Tell me/show me your low maintenance hair style

[SeriousFaffing]

Tell me/show me your low maintenance hair styles please.

I’m in desperate need of easy, chic options that are pretty much guaranteed to look good. My hair only seems to look decent when it’s down with a fair amount of effort put in.

Wearing my hair in a bog standard ponytail today. It looks rubbish.

I would love to see a pic too. I want to get away from the bob.

I've got very fine straight hair, and spent many years with it short - pixie length. Just before lock down I started growing it (and stopped dying it as it was getting harder to keep on top of the grey). It's been basically a lob ever since, I recently had some long bangs cut in so I can have flicky face framing bits, but my hair is the easiest it's ever been, I can't believe it. I can air dry it, bouncy blow dry, straighten, curl, I leave it longer between washes (had to wash every day when short, otherwise it was too flat). It's completely silver (but I use a colour depositing shampoo, and keep it pink or purple - obviously that's just a matter of taste!).

I have a blunt cut, mid neck length, bob.

I have fine, wavy, flyaway hair. I wash it daily, brush it wet, smoosh so serum or leave in conditioner in - and the let nature take its course.

Unless it's rainy or ultra humid, it looks fairly neat.

I think they call it a "French girl bob"

@justasoul
I love this but I have really thick really curly hair and can’t imagine ever getting my hair to look and move like that!

I always wear it curly though. Is your hair like hers or thicker?

Medium length hair here. I have had so many different hairstyles over the years. My hair is naturally thick, so I get layers put in and has a natural wave to it. I can wear it straight, wavy or curly, but it has to be a decent length. If I get it cut too short it doesn't hang right.

Love your hair 😍

I have curly hair and have had this pixie before.

Mine is like a long bob with choppy layers and shorter bits at the front - so I can tie it up but down it accentuates the wavy aspect of my hair for body as it's quite fine. At most I tip it upside down to blow dry if feeling fancy.

I do this with mine as well. Especially for the gym and most work days if I can not be bothered to style it lol

I have a bob, it’s the style I get fed up of but then always go back to. You do have to style it after you wash it, I blow dry and straighten. But then you don’t need to do anything else with it for the next 2-3 days and it always falls neatly into place. I get it trimmed every six weeks.

I like to think mine is thicker than hers but it’s thinned a fair bit since menopause - I just haven’t accepted it yet

Here’s mine straight and curly. I’ve grown it out since because I’m too lazy to maintain it but it grew out really nicely too, no odd stages.

Love the curly look. It looks amazing 🙂

@Soccermumamir thank you

@justasoul
your hair looks lovely in both versions. I’m tempted.

My curl is a bit tighter though and springs up A LOT when shorter.

It’s been a long time since I had a Bob too

@Thighdentitycrisis thanks ☺️ I didn’t think too much, I decided to do it in the morning and got an appointment for the afternoon… I thought ‘what’s the worst that could happen?’ - I’d have to wear a hat for 6 months or so if it went wrong

I had this style done on my last hair cut. I have very thick wavy/curly hair.

I don't think the layers work well for the thickness of my hair when I leave it to dry naturally. I look like a mushroom, and same when I straighten it. If I take time to style my natural curls it's marginally better but takes alot more work than it's worth.

OP my go to easy hair style of either braids with face framing piece left down, or simple updo

@FringeOrNo I’ve said before on another hair thread but I have total envy!

"Long bob". Trim/ends clean up every 3 months, blow dry (heat protection spray + big round brush, divide hair in 3 sections aka sides and top) and dry shampoo between washes.

@Illpickthatup that’s exactly what I’d like!
how do you get that kind of wave?

This!
Hairdrying used to take hours. Now 5-10 mins max every 3 days. So much, much easier in comparison

I normally post this in the ‘going grey’ threads but I’ve had a variation on this for years. I wash it every 2/3 days and do run the straighteners through it most days but not always.

I just use a wide barrelled curling tong. Don't wrap the hair round repeatidly to create a curl, but just around once pulling the hair down the length of the barrell if that makes sense. Then run your fingers through.