QuoteReplyTopic: Your idea of Great Hair? Posted: June 17 2003 at 7:48am
Is it just me or are the boards slow these days? Here is my attempt to pick things up a bit...
When you think of really *great* hair, what comes to mind? What is the texture, color, length, style, etc? Is this ideal representation one that changes in your mind's eye, or have you always considered one type/style of hair to be perfect?
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i sound like i repeat myself. demi moore for me has my great hair. i like the color, length, texure and style. her style is great because it's simple but looks good. i like when she had bangs too. she looks good without them too.
Black Straight-ish Ankle-length Falls in a natural shape of varying lengths (not trimmed into an even line) Ends have their natural taper (no blunt ends) No split-ends Mirror-like glossiness Having horizontal fullnes/volume
It wasn't until I started dancing that I came up with an idea of great hair. Naturally wavy, or wavy due to putting hair in braids. Black or dark brown with sun-kissed highlights. Mid-back to waist length. Completely natural.. no chemicals to create the style - just flowing the way hair should be.
Right now I am casting covetous eyes at the "Barely There Barrette" model on page 2 of my newly arrived but already desecrated France Luxe catalog. I'm usually pretty happy with my hair, but it's too thick and wavy to lie flat like that. I like her highlights, too, not "stripey" at all. It doesn't help the photo doesn't indicate how long it really is. The total simplicity of it is quite attractive to me.
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Heheh...that's funny because I think your hair actually looks a lot like Demi's. :-) Perfection is yours!
thank you demi's hair is alittle bit darker and longer. her hair is straight on it's own. i have to blow dry to have my hair straight. i only do that once in awhile. you know how that is, people want the opposite of what they have. i have curly/wavy hair i want straight hair.
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Then after 30, you'll always look good as you age. I just hope my terminal length is at least to the knees though :P
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Would it be horrible of me to say my idea of great hair is my own? After many years of fighting with my locks, I've made peace with them - and that is great. I'm truly happy with my hair, and that seems pretty much the ideal.
Or am I a pompous @$$?
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Would it be horrible of me to say my idea of great hair is my own? After many years of fighting with my locks, I've made peace with them - and that is great. I'm truly happy with my hair, and that seems pretty much the ideal.
Or am I a pompous @$$?
Gren
i think that is not horrible at all to say! you have beautiful hair i've read your posts on how much you put into your hair. why not be happy with your own hair?
Thank you Princess Monica - that's very sweet and kind of you to say.
It's taken a long time for me to become happy with my hair, and a great deal of that was simple acceptance.
Accepting the fact that my hair hates to be up - I have serious updo envy! Accepting that it's not freshly waxed shiny, and that split ends happen, no matter how gentle I am.
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you have split ends gren? your hair sure doesn't look like it. i know how you feel. i still have split ends no matter how gentle i am also. it gets so frustrating!!!!! kind of off the subject but how long did it take you to grow out your hair grenwich?
My idea of perfect hair would have to be Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde. Even the fact that was not all of her hair (extensions) That would be my dream hair on myself, if I could afford the extensions.
Just my opinion.
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Hi All! My idea of beautiful hair has always been waist length, wavy/curly--like Alanis Morissette's. Demi Moore's hair is absolutely gorgeous though. I like Ana Kournikova's too. Sheila
you have split ends gren? your hair sure doesn't look like it. i know how you feel. i still have split ends no matter how gentle i am also. it gets so frustrating!!!!! kind of off the subject but how long did it take you to grow out your hair grenwich?
LOL PrincessM - yes I do! and I keep a pair of hair scissors handy, and trim during commericals while vegging in front of the TV! To answer your question - next year, 2004, will be my 20th anniversary of growing. In 1984, I had hair about an inch long on top, and very closely buzzed sides. It had been colored, moussed, gelled, blowdried, and beat to death. I hated it and was sick of the whole process of mass media hair care, so I stopped doing anything to it. I had horrible hair for several years while it grew out. Once it reached my shoulders, it was better. Once it got to mid back, I knew I was not ever going to have short hair again. I've had 2 major trims over the years - one in the early 90's, of about 6 inches, and one in 2000, again about 6 inches. I do little trims every now and again, the last at Easter, of about 1.5 inches.
So there you are. History of Gren's hair. Now you know why I am the first to say "patience" when someone asks how to get long hair! Gren
Wow, Gren. That's pretty cool. I do the same thing, cut split ends while I'm watching TV.
My ideal hair, like Jacqui said, are the gals in the Pantene commercials. Which is sad, because hair doesn't look anything like that in reality. Those girls look more like anime, the way their hair bounces. I know it must be 5% real life and 95% computer enhancement. The sparkle, the shine, the slow motion healthy bounce and wave. If it is humanly possible to have hair like that, one thing's for sure. Pantene isn't what's going to get you there! Gals on TV only have gorgeous hair because A) they're usually wearing a wig and B) wig or not, there is a professional hairstylist, just outside of camera range, ALL THE TIME! They touch up constantly! And literally, if the camera moved 6 inches to the left, I think you would see a hair stylist right there. Especially in shampoo commercials! But also in sitcoms and movies.
In reality though, I agree with Gren. I like my hair! But I'm vain, I won't deny.
Great topic Lyris! You achieved your goal! Look at all this buzz in just 24 hours.
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