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Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

19:57 / 31.07.02

I love hair. I love smelling hair, and the smell that someone leaves on your pillow or shirt that they borrowed (the hair smell) is a great one. Feeling hair is great too.

What's your hair like?

Mine is light to medium brown, and about to reach my shoulders. About an inch away, lets say. Thick, fine, and perfectly straight (read: boring as fuck). The shorter parts bleach in the summer to a near blonde.

What about you?

20:06 / 31.07.02

My hair looks a bit like it's been sprayed on at the moment. It's very short and goes BRRRRZZZZZZP! if you run your hand over it.

If I let it grow out, it goes into dark curly Byronic locks with sun highlights, which I hate and make me look fat, and after that into an afro, which I also hate.

I was blond when I was a toddler.

20:08 / 31.07.02

I would also like to point out that having someone's hair turn up unexpectedly in your mouth is one of the least romantic things ever, and I'm not a squeamish person.

Murray Hamhandler

22:26 / 31.07.02

I'm currently sporting the ever-popular "David Cross".

Rollo Kim, on location

22:37 / 31.07.02

My hair is currently cut to the classic 'aMess' style. It used to be interesting, colourful and rag-bound. Now it's just dull. But when waxed and sorted, it looks black and respectably punk stylee.

I have recently discovered that my closest ladyfriend has a thing for having someone run their fingers through her hair. It 'turns her on'. Apparently she once let someone 'wash it' - for kicks. And I do mean the hair on her head. Our first intimate moment was when I gave her a 'hairstyle'. I thought it was perfectly innocent at the time. I also once witnessed a male 'suitor' spend the evening burying his head in her hair. She didn't seem too impressed.

Personally, short hair (particularly on the ladies) is a big turn-on. Pervy, I know. But why not?

22:55 / 31.07.02

My hair is booo-oooring. It's frizzy as hell, shoulder length, this weird off greyish brown - brown with ashy overtones? Used to be blonde, white blonde when I was a kiddie, and got yellower and then browner... It looks terrible short, it is bearable though uninteresting as long as I can tie it back. Really really frizzy, unstyleable, no where near as thick as it was before my eating habits fucked up. It's been pink once, and deep maroon or plum a couple of times. But I tolerate it, and it tolerates me - I don't have bad hair days, it looks equally half-assed every day. I like it when it has been in the sea. That's about it, really.

Other people's hair I like...

Rollo Kim, on location

23:03 / 31.07.02

At least your's is predictable Cholister! I feel too old to do anything interesting to it anymore. I feel obliged to keep it as short and inoffensive as possible. I used to use it to hide behind as I was always bruised, tired and scarred looking, even before I actually was tired, bruised and scarred! I figured it was the only thing I had going for me. I cut it all off to punish myself - and my girlfriend at the time as she was really into my hair (?????).

Extremes are cool - either very dark or very light, or red.

23:04 / 31.07.02

my hair was white blonde when I was little, got darker up to puberty and then began turning brown. now its a dark brown, but very nice - I rather like the way it reflects light, all copper and gold. its very short, just long enough in the front to touch my eyebrows if I let it - which I dont. I wax, creme, or just ruffle my hair to a short mess, and pin the front (that attempts to make bangs/fringe) back with some dark pins

Rollo Kim, on location

23:10 / 31.07.02

I miss letting it grow just long enough to have pig tails.

23:26 / 31.07.02

Just normal brownish-colored hair, cut in a respectable manner. It's down to my collar now. I really don't much like it. It's too fine. When I comb it, it doesn't stay in place for more than a few minutes.

I think I'll cut it all off and get a pair of rabbit ears grafted to the top of my head. That'd be a great conversation starter.

23:27 / 31.07.02

Mine is naturally an ashy blonde, but I dye it a coppery red colour. I prefer it when it's dyed black, but solitaire loves red hair so I'm humouring him for a while. It's just past my shoulders, with choppy layers, and although it's straight, I have a tendency to not brush it some days which makes it look wavy and sort of "bed head" like.
Although I don't go nuts about people touching my hair, I love playing with others' hair. Especially long hair. I love long hair.

02:39 / 01.08.02

My hair was mid-back but I cut it for a wedding so now it looks likes David Boreanaz but more chaotic because I dont like gel. A one point when it started to grow back from an earlier I looked just like Trunks from DBZ..if just had to dye it whitish-purple.

02:51 / 01.08.02

I love my hair. It's thick and naturally a chesnut brown with a golder streak in the front, but I've added some red to turn it a slightly bloody auburn, since I'm told I have a red-headed personality, and am pasty enough to pull it off and have it look relatively natural. It's cut kind of short at the moment, though it's grown out a bit- longer in front, following the line of my jaw about an inch lower, and shorter in back. My hair falls in something called a 'triple crown-' instead of having a line as my natural part, my hair parts in a Y, and part of that Y falls directly in front of my face, so I'm always looking through it at people. This, bluntly, makes me feel quite sexy, as does sulkily blowing little strands of it out of my face. It's almost masturbatory, I can lounge and just smell my own hair for ages after I've been out in the sunshine and fresh air, especially in the fall. So, to summarize, thick, dark red, unruly, and it smells good. : )

03:09 / 01.08.02

Rapidly moving towards Cousin It territory here.

05:50 / 01.08.02

Thinning. Brown with rapidly increasing amounts of grey. Short. Except for one corner in the back, which I've let grow long enough to braid into a thin "rat tail"...

06:24 / 01.08.02

I love hair. I love smelling hair, and the smell that someone leaves on your pillow or shirt that they borrowed (the hair smell) is a great one. Feeling hair is great too. What's your hair like?

Um, I'm not so sure I want to tell you about my hair.

Joking aside, it's brownish, fairly thick, and it gets a bit long every once in a while, because I think getting a haircut is a waste of precious time.

uncle retrospective

06:50 / 01.08.02

Well I have the tossed spiked hair as mastered by the cast of Buffy dyed pillar box red.
I'm getting too old for it but I still love it.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

09:30 / 01.08.02

My hair is Julian from the Strokes. With hints of Mick Jagger and a slight frizz.

09:41 / 01.08.02

Half-Beckham at the moment. But looking round for something else. Possibly Alex from Big Brother.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

09:52 / 01.08.02

Yes, I was thinking of something like that. Any other suggestions? I've just got too much hair right now, so if there are any other hair fetishists out there, feel free to PM me your address so I can send you some spare when I relieve myself of some of it's weight.

11:20 / 01.08.02

Long, curlyish, ginger, rather frayed at the edges.

11:45 / 01.08.02

Longish, brown, straightish but going annoyingly frizzy in the current humidity so that I have a fluffy halo when I catch sight of myself in a mirror.

12:14 / 01.08.02

Straightish, fine, medium length, versatile blunt cut, with curling or wavy, wispy bits from my brow; used to be very fair, but has gone mousey brown over the years, except for still some very blonde streaks on top and the one side. It was more striking when it was blonde, as I have olive skin and brown eyes.

14:38 / 01.08.02

nature gave me soft dark hair and a thinness at the top approaching male pattern baldness.

electric clippers keep it very short.

chemicals currently drain almost all color from it, leaving a pale yellow-metallic gold color.

there are sideburns. there is a goatee, or to be more precise a vandyke.

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:05 / 01.08.02

'Bouffant'.

17:34 / 01.08.02

My hair is dead boring.

Black. Some starting to gray slowly.

Used to wear it longish as a teen, then got bored and had it cut short.
When I ran out of money for the hairdresser I just started to use the shaver with the beardy attachment thingy on it semiregularly.

My girlfriend on the other hand has got hair that can make me wax lyrically about it as Johnny O does.

Hers is auburn and so long she can sit on it (and this does not mean she's got a hairy bum).
Lovely colour that becomes even lovelier when the sun bleaches a few strands in the summer (she will not alter the colour artificially, that is beyond her dignity).

Her hair is silky and shiny, even though she does tend to neglect it (shame on her). During the day she usually just wears it in a ponytail, sometimes she wears it loose, and when I'm really lucky she's got pigtails (Me, I love pigtails, you see).

All in all, lovely.
And the best thing is, that even if she shaved it off tomorrow and got rid of all of that loveliness, I'd still adore her just the same.

(Yes, I am exactly as sad and pathetic as that sounds).

17:40 / 01.08.02

I've got long, thick, dark brown hair. Moderately vain about it as well, when I've got it just so it looks like a huge mane. Took me about two years to grow with that whole 6 month messy head thing at the beginning.
Still annoying to take care of though and its a pain in hot weather, but I think it's worth it...and it really annoys my mother

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17:54 / 01.08.02

I too am a suedehead. Greying, which many seem to like, but I don't. Not at all. How can people bear to have more than an eight of an inch?* Elsewhere on the male body though, quite a different matter. Mmmmmmmmm... Fetish of Johnny O proportions then! But why does it all gravitate up the way as you age?

*Have to say Invisible Al's invisible hair, tumbling over his shoulders, is a work of art. Makes me wish for those gloriuous Hair Is Peace, Man days again of the late sixties. Hair by Caravaggio is good and extremes are good, like the Mordsnt tonsure.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:58 / 01.08.02

I have very practical reasons for keeping my hair long, and for wearing a scraggily goatee that at first made me look like Shaggy (from Scooby Doo, not that other Shaggy). The hair hides the fact that my ears stick out a bit, and the goatee keeps me from looking so damn androgynous (sp?). Otherwise, I would love to have short hair. I'd probably shave my head regularly.

It's strange in the summer, when my olive skin gets really really dark and my hair starts getting lighter. And I tell you, folks, my skin can get dark. I look like I'm covered in a thin film of dirt some summers. My skin becomes darker than my hair, and my greenish-bluish-greyish (or "Hazel", as everyone calls it, because they can't think of anything else, methinks) just throw everyone off for a bit.

On another note, there's a girl at work who's hair doesn't smell like anything. Which freaks me out. Everyone's hair smells like something, be it shampoo or soap or gel or something, but this girl's hair is like a smell "cold-spot", an area devoid of olfactory stimulation. But she's hot as hell, and can actually make me laugh when I don't feel like laughing(!), so I'm ready to forgive her.

18:27 / 01.08.02

Moderately short, but never too short, because it goes too light a shade; so veers from short to "just about in control". Red. Long but not too wide sideburns. Stupid inverted-t chinbeard. Always needs a cut.

18:31 / 01.08.02

Johnny O: I think you and I have similarly multicolored eyes. Hazel with flecks of blue-gray?

It means we're better than everyone else.

Oh, and stay away from the smell-neutral girl. She's obviously a succubus masquerading as a fun-loving human.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:36 / 01.08.02

Have to say, I much prefer "tonsure" to "mullet".

19:06 / 01.08.02

I used to work with a chap who had a fine head of red hair which he claimed not have washed for over five years. After the first few weeks the natural oils keep it clean and healthy, apparently, that and a good brushing every day. We got on well but not well enough for me to smell it or stroke it, but it sure looked good.

Me, I'm too fond of lime shower gel to try it but my barber says it's true. Were they having me on?

20:10 / 01.08.02

Can't answer the lime shower gel puzzler. But I can tell you I had a friend when I was 15 or so who didn't wash his hair for a year, same reason. Looked OK, though like you I never had a desire to run my hands through his hair. Well, I did, but I stopped myself.

My hair is reddish, somewhere on the curly/frizzy continuum depending on how mich junk I put in it. I've been dyeing it for so long I can't remember what my real colour is. Sometimes people describe it as "big hair" but I kill them. They only do it once.

03:00 / 02.08.02

My hair is dirty blonde. Maybe more brunette than drity blonde, actually. I slick it back because it looks better that way on me. I don't know why, but every now and again I get called "rockabilly" or "James Dean" on the street. I don't quite see the resemblance but I've been called worse, that's for sure.

(shrugs)

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