Should I cut my hair into a fringe?

[KatyTheCleaningLady]

I don't know how helpful a thread will be without being able to look at photos, but I figured I would try.

All my life I've had thick slightly wavy hair. I've never been good at styling it so I tend to just push it out of my face. I think it looks best long, one length, parted to the side and just pushed back. But, sometimes I have had a fringe.

In the past few years, two things happened:

1. I had a carcinoma removed right from the very center of my forehead, leaving a scar the size of a 50-pence piece. It literally looks like I used to have a horn there or something. It's a skin graft so sort of depressed and a bit paler than the surrounding skin.

1. My hair went curly. Like, if I let it air dry, it will dry into ringlets.

I really struggle with styling my hair. I don't have the time or patience to iron it flat and even if I do heat style it, the British weather soon makes it frizzy. I have figured out that if I just put some product in it and let it air dry, it looks pretty good with lots of long ringlets. It's big hair, really, but I'm a tall woman and I dress dramatically so I don't mind.

My problem is that I am self-conscious about the scar. If I cut a fringe then I will have to style my hair every day. It wouldn't be hard to just take a big-barreled curling iron to the fringe and spray it into place, but the rest of my hair will still be wild and curly. I would probably put it into a ponytail for weekday house-cleaning. I'm just not sure if I am able to deal with actually styling my hair in a way that I will look nice.

Help me decide? What would you do?

I would.
I have wavy rather than ringletty hair but much prefer to have a fringe. It's more youthful, more flattering, hides any coming wrinkles so would hide your scar.
To be honest, I find I don't really have to restyle it every day. If I straighten it when I wash it, every few days, it pretty much stays fine. I do have a small straightener I can just run through it if it seems to be getting a bit wayward but, using product when I wash & style it, rarely need to.

I have a sweeping fringe which looks nice if I can be bothered to style it. If I cant I pin it back with a grip so best of both worlds realy. my hair is curly and I have a calflick so I say do it!

Well, I was thinking of styling it by blowing it out nice and big, gently curling the fringe with a large iron so that it behaves over my forehead, and then just teasing and backcombing the shit out of behind so that it's one big mess. I may even try a "bump-it" thingy for added height, so that it's sort of a beehive. Although I don't want to go full Winehouse.

(I dye my hair black and dress like a metal chick so it wouldn't be as bizarre as you might think.)

I'm just lazy!

i had a bald patch right in the middle of my parting that lasted for ages and i used to disguise it with a small amout of eyeshadow, it really did work, i wore my hair very flat to my head so without it the skin would really show through, think even qvc have a product that does similar

can you post a pic?

Can't post a pick, no.

This scar is tight in the middle of my forehead, well below my hairline.

Why not camouflage the scar?

www.makeupandbeauty.ie/how-to-cover-an-indented-scar/

I would also weigh up the cost of cosmetic surgery against a lifetime of having your fringe trimmed if you go to a hairdresser!

They can do fantastic things with scars nowadays.

www.spirehealthcare.com/cosmetic-surgery/our-treatments/scar-revision/

Laser results

www.harleymedical.co.uk/non-surgical-solutions/scar-removal/

More here

www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/s/scar-revision

I've had a great result with micro dermabrasion on a chicken pox scar that is on my forehead next to an eyebrow.

www.harleystreetskinclinic.com/treatments/microdermabrasion/

Most hairdressers trim fringes for free.

I'm another one with curly hair and a fringe. I think you should go for it! It doesn't take as much styling and straightening as you might think, and a thick fringe will look vv cool with your thick black hair :)

If you don't like it, its easy to sweep to one side when you have curly hair once its got a bit longer, cos it blends in easily with the longer hair. Its much harder to grow out a fringe with straight hair.

Well... I am almost convinced! I think I will try it.

Let us know how it goes!

OH MY GOD!!!!

I dithered for a week and finally got the nerve to get the fringe this afternoon. WHY DID I WAIT FOR SO LONG???

It looks fantastic. I mean, I look at least a decade younger. They not only cover the scar, they make my eyes pop. I look like a blue-eyed Katey Segal. And all I have to do is sort of curl them (either with the hot iron or hair dryer). The rest of my hair (which is a bit big) doesn't matter. The bigger the better. I look fabulous.

Thank you for the encouragement!

Fab! :) You should show us!!

If I can I will get my husband to take a photo.

I've never heard of her, but if you look like this then wow!

images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/32700000/Katey-Sagal-katey-sagal-32713469-1600-1200.jpg

I love my fringe, makes me look much younger too!

Well done.

Yay for fringes. I had mine cut back in recently. I was growing it out, thinking it would be a nice change. Then I saw a photo of myself and hated it. Fringe straight back.

I've been having keratin treatments (the so-called "Brazilian blow dry") for the past couple of years and my hair, which is by nature coarse and frizzy, is now smooth and sleek. It's pretty straight at the moment but when it starts fading out I just roughly blow dry it so that it's 90% dry then add some oomph with my Babyliss Big hair, which I also love.

Yay!! Thanks for reporting back!

I am currently thinking about growing mine out (it's just about getting in my eyes now...) but maybe I won't bother It's kind of annoying having lots of hair at the front anyway, I seem to remember I was always pushing it behind my ears.