Bad Hair Day!

[Chinchilla]

Aaargh! I had my once long hair cut at the end of November, into a really nice, chin length cut. Every one complimented me on how nice it was. So, that gave me confidence to go a bit shorter this time. However, the hairdresser went mad, and I am not sure whether I like it. It is a bit sixties, Twiggy elfin-like. Dh said that I looked like a throw back from the eighties, but I am not sure where he got that from! He seems th think that I look like Pepsi or Shirley, whichever the white one was.

Anyway, none of you can help, but I wanted to let off steam....perhaps we could all talk about our bad hair days, to make me feel better???

Chinchilla, today I look like I've had an 80's perm. If I don't blow dry my hair or use straighteners it's a mass of dyed blonde frizz. And quite frankly, most days I can't be ar*ed. There. Feel better?!

Oh WWW I know how you feel ... my hair is EXACTLY the same! I HATE my hair as it is frizzy if I don't B/D and straiten it! I long for the type of hair that you can wash, shake out and walk out of the door looking 'just like you've stepped out of Saaaloooon ....'

I have spent my entire life looking like a member of Slade or modern equivalent. There was a short time in the eighties when it was fashionable and I was gorgeous. It has been exactly the same, but greyer and shorter (with frizz, short means less weight and more flight..).

I am going to get it permanently seen to (Japanese straightening system) after my current pregnancy and die it to death. Problem is that with the impending hair loss to com, all the flaws will become even more obvious.

Don't spend money on expensive products, I have all the harrods/selfridges/space nk gear and still look cr**.

Don't worry about DH, mine still goes on about how long and lovely it was when we first met, and how slim my legs were and tiny my waist. One day I'll knock his block off. Men, definitely do have a thing for long hair, preferably blond.

Chinchilla, don't worry.
The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is about 2 weeks.

Clucks, can you have the Japanese hair straightening thingy if you colour your hair?.

On another issue, what do people feel about going grey. Mine is really quite grey at the side and front but is still very dark elsewhere. I absolutely loathe having to get it coloured every 5 - 6 weeks or so but otherwise I look like a badger. I can't wait to let it go but everybody tells me I would look terrible with grey hair. At what age have others decided to chuck away the dye?

I am NEVER going grey! My hair is a complete patchwork of colours varying from reddish brown to dark brown with attractive grey roots. And it frizzes at the merest suggetsion of moisture in the air. In my next life I am going to be Spanish or Italian.

chinchilla
I had a similar experience last year. I went into the hairdresser to get a short, smart haircut and came out with a classic 1980s short layered thing with rats tails (long layer) sticking out the bottom. I spent the next few days wearing a hat even when at home on my own, and not looking in mirrors! My theory is that the hairdresser is the same age as me, so she was young in the 80s and yearns to cut all those styles she learned as an apprentice again!!
It grew out eventually, and this time I cut it MYSELF, and got something approaching my ideal style.

bells
I'd definitely dye my hair, but sympathise about the nuisance.

I hate the idea of going grey, although at 42 it is something which has been creeping up on me for a while now. My hair is a sort of mid-brown and I have blonde highlights done about every 4-5 months - I find that this covers the grey up quite well and doesn't look too awful when growing out ...

Cluck, you have just made me really laugh. Which probably wasn't your attention when you sounded off but thanks for making me giggle.

I fortunately have strawberry blonde hair so I won't suffer the same problems with grey as lots of others. My problem is that my hair is very straight and just hangs. No amount of styling products keeps it in any sort of style as it will flop the moment I move away from the mirror. After having bobs for years I decided that I wanted something different so on recommendation I found a lovely male hairdresser who was the only one willing to try something different on me. I now have a layered bob with a longer underneath that would flick out if I had any body in it.

I've just viewed some family portraits today though and hated every one of me and decided that I don't really like this style after all. I don't know if it has just grown too long or if I've never really liked it. But I tend to have these image crises every so often, spend a few weeks hating myself and then never get around to doing anything about it. An hour with the sexy hairdresser (who isn't gay but is the same age as me and loves talking 80's as we were at the same school just a couple of years apart) may well make me feel happier - even if I don't come out looking much different. Still well worth £15 (expensive round here) for the therapy though.

I had one of the first eighties bob hair-cuts and looked very cool, for the of course. I have figured it is about time those graduated bobs came back. does anyone know if it's fashionable to have one if you're not kate moss.

Is colouring and straightening really going to make it fall out?

I've been thinking after my last post, Nicole kidman also looks like something out of slade, but noone has a go at her, must be the long legs. She also always wears false eyelashes because she has very piggy eyes. There, feel better now..

PamT wish I could get a decent haircut for £15, you have to pay twice that in these parts. I don't even know what my real hair colour is as I will never let it see the light of day, I just keep slapping the colour on.

PamT is it really expensive in our area? I've obviously been ripped off all these years....

A cut and blow in an old ladies' salon is around £10, so my £15 is comparatively expensive. However, if I went to one of the more trendy salons I'm sure that I would be paying at least double that. I did have someone that came to my house and she only charged about £3.50 for a cut so I don't know how she ever made any money.

I have someone come to my house and she charges £10 for a cut and blow dry and does DS for free. She charges £17 for highlights, cut and blow dry. I thought that was extremely reasonable. I used to pay more 2/3 years ago when she worked in a salon - maybe £15 for c&bd and £35 with highlights.

I just put in a permanent colour at home and didn't do a strand test As a result my hair was glowing orange. I called the Clairol help line and they told me to try an ash blond to try to calm down the red/orange. It didn't work - AGHHHH I look ridiculous - will have to wear a hat until is wears or grows out

Eeek! What colour was it meant to be?

should be a warm chestnut red - not orangey apricot - last time I had it coloured at the hairdressers it cost £100 (inc cut) so I was trying to save pennies - never again!!!!

Does anyone else feel that a good hairdresser is hard to find????????!!!!!!!! I've lost count of the number of bad cuts and colours that I've had in the past. Even when I find someone who cuts/colours my hair nicely, when I go back to them six weeks later, they don't do it the same way as they did the first time and I end up hating it. And - the worst offenders are often the expensive salons, they don't listen to what you want and there have been a few times when I've been railroaded into having something done that I didn't really want. Just last week I had a bad cut from an expensive salon, and now I'm waiting for it to grow out. Boy, the money I've wasted....... I'm starting to get a real aversion to hairdressers.

I've stuck with my hairdresser in Brighton for 12 years (even though I left Brighton 7 years ago).He is the only hairdresser who can make my hair look like real hair again after I have abused it with colour and numerous styling products ( and all I'm trying to achieve is keeping my boring one-length straight haired pony tail ). You would not believe that such a simple hairstyle could be so high maintenance.

I left a very good hairdresser behind in Dundee and although my hairdresser now is pretty good, it has taken me five years to find her!