Vanity, thy name is vanity...

[vulgarweed]

...OK, maybe going without setting foot in a hair-cutting/styling type place of any sort since the Clinton administration is a kind of perverse anti-vanity. But it's so easy to keep putting it off...well, I did get a haircut today. Now it's upper-back instead of nearly-to-the-ass, and it's layered a little and has body and stuff. Wow. Most importantly, the dead ends are gone.

I always tip nearly 100% on my cheap-ass Supercuts jobs, because my hair is a pain in the ass to work with. Not only was it pioneer/pentecostal long, it's baby-pubes fine. It "cobwebs," which means it sticks to itself and tangles instantly. It's very snarly. It's slippery. The poor lady trying to wrangle with it actually cut herself on a strand of it. It also breaks easily. Also, according to her, I can't have bangs because my forehead's too small. That's fine. She knows what she's doing, I don't.

Yay, big improvement! I just want combing it to hurt less and require less lube.

Comments

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

I used to have long hair, too, and had the same problem with split ends. (Here's a tip: Try henna every two weeks or so. Thickens the hair shaft, making it more manageable. And if you don't want to color your hair, there are hennas that don't color it.)

[tartanshell.livejournal.com]

You know you have been in fandom for awhile when:

So, I was scrolling down my friends page, and all I saw, at first, was "I just want...it to hurt less and require less lube."

*facepalm*

But yay, haircut!

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Wow, can't wait to see it!

I know the woes of troublesome hair, oh yes, and I refuse cuttings for years because I dread what people want to do with it - they often think "oh here, just try this hair product and let's blowdry it". Once or twice, I've let them do what they want just to have the satisfaction of their apology for making such a disaster of it. It's hard for them to think that we, who live with our hair, know our hair better than a trained stylist does.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's not that dramatic, really.

Hee, I'm kind of the opposite - I'm pretty subby in the stylist's chair, I figured she's spent a lot of more time studying hair than I have so, I'm like, whatever. It's almost guaranteed to be an improvement over its past long-neglected state, whatever I wind up with. :D

[fir-bholg.livejournal.com]

I still recall with amusement the time you came back to campus with your Sínead O'Connor do and caught the eye of every womon on the Softball League. ;)

And next time I am within daytrip-distance of your locale, I really do need to look you up!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Hee, and when it grew into a sort of rockabilly pompadour it drew 'em even more. XD

You DO, stranger, you DO. I've missed you so much!

[fir-bholg.livejournal.com]

It is indescribably difficult for reasons I don't wholly fathom to get ~anywhere~ when I am doing a show. But I'll PM you my phone # (cell) so you can get hold of me if you need to in a pinch. :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I tend to let stylists go at it, but I always sort of regret it-- I have hip-length hair and the last time, the girl dumped it into the sink, swished it around, and then stuck the comb in at the crown of my head and yanked, as if that would actually work to comb tangles out.
I had to patiently explain to her what anyone who's ever had hair longer than their shoulders knows: You've got to detangle the ends first before you can brush the crown.

So it took about an hour and she finally cut off about three inches more than I'd told her to, just because she couldn't detangle it. It hurt a lot. I tipped generously but haven't been back to a hair salon since, and it was over a year ago. Next time, I'll just get a friend to trim the ends-- I have my own hair scissors now.

Having long hair is a lot less maintenance than short hair... People don't understand that, but you can just wash it twice a week or so; you don't even have to brush it every day... Mine's very fine and tangly and sticks to itself too, but cutting down on harsh shampoos and trying various of the weirdo hair-care regimens on the longhair community here has made it a lot easier to totally avoid the hairdresser.

Anyway, I bet your hair looks awesome. I've managed to cut down on the tangly with my hair by switching to sodium laureth sulfate-free shampoo and avoiding silicones (and other -cones) in my conditioner, occasionally degreasing with a dilute solution of baking soda and following up with a rinse of dilute apple-cider vinegar, and that sort of thing. It might be worth looking into-- it's made enough of a difference to me that I can actually! wear! my hair! down! sometimes.

But I didn't actually really mean to come here to preach longhair crap at you-- I just was so amused by the fact that you dated your last haircut to the administration it had taken place during.