My hair is unprofessional

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Reading another thread where employee was told off by boss for messy hair. My hair is fine and wavy but thick i.e. the individual strands are fine and fluffy but there is a lot of it. So attempts to style it lead to one of three outcomes:-

1. Hair put up in ponytail or bun falls out on the way to the car.
2. Hair straightened becomes massive ball of fluff on way to the car.
3. Hair put up in mumsy claw clip thing lasts through the car journey to work then falls out on the stairs up to work.

What can I do? Currently shoulder length with long layers and asymmetrical light fringe. Shorter turns me into frump, longer makes me look even more witchy.

That sounds exactly like my hair. It just will not stay tied up. I look like a scarecrow when I come home from the gym!

I tend to wear mine down most of the time but I have to blow dry and straighten every day for it to look passable. It does need washing anyway as it gets greasy quickly due to it being fine.

I've found that spraying hairspray onto a comb and then running it through my hair stops the flyways. I then spray a load of strong hold hairspray before I leave the house and it will stay straight unless it's humid/raining.

The only other thing that looks good is if I leave it to dry by itself and go outside in summer to let it dry in the breeze. I can't seem to get waves any other way. Salt spray doesn't produce proper waves for me and I get loads of flyways (same for blowdrying with a curling brush).

Pixie the fecker.

Any natural 'texture' will serve to enhance the style. What shape face have you got and what is your style like? I can give some suggestions based on this info.

see it can wang about all over the place and look part of the style.

I actually think you are lucky if you have wavy/curly hair and you want a pixie because creating a textured style is a breeze compared to having dead straight hair. You just whack a bit of matte gum on the ends to piece it up and it's sorted.

If it's that slippy wash it less.