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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: babyjane on April 21, 2017, 06:31:17 PM
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Hair is a topic we ladies love to discuss
Hairdressers, haircuts, long hair, short hair, curly, straight, brunette, blonde, grey, pink, purple
All things hair (http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/status/brownhair.gif)
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Oh dear babyjane you were pipped to the post. Great minds think alike!
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,35612.0.html
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Well it's on my head, mostly ;D
It used to be short until my daughter convinced me that women of a certain age did not always have to have short hair. So I grew it into a chin length bob.
I colour my hair myself as I started to go grey in my 40s and I'm not ready to be that colour quite yet.
I do straighten my hair every day to get it into the shape that I like. I did read on the other thread that someone thought straightening made things flat. With a good straightener it does the opposite after a bit of practice. You can really get volume if you use them correctly.
I've found a great conditioner that actually doesn't make my hair limp. It's the L'oreal in shower mousse. I've never had such shiny hair.
I also use a heat protecting spray ever morning before I blow dry my hair.
I think a good cut can take years off you so it's the one thing I'm prepared to spend a little time on , oh and make up too ::)
Mrs Brown
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Used to have quite thick hair but its definitely thinning now. Have it cut and coloured every eight weeks, have been going to same hairdresser for about 15 years !!! Sometimes think I need to " divorce him" but worried if I go somewhere else and its not much better , do I go crawling back :o
My hair is a short layered bob, easy enough to manage but difficult to get volume into it. Watched a youtube video by Dominique Sachse on how to style, very good and she makes it look easy !
Do any of you use mousse to style? I have tried lots of styling products but find good old mousse the best of all. I was considering a styling brush but heard they were difficult to use, anyone any thoughts?
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babyliss big hair is brilliant- I'm on my third one now. You can get small one for shorter styles. BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD! Also Percy and reed volume products from m&s , especially their miracle cream or balm or whatever's it's called. I've tried so much stuff but it's really fantastic.
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Evelyn - dead easy to use once you get the hang of it. YOu won't believe the difference it makes. Looks like you've just stepped out of a salon.
Alas in my case, I usually looked as if I've stepped out of a saloon
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For ages, I have used styling gel and a styling brush. My hair is certainly not what you would call thick. Years ago, some hapless hairdresser said to me, "Gosh (or something!) - your hair's got absolutely no body at all!" As you can guess I was walking on air for the rest of the day! >:( and since then, I've held my hair in very low regard. But every time I go to my current hairdresser, he sings my hair's praises - in fact, last time he said he'd give it 9 out of 10. So it can't be that bad! :) I'm thinking it must have improved with age! ;)
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Well I have hair! That's a good start! It's thick and still blonde, though darker than it used to be. No grey hairs yet, on my head anyway, despite being 60+. But it has a mind of its own and I haven't the will or energy to persuade it otherwise. My headdresser comforts me that the wayward look is fashionable! I'm growing it as when longer, it requires less work. I'm envious of my daughter who has the most glorious hair, a beautiful shade of red and curly.
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Alas in my case, I usually looked as if I've stepped out of a saloon
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No grey hairs yet, on my head anyway, despite being 60+.
Lucky you, Ju Ju! :)
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beach babe Ju Ju x
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The biggest problem I have with my hair is wearing a motorcycle helmet every day going to work. I've never been one for short hair (last time I did that was when I was 13...a school photo from that period was all it ever took to convince me never to go down that route again!).
In spite of all those glamorous shots of stunning women getting of motorcycles, taking their helmets off to reveal with a shake of the head, a mass of glossy tresses, I've never quite managed to replicate that.
My hair is usually around shoulder length. It's always been quite fine but, as a hairdresser once told me, I had a lot of it. I fear it is thinning out a little over recent years so I find shoulder length and layers work best for me. I keep a hairdryer and straighteners at work so I can try and make it look half decent after the helmet has come off. ;D
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:drunk:
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yes. Wild West bar methinks. post the whisky shots but before the can can and shoot out.
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You've got to laugh girls. X
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:veil: :cancan:
Is this the dance of the seven veils Sparkle :D
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Yes. And I'm Salome. I have the belly and wobbly bits! :veil:
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Thank you girls. You have cheered me up tonight :)
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We seem to have two threads about hair - is this the current obsession :D
Pity Emma can't amalgamate them :-\
I've made an appt. for next week to have mine chopped back ........ I wash it myself as I don't like leaning back onto their sinks, I think it's dangerous! then it gets spritzed and cut - then washed the next day to get some order into it ::)
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We seem to have two threads about hair - is this the current obsession :D
2 minds thought alike at the same time :)
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I've never experienced any discomfort when I'm having my hair washed at the hairdresser's, but maybe it's because I'm only 5'2" and the bottom of my head only just peeks over the top of the basin. Sympathies to all who do find it uncomfortable, though. Doesn't sound very nice..... :-\
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Well that just shows you doesn't it, how we can form opinions from others posts.
Dulciana, I always pictured you as tallish and statuesque ::)
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Well that just shows you doesn't it, how we can form opinions from others posts.
Dulciana, I always pictured you as tallish and statuesque ::)
Oh, how I wish, babyjane!! When my twin sister (who's about the same height as me) got married, my brother asked our new, tall brother-in-law, "Well, how does it feel to be marrying into a family of pygmies?" ;D No, we're all on the short side - and we've all ended up with tall other-halves!
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I was always the tallest in my family at 5ft 3. Sons take after our side at 5 ft 7 but daughter is on hubby's family side at 5ft 6. I would love those few extra inches (and her hourglass figure) >:(
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I'm one of four and the smallest at 5ft 2 both brothers 6ft and over and my sister is about 5ft 6 blonde and naturally very slim the exact opposite to me. No can ever believe we are sisters !
Back to the hair thread just off to wash mine had it cut last week and it looked great but I can never get it to look like they do at the hairdressers no matter how hard I try and despite watching endlessly how the hairdresser does it I just cann't recreate the same effect. I had thought as I had cut shorter than normal I might get away with just washing it and running my fingers through it but it's so cold here today the hairdryer will be needed so I'll probably end up looking like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards !
Lanzalover x
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Just one more thing about height - my Mum always used to say, "The best goods come in smallest packages!" and she silenced one of her school pupils with this, once, when he asked her what it was like to be so small. ( >:( !! )
But getting hair to look the way it does after the hairdresser has done it - well nigh impossible, in my experience. I only wish I could stand behind myself when I style my hair!
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If I had lots of money I would have my hair washed and styled every morning ;-).
I am 5ft 1" tall but think that I have an extra 2-3 " LOL. Get a shock when I see myself reflected in a shop window! My hair is due for a cut on Friday when most of the grey will disappear .......
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A number of years ago I treated myself to haircut in a VS salon in Glasgow. It was about 20 or so years ago. Cost about £45 then. I'd always promised myself I'd go one day. My hair looked fantastic, but I couldn't style it same way myself, so basically a waste of money. Been going to current guy since then & I still don't pay as much as I did for VS back then! ::)
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That is why I always have a damped down dry cut and no blow dry. By the time I get home it doesn't look the same and the next morning it has gone back to its own way again. I have only had a blow dry three times in my life, for my wedding, son's wedding and daughter's wedding :)
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My experience of hairdressers has been different. They always leave my hair looking less than stellar, and I can always do a much better job or making it look nice. Sadly it's even the same story with colouring my hair as the last time I had it coloured in a salon it looked absolutely awful - the colour was really drab and my hair had no shine. People kept asking if I was ill! It took me 6 weeks to get it back to reasonable condition.
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Cuba girl- I too went to VS in Glasgow once. They believed in natural styling so I had my hair wound it those stupid long bendy rollers. I looked like a bloody gorgon! Mad Medusa!! never went back😀
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I did have very long purplish hair before chemo - now it's coming back in greyish with a white streak at front - I've had that for years but am shocked by the rest of the grey - guess I'm just not used to it as I've dyed hair for years - can't dye it with anything much for at least six months post chemo and tbh I've gone off the stuff having read about list of toxic stuff in most of them. I can't see it ever getting as long again and am not sure what I'll do when I have enough hair to have to cast off the hats as I really don't suit short hair