn several different wigs (for fun, going out, dressing up, etc) and this is by far the prettiest one.
I got it at a wig store! International Beauty Supply, I think it was called, but it was just your garden variety wig store.

I work with a lot of ladies who wear wigs on the regular and I'm always a little envious. I would feel too self conscious to change my hair so drastically in my day to day life.

That wig looks good! You are a good blond.

Xp yes, she does my hair and I love her cuts but find it hard ti re-create the blowout. I really have to get into the habit of at least trying to dry it properly rather than going to sleep with wet hair, then ironing it in the morning

i didn't wash or brush my hair for the last week, and in that time i teased it up a bunch.

today i had to cut several large chunks out of it.

I got pretty good at getting bad knots out of hair when I was in home health--the trick is to unravel the knots with your fingers, and then cut off the tiny bit that can't be unravelled. You don't lose as much hair that way.

We sold a few things, so I was finally able to afford a box of hair dye! I got Natural Secrets Light Auburn. (I would have preferred a darker red or a chestnut, but it was the only brunette semipermanent that they had at the flea market booth.) It looks nice and not as streaky--I started applying the color from the underside of my hair, not from the top this time.

i spent a lot of time in the shower, using handful after handful of conditioner, slowly working out as many tangles as i could, but they were some of the worst i've ever had - one huuuuge clump in the back of my head. i think the main problem is i haven't trimmed my ends in months and months, so it's way more prone to tangling and way harder to detangle.

Key: comb from the bottom of the tangle

Justine, im sure it would work in the future but Beeps gets mad knots (we wash her hair once a week) and I find drenching her hair with spray detangler pretty much eliminates all knots before i even run a brush through it.

Pro-tip - the kid ones work ok, not great. they do smell great though! i think the adult one i have, and use on beeps, is either revlon or john frieda. works like a charm.

ugh i meant 'im NOT sure it would work in the future'

im pretty sure it might though!

So speaking of hair, I have started trying this "conditioner wash" fad all the kids are talking about and it's really working! Let me tell you about it.

I have wavy but not really curly hair, and it's about as long as it's been in like seven years. I only washed my hair ever other/every three days but , I noticed my hair was just really, really dry and awful after I washed it. I tried washing it less often, but my scalp would get too greasy and also flaky. I tried different shampoos and different conditioners to no avail. Then I noticed that my newly adopted "winter conditioner" (Bumble and Bumble Creme de Coco) was really weirdly sudsy so I tried "conditioner washing"... and it worked! My hair was clean, but not all frizzy crazy, and the wavy parts looked very soft and bouncy. You do have to use a little more conditioner for washing than for just conditioning, and Bumble and Bumble is expensive, so I tried this with my "summer conditioner" (Suave Coconut) and that works just as well.

Now I wash my hair once a week with regular shampoo, and then conditioner wash every other day/every third day, depending on what I have going on.

Note: I had tried this conditioner washing in the past and it was disastrous. I have no idea what is different this time, unless it's just my entire body desiccating with age.

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interesting! i have similar hair and have tried conditioner washing too and results were meh
but it's true though - our bodies change/desiccate (lol) with age!
my current hair cair routine is aveda brilliant shampoo + khiel's olive fruit conditioner + khiel's silk group on barely towel-dried hair every other day and it seems to work really well!

ARGGGHGH I had the Brilliant shampoo and it turned my hair to yea veritable straw but I forced myself to use the whole thing because it was pricey, when I should have given it to you!

aw! i buy it in the giant bottle with pump even! it's also one of the only shampoos that doesn't cause my scalp to break out - but obv to each her own, eh!

after a bad haircut a few weeks ago i am considering something drastic. it's not SO horrible but i just feel like going and getting a really great, detailed cut by someone really good. and i think to fix this cut you'd have to take off a bit of length so maybe i should just take off a lot? who knows. can't decide!

btw i have tried a few different bumble and bumble products in the last few months (Travel size bottles) and i think... i don't like any of them. somehow they make my hair feel less moisturized? or greasy. but nothing in between.

My hairdresser told me not to bother with Bumble & Bumble shampoos - she said their styling products are good but the shampoos etc aren't worth it at all. I tried John Freida conditioner for blondes as well and it made my hair look so dull. I am working through a massive bottle of Pantene which I'm sure isn't great but I get paralysed by choice when I decide to get expensive stuff.

I really liked John Frieda for redheads but I never see it anymore. I bought like ten bottles at the dollar store (for $10! A dream.) and used those for a year, but my supply ran out. ;_;

i got travel sizes of a few bumble styling products and i don't much care for them either!

T, I think a mid-length bob would suit you a lot. You don't have a ton of layers at the moment, right? - or those you have are pretty long?