i love style needs to get their hair did

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.

Oh man I saw someone on tv I think with the most awesome just above shoulders cut. I'll try to remember who it was and report back

Oh please do! Thanks, R; I hope the waves will cooperate at a shorter length.

well it went ok and I parted it on the other side, let's see if this is a good idea. It's just a regular angled bob but properly short at the back and now I have about 25% of the hair I had when I went in (this is good and what most places don't do properly ime). However the shorter it goes, the madder it looks when I get out of bed!

Anyway the most important thing is: THEY HAD BACK MASSAGING CHAIRS when you got your hair washed <3

quince:

http://cdn.www.babble.com/wp-content/blog_uploads/14/files/short-hair-cut/hair01.jpg

http://www.whairstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bob-hairstyle-for-women-21.jpg

http://static.becomegorgeous.com/gallery/pictures/saint_algue_short_curly_hair.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUFoV2Kn_w1NRjARidFqlu7YLs0iPs8cD7h13WFb4ETbr8MYoj

Totally digging the Keira cut, but then I'm all wait a minute this person had some hair guru come over to her house and made her hair look awesome, who is going to do that for me? No one :(

I tried to pick ones that were less styled-looking, I know she doesn't go out without a team probably but I don't think that 'do looks that complicated. Something at the roots, a smoothing cream, some finger twisting maybe?

ha, that first photo is one i took to my hairdresser for my last cut!

I think the first one would be a great first step, and then if you wanna go shorter from there or add bangs, easily done.

hmmm so I went shopping & spent my haircut money on clothes :/

hello lazytimez ponytail

i used one of those at-home keratin treatments and it made my hair smell AMAZING for several days! but did nothing else. :/

haircut booked for thurs...toying with asymmetrical bob but will consult stylist for final veto. she's better at my hair than I am

Hair is DID yo :D

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/2B1899CB-0CB7-4132-9434-B2AB656EC26C-1686-000000E30BCC9FED_zps27d31250.jpg

Cute!

Totally! I love it.

(fyi that is my un-madeup face with just cc cream & no filters to hide my red face *grin*)

Skin, hair & smile looking fab!

new & improved VG 2.0

I booked a hair appointment for late August, right before a wedding I'm in. I haven't had my hair done since March! My roots are bananas, I covered them slightly with drugstore orange hair dye. But, I don't have to look work-presentable than then so I'm just going full hippie. xp

awesome!

What an adorable tumble of curls, and your skin looks glowy and very even--your new regimen is totes working! Congratulations, beautiful human.

those curls are seriously cute
i like how curly haired people are able to send their hair in more than one direction
that always seemed like it would be fun! it suits you too.

thanks! my stylist always poufs up my curls way more than I do, and I'm always like 'steady on afro lady' and thinking about how I'm going to pat them down when I get home but then I get home and i'm like hey wow cool

"steady on afro lady" lol