Hair

DavidMn · #1 09-18-2006, 04:35 PM

Maybe I don't get it, but I just dont understand some people's obsession with perfect hair. I tease my aunt all the time when she comes over calling her helmet head because when I touch her hair it's hard as a rock. Anyway, I know I'm kind of an anomaly among people of my persuasion, but I cant stand the thought of ever putting gel in my hair. Some people I can understand if they're in business because they want to look more "Professional." Oh well, like I said, maybe I just dont get it!

Johnny Stew · #2 09-18-2006, 04:40 PM

I couldn't even run my fingers through the hair of my second boyfriend because it was moussed and sprayed like nobody's business. I didn't like that.

I've used gel a few times over the years, and tried mousse in the '80s (hey, everyone else was doing it!), but I really don't like to be bothered. I wash my hair and comb it, and that's good enough for me.

So I'm with you, David... I don't get it either. But to each their own.

DavidMn · #3 09-18-2006, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

and tried mousse in the '80s (hey, everyone else was doing it!),

May we have evidence of that please?

michelle2677 · #4 09-18-2006, 05:58 PM

I put more stock in my eyebrows than I do my hair. I would seriously pay more for a good eyebrow wax than a haircut any day. Seriously.

sorry..getting ready for Grey's Anatomy!!

DrummerDeanna · #5 09-18-2006, 06:13 PM

Well if you had MY hair trust me, you'd use product!

I'd have a gross looking afro without product. I'm growing it out- but I defintely care how my hair looks!

michelle2677 · #6 09-18-2006, 06:19 PM

oh, I use product, don't get me wrong.

start off with a leave in conditioner, then go to the paul mitchell seal and shine. sometimes just a little volumizer at the roots. start drying with a diffuser (I have curly hair...well....somewhat) and then right before it's dry, a soft curl enhancer balm-something or other. but it never looks good, so I just do my routine and move on with it. it sounds like a lot, but it goes real quick. but my eyebrows.....that's another story!

DrummerDeanna · #7 09-18-2006, 07:17 PM

I'm actually growing my hair out because I'm so sick of the products actually.

Now that said, I'll still use many products - they just won't render my hair un-run-your-fingers-throughable" My hair is hard because of the goo I use - it looks great but I'm sick of the goo. Of course a couple of months into having longer hair I'll be sick of blowdrying and straightening it. Sigh. I've got a TON of thick thick hair and it's neither straight nor curly - it's just unruly and weird.

michelle2677 · #8 09-18-2006, 07:18 PM

mine is really curly

in places. so it's straight in others so it just looks like I haven't brushed it.

Sometimes I havent.

estranged4life · #9 09-18-2006, 07:29 PM

why some women seem fascinated with running their hands through my hair, frikkin' annoying man. I dont even like Deb to do that ****. Women must still like guys with long hair even though the trend is for short hair on men

Btw, I havent cut it in over 3+ years.

I also dont understand why people buy 20 bazillion hair products, I only use shampoo (Usually Pantene) and a brush, Don't see no need to put tire lube, Bozo-the-Clown hair coloring and Exxon-Valdez recovered oil-spilt oil in my hair or dry it with a wind tunnel machine, How about using room temp air to dry it?

Brian "Born with a full head of hair...Will die with a full head of hair" j.

DrummerDeanna · #10 09-18-2006, 07:57 PM

^^

Well all of the guys I've ever known with long hair have the most soft and lovely hair. You boys - you get the good hair, the good eyelashes

Heh - my ex boyfriend had beautiful long wavy hair - I tortured him all the time playing with it, brushing it etc....and he didn't have to use any products either - just good old shampoo.

GardenStateGirlie · #11 09-18-2006, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by michelle2677

I put more stock in my eyebrows than I do my hair.

i'm more obsessed with my brows as well. it's pretty much become an every other week thing.

xdreamsunwindx · #12 09-18-2006, 09:27 PM

Eh, I brush it and flat iron it, that's about it. My hair is kind of a late-60s look - a bit past my shoulders, layers around my face, and thick lash-grazing bangs. Of course, half of it isn't even my own hair.

My *real* hair is about chin length, cut in an a-line, but I got so sick of it being short (my hair just does not grow) that I went to Sally's and just went to town with extensions. I love it, though.

If I'm feeling fancy, I'll backcomb at my roots and fix it into a pseudo beehive. Think Elvira-meets-Priscilla Presley 60s hair. It sounds dumb, but it doesn't look too bad.

irishgrl · #13 09-19-2006, 06:32 AM

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Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair!
Shoulder length, longer (hair!)
Here baby, there mama, Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair! (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair)
Flow it, Show it;
Long as God can grow it, My Hair!

Count me in among the gals that LOVE long hair (sorry Brian!) but I dont play with it, I just like the way it looks

Long hair on guys takes me back to a more primal time, sort of a VIKING time, a knuckle-dragger time....heck I dont know I just LOVE it!

GODDESS6 · #14 09-19-2006, 06:33 AM

i just cut 12 inches off of my hair~ it is still at my shoulders, gonna grow it long again, i just wanted to give it a fresh healthy start~ i am w/ the girls tho, i spend buku time on the brows, they gotta be perfect~ my hair is naturally curly & looks alot like stevie's bella donna hbo hair~ i have to use tons of conditioner becuz it is so thick, there is no way i could comb thru it w/out~ as for gel & stuff, i usually don't use it, maybe a little spray to keep the bangs in place, but i'd rather feel the silky softness & smell the good smell of clean hair than all that sticky ****~

i do prefer long hair on women, i have yet to see a short style that is very flattering at all~ maybe cuz i am a girly girly, but i can't stand when i can't tell if your a girl or boy till someone turns around & i can see their face, when it chick has short hair like a boy it really bothers me

~

Sugar · #15 09-19-2006, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by GODDESS6

i do prefer long hair on women, i have yet to see a short style that is very flattering at all~ maybe cuz i am a girly girly ~

I don't mind some short styles; some people can really pull them off. But what is with this supposed age limit on long hair?

My mother keeps bugging me (I'm 35) about when I'm going to cut my hair short since I'm "getting older." Now I have curly hair and my routine consists of a daily shampoo/conditioner, combing through my hair with the conditioner in, towel dry and some sort of curl enhancer (either spray or mousse) and then I just let it dry, That's it. I don't even own a hair dryer. Whereas my mother with her short do has to blow dry her hair and use product. Why should I cut my hair and create more work for myself?

Oh...and I'm getting grey in the front and she's aghast I'm not coloring it (like she does). I just can't be bothered with the time and the expense. I think I'm going to get a recent pic of Grace Slick and send it to her!