i love style needs to get their hair did

Yup, mine too. Ponytails and buns look so pathetic on me that I only put my hair up if I am pinning it in a lazy retroish updo. Which works for me, so no big loss.. but it'd be nice to have other options.

There are good youtube tutorials about how to get it poofier. You can use a hair donut thing and wrap your hair around that. This one is good for shorter hair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTnhfU1ruus

And I think this one will work with slightly short hair, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKNTJ-ZBcn4&feature=related

If I don't care that much what it looks like, meaning I'm not going to fuck with bobby pins or accessories, I put my hair in a high pony, then split it into two sections. I wrap each section around the hair band and then tuck the end under the bad. That makes it a little bigger, plus pieces kind of sproing off all around it to make it look poofier.

under the BAND

yeah those people both have way more hair than i do

i am trying to embrace "my hair is not thick or luxurious, deal with it" instead of pretending that it is ever going to look better
this is just the way it is

I had to put my hair up for work for 10 years, and I'd love it if I never had to do so ever again. But it's so hot here, and my air conditioner doesn't work well. (I do take it down whenever I leave the house.)

I've talked about this before, but my hair is so thin that brushes scrape my scalp painfully whenever I use them.

I keep meaning to try the tube sock trick, but I am with LL - just not enough hair (and what I have is thin.) When I make a fake ponytail the diameter is maybe an inch and a half tops. Really I should stick to funky short hair styles but I am stubborn!

The woman with the bleach blond hair doesn't have much hair. It's just textured from all the bleaching so she can make it do things. I think embracing the way things are is wise and definitely the way to go BUT if you ever want to fake thicker hair, I recommend 1) not washing it for a day (I wash my bangs when I do this so they don't get all greasy), 2) hairspray, and 3) back combing. Then you can bun it up poofily if that is your inclination.

Back comb it after you put it in the pony tail, I mean.

I don't have particularly thick hair at all, but it's wavy and it gets bigger when it's humid and if I don't wash it for a day or two I can make it look much bigger than it is.

I do these! #4 is a bit much for some people but my hairdresser told me to save my pulled-out hair from my brushes and make hair rats. Now I can get some serious volume in my updos!

Hair rats from pulled out hair is v. Victorian of you.

You're from 3012, I'm from 1812.. :)

Ha!

Did a GIS to see what commercial hair rats look like and happened upon this cute page. I want a 'hair receiver'! I store mine in a little metal index card box from the 60s or 70s that I had laying around.. nowhere near as adorable!
http://www.quaintrellelife.com/hair_rats.html

I also found this. http://cl.jroo.me/z3/0/2/m/d/a.aaa-Best-Hair-Design-with-Rat.jpg :(

MOUSSE.

I have a lot of hair but it's very fine and stick straight and can lay very flat if I use too much conditioner or if it's very humid out. Mousse is a miracle product for thickening up hair and giving it volume. I used a bit much today and too voluminous for my liking but seriously, mousse is the best imo.

if you have a lot of hair, we do not have the same problem, sadly

Look at your cute little emoticon! She has a flower in her hair!!! AHHH!!

I should try more mousse. One day I want a true beehive!

She totally has a flower in her hair.

Do it. Then make an orange beehive. Take fotos.

I heard you can accomplish a beehive by pinning a bath poof thing as close as possible to the scalp and then wrapping the hair around! WE WILL SEE.

My grandmother had a hair receiver, and it had hair in it up until her death.

Dunno if you've seen some of the Victorian-era pictures of actual taxidermied rat and cat heads woven into hairstyles. Worn with dog collars*, toy car engines worn as pendents*, and pierced nipples with chains connecting them*, no doubt.

*All of which were fashionable in the 1890s. No, really.

Eeep! I have seen none of this.

I've seen photographs of the pierced nipples, the rat and cat heads was a drawing from a 19th century fashion magazine, and the rest come from references in print.

A student at my school – not one of mine but a friend of a former student who likes to hang out in my room – asked me today what color I dye my hair because she wants to do hers the same color. Part of me thought, aww. And part of me thought ––– people can tell I color my hair? Well, hello, why was I pretending anything there.

I'm kind of figuring that everyone knows that a 41 year old woman with no grey hair probably colors her hair, and not pretending otherwise. (And I change colors every time I dye, anyway.)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RrCkwTzq4PI/TPZFr3_-KOI/AAAAAAAAADE/_jdJ7_YX93Y/s1600/Clairol+3.jpg

That's the orange I wanted! Mine turned out red with a slight orange tint. :*(

when i used to dye my hair bright orangey-red, strangers would stop me and ask if it was my natural colour... i always wanted to say 'are you for real??', i mean, it was CLEARLY not my natural colour, it was very UNNATURAL-looking and i was also lazy about keeping up the maintenance so i had terrible roots.

Hahaha! People are weird. I've been asked many times if my crayola red hair was for real, and I'm pretty sure a few of those times weren't in jest. :P

when i was 20 my friend and i both dyed our naturally red hair unnatural shades of red so people would think we were redheads by choice. after that i decided i liked having red hair after all so then mine perversely went brown but he still didn't like it so his stayed red.

i didn't know you used to be a redhead!?!?!

half of my family has got red hair but i didn't get freckles and this produced resentment in the ranks of the redheads when we should all have been sticking together.

My mother-in-law had naturally red hair, but she kept it dyed brown--even in the early 20th century, when most respectable women didn't dye their hair--because she was born in the North Carolina backcountry and they still considered red hair to be a sign of witchcraft.

My natural colour is a weirdly strawberry blonde, it's so yellowy it doesn't really look like it suits my natural colouring. I like getting cooler shades of highlights to dampen it down a bit.

Tonight I managed the poofy bun from the second YouTube video I posted. It was pretty easy! Also the first time I ever back combed my hair, which was scary but ultimately nbd and very effective. Anyway, if you have shoulder length hair, I think this poofy bun is within your reach.

I achieved a long-term personal goal today and put my hair in a French twist! Turns out the secret is to put it in a ponytail first, then pull the ponytail really loose and then roll it up and pin it, like so: http://whatiwore2day.blogspot.com/2008/06/lazy-girls-updo.html

I don't have any hair sticks (but you are darn tootin' I will) so I just used hairpins.

If it's not obvious, I'm having fun with long hair. I haven't even had the urge to cut it all off despite the endless stretch of 90+ degree days.

Fun! I do variations of that look a lot but secure everything and hide the ends with bobby pins. I'm a BP fanatic.

I like this girl's blog! Occasionally batshit outfits but I like the stuff she describes as casual/conservative. ;)

i totally need the sunglasses she's wearing in june 30 blogpost

Yes you do.

Maybe it's just because she's a petite, spunky redhead with her own sense of style, but she reminds me of ILX's own La Lechera. Although I think LL's style is more creative/less trend-focused.

haha! i am way more of a dirtbag than that lovely lady but i clean up alright.

Jeff and I were watching House Hunters no Saturday (yes, it is fake, still fun to judge people by their incomprehensible home requirements (why do you need three bedrooms and a yard when you live alone and have no pets?)) and there was a spunky little redhead buying a condo in Boulder, CO and about halfway through the episode I turned to Jeff and said, "It's Am@nda! She really reminds me of Amanda!" and Jeff was like yeah, duh, I figured that out thirty seconds in.

I got some F3kkai summer hair stuff & sprayed some frizz control on my hair and it smells sooo good, yay. Will comment on how it works when I try it from damp hair..

New cut, on Thurs, time for a new style. Top contenders are:

#1 http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/mic_styling_short_hair.jpg

#2 http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/short_hair_style_web_collection.jpg

#3 http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/lisa_shepherd_hair_style_medium.jpg

But I also want to be able to do THIS:

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

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

I think you can, as long as you keep the bangs long! (& buy strong gel/spray.)
All are so cute, not sure I could choose! Middle is my least favourite because the volume isn't there.

Hm. Agree with that, I think. Favoritest is the last one.

My inspiration has actually been this lady:

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

i like #1 the best! and the second photo in the second set you posted

I was going to warn against cuts like that in summer because the bangs on the forehead are so hot and then they get sticky and look gross. I had a variation on this a couple summers ago and while I liked it overall it was a giant pain in the ass. If you like your hair totally off your face though and are willing to do the bangs up thing when it's really hot out you should be OK.

I totally love #2 but I may be being swayed by the colour.

It is also p p close to the whole public school boy cut I love.