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next_to_normalHey, if Lauren's hair can have its own tag, I think mine deserves at least its own post, lol.
I've decided I am tired of my hair and want to do something different with it, but I don't quite know what. :( I think I'm ready to take the plunge and start coloring it (the grey has been bugging me for a while, but I also want to liven it up a bit) and reddish/auburn highlights sound like fun. I used to have them naturally as a kid, and I want them back, dammit! Except I know nothing about that sort of thing and am terribly afraid of coming out with some unnatural color because the stylist screwed up.
I'm also tired of the style, though, and that is more of a hurdle. I've had basically the same hair style since high school, with one or two brief attempts to grow it out in college, more out of laziness than anything else. I've sort of ended up there by default, because my hair is very fine and has zero body to it, so anything past my shoulders tends to hang limply and staunchly resist any and all curling efforts. Unless I don't blow dry it, in which case I get a weird, uneven sideways wave that looks like I slept on it. :(
This is basically what it looks like now, on a good day:
I've made some progress with products in the last few years, but my hair has oddly changed dramatically, and I don't know what to do with it. I used to have oily hair. Like, so oily that I could not go a day without washing it, or it would get grimy and stringy and gross. I couldn't even hide it in a ponytail, it was so bad. I had to school myself not to touch my hair because running my hands through it too much made it worse. And now it's the complete opposite. I never used conditioner before, but lately I've started using it every day because my hair is so dry, and the last time I went to get my hair cut, the stylist actually mentioned how dry it was. (When I mentioned it to my mom this weekend, her response was: "Weird. That didn't happen to me until menopause." Me: "Well, I think we can rule THAT out.") It's probably one of the gazillion medicines I'm on that's messing with my body chemistry, but it's kind of throwing me for a loop in terms of styling.
Anyway, I'm weirdly conflicted as to whether I want to go longer or shorter. Ideally, I would have long hair with wavy/loose curls - like this, basically, because Erin Karpluk is PERFECTION - but if there are products out there to make my hair do that, I don't know what they are. So, barring any revelations on styling, I'm thinking of maybe going super short. Like Carey Mulligan short? Except, of course, that Carey Mulligan is the adorablest thing that ever adorabled, so she could make any hair cut look good. I don't know. I am so, SO hesitant about doing anything to my hair, because I've had my share of disastrous hair cuts, and I am always afraid they're going to do something awful to it. (This is exacerbated by the fact that I no longer have a regular stylist.)
The other conflict I have is that I want low-maintenance hair. I don't want to spend an hour curling my hair in the morning, but it seems that my hair, refusing as it does to dry normally, requires significant attention if I don't want to look like I just rolled out of bed (and not the cute, messy-on-purpose bedhead). Right now I spend a good 15 minutes on it and it's about 50/50 whether it'll look nice or not on any given day, lol.
The final obstacle is, of course, that I am kind of appalled at the idea of spending more than $30 on my hair, lol. Which is why I go to Hair Cuttery and have continued to put off the plunge into the world of colors, because it really adds up to maintain it. But since I am always so nervous about stylists, I'm kind of thinking I should go to a really good salon, at least for the first one, so I know they're professionals who won't screw it up. And I've gotten a couple recommendations, but... they're absurdly expensive.
Thoughts? Advice? Do I worry too much? Why can't I make personal decisions without outside validation?? (That last one is perhaps a question for my therapist, not you guys.)
I've decided I am tired of my hair and want to do something different with it, but I don't quite know what. :( I think I'm ready to take the plunge and start coloring it (the grey has been bugging me for a while, but I also want to liven it up a bit) and reddish/auburn highlights sound like fun. I used to have them naturally as a kid, and I want them back, dammit! Except I know nothing about that sort of thing and am terribly afraid of coming out with some unnatural color because the stylist screwed up.
I'm also tired of the style, though, and that is more of a hurdle. I've had basically the same hair style since high school, with one or two brief attempts to grow it out in college, more out of laziness than anything else. I've sort of ended up there by default, because my hair is very fine and has zero body to it, so anything past my shoulders tends to hang limply and staunchly resist any and all curling efforts. Unless I don't blow dry it, in which case I get a weird, uneven sideways wave that looks like I slept on it. :(
This is basically what it looks like now, on a good day:
I've made some progress with products in the last few years, but my hair has oddly changed dramatically, and I don't know what to do with it. I used to have oily hair. Like, so oily that I could not go a day without washing it, or it would get grimy and stringy and gross. I couldn't even hide it in a ponytail, it was so bad. I had to school myself not to touch my hair because running my hands through it too much made it worse. And now it's the complete opposite. I never used conditioner before, but lately I've started using it every day because my hair is so dry, and the last time I went to get my hair cut, the stylist actually mentioned how dry it was. (When I mentioned it to my mom this weekend, her response was: "Weird. That didn't happen to me until menopause." Me: "Well, I think we can rule THAT out.") It's probably one of the gazillion medicines I'm on that's messing with my body chemistry, but it's kind of throwing me for a loop in terms of styling.
Anyway, I'm weirdly conflicted as to whether I want to go longer or shorter. Ideally, I would have long hair with wavy/loose curls - like this, basically, because Erin Karpluk is PERFECTION - but if there are products out there to make my hair do that, I don't know what they are. So, barring any revelations on styling, I'm thinking of maybe going super short. Like Carey Mulligan short? Except, of course, that Carey Mulligan is the adorablest thing that ever adorabled, so she could make any hair cut look good. I don't know. I am so, SO hesitant about doing anything to my hair, because I've had my share of disastrous hair cuts, and I am always afraid they're going to do something awful to it. (This is exacerbated by the fact that I no longer have a regular stylist.)
The other conflict I have is that I want low-maintenance hair. I don't want to spend an hour curling my hair in the morning, but it seems that my hair, refusing as it does to dry normally, requires significant attention if I don't want to look like I just rolled out of bed (and not the cute, messy-on-purpose bedhead). Right now I spend a good 15 minutes on it and it's about 50/50 whether it'll look nice or not on any given day, lol.
The final obstacle is, of course, that I am kind of appalled at the idea of spending more than $30 on my hair, lol. Which is why I go to Hair Cuttery and have continued to put off the plunge into the world of colors, because it really adds up to maintain it. But since I am always so nervous about stylists, I'm kind of thinking I should go to a really good salon, at least for the first one, so I know they're professionals who won't screw it up. And I've gotten a couple recommendations, but... they're absurdly expensive.
Thoughts? Advice? Do I worry too much? Why can't I make personal decisions without outside validation?? (That last one is perhaps a question for my therapist, not you guys.)
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Date: Apr. 27th, 2011 03:18 pm (UTC)$30 for your first experience is a good thing. Better to try something coming from a pro and then nitpick from that then a cheap disaster that scares you away from EVER playing with your hair again!
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Date: Apr. 27th, 2011 05:47 pm (UTC)Heh, yeah, that was my thinking. I just hate splurging on myself, even when I should. :-P