balmofgilead | I only wish my words could just convince myself

Props to anyone who can ID the title quote without google.

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curlyhair pretty much confirms what I already thought: most people with curly hair wet their hair in the shower every damn morning in order to make it look okay, or if they shower at night, they do wacky things like making special buns or sleeping on their stomachs so that their hair dries well. I know of this stuff; in high school I combed the thrift store for a satin-silk blouse (I wanted silk instead of polyester so it'd be breathable) which I picked apart and remade into a night-cap for my hair. The idea was that the smooth, shiney satin wouldn't pull on my hair at all, but wearing it at night didn't really do much, and it wasn't comfortable, despite my best efforts.

That just seems ridiculous to me. I refuse to blowdry my hair, which means going out with a wet head if I shower in the mornings. And I've gotten the sense that drippy-wet hair is kind of socially unacceptable in formal settings--not to mention unpleasantly cold in some climates.

I'm unwilling to blowdry, unwilling to absolutelyhaveto wet my hair down every day, unwilling to put greasy crap in my hair, unwilling to plaster it with PVP, and iffy about living constantly with a ponytail with oodles of frizzy bits hanging out in the front. I guess this is my justification for cutting it all off. It's the logical thing to do, and I've always said I'd do it. Besides, I'm still half-convinced I'm going to give myself a fabulous, artsy and perfect haircut utilizing only some $20 clippers, scissors, and a few hairclips. I can dream, right? I think I'm going to try cutting the back first. At least that way if I chicken out in the middle I'll be left with an anti-mullet rather than anything mullet-like. Mullets are my greatest mortal fear.

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side note... can you get a friend or your roommate to help you out? cause i dont know abuot you, but i have no coordination. and so whenever i use my clippers i opt for the 1blade and try to even it out. but then i can't like shave my neckline or whatnot. cause that'd require a weird flexible and yet agile arm and understanding of left to right in a mirror.

and how bout accessorizing with hats :-p

Yeah, I'm kind of worried about that. But there's not really anyone I'd want to pin that responsibility on.

In my mind I'm thinking I don't need a mirror because I'm just doing a block of hair. (But I fully admit I'm being delusional about much of this.) Are you talking about that line in guys' haircuts where they make the hairline end by shaving off everything under it (if that makes sense)? I wasn't thinking about doing that...hmm, I've never paid attention to whether they do that in women's haircuts.

oh and that lyric is really really familar... but i refrain from googling it. and just ltet it rattle in my brain... until i just blurt it out during lunch (randomly).
... i think its an oldies, with the dude on the phone with teh operator asking what the number is for somethnig. cause his best friend ran away with his girlfriend, and he says he got something in his eye... it happens all the time... can't remember the title or the singer though :-(

but... yea i guess i do mean like the baseline or something. i dont know how girls haircuts go either :-p but yea.. as long as YOU are comfortable with it, you'll be fine. there was a girl in college who cut her own hair. and if you looked at it... you can kinda tell cause her lines were like diagonal instead of like straight across in the back. but it fit her personality of not giving a shit plus like DIY mentality or something. do it yourself = diy. so...as long as you're peace and you walk with confidence people won't say shit :-p

Yeah you're right...the song is called Operator :) You get props for recognizing it, titles don't really matter that much.

I'm not sure I can pull off DIY or not giving a shit. I don't think that's what I'm going for, per se, but it might end up how it looks. I started cutting my own hair in 2005, and mostly it's been okay, but cutting it when it's long is different from cutting it short. When I give myself hair trims it doesn't really look much different from the $15 haircuts I got from cheap haircut places, because my hair is curly enough that straight lines don't matter.

You know what else sucks? When your hair actually has ice in it, because you walked outside with your hair still wet, and it's cold.

Doesn't happen to me too much in Philadelphia, but in Boston it happened a lot.

Eek, that would suck. I don't think I've had ice, though I've had curls that were frozen into a sort of crunchy state.

I have to wet my hair in the morning (and almost always wash and condition it too) in order to have it look decent. I just give myself plenty of time for it to almost completely dry by the time I leave the house. This didn't work so well when my hair was a lot longer and we lived in MD. I frequently got to work with ice in my hair from standing on Metro platforms freezing to death.

My hair takes hours to air-dry, somehow, so I don't think I could ever arrange enough time for it to dry in the mornings before leaving. I remember standing outside in winter with a wet head, though! Not something I'm eager to repeat either.

For some reason I just hate having hair where the only way to reset things is to wet it entirely. I think it's also an issue of having low-flow showerheads, which means it takes a good long while and lots of finger-coming in the shower before my scalp even gets wet.

Its so true. I have to wet my hair everyday. I do not know a way around it.

I use curls rock. yes it is goop but i love it.

why refuse to blow dry? you could do a blow dryer with diffuser to keep the curl.

or honestly sitting in front of a room fan can dry it a lot too.

I refuse to blowdry for a lot of reasons:
-it's never helped much aesthetically, even with a diffuser
-it's a huge pain
-it takes me *forever*
-the heat is bad for hair, and if I use low or medium heat settings like you're supposed to, it's forever + an hour

I guess I'm mostly just unwilling to put a lot of effort into my hair. My objections to putting stuff in it are varied too - not liking the feeling of having stuff in my hair, feeling like it's stupid to dole out a lot of money for good hair products, and also (not so much anymore, but at one time) that hair shouldn't need Product to be what it should be.

My girl has naturally curly hair and I find curly hair so sexy.

I only wish my words could just convince myself

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Keep your curls...