why don't my mama love my...

[snugglekitty]

Inspired by recent hair changes, here it is, your Patriot's Day Poll...



[Poll #711906]

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[goat.livejournal.com]

uh, oops, got cut short. I get my haircut once in a blue moon, and it's by Jackie at Devachan in NYC. They specialize in curly hair, and do a damn fine job.

[purplepathos.livejournal.com]

Currently, I wash with Pert Plus every morning in the shower, towel it off, and run either a brush or my fingers through it, depending on how badly it's sticking up. When I have it in a flattop/spiky style, I put gel in it and blow-dry it, using my fingers or a pick to make it stand up. If my scalp starts to feel dry, I use a separate conditioner. I get it cut every 5-8 weeks, depending on how busy I am and whether I'm trying to impress anyone. *laugh*

When I was in 5th grade, I tried while in the tub to trim off a few wispy hairs that were hanging down over my forehead. It looked terrible, so I tried to hide it by shaving the short hairs with my mother's razor. After that, I wore my hair pulled across my forehead and barretted on the other side for weeks, until it finally grew out enough to look like bangs. It was awful. See icon.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

When I was ten, spikey hair was all the rage. I hated it, and told the barber so, halfway through the cut. Well, he tried to salvage it, but failed miserably, so I had a bastard half-spike that made me unhappy for weeks.

Also, when I was in college I tried to grow my hair out. I have frizzy hair, but I lack the gene that makes frizzy hair do cool things when it gets long, so it just got bigger. And bigger. By the end of the year, people were calling me "Yahoo Serious."

[catya.livejournal.com]

my hair gets *washed* every week or so, but conditioned every day... the short bits get cut every two weeks or so, and the long bits every 6 months or so...

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That makes a lot of sense. :) I do the "wash once, moisturize many" thing on my face - it gets dried out if I wash it twice a day.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Psst. sylvansrom had a VERY soft fuzzy head when she buzzed it.

[sylvanstrom.livejournal.com]

There were certain benefits, yes. ;) I remember one particular GirlSpot meeting, sitting on a couch between starkeymonster and claudia_, and they couldn't keep their hands off my head.

It took a *long* time to grow out to anything resembling what had been my normal haircut, though. I shaved it in mid-September, and it hadn't grown out enough by winter break for me to pass it off as just short hair, so I had to tell my mom I'd shaved my head. There were a bunch of Army guys on the plane to Rapid City, and she told me at the airport she had studied each one of them as they got off the plane to see if it was me.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

My styling technique depends on weather. If it's rainy or humid (or I'm running late) I go curly: after my shower I towel dry, rub curling gunk in it, part it, and let it air dry. If the weather's clear and dry (or I want to look extra nice, or I have time and feel like doing it) I towel dry, air dry for a few minutes while I get dressed, then blow dry it straight, using a round brush. Now that my hair's longer this requires no styling products, just hot air.

[hanseth.livejournal.com]

I never used to blow dry my hair. I started doing it on a regular basis when I had a stylist actually teach me how, and now I love the look of it so much more that I rarely go out without blowdrying.

Interestingly, that same stylist, a Pentecostal Christian, decided to go on a mission to Thailand in order to teach prostitutes to cut hair, so they'd have a viable career other than prostitution.

[nepenthedreams]

My most memorable haircut...

going from the same long,permed, big-bangs hair that everyone had in high school to cutting it into a bob & dying it red - having it go straight again, & not "doing my bangs" - that was the biggest change and I can remember that people didn't even recognize me. It was the first time I got a haircut that was "me" instead of trying to copy everyone else.

[hanseth.livejournal.com]

P.S. I am intrigued by these recent hair changes!

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Oh! Right. It's nothing drastic, just that I switched from using Aussie Mega to using Garnier Fructis and I can't BELIEVE how happy my hair is about it.

Also, my hair is now getting long enough that I can wear it up most of the time, which is cool.

my hairbrush

[cyclothemia.livejournal.com]

Funny thing, my hairbrush- originally, it was for my long haired cat, with a softer brush on one side and a detangler on the other. Then I started using it, and now, my cat has a new brush. :)