How do you do your hair for everyday?

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Just that really.

My hair is mostly straight/ a bit wavy and I guess kind of medium to long but not really that long 🤔 (the length is relative I guess). Straight blunt cut, no layers or fringe. For everyday I just have it down, sometimes coupled with a 'fringe braid'. I haven't straightened/curled/blow dryed it for every day for a couple of years now (going out and special occasions are my exceptions but are maybe a handful of times a year). I've started getting into French braids.

How do you do your hair for normal days like the weekend or when you go to work?

Things I'm trying to find out: Is it more popular or normal to use heat on hair for everyday? Does it look more professional at work? Or more put together outside of home? Should I be doing my hair differently? 🤔

Bumping as I’d love some hair inspiration!
I have long very thick hair. I normally chuck it up in a bun as it’s quick and easy but I’m so bored of this! I would love to leave it out curly but it’s frizzy, and I can’t curl with straighteners. Having my hair straight takes about 90 mins as it’s so thick, with a toddler I just haven’t the time to straighten it.

Same..stuck in a rut with mine as im never happy with it really. I wear it in a big messy bun on top or half up and half down messy bun. If im feeling adventurous il put it in a high pony and wave it.

Id say no to heat everyday so for me the messy bun actually works lol

I can’t get a messy bun to look right! It ends up a frizzy bun

Ah yes thats not a good look 😂 i have frizzy days too so yep i agree the bun doesnt work.

I'm guilty of the worst of sins.

For everyday at work etc it gets twisted up and then clipped with a small plastic claw clip. Every single day, Monday to Friday.

For weekends the same unless I am going out in which case I spend ages blow drying it into a sort of long bob and then I turn the end under with my ghd curling tongs. Sometimes it looks nice - other times AWFUL.

I can't reliably curl it - sometimes it looks great but only sometimes - I'm going to a black tie do on Thursday and it will be in it's really boring long bob with turned under ends - I will be avoiding cameras!

Been trying to get the Dyson Airwave in the hope that I will become gorgeous but they are not available anywhere!

^^ In my defence I cycle to work so it starts and ends each day in a helmet - no point blow drying it to stick a helmet on it and communte into the city on a bike!

So I do the curly hair method so no heat except for special occasions but I do concede it looks shit most of the time

I'm loving headbands! They really make your look "thought about" and it keeps it out of my face but can still wear it down!

I have similar hair to you it sounds OP! Normally I just curl is quickly with my straighteners and mess it/ spray with holding spritz. 5 mins max, looks sort of messy and big and never “falls out” 😂 sometimes I actually straighten and style it properly.

My hair is shoulder length and I wear it up in a messy bun nearly everyday. I rarely wear it down as it just annoys me.

Nearly all the time, I brush it out, then spray leave-in condition on a shampoo brush, comb through again to keep the frizz more in check and give a slightly-but-not-greasy slicked back look, then pull into a low ponytail.

It does the job most of the time, though at the end of most days, between the frizz and wind, the top of my hair is a mess. Not yet found anything to really keep in check yet other than wearing a hat all the time...

I blow dry and straighten it at night, the next day I quickly blow over it in the morning.
The next night I sometimes put some waves in with tongs.
My hair is always down and reasonably done never wear it up as it doesn't suit me.
That said I can usually get 3/4 days out of it before it needs a wash.

I have four looks. Fringe and long hair straight down. Quite long. I never ever use straighteners as I don’t like the look of straightened hair with them so i blow dry straight.

Or I blow dry but scrunch up my hair and use a diffuser and that gives my hair some natural looking waves.

Or I twist it up the back lifting it high and hold in place with a claw grip and then fan out the ends of the hair so that you can see it at the top of my head from the front.

Or I wear it in two plaits either side of my face Indian Squaw style which my husband loves but I get the odd eye roll from my daughter!

I’m very good with make up and clothes but rubbish at doing my hair, it has to be very simple.

I would love a return to big 1980s perms as they were so flattering to my face and still would be!

Day 1 - blow dried with hot air brush
Day 2 - run over with straighteners if needed
Day 3 - up in messy bun

Then wash and start again.

That’s the plan however often day 1 is scrunched when wet with a bit of curl spray and dry naturally as I can’t be arsed. The other two days stay the same...

I’d love some tips on styling thick frizzy hair

Mine has no natural curl, it’s just frizzy and very coarse. Blow drying takes ages and even with a kera straight treatment it’s big and puffy.
After the gym I let it dry naturally which means mushroom head so I put it up in a crappy bun thing.
I love a French braid but can’t do them myself !

@booey you sound the same as me!! I’d love to be able to French braid but can’t do it. When I dry mine with the hair dryer it just goes into a big frizzy mess, it’s horrendous! I’ve said to DH so many times lately if I could get away with shaving it all off then I would, it really gets me down. I’d love to go really short but it would end up like a mushroom 😳

PinkDaydreams it’s such a chore isn’t it?
Hot weather: frizz! Any moisture: more frizz !
If I blow dry and straighten, as soon as I step outside it puffs up and becomes unmanageable. What’s the point ?!
Only a really good salon blow dry helps me for a couple of days.
Most of my friends have fine hair and I’d love that ! They Just wash and go!

I use super duper salon products too but every time I go to a hairdresser they love telling me how dry it is, and ‘do you not use conditioner?!’ I say yes, I use the bloody thing you sold me for £30 last time ! It’s the texture, it’s natural as dry as a bone !

I’d love to feel liberated and shave mine off but I know I’d have a weird shaped head plus on no makeup days I’d be looking very odd indeed

I loved reading everyone's hairstyle journeys and I really like the idea of a messy bun and using Alice bands. I used to wear Alice bands but have no idea where they've gone now- I'm loving the excuse to go shopping for them!

Doing a French braid ponytail is hard. I've been trying it out and it does get messy rather quickly but I think I'm getting the hang of it, my arms hurt less doing it at least 😂

@Soola I've checked out this perm online and it's lovely. I think you should definitely consider getting it if it still suits you 😊

I used to have shoulder length hair, but got fed up with it always looking as if it had exploded on my head, whatever product or styling I used/did, I still had a birds nest plonked on my head. I got my barber DS to completely cut it off, it's extremely short with a fade at the back and side. For everyday styling all I do is just spike it up with hair putty and go!

@PinkDaydreams
@boooey
I bought the Dyson supersonic and it’s brilliant for getting frizz free hair. Well worth the money even if me Dyson is a twat.

An update from me 😃

I have now been practicing doing a French braid ponytail for a while and think it's looking neater than before!

Daily hairstyles are now:
A messy bun using a doughnut
A French braid
Hair down with an alice band
A low bun using this weird squishy mouth like doughnut thing from Primark
A high ponytail with a bit of hair wrapped around the hair band
Half up hair with a claw/ mini clip

Wash, comb, hairdryer and leave it. Bung it up in a clip or with bobbies if it's getting on my tits...