September 2009 Weddings
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Hair
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Re: Hair
Nobody wants my hair. It's short on top (not by choice), and naturally curly. Depending on what type of hair product I use or how I style it, it can go from great to unruly to completely unmanageable. It's very thick and sheds like a Bernese Mountain Dog.
Here is my latest cut:
This is what it looked like prior to my cut. This is straightened and then curled with the curling iron:
And this is what it looks like naturally curly, with defrizz product, air-dried:
Mine is red. I have only colored it once, several years ago, and I won't do it again until my hair starts to go white. I really missed my red! Both my mom and sister have red hair too.
Anyway, its thick and naturally wavy. I can usually get away with just blow drying it in the morning and all of the layers flip & curl and do fun things. Its longer now than it has ever been- nearly half way down my back. I love it!
The pic is old, but it shows the color:
I'm on the left
I love my hair, so I'll happily post away. My hair is naturally wavy and strawberry blonde- a completely unique color, which darkens in the winter and lightens with sunn exposure- no one else's hair is exactly like mine. I also hardly ever heat style and use good products to really baby it.
Really long and really red, rehearsal dinner.
A better picture of the variation in color, and a shorter cut (my hair is a little longer than this now):
Most recent picture of my hair/ face (bonus points if you know the other Niner in this pic):
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I'm lucky and my hair is great to work with. It's naturally a pretty brown color but I consistently highlight with natural looking blondes and recently some vibrant reds. It's naturally wavy, but it straightens and curls well. I can usually do whatever I want with it.
Natural wave:
Blown Out(also shows the color well):
Curled:
It was really behaving well in my siggy pic as well
siggy pic is really one of the better pics of my hair. I've since cut it super short, and it's about grown back out to the length it was in e-pics, just a little bit shorter.
I love my hair, it's like 99% maintenance free. I put gel-cream in it when I get out of the shower and let it air dry. Every day. It's always pulled back in some way, I HATE my hair in my face. These days it's usually just like my bangs area pulled back with a few bobby pins, not full on half-ponytail style like in the pics below.
of the back:
it used to be way curlier when I lived in more humid climates. My curls have loosened out a lot since being in CO. Even in DC, my hair was WAY curlier than it usually is.
I like my hair. I'm a natural blonde, my hair is naturally wavy so it's super easy to style quickly, and it's very soft. I try to take really good care of my hair and I pride myself on it's health.
Easy to blow dry straight
Easy to curl (this picture is my new haircut)
I haven't dyed my hair since my senior year of college. I kind of miss having it dyed because my hair is such a mouse-y brown color. Lately, I don't know WTF is up with my hair. I use to love my hair, even though it's thick as hell...but lately, it's just annoying:
This is when I take the time to blow dry and straighten (which is almost never):
And this is how I typically wear it (air dry or with some mousse):
I hate my hair, but I think that's inevitable - no one likes their own hair (unless you're Mary ;p) It's frizzy in the summer, dry in the winter, and I have a LOT of it. I swear I'm the bane of my stylist's existence whenever I go in and she has to blow it dry.
And I'm going grey, so I have it colored. It was my normal dark brown for the wedding, but otherwise its red.
But when I don't put it up in it's usual bun, it goes crazy.
updated 10.03.12
This is my hair in its mostly natural state. It's just dark brown. Very exciting!
It's been multiple other colors...for a while after the wedding, I had blond highlights like this:
This winter it was a dark, reddish brown:
And now it's dark brown (close to my natural) with very subtle blond highlights.
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This is my natural hair color. It was snow white when I was a little girl, but has actually darkened over the years. Like Mary's, it gets lighter in the sun. It also turns green in chlorine.
Overall, I love it though, mostly because it's very low-maintance. I use Suave shampoo and conditioner. haha
I HATE YOU!!! Hahah jk. I love your hair! Look how shiny it is in that pic! Ugh! Excuse me while I go burn with jealousy;)
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Haha. I love you too, Rach. You can post some more about how you can't fit into your size 2s anymore and me and my 40" hips will burn with jealousy right along with you.
LOL:)
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I have decent hair! It holds style really well - I can wear it curly, straight, wavy. It can sometimes get a bit limp, but otherwise it's pretty and shiny!
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My hair is naturally very dark, and I didn't like it for a long time so I dyed it red, but then one day I decided to leave it alone and now I really like the color. It's naturally wavy and can be very hard to manage. But when it's good, it's good. And when it's bad, it's REALLY bad. But I still like it.
For funsies, my red hairs:
At graduation: This is probably the best it's ever looked and i want to go back to this style:
Current style:
These are bad cell camera pics from this morning, but I love my new haircut!
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
I'm a hair changing girl. I'm mostly a fan of my hair, some days not. haha. I like that I can do quite a bit, and have it at different lengths and styles. My hair also gets lighter in the summer. I get natural auburn highlights.
Long and curled:
Naturally curly:
Bobbed:
Short Short:
Grown out a bit:
Lots of pics.
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my hair is actually like a dirty blonde, but it doesnt match my eyebrows. at all. the dark color that my hair is/has been is the natural color of both of my parents. ive had ranges of blonde, red, brown, etc.
this was my Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama inspired cut with red/brown/blonde hair that i had in college
when i got sick a lot of my hair fell out and it got very thin. when it re-grew it now has natural curl/wave. but not the pretty kind. its just a fuzzy mess so i straighten it every day.
then i went to the long dark hair which i think suits me best, although i have been considering getting a bob.
I like my hair, most of the time. It's super thick and there's a lot of it, which in the summer can make it sort of feel like a blanket if it's too long. I HATE blonde in my hair so I keep it medium to dark brown. Lately I've been having some auburn put into it and I like it. As far as length, I tend to keep it medium to long. I have a full face and if it's too short, I think I look very young.
Right before the holiday's 2009, I got long blunt bangs cut. I loved them, but they got mixed reviews. I can't find any pics from the front on this laptop with them, so here's the best shot I have, from the side. I had them up until about Sept of this year.
Here's the most recent pic I can find, bangs are growing out. They're about grown out now, and my hair is a little lighter after my appt last Friday
I hate my hair. It's the one thing I wish I could change.
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Thank you for making me sufficiently jealous this morning. I've been fighting my hair for years. It's naturally half curly/half straight and all frizz. It takes an hour to do it "naturally" curly and an hour and a half (including dry time) to straighten it. When I do it curly I have to put moose and scrunch and then blow dry with a diffuser f.o.r.ever and it's frizzy within 10 minutes after I'm done. To straighten it I have to pull it back into a pony tail and let it dry for about 30 minutes on it's own, then blow dry it in sections and then section it back out and take a Chi straightener with heat styling protection spray to it. It has greatly improved since I started using Wen. I don't need other styling products other than the two I've listed which is really nice, however it still doesn't dry nicely on it's own and I can't just blow dry it without straightening because it looks huge and even frizzier within 10 minutes. Very annoying. I also have all these little baby hairs around my face that like to flyaway and frizz out, they never get any longer and I once made the HORRIBLE mistake of shaving them back in middle school...never again, it was so obvious and looked awful. I do LOVE doing my hair though and I feel great when it is done and I'm having a good hair day.
/end vent on my hair. Here's some pics:
Here it is straight and behaving itself.
Here it is with the natural curl (no curling iron used).
Here you can see the little baby hairs as well as me hamming it up for the camera like a tool lol.
I am another one who doesn't love my hair. It is just kind of blah.
I rarely do anything to it. I typically let it air dry and sometimes will run a straightener through it. I never dry it. I sometimes curl it when I go out or to a wedding or something and I sometimes will add some mousse to scrunch it. It has natural highlights in the sun so I only get it highlighted at a salon in the winter.
Here's what it looks like straight:
Here's what it looked like at the wedding:
Here's when I curl it myself:
And when I scrunch it:
Not a very good pic but you get the idea. I look the same all the time lol
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I wish I could say it gets better after the baby is born.... I shouldn't say that. It does, it just takes 6+ months for it to stop falling out and for your scalp to stop being sensitive every time you brush it. Sadly, mine is still uber-dry thanks to Sami -_-
updated 10.03.12
Yea, I don't like my hair. Particularly my scalp which is always dry and flaky but it's not dandruff. My hair itself is pretty fine and thin so it gets pretty limp. I've had it parted to the side and have sweeping bangs, a style that I've had for 7 years! Eeek, I need a new style. My face is pretty round though, so it's hard to find a style. I like to keep it around shoulder length since it tends to get less flat at a shorter length.
(2nd from the right)
I kind of hate you for posting that pic, Mary!
Ah, hair. I used to have super thick hair, but I lost 25lbs when I had my jaw wired shut for 2 months after my jaw surgery, and it started falling out from the weight loss. In this picture I'm playing the harp, my friends always call this my "hair picture". When I was 17, a few months before it started falling out:
Eventually we realized I'm anemic and that's why my hair falls out, so I started on iron pills, which turned my hair dark and really dull.
When I was 25:
(it's a total coincidence my friends and I are all wearing pink)
I'm going grey anyway, so I just highlight. I'm not very good at styling it though, so I try to get cuts that are easy to manage. I usually keep it shoulder length or a couple inches longer.
Here's my hair a year ago.
I wish my hair looked better long, but it gets so frizzy, no matter what I do. It has a mind of its own- if I curl it one way, it flips the other way, it's so weird. It makes me look windblown if I curl it. I also get weird kinks from pushing it behind my ears, so I've started using a straightening iron if I go out in the evening. It's always in my face so if I don't care how it looks, it's always pulled back.