Hair Help

FruttiTutti

Hi All,

I have unbelievable thick curly hair (as in think of how the thick the thickest hair you've seen was and probably multiply that by at least 2). It's awful basically, really unmanageable for me etc.

I wear it straight and tie it up most of the time, thats about as half decent as it gets. I think I just need a really good layered cut and a lot of thinning out and it would be much more manageable.

Can anyone with similar issues recommend a good stylist for this?

I need it to look AMAZING for a night out soon!

Thanks ladies

abrr1000

Have you ever had the 12 week blowdry? It would help managing the volume issue.

FruttiTutti

I've had it twice! The first time I found it amazing for about 3 weeks but after that not much good. The second time I found it didn't really help the volume issue at all, but it made my hair feel super soft.

Due to the price of it and the whole leaving it in for 3 days etc I feel it's not a long term solution. I'd get it done for Christmas or something but other than that its too much effort and expense unfortunately :mad:

Have you had it done yourself? If so, where did you have it? Maybe I'm missing out on something great, as I know there are so many different products for it these days

Storminateacup

When someone says they're going to get their hair thinned out, I cringe.
I used to have thick hair - my friends in school called it a "rope". I was so concious of it, I got it thinned, and thinned, and thinned. And I wrecked it.

At the grand ole age of 22, I have it wrecked. Fine, limp hair, that still curls up on me.

Deep layers sound good, but keep away from the scissors that looks like its pulling your hair out!

odonopenmic

Hey, not sure where you're based but I would recommend checking out The Natural Cut on Wicklow Street.

Different mates and I have gone to him and for the ones with unruly / difficult / out of the norm hair, they've been great (and I can't remember his name but it's only two guys and one specialises in colour while the other specialises in cuts). The philosophy seems to be a cut for your hairtype and face, as opposed to 'we're going to try and make your hair do something it simply will not do'. They also gave great advice in terms of management.

I found them very pleasant but as my hair is rather straight and boring, what I need is a stylist who will 'cut it to within an inch of its life' to make it more stylish, and as this also entails not necessarily doing the healthiest thing for it, they were reluctant to do something really mad with it. I stopped going to the Natural Cut simply because although the style always worked very well for me, I border on the outlandish! My new stylist at Hair Design on the Quays beside the Italian Quarter is 'the one'. Pure brilliant!

shell10

FruttiTutti wrote: »

Hi All,

I have unbelievable thick curly hair (as in think of how the thick the thickest hair you've seen was and probably multiply that by at least 2). It's awful basically, really unmanageable for me etc.

I wear it straight and tie it up most of the time, thats about as half decent as it gets. I think I just need a really good layered cut and a lot of thinning out and it would be much more manageable.

Can anyone with similar issues recommend a good stylist for this?

I need it to look AMAZING for a night out soon!

Thanks ladies

Please please do not get your hair thinned out !! im a hairdresser my self and no way in hell wil i go near someones hair with a thinning sissors and no hairdresser should!!! it ruins your hair and expecially dor curly thick hair u'll be lef with little frizzy stumps all around your head!! and i dont just no this from training i know of experience!! i was the same in secondary school i just thought my hair looked so smooth when it was thinned out (all to the imagination of course) so kept going down to the local hairdressers perpousely to get it thinned out until she ended up refusin to touch my hair!! all my hair feel out and i still have bald patches growin back the hair and in my passport pictur i had to put my har in a midle vain cause my fringe fel off so please please stay away from the thinning sissors!!

a head of round layers will be perfect and if u ask the hairdresser to take some weight out of it for u they will but make sure u say without the thinnin sissors! i also no when to get my hair cut cause i find it gets heavy and grows out and yours is prop the same so when u feel this happenin go and get ur hair cut and keep on top of it and u'll find it much easier to manage!