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Shall we have a thrilling thread about fringes and whether to have them or not?

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:18

I need a new haircut

have long wavy brown hair

and feel extremely fed up and fancy a change

hair is kind of like that woman who is married to Tom Cruise (??)

and I want a longish choppy fringe like Natasha Bedingfield - saw her on tv and it looked fab

I have asked dh and he ran off and looked scared as last time I was in a strop like this I had 8 inches lopped and was in a worse mood so he refuses to advise

so, fringes: yes or no?

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pesme · 18/04/2007 10:21

normally i say NO to fringes but the natasha bedingfield one looks quite harmless and easy to grow out if you take fright.

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:22

I have tried to google but all the pics are rubbish

do you have a fringe?

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Kbear · 18/04/2007 10:22

A light layered fringe will be easy to grow out if you hate it. A few choppy layers through your hair will make the world of difference too, without being drastic.

MrsBadger · 18/04/2007 10:23

depends on face shape

I have fat round/square face and look 'orrible with a fringe. If your face is longer and/or your forehead higher you'll do better.

pesme · 18/04/2007 10:24

i have short short hair and push the front over. i had longer hair and deliberated over having a serious fringe as i bear a passing resemblance to audrey tatou but realised i was not in my early twenties and a passing resemblance does not a cutsie amelie make.

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:24

I have a long face

have never ever ever had a fridge apart from when I had short hair and it doesn't really count then

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Y0rkshirelass · 18/04/2007 10:25

Depends on how large the gap is between your eyebrows & hairline - the larger your forehead, the more likely you are to get away with a fringe.
Can always be grown out into layers anyway.

TeeCee · 18/04/2007 10:25

i've often toyed with the idea of a fringe. See my profile for what my hair looks like now if you want. But I've alwasys taked myself out of it beacuse a) what a MASSIVE pain int he arse they are b) see a!

Once you have a fringe, that's it, constant trimming it to keep out of eyes.

Oh and want to change your hairstyle, once you are bored with the fringe, ha, not after a lot of painful trying to grow it ou]t and having to have a variety of weird hair do's and hair decorations to hide the fact that your fringe is down by your nose but you still have a really long way to go.

Pain in the rectum, don't do it.

pesme · 18/04/2007 10:26

go for it. just don't go down the claudia ninklewinkel (what is her name) route.

ScottishThistle · 18/04/2007 10:27

I love fringes but they don't work on everyone!

I learnt the hard way a few years ago & actually cried in the Hairdressers!

Y0rkshirelass · 18/04/2007 10:28

Oh yes, Claudia's was awful!!
Are scarfy-headbandy things still ok this summer? That would help with growing it out if you change your mind.
Or what about having it cut in in stages, thin first, then a bit thicker the next time, etc.

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:28

oh no, not claudia, that is too harsh (did you see her on cbeebies the other night?)

sigh

will have a mooch for some pics and see

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BarefootDancer · 18/04/2007 10:28

olive why doesn't a fridge count when you have short hair?
Fringes - 5 minutes to cut, 5 months to grow out.

pesme · 18/04/2007 10:29

i did see her, i keep wanting to clip it back while muttering something about ruining her eyesight.

Y0rkshirelass · 18/04/2007 10:30

Saw Claudia on Fame Academy, the fringe was far too long, so she stood with her nose in the air and kept blinking manically and flicking her head.

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:30

kind of like Liz Hurley (nice pumped up lips - not)

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TeeCee · 18/04/2007 10:31

Yeaqh but she may as well not have a fringe, it would be the same hair do whatever the length of that front bit. That's not a fringe really is it.

Tatties · 18/04/2007 10:31

I have a fringe, it is short but not blunt, kind of choppy. Think I look better with than without. If you get a longish layered one it will be easily pushed to the side or grow out if you don't like it.

TeeCee · 18/04/2007 10:32

gettcha bangs here

pesme · 18/04/2007 10:33

you are really thinking about layers. or 'softening' up the front of the hair. do it do it.

pesme · 18/04/2007 10:33

bangs is a fantastic expression.

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:34

oooh I like the one right at the bottom

bit layery at the back

I have unruly hair

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Sherbert37 · 18/04/2007 10:35

I am growing out my fringe of 43 years and it is annoying me intensely at the moment. Time for a change, as I look the same in all my photos from toddlerdom to now (well, my hair looks the same anyway).

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oliveoil · 18/04/2007 10:36

mine always looks the same

just different lengths

BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING

Am going to book hair and colour for this weekend while I am in strop mode

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TeeCee · 18/04/2007 10:36

Yeah layering the front is totally different from having a fringe. A fringe is a blunt - ish straight cut across teh front/ Liz has sft layering.

On that link I did, on the 2nd page of fringes there is a girl with a short bob, sort of reddish black, sort of side profile, with a proper big fringe. I actually really like that. Wouldn't have it as too much of a pita but love the hair.