i love style needs to get their hair did

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.

haha yeah mine is nowhere near that level
but it is wavy!

Late late late but like everyone else I like the Nearsight3d Owl cut, and I also like the colour. I've always had a soft spot for pink hair.

I went out with a former coworker after work today and showed her that pic and she said, "Well. That's a haircut all right." LOL

>:(

Ha, it's okay. We're good friends so she can get away with it.

Also I think she has terrible style so I wouldn't listen to her anyway.

hahah

whew

Just to get on the bandwagon for carl agatha, my wife got all her hair chopped off a few weeks back and came home with something very similar to the owl lady's style. I love it and she feels great about it.

Alexandra from Josie and the Pussycats flips the script with a shock of grey right along her part line

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KBYGLvTKzrg/TFlctFM9f5I/AAAAAAAAB_M/sU19vwwFzI0/s1600/alexandra.jpg

I have recently realized that showering at night is going to solve a lot of small, annoying problems in my life. Yay! But one problem it creates is that my hair is just a weird frizzy mess in the morning. What can I do, hair mavens of ILX? Product? Special brush? Night cap?

I have a lot of hair, but it's fine, but it's also wavy, and I wash it once or twice a week. It's the fine-ness that really does it, I think. Like, I try to put it in a ponytail and I get this fuzzy corona of hair frizz around my head.

Oh and when I don't wash it, I do wash my bangs and rinse the rest of it pretty thoroughly. When I did this in the morning, it would calm down whatever frizziness had ensued in the night. So if there's a thing you can do with wet hair to make it look good in the morning, I can do that, too. I have a hair dryer now so I can also dry it before I go to bed if that's better.

you could put your hair in a silk scarf at night, I guess? I think women used to do that in the days of having your hair set once a week...the silk would keep it from rubbing against a cotton pillowcase and getting messed up. Or there were satin pillowcases.

Or there's always a roller set/wash and wrap option, but then you're sleeping on curlers and/or pins.

Silk scarf is a good idea, and it has to potential to feel very elegant. I will need a dressing gown and maribou slippers, too.

I'm not sure about rollers due to impact on sleep and also my hair is cut in really short layers right now and I'm afraid of what rollers would do to it.

My step grandmother was the last person I knew who got a weekly wash and set. She also used bluing in her hair. To her credit, she had really beautiful white hair.

I'm trying to find you a good wrap tute, hang on.

<3

Oh I think I can help here! What works pretty well for me is to wash, blot dry with a microfiber towel (no rubbing! makes frizz! no regular terrycloth towel! also makes frizz), then getting a second (dry) microfiber towel and doing this thing called "plopping" (aka plunking). I will find a video for you. I sleep with my hair plopped in the towel, OR I do a thing called "pineappleing." I will find a picture of that, too.

Basically, the goal is to keep your hair like, er, intact and not rubbing around as you sleep (makes frizz!). Also then you have damp hair to work with in the a.m.

Product-wise, I swear by kinky-curly curling custard. Target carries it. You get a gob and rub it between your hands, then scrunch it into wet hair (the wetter, the better, then do the microfiber towel thing).

I can't believe I am writing this much about hair. Suffice it to say that during one particularly slow stretch at work, I spent a lot of time at naturallycurly.com.

Oh for real pretty much all you need to know (video wise) is here, plus I think you'd like the hippy product/small woman-owned biz angle. I've used their products and like them fine, but nothing has worked as well as the KKKC (yeah, it goes by its own abbrev on the interhairnets).

http://www.jessicurl.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTNKNDOcd-8

Wrap videos are all like 12 minutes long each, with a lot of talking and/or product detail--most of the time isn't spent on the actual wrapping process so don't think it actually takes 10 minutes.

If your hair won't stay while you're brushing it around, you get those long salon clips and put them in vertically to hold a section while you wrap the next part onward. Then once you get the scarf on, slide the clips out the bottom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qD38ZYX6A

^^^all you need to know about plunking in 2 minutes!

I will watch all these videos! Exciting.

q, do you think the curly stuff is still applicable to just wavy hair?

Yes, totally. I am wavy, not curly--to be more ridiculously specific, I have type 2b/3a curls (see http://www.jessicurl.com/what-type-curls-do-i-have%3F). I've had a much easier (if rather less stylish) time with my hair since I let it grow long and started styling it as wavy hair instead of forcing it to be straight with blow dryer/straightening iron combo.

Thinking about all this hair did stuff today, and looking at some stuff on Jessicurl about Locks of Love, has pretty much made me decide that I will do a big chop when I get back to the states. My hair has been treated kindly for several years and is "virgin" (never colored or chemically treated), so hopefully it will make a nice head of hair for someone who needs it.

It is gonna be hard to find shorter hair cut that will work with the waves, I fear.

Oh wait I think Jaq did this--JAQ TO THREAD WITH YOUR HAIRS, PLEASE