i love style needs to get their hair did

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

Re wrapping; here's a short demonstration by an actual stylist!

http://www.ehow.com/video_4986285_wrap-ethnic-hair.html

There are some issues with Locks of Love apparently - http://nonprofitinvestor.org/?q=locksoflove.

Here is the pineapple--I haven't used a bonnet, but I may try it! Usually I just take my damp hair and pineapple it with a hair band, but I don't pull the ponytail all the way through (if that makes sense); I just kind of mush it up into ball and secure the ball with the second "twist" of the hair band.

Note: my hair is not a curly as this, but it makes the waves come out much better than if I just sleep on it loose. Sleeping with it plunked is best outcome of all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L8Xx-ak7_A

Yeah I figured I'd need to do some more research to figure out who best to give my hairs to! Thanks for link.

Hmmm interesting curl classifications. I would say 2b? Except my hair is SUPER resistant to styling (I think I've mentioned that my stylist is amazed at how hard it is to get my hair to even take color. She dyes is nearly black and it comes out dark-medium brown) but it's definitely not coarse. 2b seems like a good compromise.

I'm very excited for all of these techniques. As soon as I get a break at work I'm going to watch so many hair videos...

When I had long hair, I put it in a high ponytail at night, wrapped the tail around my hand loosely, and snapped the elastic across the middle of it in like a figure-8 or a twist doughnut. It's hard to explain. It worked fine, but mine is straight.

Anyway it gave me waves the next day, was the point of that.

my hair is curly but if i straighten it at night then do the high ponytail i dont have to do a thing with it in the morning. pony out and hair falls perfectly with some loose beachy waves. no straightening, blowdrying or brushing required.

Your hair is curly?! I never knew!

re: chopped hair donation

Locks of Love would have sold mine off (long but not in great shape, colored+gray+frazzled), plus everyone seems to think they give human hair wigs to cancer patients and kept trying to guilt me into donating to them so instead I sent mine to a local group that uses it to clean up oil spills in the sound area.

I just went on holiday for a week and for the first time in about 5 months my hair behaved itself and was silky when I washed it. I'm convinced the water in my bathroom is so hard it's making my hair all dry and dull (something I never had a problem with in my old flat). Planning to completely gut the bathroom and re-do it so hopefully it will be addressed, and not sure if it's the water or build-up in the pipes (water in the basin is cloudy when first turned on, too).
Moving house also coincided with getting highlights at a new salon so I wondered if that had dried out my hair but I really doubt it. >:( anyway.

Also I am considering getting one of those cuts like upthread with it all chopped off in the back and piled up in the front but my headshape does not need any elongating!

wah I have a cut booked in in approx 8 HOURS and am frantically searching for a picture of the perfect cut which apparently doesn't exist. All the pics I have looked at are also on this thread! And I hadn't realised I'd been toying with the idea of a Robyn-style cut for so long! Probably going to stick with the good old angled bob ...

Nowt wrong wi' an angled bob! I think I'm going to grow mine out again, but, I dunno, part it different or something.

Love an angled bob, but I am wavy and always had to blow/flat iron to achieve it; need ideas for mid length (longest part no longer than shoulders or collarbones) wavy hair for when I do the cut-off-8-inches-for-cancer-patients thing. Anyone? Anyone?

i got some extra $$$ today, gonna book a long awaited cut & color

farewell split ends & lazytimez ponytail

Quincie, I think you'd look beautiful with very simple, loose waves at shoulder length.