Hairy stuff (but not Hairy Git).

[puddingcat]

Talking (well, MSNing, which is as close as I usually get) to redshira last night, I'm getting more enamoured of the idea of cutting off all my hair. I'm not *quite* brave enough to go for a 2" crop & bleach what's left all at once, but I do quite like the idea of something Too Short To Put Up.

I don't want one of these styles that's gelled flat & sideways to the face at the front, and spiked up at the back. Nor do I want anything that requires skilled use of a hairdryer to keep from looking dreadful; I can just about blowdry a fringe straight, and do the upside-down-with-mousse thing, but anything that requires 3 elbows per arm is beyond me. I reckon I'll need a fringe, since I have a narrow face. My hair tends to stay flat to my head down to the tops of my ears, then has a definite kink from there on - and in the last inch, however long/short it is. Realistically, this icon is my day-to-day hair - fine and refuses to go properly straight.

Does anyone have any style suggestions that won't make me look like a middle aged potato? I have a fear of getting suggestions from haridressers, since they're all painfully trendy or drearily frumpy, or so alternative I'll be asked to stay at home until I look normal again.

Comments

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

You should buy a HAIR magazine. I find that helpful.

While I understand the need to chop off one's hair from time to time I actually think your hair rather suits you that length. The same only blonde with curled up ends might be the most devastatingly sexy thing.

[princesspy.livejournal.com]

I say go for buying hair mags. I'm rubbish with my hair - and asked the hairdresser to 'make me look more modern'. But be a long time before I get any length cut off. There's some gorgeous short kinda 'pixie' hair dos that might suit you.

I like your hair - but I guess a change is sometimes good - I usually just reach for the dye bottle.

[kitty-goth.livejournal.com]

Well, lots of people in the Bermondsey Collective tend to get marnameow to cut their hair.

Are you still up for coming down this weekend? If so, you could ask her in the flesh? Or see if she has some ideas, rather than going to a "real" hairdresser?

[nurse-liz.livejournal.com]

How about

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(crossing fingers that I've done this properly and you can see the images not just loads of gobbledegook)