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The Strobe

07:14 / 02.08.02

It's true. You still need to use water in the shower, but after a couple of days the hair starts washing itself, and you can give up on shampoo. I know someone who swears by this. And, of course, everyone says he's lying.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:19 / 02.08.02

Mine's currently Bagpuss pink with white bits where the dye's faded, shortish and messy/spiky when I can be arsed. I used to have arse-length dreads, which I didn't wash for about ten years, just rinsed occasionally. (In fact, I still have them somewhere).

Though I am considering trying to grow the best goddamn mullet in all of London town... just for kicks!

Ariadne

08:19 / 02.08.02

The only person I knew to try this gave up after three months of looking totally manky. He had quite long hair and even after all that time it still looked slimey. perhaps if you have shorter hair, or cut it short and then it grow longer without ever touching shampoo it might work.

Naked Flame

08:43 / 02.08.02

There was a time when I had haaaaaaaaiiiiiir. If I told you that I was, at the time, a singer for a Maiden-Lite 80s metal band, you might get the idea. There are photographs. They will remain hidden.

Then I was in a grungesque band and the hair got progessively shorter until it was merely shoulder-length, but somewhere along the line it went from being long and wild and mostly straight to being very curly. Looked kind of cool. There are photographs. I can't find the fuckers.

Now: sporadically spiky, blonder in summer than in winter, low-maintenance, typically bed-headed.

Oh, and the not-washing part: brushing is important. And long hair takes a looooooong time to self-clean, during which time you will be wearing a city's worth of automotive pollutants, preowned skin cells, and 200 cigarette's worth of smoke in your coiffure.

Grey Area

09:28 / 02.08.02

My hair has to be heavily gel'ed and mashed around into spiky bits at the moment as I am recovering from the latest in a loooong line of bad haircuts. One side looks like something took a bite out of it, the other is a ragged as a band-saw. I haven't closely scrutinised the back and I don't want to. My hair's straight as an arrow, not curly in the slightest. There's no split ends or other problems. Why is it then that no hairdresser in the world can manage to give me a decent haircut? I'm going to grow it out and give the world of commercial hair care one last go. Then it's back to the self-inflicted #3 all over.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:32 / 02.08.02

Dull brown, an inch or two long at the moment and probably in need of a wash. I tend to have it cut to a grade 2 mainly on the grounds that I probably could spend time doing silly things to it and dyeing it strange colours but I just find the upkeep factor too much of a drag to bother.

betty woo

16:58 / 02.08.02

Past my shoulders with a razor-shaved undercut where my tattoo is. Presently purple. The upkeep's a drag, but since it matches my Vatican security ID, I've been directed not to change the shade just yet.

Jack The Bodiless

11:28 / 04.08.02

Very dark brown, seriously greying and receding, and currently growing out from a grade 1 buzz to spikes again... unless I decide that I'm too far gone to bother. And it is cosmically unjust that I have unruly tangles of black hair ALL OVER MY FUCKING BODY, but hardly any on my head.

Sometimes I still have dreams where I have my long hair back. And yes, ZoCher, invisible al's hair is gorgeous. The flashy-shirted bastard.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:35 / 04.08.02

hit on my ideal hair - short and red or red/black - a few years ago and have been tweaking and messing with it ever since. have v. short attention span with hairstyles and can never be arsed with styling it so get something dramatic done to it ever 6 months or so.

sister described my current version as 'freddy ljungberg' (ie a reddish/black semi-beckhamish thing with a touch of an undercut)... needs a bit of work, to be honest, but I am foolishly pleased at having had the back cut asymmetrically - l.h. side just below my ear, r.h. side an inch or so longer so i can wear hair slides in it...

Tryphena Absent

15:44 / 04.08.02

erm... my hair's boring and very very normal. It's dyed a dark reddy brown colour. It was just brown but then I didn't dye it for two months and the colour's stripped away to the one before. My roots are kind of blond/brown. It's at an awkward stage of wavyness (how do you spell that word????) that won't be curled or straightened and I need to cut it because it's not 1920's enough for my liking. Generally I like it just above my chin.

that

15:44 / 04.08.02

Waaaaaaa. I want better bloody hair. Thick and curly or dead straight and a proper bloody colour, instead of dirty dishwater coloured. And I look silly with it dyed, so that wouldn't help. And I hate 'product', as hairdressers term anything which goes in hair to make it look a certain way - gel, wax, etc. - so I can't get it cut short again, cause it would just boiinng out at all angles.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

19:06 / 05.08.02

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

Undoubtably. All the testing points towards "wants to devour soul", but that Bulgarian accent is soooooo sexy. Who knew balkan accents could ever be desirable?

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