Hair, hair, hair (& photos)

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I'm really bored with it, it's just there, it floats & is fine but plentiful, I've cropped it, I've fringed it, I need to leap out of bed every day and be pleased with it.

That's impossible though, isn't it?

I will pay, I have before, but they give me a silly style that needs tons of blow drying, I ain't that girl.

I think I might go for a blunt fringe again, you lot give tons of good advice.

Help!

I like the cut Stare it really suits you, but I have a kink, it would be a pain up the arse to get it to fall like that.

It would be horizontal.

horizontal :)

You have lovely bone structure so I think you'd look great with a 70's very short pudding basin bob like Purdey from the New Avengers. It needs a really good, strong cut though, but if it's done well it should just swish into place each day with little work.

You really suit a fringe

I quite like to wear it up though, which I can't with a fringe or cropped...hmmm. I loves a quiff.

Your hair is gorgeous. Do not cut it. Shorter hair is aging . It is though!! It doesn't look that fine. It looks great but in the very first photo, it looks a bit like bed-head. How about a babyliss big hair, to give it a bit of volume and swish?

I love your hair! You don't need to change it.

The fringe suits you . What about a layered messy bob, just a bit shorter than what you've got. If you can still look cool with that bed head look, you can probably get away with anything.

You're just bored! I make this mistake all the time - decide I want a change and do something which I then regret. Love my hair short but it is so much more faff than having long hair you can just pull up or plait or do a messy bun or quiff.
I'm currently growing out a short bob into a mumsy mid-length on my way back to my longer hair.
Also currently sporting a much-regretted blunt fringe (again looks nice on me but needs blow-drying and I don't have time in the mornings).

Leave it as it is and practice different styles? Dutch braids/ back combing/ 70s style flicks?

Hashtag: living out my hair frustrations

Crops aren't aging! Well, not on beautiful slim faces with good bone structure.

Ok, agreed, on the young and beautiful, short hair is fine. On anyone else, it's aging.

I like the length in the OP, it looks French and sexy. You just need a good expensive cut to give it a shape that holds over time.

I would go more for a young Charlotte Rampling than Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Maybe your current cut with a bit of product added to define the hair more. Wax? Help me here hairdressers!

Thanks for all the thoughts, I didn't bugger off, just had a madly busy few days, I think Tacky might be right, I DO get bored, and I found a crop hard work (& yes, it is aging, which is why there's only one slightly strange photo of me with it, at 41 I need all the help I can get).

I like Fab's suggestions, & yes, not young Rampling, but maybe mid-era Rampling might work, from the looks of it we have similar hair, it's not fine per se, it's individually fine hair, but large in number and volume, ergo - unruly.

I was at a friend's house on Saturday after a night out and apparently, at three in the morning, just before I lay my head on the table I looked like Tina Turner in her Nutbush City Limits years.

I think the key is probably to work with what I have rather than constantly getting irritated and trying to mould it in to something it's never going to be.

Go for some dramatic color- ombré. But don't fuck with the length, it's the tits as it is.

Have you tried a 12 week blow dry?

Oh & I tried Babyliss Big Hair, it was ok-ish (and still lurks in my cupboard) but I am pretty low maintenance when it comes to actually in any way being bothered with doing my hair (which is probably why I keep veering around with different styles, hoping for an answer).

Ohhh, what the fuck it this 12 week blow dry Burnished? Sounds right up my street (see above post).

I used to get a weekly blow dry when I was a pre-child city dweller, & that really worked, I had it at a similar length to the original photo & a very similar style, wore it down for the first three days and up for the last four. Only ever had it washed at the salon. So shoot me, I still only wash it once a week, it keeps the wildness under control.

I think your hair in the OP is the best style. I really like it.

You remind me of Anna Chancellor so maybe google her hair?

It's also called a Brazilian blow dry
this
I've never had one myself as my hair is dead straight but I used to work with a woman who had it done and her hair looked amazing.

Burnished, I think this may be just what I'm looking for.

Thank YOU.