Bad Hair Day

jumpguy

That time has come again, when my hair has become a wildlife habitat, adopting an ecosystem of it's own. Think I saw a robin nesting it somewhere earlier on today. When I go for a shower, there's 30 seconds of silence when I put my head under the shower as my hair absorbs the water to saturation.

Needless to say, I fúcking hate going to the barbers. All that sitting down and waiting, making awkward talk to people (who nearly ALWAYS love cars - I just try and steer the convo towards insurance, thank you junior cert business). Oh, and then the small talk with the barber himself, at least though he's quick and I can hold out for 10 minutes. Surely women must find all that hair kinda a pain in the hole to maintain (or maybe ye're just not as lazy as me)...

So, how do the C&Hers feel about their hair? Is the most maintenance it gets is a quick gel and go or for the ladies a bit of a straighten (or a curl, way to be different!) and go? Would you ever dye your hair some outlandish colour, even for €50 or just for the craic?

amacachi

I'm going bald and I'm still not bothered getting it cut (been about 18 months) so that should tell you both how much I care and give an idea of how ridiculous it looks. :pac:

Atavan-Halen

I'm sick of my hair been growing it for 3/4 years now and it's just so annoying. I want to get it cut but it'll be a big change if I do!

KnifeWRENCH

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I hate going to the barbers; they always ask what I want and all I can think of saying is "Erm...just cut it." :rolleyes:

Thing is, I can't do anything interesting with my hair. It doesn't grow long, it just grows thick. And I have this stupid cowlick thing. It's really annoying, because I'd love to be able to grow it a little longer and have a fringe, but instead I end up looking like I've been living in a cave for a year or something.

The most I've ever been able to do was get blonde highlights, and they looked pretty good but that costs money and stuff.

Thanks a lot for starting this thread jumpy. Now I'm feeling all self-concious and inadequate now.

/puts on hat to cover shame

Screaminmidget

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

My hair Grows Ridiculously fast. I need a cut ever 3-4 weeks roughly just to keep it somebit respectable. When It gets too long, I cant sleep :P I try keep it really short in the Summer though

jumpguy

I consider washing my hair a push

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Thing is, I can't do anything interesting with my hair. It doesn't grow long, it just grows thick. And I have this stupid cowlick thing. It's really annoying, because I'd love to be able to grow it a little longer and have a fringe, but instead I end up looking like I've been living in a cave for a year or something.

Same here man, it's all the thickness with my hair. I'm safe from any radiation leaks or anything, it's more dense than lead.

Professey Chin

I have to go to the barbers every 2 weeks roughly.
The effort of fast growing hair and a mohawk :pac:

Aoibheann

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

jumpguy wrote: »

So, how do the C&Hers feel about their hair? Is the most maintenance it gets is a quick gel and go or for the ladies a bit of a straighten (or a curl, way to be different!) and go? Would you ever dye your hair some outlandish colour, even for €50 or just for the craic?

I get bored with my hair on a scarily regular basis.. I grow it for a while, decide it's getting annoying, get it chopped super short, decide to grow it for a while.. Well, you get the idea. Oh, and my hair grows at an alarming rate, and it also expands (or thickens, whatever) at said rate.

Really, I don't have that much of an attachment to my hair, in the way that I'd say a lot of people (girls especially :P) do. I could easily have longish hair, then just decide one day to get it chopped up into a pixie cut or whatever.

I dye my hair on a regular basis, again out of boredom. I had a purplish-red colour with red streaks recently (had it done for a hair show, was pretty cool) and I decided the red was fading too badly.. So I went a lovely dark purple. It's now washing out fairly quickly, and I think I'd like to go lighter. In fact, I'm actually getting a new colour done on Tuesday (free! \o/).

I suppose it helps that I rarely have to pay for anything to do with my hair anymore - I've done a few different hair shows/events etc so a load of the salons call me reasonably regularly to get stuff done because they know I'm pretty much happy to do anything with my hair! Oh, and the last time they gave me a load of awesome professional products. \o/

Someone pick my next hair colour. Not green! Otherwise, any outlandish colour goes!

TL;DR: I messing around with my hair, basically.

Atavan-Halen

I used to dye my hair a lot when it was short. Red, purple, blue, blonde. It's been lots of colours. Should I cut my hair C&Hers?

illiop

Oh god, I hate my hair and I'm terrible at doing anything with it. Like I've never managed to straighten my hair by myself. Luckily it dries with a nice enough curl so I just wash, brush and let it do it's thing. I get it cut about once every 4 months.


I'm the laziest girl ever. :P

Also, I always think boys look less hot for at least a week after they get a haircut. I've no idea why...

amacachi

You people complaining about how thick it is is a classic example of people not realising what they've got til it's gone. :pac:

Screaminmidget

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

On a slightly related note, anyone doing the Shave or Dye?

Smartly Dressed

I consider washing my hair a push

I stopped caring about my seemingly uncontrollable, bastarding wavy hair about a year ago. The effort involved in styling it to something I liked was monumental and it would only ever last for around 10 minutes before collapsing pathetically. Now I just shape it into something relatively tidy and leave it at that.

I've toyed with the idea of straightening it but I'm a ****ing man so I couldn't do that.

jumpguy

I consider washing my hair a push

Aoibheann wrote: »

Someone pick my next hair colour. Not green! Otherwise, any outlandish colour goes!.

Blue/indigo! :P

Lawliet

Aoibheann wrote: »

I get bored with my hair on a scarily regular basis.. I grow it for a while, decide it's getting annoying, get it chopped super short, decide to grow it for a while.. Well, you get the idea. Oh, and my hair grows at an alarming rate, and it also expands (or thickens, whatever) at said rate.

Really, I don't have that much of an attachment to my hair, in the way that I'd say a lot of people (girls especially :P) do. I could easily have longish hair, then just decide one day to get it chopped up into a pixie cut or whatever.

I'm pretty much the same. I use to have really long hair -not because I wanted long hair, I just didn't bother going to the hairdressers for a few years and next thing I knew it was past my waist! Then I got sick of it and cut it all off, let it grow a bit, cut it off again and so on.

I don't really bother with hairdressers much to be honest, I've been cutting my own hair since I was sixteen. Sure my hair is a good awful mess more often than not, but at least it's not cut in a way that annoys me and I'm saving money!

ohthebaby

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I have long hair that's naturally an awful mousy colour. When I was younger I dyed it brown for a while, then I had pink bits in it. I was super cool. Now I have it blonde but that's going out now so I think a trip to the hairdresser is in order although it's so expensive.

My hair is also super straight which other girls say they'd love but believe me you wouldn't. It's flat, it looks dead half the time, it does nothing. So I curl it a lot which isn't great I suppose but it looks a bit better at least. And at the minute it's really annoying because I can't tie it up. I had a little accident with fire a while ago which has left my hair oh so lopsided when it's off my face. So yeah, awful hair.

Grindylow

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

Amm I used be a bit of a gel addict. Like from 1st year on I'd spend 5 minutes every morning just gelling my hair.. but I've gave it up this year because I'm too lazy to get up that much earlier each morning!

And I used always dye my hair random colours too.. Well just the tips on the top.. Like so far I've had: Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, Green, Blonde and a rainbow colour.

Blue was the most recent and it turned kinda brown.. I have a pic of it somewhere actually.



So yes

Oh also I never go to Barber's because that'd be way too awkward.. I just go to normal hairdressers and let them do it because they do a way better job on it.. The talk usually consists of "Oh you're in 6th year, right?"

EDIT: PS I DYED IT BLUE MYSELF BECAUSE I'M MAD.

Cows Go µ

I always had really long hair but a year or so ago I got it cut into a traditional bob (I like the one with longer bits at the front but not on me so its the same all around) and I went from feeling fairly meh about my hair to loving it. I'm also dying it plum so when it fades its still a nice reddish colour. So long term its hair cut every 3 or 4 months and a home dye kit every 2 months so its not too expensive really.

The day to day up keep isn't that bad. I have to spend ages straightening after a shower (or its just a really scary, thick mess) and then I don't need to touch it again until I shower again. There are days where my hair doesn't even see a brush. Plus its all short so I play with it constantly, its so fun to fiddle with

Slow Show

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I actually like my hair - it's long and blonde and when it wants to be it's all nice and shiny. However, I straighten it far too much...like, ridiculous amounts but ever since I got it layered like 3/4 years ago it's been an absolute mess when it's not straightened so a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do y'know, we'll worry about it when my hair is reduced to ashes and falls off, leaving me prematurely bald.

I've never gotten it dyed or highlighted or anything, something which most people are surprised at it considering how blonde it is.

Also, in a few years I reckon my hair's not gonna be very blonde at all anymore. There's not enough sun in this country, and I swear it gets a little bit darker every month. Gonna have to emigrate soon lads.

Namlub

My hair's thick but the roots kind of get weighed down so after I wash it (L'Oreal Nutri Gloss for shininess ya know) I use volumising stuff before blow drying, give it a bit of a backcomb and straighten the bottom half inch or so of the layers to stop them going flicky. I'm so lazy with it after that though, it's effort to even tie it up for school. I used to hate my natural waves and the colour, but I prefer my hair now to when it's straightened and dyed - there are days when it looks appalling though. It does grow annoyingly quickly so I just cut the fringe myself. Cool story.

Pigwidgeon

I have mad curly hair, so if I don't look after it well, I end up with pretty much an afro.

After nearly 20 years, I've finally found a routine that works for me, to make it look the way I'm happy with it. I wash it most days, use spray in conditioner, serum and mousse. Because it's curly I can't brush it when it's dry or it will turn into a fro.

I'd love to be able to do loads of mad things with it, like fringes and cool cuts, but the curls in it are really restricting. I can't get a fringe, without the need of straightening it every day because my hair goes so much shorter when it's dry. If I get layers it ends up sticking out loads.

Basically curly hair is annoying and fragile as fúck. I used to try and straighten it all the time, but after about half an hour it would go wavy again so I gave up on that and I haven't straightened it in about 2 years.

Also, why do all hair dressers feel the need to give me huge 80's style hair when they blow dry it? It makes me look ridiculous.

TL;DR: Curly hair is very high maintenance, but I've finally found what works for me.

MavisDavis

Ginger hair is deadly. You are all just jealous. That is all.

I may or may not be ginger.

jefreywithonef

Noble jumpguy, my hair is very odd but my barber / hairdresser is a semi philoposopher / football pundit / observer. Yes.

Davidius

I'm bald

I wash my hair when it gets greasy and I go to the barbers only after months of being told that I need a haircut. Sometimes I forget to wash.

I ascribe horrible personality traits to those that do any more than that.

Seren_

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

atavan-halen wrote: »

I used to dye my hair a lot when it was short. Red, purple, blue, blonde. It's been lots of colours. Should I cut my hair C&Hers?

Yes. Sure why not

I'm a bit meh about my hair. It's kinda just above shoulder length with a side fringe and it's brown. I usually just wash it and leave it to itself most of the time :P It gets horribly greasy though, and if I don't wash it every second day it looks like I've dipped my head in a chip pan -__- Does anyone else have hair like that?

I do own a straightener, but I'm not sure of its whereabouts. Which is funny, because I was obsessed with having straight hair when I was in school. YAY FOR FRIZZYNESS!

Fergus_

Yeah I don't like my hair either.

It's too poofy and it sticks out everywhere and it's pretty thick as well.

I got it cut recently and I actually like it. Although it was cut too short for my liking for it's grown a bit now and I like it.

Aisling(",)

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I've long dyed blonde hair down to my hips its wavy by itself but unless im going out its clipped and tied up into a bun.I dye it myself and only every 3 months or so and I get it cut maybe once every year and a half or so?.

I'm really low maintenance with my hair but the only thing I do regularly that takes time is blow dry it because otherwise it drips down my back for hours and hours.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I have curly blonde hair and Im sick of it. I liked having it long but it became an afro if I didnt gel it regularly. And I hate overhearing myself being described as 'the blonde curly fella'.

jumpguy

I consider washing my hair a push

jefreywithonef wrote: »

Noble jumpguy, my hair is very odd but my barber / hairdresser is a semi philoposopher / football pundit / observer. Yes.

Gentle Monzo...?

QueenOfLeon

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I love messing around with my hair It has had to stop in the last year or so now that I'm a poor student, but I used to regularly highlight, lowlight, chop, change, loads of stuff. Now its just highlighted blonde and light brown (naturally very dark brown) and pretty long so I'm thinking of chopping half of it off sometime during the summer and doing something different Also nom nom GHD. Couldn't live without it.

I was going to do the shave or dye (dyeing it blue!) but couldn't cos of wards.

Jumpguy, just chop it off yourself, twill be grand

degausserxo

I consider washing my hair a push

My hair has been every colour ever. It was pretty embarrassing tbh. I'd go from pink to firetruck red to black every few weeks from the age of 13 to about 16. Used to straighten it all of the time (used the iron quite a lot too, because I thought having straight hair was the only way it'd be nice), and get it cut once a month. Now.. meh. Since I was about 8, I had a bob cut into my hair cause my friend threw chewing gum into it and properly smushed it in, the bítch, and cause I had a horrible fear of ever having split ends, I'd get it cut really regularly, so it's been sorta the same length ever since (although it was kinda long recently but my ma's friend, the dzope, cut about 4 inches off it a coupla weeks ago.. I WANTED A TRIM, WOMAN). I'll usually fork out the money to get it highlighted blonde and cut every few months now, but tbh I prefer having my roots grown out a bit, it doesn't look as 'done', and my natural colour is kinda light anyway so it blends nicely. It's taken aaaaaaaaages to find the proper products for my hair, cause it has a bit of a curl in it. When it's longer I can wear the curl in it, but it looks ridic if it's shorter.

tl;dr, from a red/pink/black/purple/whatevs straight bob cut for years to boring old slightly curly blonde.

Arcade Panda

If I was a superhero my hair would be my weakness. I've grown to love it though.. it's crazy curly!

Names people have called me because of my hair:

frizzy-lizzy
electric lizzy
ESB
pube head

THIS HAS ONLY MADE MY SUPERPOWERS STRONGER!:D

I also can't straighten it, tried once and it was curly again within two hours :rolleyes:

Ally7

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I'm happy enough with my head of hair, it's nothing amazing like but it's easy maintenance! It's very very dark brown, down to my shoulders and naturally straight. I've a side fringe as well and once it's not greasy-looking I just use a clip to keep it in place. It's fairly shiny as well cos I've never dyed it (I'd love to dye it balck or put in coloured streaks though) and I only straigten it about once every 10 days, but the John Frieda dark brunettes range FTW!

sock puppet

Arra, I'd consider myself a happy medium

V05 matt clay all the way.

edit: bedhead manipulator too

TrustedApple

I am happy with my hair at the moment because its the 1st good cut i have got in a long time

Anyway i have had long hair(but really its just a side fringe) for about 2 years now and i think it was the best thing i done was growing it in

The last time i got my haircut was 5 weaks ago and i got a Quiff cut into it and have never had it in because it looked gay but thank god it has turned into this


But my hair is very thick and grows out and needs to be cut every 6 weaks to keep it looking like that but it just takes to long to get it looking like that i have to wash my hair everyday and use a blowdryer on it to get it to dry into place then 10 mins of of hair straighting then hair spray to get it to look like that but i only go to a hairdresser because it only pay 22.60 in my local one and i am happy with the job.

But i have been thinking lately to get a lipring like your man from the pic there but i have no idea what my mum and dad well say if i get it done but i am 19 now so i am my own boss

norwegianwood

This thread is weird

Have more hair than an ageing hippy myself, and it's gone halfway down my back now..between drying and straightening it doing my hair takes a good hour. But still, I dye it so often that I'll probably lose it all before I'm 30. :pac:

Midnight_EG

Arra, I'd consider myself a happy medium

I had an awful damn feeling I'd be the only one to click the first option

Coeurdepirate

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

Sick of my hair. Straighten it - too flat, don't straighten it - bushy.
I like the colour though.

jumpguy

I consider washing my hair a push

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

Jumpguy, just chop it off yourself, twill be grand

How do people even do that...? I don't even have good scissors for the job. My barber told me his scissors cost like 200€ or something ridiculous like that. I was like "woah, there goes my plan with the 2€ safety scissors". And how would you do the back? There's no waaay, it'd be such a disaster!

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

If it's short(4 back and sides scissors on top) it'd only take me a minute or two, but if it's long like it is now, I do be at it for a good 10 minutes 'til I'm somewhat happy. I'd end up changing it around again before I'd leave, though.:/

I wanna get it coloured or something in the summer.

QueenOfLeon

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

jumpguy wrote: »

How do people even do that...? I don't even have good scissors for the job. My barber told me his scissors cost like 200€ or something ridiculous like that. I was like "woah, there goes my plan with the 2€ safety scissors". And how would you do the back? There's no waaay, it'd be such a disaster!

Trial and error! :pac: haha I have no experience with cutting my own hair, I sometimes cut my own fringe or even up the layers but thats about it.

Jamie Starr

For most of my life I've had an extremely well kept head. Such a prim scalp it was that my hair was considered long around the point it touching my ears. I used so much gel that after a while my hair just stuck up by itself, which was a bit worrying.

This past year though I've stopped cutting it half as much, mainly because I have taken an immense dislike to going to the barbers- I was convinced I could do a much better job.

So, about two weeks ago now, when the ringlets I haven't had since I was a child (I'm a fellow) started coming back, it was time to take action and I cut it myself. Wasn't perfect, but I was a damn sight happier with it than with the work of the barber who loves going on his phone halfway through a hair cut, or the middle-eastern woman who's so fat she breathes like a trained sniper every time she snips a bit of hair.

Lawliet

jumpguy wrote: »

How do people even do that...? I don't even have good scissors for the job. My barber told me his scissors cost like 200€ or something ridiculous like that. I was like "woah, there goes my plan with the 2€ safety scissors". And how would you do the back? There's no waaay, it'd be such a disaster!

You can pick up a set of salon scissors for under twenty euro, as for the back just hang two mirrors opposite one another in a narrow room or corridor. There's plenty of tutorial videos on youtube that show how to cut your hair properly and how to do different styles and stuff
You'll probably make a mess of your hair at first, but sure it grows back! Just try not to cut too much off at one time and once you get the hang of it it's a handy skill to have!

jefreywithonef

jumpguy wrote: »

Gentle Monzo...?

Uh, yes. That's been the case for like three months now. :P

In a less drunken note compared to last night, my hair's pretty odd in that it's very, very straight. So odd that some chippie worker started giving me abuse one evening, calling me 'lego head'. A crushing yet accurate observation.

Wouldn't really bother much with my hair other than slapping a tiny bit of gel on top of it if it's messy. Otherwise I keep it in that nice medium between long and short (and no, it's not a mullet).

bluejay14

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

I'm pretty meh about my hair tbh. It's a kinda dark blonde colour and it's been that colour for the past 5 years or so maybe. I've never dyed it though. I would love to but tbh I can't bring myself to do it because it'd end up looking awful.

My hair was a really really really light blonde colour when I was younger and I was practically bald until I was like 2 and it wasn't long enought to tie back until I was about 7.

It just about reaches my shoulders now and it's kind of layed up the front and back slightly. It's straight enough though and I hardly ever straighten it because I just couldn't be bothered to. I only do it if I'm actually going somewhere special. I'd love to curl it because anytime the hairdresser does it for me it looks amazing and everyone always says that it really suits me because me normal hair is usually fairly flat and lifeless and it gives it a bit of oomph but I just can't do it properly and anytime I've tried to do it I've ended up straightening it nearly srtaight away.

I'm another one of those people who has to wash their hair every 2 or 3 days because it get really greasy and manky and looks like rat's tails. It's usually alright for an extra few days though if I've used some kind of hair spray or anything in it.

bythewoods

jefreywithonef wrote: »

(and no, it's not a mullet).

Don't be ashamed of owning up to your mullet man, they're wellll hot.



Captain planet had one, and he's a hero, as we all know.

coffeelover

Arra, I'd consider myself a happy medium

I hate my hair. I always have!!
It's kinda frizzy and curly and quite thick. I get fits of straighting it now and again so it's not really damaged except for my side fringe which is destroyed.. It's a mousey brown colour and I'd love to dye it but I'm scared to take the plunge. And it'd just be too much effort maintaining it if I dyed it so mehh...

Slow Show

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

bluejaymraz wrote: »

I'm another one of those people who has to wash their hair every 2 or 3 days because it get really greasy and manky and looks like rat's tails. It's usually alright for an extra few days though if I've used some kind of hair spray or anything in it.

Ah that's not bad, that's a perfect time. I have to wash my hair everyday, damn grease and having super light hair that shows it so easily.

cheesefiend

ohthebaby wrote: »

I have long hair that's naturally an awful mousy colour. When I was younger I dyed it brown for a while, then I had pink bits in it. I was super cool. Now I have it blonde but that's going out now so I think a trip to the hairdresser is in order although it's so expensive.

My hair is also super straight which other girls say they'd love but believe me you wouldn't. It's flat, it looks dead half the time, it does nothing.

Hello hair twin. My hair is also naturally poker straight and a really bad mousy brown colour. I'm also currently blonde but I'm going to dye it soon. I'm thinking a kind of auburn colour. So yeah, I'm choosing to dye my hair ginger.

I'm terrible with my hair. I don't bother styling it at all anymore just go for a pony-tail, bun or french plait. All of which take two seconds. I regulary trim my own hair or take a razor to it for layers (totally works btw and it's free). My roots are always really bad too. Jayz I'm just such a ride. All in all my hair is not that hard to manage but naturally it's really boring and gets greasy quite easily which the blonde has helped with. This post is just going round and round in circles so

TL;DR Natural hair crap, coloured hair better.

Chuchoter

I consider washing my hair a push

I ****ing hate the hairdressers. Just to put that out there. I've spent most of the last year finding a place that will cut my hair (which is very short) in under an hour, best I have so far is 30 min. And its expensive. It should be like a tenner, like my brothers hair because his haircut is way more complicated than mine! :mad:

My hair is grand as long as I keep it cut and wash it every day, otherwise it gets stuck in this big jedward situation :P

QueenOfLeon

Nah, don't give a shíte, just so long as it's not utterly repulsive

crayolastereo wrote: »

I've spent most of the last year finding a place that will cut my hair (which is very short) in under an hour, best I have so far is 30 min.

I kinda like sitting around, drinking endless free coffee and the guilty pleasure magazines Getting it highlighted for so many years has me well used to sitting there for 2 hours or so..