How's your hair looking?

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If I don't laugh at myself I'll probably cry.

I had my hair done in October 2019 with the idea of getting it done again in early spring 2020 ready for the summer, well that didn't plan out obviously and now another 12 months have passed and I look like Brian May.
Anti-frizz serum is useless at this point.

Tell me I'm not the only person who looks ridiculous.

Like I've gone though a hedge backwards.
I actually let DH cut my mid length frizzy hair into a bob and even though he's never done it before, he decided to experiement! WTF! He said he was feathering the ends so it didn't have a blunt edge but his technique was like using the hedge trimmer in the garden.

Cant be bothered to brush mine let alone wash it as not leaving the house much!

Awful! Last had my hair done in September. Tried getting in before Xmas but was so stacked with work and hairdresser only working two days a week made it difficult. Did try getting in just before Xmas but no luck. Worked all over Xmas, more than other years and with Pandemic just thought sod it, won't be seeing anyone, I'll wait until New year then boom another lockdown! My hair grows at a ridiculous rate and my roots are about 2.5inches! I dye my hair blonde when I'm naturally quite a dark brown. Hahaha.. so you can imagine the state of it!

Mine is great (ish)

I generally have it short as it goes very straggly once it reaches my shoulders. I was due to have it cut again as lockdown 1 happened, so last year I just had to let it grow. I managed to get an appointment last summer, but decided (in a rare moment of wisdom) just to have it trimmed in case I couldn't get it cut again and had to go back through the rubbish stage.

Well now it is past my shoulders and looking ok, still as fine as ever, but not bad.

So I've been one of the lucky ones, what started bad, has turned out good.

When I got up this morning I looked in the mirror and my first thought was Harry met Sally the fake orgasm scene, it was stood straight up, Child me found it hilarious and left it until getting into the shower.

For 50 yrs my hair has been dead straight, the past year its developed a curl, but luckily I can just let it grow without it looking horrendous

I had it cut just before Christmas unfortunately it went wrong, very wrong. I have a head full of wild curls, so getting a good cut is hard. I ended up with a curly mullet. Waiting for it to grow out. Having to constantly tie up.

Not too bad here. I've been planning to grow it for ages from a pixie cut, but in normal times always ended going for a trim which would end more like a cut. So lockdown worked put fine - now it's a bob, just below the chin length, trimmed into shape last December and still looking OK.

I do my own roots touch up colourwise, but need my blue highlights redone!

But all in all not bad - I don't wash my hair every day anymore as it's longer now, and it's become much less dry and is much softer and looks healthier.

I have fine hair that doesn't suit being long.
Every morning I wake up to a knotty frizzy tangled mess.
I'm close to buying a hairnet or a sleep bonnet (as in little house on the prararie)
My hair needs to be layered.
I can't live without layers.

If I don't blow dry it, I look like Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin). If I blow dry it, I look like Neil (Young Ones).

Shit. Mine looks shit 🤣

A lot of my friemds, all 50+, myself included have grown our hair.
My opinion is it doesn't look that nice because we havent had it shaped at all.
This age group benefits from a bit of grooming imo.
Even long hair benefiits from cutting and shaping othetwise it just hangs in a kinky mess with frizzy ends and can make an older face look haggard and drawn if not careful.

On the other hand my daughter and her friends all 15 to 16 age bracket
look fabulous wirh their very long swishy hair. I doubt they do much to it.
It suits young faces.
It's not fair!

Oh yes.and we all look so Scruffy.

Huge roots, limp and split ends

My poor hair Nothing to do with lockdown. It’s decided to start thinning at the temples and it’s sapped my self esteem. Just a few months ago I was happily putting it up in a ponytail without a care in the world. Now I have to wear it down to cover the thinning bits.

I’m 44 and a standard blood test showed nothing. Thinking I’ll ask for a referral to a specialist next.

Anyone brave enough to post a photo (with face scribbled out)?

Mine is good!
I stopped dying it in Jan 2020 and I have —grey— platinum highlights now! 🤣
It was cut into a shoulder length Bob in Nov 2020 and it’s now past my shoulders and really soft.

In reality I probably look like an old witch but I’m past caring tbh!

@bluetongue
Get another test and have your iron checked. Mine was low and my very big hair was no more. Ok now but I have to take tablets a few times a week to keep it up. It could be hormonal, which is harder to deal with. I wore a stretchy headband which conceals alot very well and I got a clip on fringe.

Mine looks no different. I have long straight hair that doesn’t need colouring. I only get it trimmed twice a year or so. I am in my 50’s so realise I am lucky.

Here you go,

Mine is half grey and half Basil Brush after he's been left lying at the back of a cupboard for 40 years. I am attempting to embrace the grey, but every time I walk past a chemist, the temptation to buy a colour is compelling to say the least. Then I think about the roots coming through after a couple of weeks ...

The weirdest thing was DP's mother telling me it looked lovely when I called over to collect something. We aren't exactly bosom buddies. Maybe it looks ok at a fifteen foot distance, which is the approximate length of her driveway!

I have trimmed it myself a couple of times. I think I need more practice

[quote Ddot]@bluetongue
Get another test and have your iron checked. Mine was low and my very big hair was no more. Ok now but I have to take tablets a few times a week to keep it up. It could be hormonal, which is harder to deal with. I wore a stretchy headband which conceals alot very well and I got a clip on fringe.[/quote]
I’m one step ahead of you. Apparently my previous tests didn’t include iron so she agreed testing my iron was a good idea and will also check my hormone levels. She went to tell me about Regaine as something to try but told her I had already started a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’t seen this GP before and I was pretty impressed. She was young and enthisiastic.. She gave me a referral to a dermatologist as well.

The worst thing for me is I can actually get my hair cut (in Australia so hairdressers have been open for ages and no masks needed) and it needs it but I’m too embarrassed because of my thinning hair

Mine is ok. I had it cut around november and it could do with a trim but it’s ok. The colour is passable, I’ve used box colour but it doesn’t need a salon colour and a good trim. My hairdresser opens up their appointments on Tuesday week and I’ll be pressing redial from 8am to get mine in ASAP

Does need a salon colour

@ bluetongue
hopefully it will just be iron deficiency, which is easily remedied.
Happened to my friend too she had so many tests even thought she had cancer at one point. It was iron

6 months pregnant - it's the best it's ever been! :D