i love style needs to get their hair did

oooooh IO that is a good video! But I do not have those MONSTER bobby pins, just standard size ones!

Will give it a go anyway.

Me? I am natural brunette, but dyeing on and off since I was 16 or so! I get so sick of looking at my head/face, something has to change or I get kinda fussy.

I went back to my natural color during law school because I could only afford hair cuts every five to six months and I had no time to dye it myself. Then I tried dying it myself when things calmed down only to discover that box dye does not touch my gray hair*. So it's either salon job or au naturel for me.

I was actually thinking about not dying it for awhile to see what my natural color is these days.

*apparently, my hair is very stubborn about taking dye. The color that the stylist dies it is nearly black and it comes out as darkish brown on my head.

I'm doing the not-dying thing now - surprisingly happy with the natural color. I had no idea what it would actually be, since I'd been dying it myself for years and years. There's a lot of gray, but it's fairly sparkly vs. dull so that's okay. Between that and this lovely short cut, I'm in a hair happy place right now.

where is ljublana? I want to see her new short do!!

No pics from this one - maybe the one after if it's more successful! Apart from being too short and achieving the feared 'pinhead' effect, something odd has happened on one side. I have a small patch on my left temple where hair doesn't grow properly, and it's been cut short enough now that you can see it - so it goes up and then down again on that side in ways it shouldn't. I'll go back in a month or so and see if there's enough growth to allow her to adjust it.

:/

bummer, ljub! I hope you have some hair success soon!!

I do have those fleeting moments between cuts where you think 'stay right THERE! I like it today' and then a week later it's moved on....

well that's the good thing at least, you're never stuck with anything for very long

Brb, doing this http://www.likecool.com/Japan_s_Tomato_Hairstyle--Other--Gear.html

That is so awesome.

omg I love that

i have been using this cheap sea salt spray and omg it is doing such cool things to my hair

I might actually be able to cope for a while longer til I can afford to get it cut now. BIG BOUNCY CURLS!!

I got a bunch of stuff to make some beach hair spray up with - epsom salts, jojoba oil, aloe gel. I already had sea salt and some different essential oils. Weekend project.

let me know how it turns out!

This is the recipe I'm trying: http://wellnessmama.com/5054/diy-beach-waves-spray/

VG, what is the cheap sea salt spray you are using?

Not Your Mother's Beach Babe Sea Salt Texturizing Spray

worst named product ever, but $5 from Walmart

Hey guys I think im going to home hombre my hair. Wish me luck!

Whoa good luck! Looking forward to photos of the results.

SUNNY SUCCESSOR IS ONE MEAN HOMBRE

:D

Homemade beach hair salt spray A++ will make again. I used clove essential oil for scent. Next time I'll use gin!

Okay, so while this stuff definitely gave my fine thin hair texture and lift, it also made my scalp itch by the end of the day and I had a fine dusting of salts all over me. Next time I'm halving the salts and upping the oils.

I am really really thinking about going short again. I'm particularly fond of the style featured here - http://www.nearsightedowl.com/2013/04/ootd-born-to-be-pixie.html

(fyi, that link is fine, but there are some NSFW pictures on her blog if you decide to poke around.)

I'm not sure if I want you all to talk me out of it or encourage me.

I love that cut

DO IT DO IT

i would rock that haircut, even

JENNNNNNNN you really should.

Haircut today, here comes the new 'do, same as the old 'do.

If anyone needs me I'll be way way into the archives of Nearsighted Owl.

Oh man that was so enthusiastic! now I really want the cut.

I have a hair apt a week from Monday so I have a lot of time to think about it.

Listen, that haircut is bad ass. Remember when I first got my asymmetrical shaved-under do and Amanda said, "You look like someone who gives zero fucks" and I will never forget that? Well, that is the haircut of someone who gives zero fucks. It is you.

That cut is awesome, carl!

Have any fine + thin haired people here tried Sugar Dust? I bought it on a whim and it's pretty amazing so far. Plus, smells delightful.

I haven't tried anything lately aside from putting hair up and washing it occasionally. I am way overdue for a hair renewal appt -- need cut/color/total head boost asap.

In fact it's at the top of my end-of-AY to-do list, which also includes: go to doctor, make annual trip to ikea, visit that crazy woman at the korean spa, aaaand get hair did

also i think you should do whatever the hell you want with your hair, carl -- like whatever the hell you want all the time forever
you have luxuriant hair and a beautiful face so bring it on

as my hair gets longer and longer i need to try different things to help keep my hair full & wavy & defined & bouncy, i'm just about at the point where it starts to collapse under its own weight and i hate that. i need to get a maintenance cut soon but i'm considering giving dry shampoo a try, will that help?

the past few days have been pretty humid and it's given my 'do such big lucious waves that i have been actually flipping my hair irl, how can i keep this forever??? thx

Oh this weather is horrible for my hair. Now I remember why I want to cut it off every summer. I'm not gonna cause I will regret it but oh boy is it tempting.

sea salt spray stuff is still working a treat...but you better not forget to scrunch or oh hi flat sad hair :(

gonna give that sugar dust a try. it'll be a while til my next cut and my hair is dragging dooooowwwwwnnn. needs all the help it can get to stay curly and bouncy

Corn starch rubbed into the roots is amazing imo. I keep a little plastic tub of it, dip my fingers in, and then flip over a section of hair and rub my starchy fingers around the roots, so it doesn't just coat the strands but actually gets down where the oil is. Big fan.

oh heeeeyyy now

you're a genius

I'm using blow pro (lol) dry shampoo which us cornstarch based and its amazing - the dispenser gives the finest mist of powder.

Jenny I think - from what I've seen of your face online - that cut would look AMAZING on you.

my hair seems to be best now on day 3 after washing. though tbh i woke up late today and left the house without washing it and it looks fine too. so i guess i can go four days btwn washing... but this is also because all my undercutting has long grown out and i really should just go in and get a summer haircut already.

also my almost-black semi-permanent gloss has mostly faded away and now i see that i have, when i pull my hair back from my face, some strands of white near my right temple, which look kind of awesome to me and make me feel a little cary grant but still like a lady. like a lady cary grant.
wow.

which also makes me feel more cool abt wrinkles too

lady cary grant is an A+ look

that's called a bonnie raitt iirc

i have a female friend, mid 30s, who has a white streak that starts at her temple and it is the sexiest thing imho

rad

that's piebaldness right? it is v good looking on everyone i've ever seen it on
best when the surrounding hair is wavy and luxuriant

http://kimmiphillips.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/032212-Poltergeist-hair.jpg

I believe the technical term is "Jobeth Williams at the end of Poltergeist hair."

lololol

I always think of it as 'high school art teacher' hair, because she had jobeth williams at the end of Poltergeist hair too.