Can we have a thread for those of us with naturally crap hair?

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I often read on here about how to look expensive / put together / smart etc and everyone always says nice hair is key.

I have naturally crap hair. It is fine, frizzy, flyaway, doesn't hold a style for more than 10 seconds, is really fragile, breaks easily.

I visited the hairdresser today and she was trying to convince me that my hair is this way as I don't use the £20 a bottle salon shampoos etc, but even when I did treat myself to all Kerastase products my hair was still just as crap!

I just find it hard to look nice as my hair always lets me down.

Anyone else and any tips? Other than wear a hat.....

Hair extensions

I have heavy, black hair under lighter frizzier hair due to my pcos. It looks like I have seventies rock star layers.

My hair has massively improved, much thicker, since taking B12.

I did try Fibrology. It made a difference at first, then it seemed to stop working. I think maybe it weighs hair down eventually.

Me!
Loads of hair but all really fine, beers between frizzy, poodle, ‘wilted’ and greasy.

It’s wavy but in a very limp salad kind of way, plus my hair has darkened over the last few years so my roots look awful, even after a week!

It doesn’t blow dry very well ( and I’m crap at it) and if I straighten it it wavy-wilts again within an hour ( hello bad graduation picture).

Plus no matter what I do I have eczema and I get it on my scalp which leads to ... dandruff, lots of it. Great.

The only thing that can make mine look nice is if I wash it and then brush it loooads, then apply Argan oil, then don’t wash it for 3 days. On the 3rd day at midday it will look lovely ... for about 4 hours.

It used to be gorgeous when I was a teen, literally compliments everyday, curly, blonde and thick as anything ... oh the days of yor.

I always feel like if I could do a French plait , I wouldn’t care as they look nice and professional ... can’t for the life of me figure them out.

@Creatureofthenight try a clarifying shampoo once a week if you think your hairs getting weighed down x

Can I join?
I have naturally very curly hair, it’s much curlier than I suspected having stopped straightening it and switching to silicone free shampoo and conditioner this year but not in a good way. It’s fine, breaks easily and unless it’s fluffed up loads is flat on top.

If I blow dry it straight it goes into big barrel curls so that’s ok but a lot of effort and only lasts half a day.
I can never have second day hair ever because of the overnight frizz. Refuse to do curly girl method because I cant live with unclean hair. Urgh. Hate it.

I learned how to do a French plait in school and recently mastered a Dutch version. I don't give a shit if they're out of fashion or not, they look great on fine hair.

I have really crap hair. Fine, limp, greasy, fuzzy, loads of baby hairs springing in question marks in front of my ears......

I find washing it loads, spraying shitloads of leave in conditioner in the ends to combat the frizzy fragile bits, and growing it long helps. Oh and keeping your roots done.

People can really be fooled by the "long blonde hair" cliché into thinking you have better hair than you actually possess!

Crap hair here too. Wavy in an annoying, unsymmetrical way, fine and thin, breaks easily. Recently cut and looks worse (mumsnet haircut mullet-esque fail). Have taken to scrunching mousse through when wet for an attempt at curls which looks nice for maybe an hour out of the day but is mostly a crunchy mess.
Never had swishy shiny hair. Nicest cut was a Bob but the daily straightening required was not for me.

I have very frizzy hair that needs daily straightening to look like anything other than a scarecrow fright wig. I’ve tried SO many expensive products and shampoos from the hairdresser etc. Nothing really made much of a difference other than using a ton of an intensive conditioner with each wash. The best I had found was the Elvive masques in the tubs which I used with each wash (have tried loads of products even at £25 a go)

BUT

last week on a whim I lifted a conditioner in Lidl of all places. It’s the Repair Keratin Power conditioner in a tube and was £1.79 and it is hands down the beat conditioner I’ve ever tried. I’ve spent hundreds over the years trying various ones and can’t believe this one has been better than ones that cost 10 times the price.

It’s so cheap it’s definitely worth ago for anyone with coarser frizzy hair.

keepon SLS free made my hair (exp the frizz) much worse too

Yes me. Thick hair, wavy, sticks out in all directions if short, frizzes if damp, overwhelming mane if long enough to tie back. Won't clip up nicely. Dull mid brown now going irregularly grey. Felt better getting that off my chest!

Mine is really thick but fine textured. Nothing helps it to hold a style and it flicks up at the ends.

Absolutely me! Another one with fine, thin, dead straight hair. Always flops in the wrong direction, goes greasy within the blink of an eye, and I can’t even get a ponytail to look neat! And just to top it off, I’ Now going grey!

Me! Went grey early (well, blonde, as I'm a lapsed redhead).

Now frizzy, flyaway looks-okay-until-I-go-outside not quite straight and not quite wavy. Any sort of humidity spells the end for my 'style'. I can't control my body temperature very well so even if the atmosphere is parched there's still limp frizz as I create my own micro-climate. The flyaway bits tickle my face and get trapped in my glasses.

Not very good at faffing about at the back of my head so a ponytail or one of those twisty-cheaty buns is about the best I can manage. Even then it starts out okay but by mid-afternoon I have 'mad old lady' hair.

Tried all sort of goos and potions but nothing successful so far. It's getting worse, too... Is there anything that really helps?

Curly, frizzy, messy - a cross between Hallowe’en witch and that episode of Friends where Monica’s hair gets bigger and bigger and bigger in each scene. I have bad eighties hair. Whatever cut I have, whatever products I use, it’s vaguely reminiscent of a Kevin Keegan mullet on acid.
Nothing I can do. It does whatever the fuck it wants anyway.
Oh, I also can’t just shear it off as I have a really low hairline at the back and end up having to neck shave every day lest I be mistaken for a gorilla.
It’s a joy.

@ElspethFlashman French and Dutch plaits are super fashionable ....

Dead straight, fine, static, thin, goes into clumps/rats’ tails instead of hanging nicely and evenly like a curtain!

Plus side, shiny and soft as anything

My hair would be top of my list to change if I had the option. It's fine, frizzy, wavy and bee a lot worse with random regrowth after pregnancies. Mousse works quite well to give it volume and cut out the frizz but I really can't be bothered every day!

Mine's like badger fur. And now it's even going grey to really capitalise on the badger-ness. I have never ever had swishy, glossy, smooth, silky hair.