i love style needs to get their hair did

thanks for the advice guys. i am going to watch some youtubes too and feel like lena dunham

maybe jon glaser can come over and cut yr hair

if only

my bangs now look like the new york city skyline upside down

i have the shittiest thinnest hair in the world and also the biggest forehead in the world that needs to be covered by it

i guess it looks okay tho

Post a pica and let us judge you.

PIC

eat some dirt and then let us take a picture of you

(or ice or chalk or talc or cornstarch or whatever you like)

http://i.imgur.com/VTW4p1w.jpg

i have a huge crush on u, fyi

Looking good. Should probably put some Mercurochrome on those scratches, though.

Huh. Mercurochrome is no longer sold in the US due to its mercury content. I think I'll blame my poor performance in high school and undergrad on spending my childhood being dipped in the stuff every time I sustained an injury. Can't wait to call my mom and tell her that was all her fault.

Oh whoops. My mom would use EXTRA mercurochrome to paint smiley faces over our injuries, we're probably all going to die from mercury poisoning.

mine too! smiley knees were the best!

rip all of us

i'd just cover it in a bandaid until it got infected and thats why i have a mega huge cheloid on my left knee

me too! it's from when i tripped in the stick your head in the quaker oats man's face standee thingie and then relentlessly picked the scab. not mega huge, but shaped like a triangle. my mom never put that orange stuff on me -- is that what mercurochrome is? or is that iodine? my dad has a gross story about iodine and barnacles and hands.

mercurochrome was bright blood red

i don't think i've ever seen it! and you guys had smiley faces on your knees?! i think we used bactine?

sorry this is so gross
back to hair

There was Mercurochrome, which did not sting and was bright red, and Merthiolate, which stung like a motherfucker and was more orange-y (and which my mother preferred).

I remember begging my mom for Bacitracin bc it was supposed to not sting and she was like, "Doesn't sting, doesn't work. Now bite down on this stick and let me see that scraped knee..."

I keep dreaming I've grown my hair out again. Admit to slight disappointment when I wake up and it's still short.

Oh no! No disappointment! Are you not liking your hair?

It's not lying right. Not ruffle-able in the way I wanted, but not sure what instructions will produce correct ruffleability. And I guess I feel more exposed with short hair, but perhaps I should just get used to that. Upside: earrings.

The 3 year hair-growing experiment has ended. I went from this: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8523/8649610917_dc797a326e.jpg
to this: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8531/8649617001_5a64921c73.jpg today.

wow! yay!

I'm super happy with it and went and bought a shitload of product right after.

I bet that feels amazing!

Hey so I would like to purchase a hair dryer. Does anybody have any suggestions? I get the urge to blow dry my hair maybe twice a year so I don't want to spend more than $50. Also I think I would like a diffuser. My hair is wavy and on the dry side, if that matters? Anyway, time to grow up and own a blow dryer!

twice a year???? im in total envy. i have a T3 which expensive but only because my hair is gross, super curly-frizzy and needs to be beaten into submission with heated tools daily.

what i can probably share is that hairdryers on the more expensive side tend to have a steadier temperature whereas the cheap ones fluctuate temperature, sometimes to the point of burning the hair. Read some amazon reviews of dryers in your price range because when i was looking for mine i found there are a gang of dudes out there who have nothing better to do than monitor their wives dryer temps then write on amazon about their important research. thank god for those fools, i guess?

It might look better if I dried it more often, but for most of my life I've gotten away with letting it air dry.

I was looking on Amazon and I saw some of those reviews! That's fucking weird and a little creepy.

Is all that ceramic/ion/tourmaline stuff all bullshit or do they actually do something?

Honestly I use a cheap dryer from Target and I haven't regretted it once, but I don't do hardcore straightening/don't have any curl in my hair, if that really makes any difference to how well a blow-dryer works for you.

My normal self has serious trouble believing in any of that ionizing/whatever stuff ftr.

yeah i dont buy that shite for a second

I have the impression from what stylists do that several things are more important than the blow-dryer itself: some kind of smoothing or volumizing (whatever your desired outcome) product; drying from the root to the tip when it has partly/mostly air dried, maybe with the root sections held in place with a couple of clips if you want it to lie a specific way?; and what shape of brush you use, flat vs curved. Just off the top of my head (lol).

yeah definitely product (and not a lot surprisingly) and the type of brush def play into my straightening routine as much as the hair dryer. if your hair doesn't frizz easily you're pretty much home free with any drier.

(xp) ^^ yeah I have a cheapo dryer and it doesn't seem to matter as long as I follow a certain routine. Do you notice a difference when blow-drying? If I let my hair dry naturally it would be a real mess (and I have fine, straight hair)

I've been using the same hair dryer since 1997 wtf. Totally envy ppl who can air dry w/o getting flat/stringy.

First morning alone with new hair + mousse + blowdryer + round thermal brush + sculpting clay was intense but ended well. This clay stuff is new since I last had shorter hair. fwiw, I bought a FHI dryer 2 years ago for around $80 - diffuser and concentrator came with, it works great, though honestly I'm all for not having to do that every single work morning.

I can only air dry if I pin it up in twists fire waves/curls and even then I still gotta blow out my bangs.

I think the important things for a hair dryer are:
- powerful rather than hot (never use the hottest setting)
- even temp
- cool shot for setting (less frizzy, good for bangs)

I have an elchim (I think??) Which I got based on robynnnnn's rec. Almost got the t3 on sunnys rec but I wasn't willing to spend the money. (the elchim was about $80 I think)

If I let my hair air dry it would still be damp the next day.

I bought this one - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R80ZTQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. It has all of the pseudo-scientific garbage that is popular in hair driers these days, and it came with a diffuser, and it was $25. Oh and it has a retractable cord, which is a nice feature.

Now I have to figure out how to use it. I mean, turn it on and point it at my wet head, yes, but techniques.

Ohhhh boy. Well, what do you want the results to be?

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.L_5kkOwbS88e.gxV2crMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://listings.zenfs.com/en_US/cms/shopping/Forbes/0223_warning-labels-hairdryer.jpg

Good tip! Thank you.

Re: results ... dry hair that retains its waviness but looks more intentional and less I don't know, messy? I mean messy is good but neater messy.

I think I've just figured out that I've been parting my bangs on the wrong side

What a revelation

gamechanger

carl: I have straight-ish fine hair, bit of a bend to it but no wave, and lots of . To get wavy hair with some texture and body, so it looks styled but also like ” oh this old hair? it just looks like this!” I do the following-

At night: Wash and then spray in a beach spray dry like 80%-ish, blow out bangs completely, twist the rest of the hair into thick coils and pin down (I do about 5 coils).cover with satin hair net thingy. Wake up, remove pins and shake out hair, don't worry if its still a bit damp, you're going for a wave not a curl, blow out for a few minutes until dry, maybe use a bit of hair spray.

Notes: the coils don't have to be anywhere near perfect - you should only be spending like 2 mins doing your whole head, and don't worry about twisting the last inch or so of the ends.

Xp it is! I read this thing that was like: if your bangs are annoying and hardd to style and you have a cow lick, maybe stop fighting the cow lick

My bangs always try to split down the middle (big no-no on my long face) but I've been parting them on the right forever. Today they are parted on the othersi de, and while they're still splitting a little, this side somehow looks better on my face I think??? Ytth says it looks the same but I think he's wrong.

tomorrow is Round 4 of my quest for the short haircut that exists in my brain as a pure concept but cannot be described in words or even in flailing hand gestures. FFM has appraised the situation and advised shorter bangs.