Friday Poll Time!

[trinityvixen]

Of course, my vanity demands you talk about a subject nearer and dearer to me than y'alls, but have at it anyway.

[Poll #1044566]

I forgot how bad bed head with short-short hair looks. I found out this morning. I also realize that it will never look so good as when I got it cut. I need to pay more attention next time and figure out how the lady cutting it used the round brush to make it curl inwards. It has instead curled outwards, making me look even more like my second Simpsons avatar. Which would be fine if both sides of my head agreed to the one hairstyle. But they won't. Alas.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Being a short-haired boy, my answers aren't really useful.

Have you considered a curling iron to make the inward-flip? I feel like that's what my sister used to do, when she had the Lois Lane haircut going.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I swear, she only used a hair dryer and mousse, and I have those. I do also have a curling iron, though, that came with my straightener. I might try it. As is, I don't mind the outward flip, it's just strangely cutesy-slash-older-looking-making.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

cutesy-slash-older-looking-making.

...I have no idea how to translate that into an image in my head. I think I'd actually need to see it to comment.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, since it flipped out only at the end and was otherwise sort of flat on my head, it was like kinda a less-greased-down Trinity hair. So, it made me look older and more serious but the flip was so perfect it looked cute.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I know the theory of how they do it, I've just never succeeded in doing it myself.

Essentially, you're doing a heated hair curler, but in reverse. You have a rounded brush the diameter of the curl you want, usually that's a bit heat conductive. You have the dryer on hot, you wrap the hair around the brush and put tension on it, and then you heat-dry the hair. It's the same priniciple as a curling iron, but with the heat applied to the outside instead of the inside.

But I've never been able to do it myself. My elbows don't bend that way. Also, my hair takes 20 minutes to blow dry, and I don't have that kind of patience.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Mine now takes about five minutes to blow dry, which is awesome. But you're right. There's no way to do it with just the one set of arms. You need someone assisting, methinks. Also, I need to get like an attachment for the hair drier that focuses the air to do that more successfully. Or I could try curlers/curling iron.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

This is exactly right and I have never ever had the patience to do it, or the bendability.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I know there are people who have managed to learn to do this themselves. Just not me, I'm afraid.

[equustel.livejournal.com]

I've never dyed, straightened, permed, or hi-lited my hair. I keep getting tempted to do one of these things - just to shake things up - but then it would kill my streak. (Streak! Ha ha... okay, that was bad. Sorreez.)

btw, your Scully-do owns!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

And I've wanted to dye my hair forever, since it's just the most plain brown ever. But I'd never bother with the upkeep, so it wouldn't stay nice for long...

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Me either! I only ever once used super temporary dye to be Scully for Halloween, and once I had a friend put blue streaks in my hair that turned my whole head blue so I dyed it back to a normal color. Not sure if that counts.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It counts. My attempt to dye my hair green that produced no noticeable change does not.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I always think I'm not really me unless I have long hair. I've had it as short as yours two or three times, and I NEVER got used to it at that length.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It took getting it cut quite a bit shorter than I was used to for eight years to break me of that. I got used to it cycling in and out for being long, but now I'm keeping it short, I'll have to get used to that.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

How long are you planning to keep it short? I always picture you with long hair regardless of how short you've got it.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Me too! Isn't that weird?

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I say some people are just long-hair people. When I have short hair I'm like bizarre AU evil twin Michelle.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I am long hair people, honestly. That's why I had it long for, well, so long. Everyone would say it was a hassle, but I hadn't had short hair really in forever and I couldn't remember hair being "easier" to take care of.

I feel there's a trade off. Short hair requires more styling, long hair more washing. You pick your poison.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to style mine every morning when it was only shoulder length, and just, bleh. I VASTLY prefer my wash, comb, throw some hair goo in, let dry routine to any amount of time spent blow drying or trying to arrange my curls in a manner to make them look decent shorter (usually with clips and such). I'm keeping mine long until I'm a bitter old hag who can no longer reach far enough back to comb it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Then you get a buzzcut and be done with it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

A little while longer at least. I will probably not cut it again before your wedding. In that time, it won't get as long as it was when I cut it this time, but it'll be close.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Your questions are phrased so that I can't actually answer exactly.

I like my hair between shoulder and shoulder blade length. But I like it to change - I deliberately grow my hair out and then cut off four inches at a time for variety's sake. Also, it's cheaper that way.

I used to have a hairdresser I followed. Started with her in sixth grade, followed her to four different salons. Didn't stop going to her until a year and a half out of college, when my parents moved and I had no reason to go to that town anymore. (She actually did my hair for the wedding, and then we said goodbye.) Now I'm going to a Dramatics NYC two blocks south from work that's pretty decent and cheap. I didn't have a favorite hairdresser, but then Tiger did my highlights. I think I'm going back to him from now on.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I gather that this is a bit short for a poll, but there was hardly a way to expand it that wouldn't leave out the fellas more than I already have.

I never used to like variety. In fact, you hardly notice a change of four inches when your hair is as long as mine was through high school and college. Now, however, I find that in the hands of the right person, anything can be made to suit.

I never had a favorite hairdresser, either. My mom cut my hair just to trim it even and take out split-ends when it was long. I went to whoever would do it for my first Locks of Love donation and, when they seemed less than reliable when I called back a second time, went to the lady who had cut my mother's the first time she did L.O.L. And we've stayed with her because she's funny, sweet, dotes upon us, my mother loves her, and she fabulous. I have no idea what she charges (my mom has paid her both times we went), but I'd pay it myself if it came to that.

Of course, I may wind up in your situation if my parents leave Westchester and there's no reason for me to be up there.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

My hair is the ONE thing that I'm pretty picky about, so I HATE trying to find new hair stylists. I went to one guy for years, then found another chick, then moved to Houston and had to make do with a Visible Changes salon place, then finally my aunt found me someone in Forth Worth, who I make an appt. with every time I go home. Which reminds me... I need to call her this weekend.

Also, on the length question... I like my hair either really short, really long, or chin-length. :p

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The troublesome stages between styles are always so annoying. I too preference short or long, not intermediate. If it's past shoulder-length it requires care or else needs to be put up to manage and neither way looks as good as done-up short hair or pulled back long hair. With my hair being so short now, I might be tempted to cut it back again and again rather than go through the intermediary stages.

Re: Maybe I should start bringing photo references, but just the idea of it makes me feel like a too

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

There's a salon that was listed for Locks of Love that specifically did bobs and short haircuts for women only. I think specialized places like it aren't thick, but they're definitely around.