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The Hairstyle Thread

 
  

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Tabitha Tickletooth
07:55 / 17.08.06
This has all been really helpful and I'm feeling a lot more reassured about the short hair = work idea.

I think I probably will experience some kind of shock when I do chop it off. It's not something one can undo in a hurry with hair this long. People frequently make the 'ooo it must have taken years to grow' type comments, but of course this means nothing to me - I haven't been growing it, I just haven't been cutting it. Once it is all gone, I'm locked into many years getting back to where I currently locate my comfort zone. Bizarrely, I think the apprehension is less to do with appearance and more to do with change.

Anyway, I'm going to do it. I need now to find a hairdresser - I might just wander around until I find one that looks okay (no idea how else you pick a hairdresser).

I'm a very un-photogenic person, but I might do a before and after shot which I will post on the board once I've plucked up the courage...

Thanks hair bears - wish me luck!
 
 
Ticker
12:07 / 17.08.06
Luck!


The Accomplice, mostly because I think he has a weird thing about bonding time with me nude and crouching in the bathtub and then we have an excuse to shower afterward.

I'll be in my bunk.*









*cleared with Papers so as not to be a completely rude comment.
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
05:23 / 18.08.06
Sorry to be late, I'll not explain. R just alerted me. I'll be happy to help here where I can. Consults and advice are free and not pressured, but in person only. I take yer money later. Don't do anything until you are so sure about it that it makes you soundly excited. Ring me!
 
 
lekvar
05:32 / 18.08.06
Tabitha, can we get before-and-after pics?
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
08:04 / 18.08.06
*breathes huge sigh of relief*

Lily! You heard my plea! I will be in touch shortly. I'll take a long hair picture this weekend so it's up to date and as soon as the cutting is done I'll take an immediate after snap.

In the meantime, the shorthairs amongst you might contemplate posting some hair style pics, by way of inspiration. I'm still walking around staring at every short haired head in a pointed, and no doubt slightly creepy, fashion.

I am actually a bit excited...
 
 
Ex
09:39 / 18.08.06
Which reminds me, it can be a whack to your budget if you have a short syle which (as Persephone/Christopher Walken mentioned) needs hacking a lot. So for instance, if you have a delicate feathercut with a complex fringe which really needs a proper hairdresser every month, you may find yourself forking over a bit.I've opted for an attack with clipper from Mr Topper (a chain which charged 6 quid a go) so it's not as much of a concern.

I'm going this afternoon, actually - my favourite branch is staffed entirely by hyperactive Australian party women who gossip over the customer's heads and play very loud disco. I may post a pic. I may, if really carried away, dig out a photo of me with shoulder-blade length hair, which I removed in one fell crew-cut - hence my feelings for your situation, Tabitha.

Oh, and, yes, and - people will look at you properly if you've been dramatically chopped. They'll really crutinise you. So if you want to pull someone's who's not really noticed you're hottt, or otherwise change people's perceptions, it's a chance to get noticed.
 
 
Ex
09:41 / 18.08.06
Sorry, typo - I meant to say, of course, that people will really croutonise you. They will dice you and plunge you into hot fat to become a garnish for soup.
 
 
gingerbop
22:30 / 18.08.06
Am I being naive when I say I can't tell the difference between a home-done buzz-cut and one from a hairdresser? Unless you have a different number for the sides and the top, that is. I got clippers for about £30 or so, and then didn't go to a hairdressers for a few years.

It then grew out into this.
 
 
Lama glama
22:45 / 18.08.06
I have dandruff. I like to keep the more handsome flakes in a sealed plastic container, which, every Christmas I use to create a winter-scene on the window ledge of my living room. I cut locks of my own hair and attach them to pipe cleaner frames to represent different kinds of live-stock, huddling from the cold of a winter 'een.

Hair is so very versatile, isn't it?

The hair which I wear on my head is nice, though. Currently it's frightfully long and needs a bit of trim. When it's in such a state, I like to use Fructose styling gel (€6.99 from your local stockist) to create interesting and asymmetrical hair shapes, which I believe make me look pseudo-intellectual. My current favourite attempt at interesting looking hair is creating a sort of triceratops look, with three main tufts of hair in varying lengths arching out across my forehead. Sometimes I get bored with having to apply sticky apple-smelling gels to my head, so I just let it grow long, wild and untamed. Seldom do I bring a brush to it when it's in such a state, and I find it incredibly liberating just to leave it behave as it wishes.

A favourite hobby of mine while eating lunch, is to sit on the ground with friends and comment (constructively) on the hair-styles of those passing. We once spent three hours talking about the wonders of other people's hair. This might explain my absymal exam results, though this isn't yet confirmed.
 
 
Bubblegum Death
22:59 / 18.08.06
I have short hair, but only because I just got it cut today. I always hate my hair after it's just been cut. It always looks wrong; and too short. I don't usually let my hair get too long; once it starts getting in my eyes it's time to visit the barber.

Is it appropriate to tip your barber? I usually go to one of those Cost Cutters places inside Wal-Mart; and I tip them. But there's this one barber I've been going to,off and on, since I was a kid. I've never tipped him. I come out of the shop today ,and my mom asks if I tipped the barber, and she was horrified when I said no.
 
 
lekvar
02:03 / 19.08.06
I can't speak for the UK, but in the US it is customary to tip the nice person who is branishing sharp objects at your head. 10% - 20% is costomary, depending on how good a job they did and how sharp the blade is.
 
 
Princess
19:27 / 22.08.06
I'm intending to grow my hair into thick turqouise dreadlocks, into which I would tie peacock feathers so I looked like a weird, melek-taus\seaweed\monkey crossbreed.

It will take me bout 7 years to get it how I want it.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
19:32 / 22.08.06
What kind of hairstyle do you have?
Zero.

What kind of products do you use?
Headblade. And Headslick, the shaving cream.

Who cuts your hair anyway?
See above.

I know "I shave my head" isn't really in the spirit of the thread, but I figured it was worth mentioning the Headblade -- it's cut my head-shaving time down to about 2-3 minutes every morning. Highly recommended for anyone that wants to go the skin route but can't be arse to whack away at their noggin with a safety razor for ten minutes every morning.
 
 
Spaniel
19:45 / 22.08.06
I used to spend a lot of money on trendy haircuts but now that I'm an old man I visit the barbers for a swift short back and sides.

Good thing side-parted short back and sides are trendy these days, eh?

As for products, well as I have thick hair I need Dax Red to keep my carefully coiffered fringe in check.
 
 
Princess
19:45 / 22.08.06
Actually, what advice can people give me about creating\maintaining turqouise dreads? Is the bleaching\dying going to make dreads different? Has anyone else here dreaded their hair? How flexible are dreads?
I'm of white descent, and prefer stargazer dyes.
 
 
Peek
20:01 / 22.08.06
What kind of hairstyle do you have?
Jaw-length bob. At the moment. My hair yo-yos, I get it cut, then leave it for a few months until it's messy and shoulder-length, then get it cut....

What kind of products do you use?
Errrm... shampoo. And sometimes conditioner. Wash, towel dry, drag a comb through, forget.

Who cuts your hair anyway?
My mum. I kid you not. And here's the fashion tie-in - I cannot get a decent cut at a salon. I can't. I've tried. I am lucky enough to have hair that falls in a perfect, sleek, curls-under-just-right bob, if you will just cut straight round the bottom. That's it. Job done. But for some reason salon cutters can not stop themselves from a feather here, a layer there, and before you know it I have a very fashionable and totally unwanted 'style', that takes bloody ages to grow out. I do tell them, honest I do, exactly what I want done, but they just ignore me and do what they like :-(

Ironically my mum goes to the salon I introduced her to (FOAF started a business). For myself, I seem to be cursed, even if I find a hairdresser I can get on with they never stay for more than a year, and none of them, even the nice ones, can resist the urge to muck about.
 
 
lekvar
20:17 / 22.08.06
Is the bleaching\dying going to make dreads different?
Well, it'll make your dreads paler/a different color than they would be naturally. Sarcasm aside, bleaching your hair will make it coarser, which, in turn will make it easier to form dreadlocks. A fiend of mine has bright blue dreads and they look great. If you let them fade they'll turn an unhealthy moss green which looks really, really unpleasant in conjunction with dreads.

Has anyone else here dreaded their hair?...I'm of white descent, and prefer stargazer dyes.
Yup, I had dreads for a while. Western European stock with slightly wavy hair. It took a while but the tangles resolved themselves after about a month of work. I was washing my hair during this time, which some say is a no-no, but my dreads fromed well enough. There are a ton of products on the market now to ease the process.

I can't help with the stargazer eyes. Try the Chinese black market.
 
 
Princess
20:34 / 22.08.06
Cool beans. I'm stoked.
 
 
***
21:23 / 22.08.06
What kind of hairstyle do you have?

A rather messy chinlength bob with a little styling, it's dyed a shade of brown I'm particularly fond of and contains the fading remains of streaks that aren't being renewed until my tortured hair recovers.

What kind of products do you use?

I'm currently washing it with a plethora of Lush Products (Rehab shampoo and Revive (?) conditioner when here, Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout shampoo and some sort of coconut conditioner when at the Brighton place) and occasionally smearing some sort of detangling smoothingglossing anti frizz thing by Phytolisse/Phytologie on the previously bleached bits that I picked up during a visit to a health spa where all sorts of luxurious things were done to my hair.

Other than that, styling is basically air-dry and brush into shape.

Who cuts your hair anyway?

The last person to touch it other than one of my partners was a stylist at Ragdale Hall, otherwise it's very much a homespun Job.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
21:55 / 18.12.06


The new, short-haired Tabitha Tickletooth!
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
22:06 / 18.12.06
Has anyone else here dreaded their hair?

Yep, by plaiting my already quite long hair, and just leaving it. Every so often I'd back-comb (well, scrunch up and down their length) the individual plaits until they became tangled strands of thick hair, then eventually long, long dreads which about a decade later became a pain to have because I'd keep sitting on my hair on the bus* and also because of endless long hard stares and occasional tedious searches when passing through US customs at the airport. I didn't wash my hair once in that time, which certainly made for good dreads - and entertained hairdressers no end.

I never waxed or did anything much else to the dreads, but when I did cut them shorter once before the final removal, I found them to have a core of some strange green matter, possibly herbal in nature and saleable by the ounce.

They're now in a sculpture sitting next to me, and still look quite good. I miss waving them about on the dancefloor (though maybe other dancers don't) and the strange sense of being enveloped they gave me, but short hair means I can wear fine hats instead.

* a dreadbag never did seem like an option.
 
 
lekvar
23:03 / 18.12.06
My dreads had a green core too. I was hoping that it was lint from my green flannel blankets rather than something disturbing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:16 / 18.12.06
I dreaded mine too... some of it was plaited, some (most) just dreaded itself when I decided I couldn't be arsed with all that coconut oil shite to stop the plaits matting and may as well just let my hair do what it wanted.

Grew 'em down to my arse over about eight years. Never really been a fan of washing my hair, so it was ideal. A quick rinse, or a shower of rain every now and then worked a treat. The only reason I cut them off was I had a dream one night that I cut all my hair off and it was really funny. So I thought I should find out whether it was really funny or not.

It was mildly amusing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:18 / 18.12.06
Oh, there were pink and white extensions in there too.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:06 / 19.12.06
Has anyone else here dreaded their hair?

Oh, yes. It terrifies me.
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
07:58 / 19.12.06
As you can see from upthread, I finally went and did it (although I probably need to post a before pic so that people understand the extent of the choppage). I absolutely love it and can't rave enough about the talent and general all-round goodness of Lily and the Beaucatcher team who not only gave me a fabulous haircut but made me not feel like a complete idiot for having no idea about hair. They even have celebs on the door!

Go there. Get your haircut. Now.
 
 
Dutch
13:41 / 19.12.06
My hair is down almost to the middle of my back, I haven't been to a barber in a year (or even longer) I think. The length combined with the fact that I seldom shave has me often looking pretty much like a bummed out hippie, but I don't mind. I detest shaving and it feels to walk around with long hair free in the summer. now if only this winter would hurry up and be gone.
 
 
Kirin? Who the heck?
19:43 / 24.03.07
The last time I got my hair cut I hated it. It wasn't a major change (in fact, it wasn't meant to change at all), but I actually went home and cried, and very little makes me do that. I kept telling myself 'nah, don't make such a stupid fuss, it'll look fine with some wax in it', but I kept (literally) bursting into tears every time I saw it. Of course, it did look OK once I styled it. Now I'm scared to go back, but it's looking quite messy. Is that weird?
 
 
Mistoffelees
20:07 / 24.03.07
I haven´t had my hair cut in over two years. But in the last couple of months friends often told me about split ends and other hair entropies that might befall my hair, so I might go soon for some precautious hairend snipping. I have had many bad experiences with coiffeurs cutting off way too much hair, so I am not really looking forward to that visit.
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
20:27 / 24.03.07
It's not weird to feel quite emotional about one's hair. I find that most people do. It is sad that so many people have such bad experiences that they fear/dread going to a hairdresser. I'm on holiday(need a break after so long absorbing so much of other's fears) for 3 weeks but feel free to contact me after. I'm not that scary in this context. Neither are my colleagues.
Alternatively might I suggest that a thorough consultation which most salons will do gratis is a fairly good way to determine if a stylist/salon is the right one for the job. Do this about a week before the final cut. Once you find someone, be loyal and build a relationship with the stylist because knowing the person is as important as knowing the haircut.
Don't fear the shearer.
 
  

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