Life must be so much simpler with straight hair.

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What must that be like, I wonder? To wake up with your hair looking pretty much the way it did when you went to sleep, rather than having reconstructed itself into an interesting and artistic tribute to birds nests and haystacks? To not have to start every day by attempting to wrestle it into submission? To just be able to brush it and...and...go?

What do you even do with all that spare time? I think I'd take up a hobby.

I'm 3 weeks into the curly girl method and my prevously half wavy kinky frizzy hair is now almost frizz free big bouncy curls!

I spend my time trying to get my lank straight hair to look like it has some volume/bounce!
Which means daily washing, mousing, curling for special occasions, back combing, large amounts of hairspray. All for it to hand limply by the end of the night
I guess you always want what you don't have. I am thankful that I can run a brush through my hair first thing in the morning and because it's so thin I have quicker drying time.

My hair is straight, fine and limp. Plus side I can forget to brush my hair and noone would no. Down side I can spend 2 hors with a wedding hair dresser and it look exactly the same.

I used to think this but now I have decided to embrace my hair. It doubles my width! It scares all the right people and attracts all the right people. I feel like it's my superpower

Plus when I get it straightened people don't recognise me!

I've got crap hair. Flat. Limp. Greasy. I'd love curls....

Emeithme - yes! The daily battle with my hair to turn it into anything respectable, such as straight, is exhausting. Otherwise it's a bit straight, a bit curly and mostly a frizzy pug of control mess.

I got a silk turban for Christmas it has revolutionised my hair.
I wake up run fingers through and go.

I do get that it must be time consuming to have curly hair. My friend has very thick naturally curly hair that she straightens into short bob every day and takes ages (although recently she has spent £300 (!!!!!) on the new Dyson hairdrier which she says is a godsend and has halved the time it take. )

My hair in the other hand is fine and straight and dries in about 1 minute (I tried her new hairdrier it practically blew all the hair off my head!)

I would love big bouncy hair as I'm a bit fat and I have convinced myself if hair would make me look less fat, but I'm probably kidding myself there!

I have straight, medium thick "normal" hair, not greasy, not dry. It looks fine but the same all the time. I think you always want what you don't have. I'd love wavy hair.

I've straight hair myself. My teen years were spend trying to torture it into Farrakhan Fawcett flicks and waves. Then, when the early 80's fashion was Pre-Raphaelite curls, I had a perm. It was an abomination. I looked like I had a waist length Kevin Keegan "do" and couldn't get a comb through it. After that, I left it alone and as a nurse, it spent its daily life under a hat.

Now, like Petal02 I need to wash it each morning (I very rarely don't) and let it dry whilst I'm out walking the dog. When I get back, I use an air-brush thingy to try to give it some oomph. Some days are more successful than others.

OP, my advice? Stop torturing your lovely hair into something it doesn't want to be. Have a curly style and embrace your natural loveliness 😉

Bloody iPad.....Farrah-Fawcett.

em you can Brazilian at home for about £25! There's a thread running about it at the moment. Life-changing!

Those with wavy, curly hair, why do you have to do anything with it at all other than wash and make sure it's not tangled? It's how your hair is "supposed" to be. Embrace and learn to love it just as it is on a day to day basis.

The only time I "do" anything to my hair is if I'm going out for a special event or night out. Day to day it just hangs down or more often in a messy bun for practicality.

But mine isn't curly, way or straight. It's a combination of all 3!

I agree life is probably simpler with straight hair BUT it's definitely duller...didn't even manage a change from a bob when I got married. My bridesmaids on the other hand...

I'm managing to wash it every other day now without it feeling yuck 30 hours after the last wash, feels like an achievement of sorts.

But I'm not fighting it! I wear it curly, in a style that works with it, cut by a curly-haired hairdresser.

It still requires at least wetting, detangling and restyling every morning in order to look at least like "deliberate bedhead" and not "actual bedhead", and it'd be so nice not to have to do that every day.

God no I hate my "straight" hair, mostly because when I get up in the morning it is a right mess and I have to wash and blow dry it as it's sticking out in all angles.
Either that or I spend the night in soft rollers trying to get the curly look I love so much. Really sexy.
The side bits that never seem to grow much and would look so pretty curly just stick out like cats whiskers and have to be hairsprayed into submission.

I don't think straight hair is all it's cracked up to be. I know it used to be on trend. I tried it then and was able to achieve it easily as I'm more like farah fawcet pic minus the glamour than actually curly. But it felt lank to me and I thought others looked lank. I think you have to have really thick hair to do straight well. I think super curly is very interesting and cool and but understand it must be hard to manage.

I have straight hair - that is thin, fine, lank and SHIT. It's so flyaway that there's no point in styling it cos nothing will hold, it looks ratty with even a drop of moisture in the air or a puff of wind, so I never wear it down. I hate it.

I have completely straight hair, and it's so smooth I can't have any cool hairstyles! It just goes bam, flat again. I can get away with not brushing it if I so wanted (but I love having nicely brushed hair), but in all honestly I'd love a bit of texture in it, a bit of volume and the possibility of a lovely style!

A tiny coating of hair serum stops my hair being flyaway, then a squirt of hairspray. I never blow dry my hair and only use heat appliances for special occasions so my hair is in tip top condition. I don't brush it more than once a day either. Straight hair looks better healthy and shiny than "styled" IMO. Especially if it's shoulder length or longer.

I also think the poker straight look looks flat, limp and shit. Hair should have natural movement.

I can't just accept my hair. It isn't curly or properly wavy, it's very, very thick and course and frizzy. If I just leave it I look awful.

I tried the curly girl method, but think my hair isn't curly enough. I hate having to plan my running around when I washed my hair, because it such a bloody faff. I currently have an undercut and my hair is still thicker than average.

I'm having Xtenso done this week. Hope will revolutionise my life.

The trouble with my naturally curly hair is that if I leave it to dry naturally, it's so thick it will take all day to dry and might look nice by bedtime.

I also risk hypothermia walking about with damp hair.

Straighteners all the way here!