Bad Hair Days

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Share your bad hair stories. The perm that you got in third grade that made you look like a poodle. The time that your mum cut your hair so short that you wouldn't be seen in public for a week. Spill it.

-- Meghan (meghan@blurredlines.com), August 27, 2000

Answers

Okay, I blew it, I don't do polls good or for that matter poles either so I sent e-mail direct. Briefly what I said is that in the 70's when I was in my 50's I finally had my hair the way I had always wanted it. And wangled Heather into putting up with it because all the men where I worked were hairy beasts too. If you can imagine an ugly man in his fifties with shoulder length hair, full beard, mutton chops and a big mustache which curled up at both ends, that was me -- don't barf. Heather had the attitude that, "I love you, but not all of that hair, please come out of the bushes." I had it cut, when I wanted to and how I wanted to and when I had gone establishment, I got hugs from her and the kids. What really tickles me is the men with a monk's fringe, shiny bald head and a long pigtail hanging down their back. But, all in all, it's who you are, not how you have your hair cut. IMO

-- Denver doug (ionoi@webtv.net), August 29, 2000.

I've had my hair many lengths and many colors. Without a doubt, the worst look in the world is when it's growing out from a buzz cut and I don't want to buzz it again. That was what it looked like in 8th grade and it was AWFUL. It had gotten long enough that I couldn't spike it (my preferred short-but-not-shaved style); it was too droopy. All I could think to do was comb it flat and I looked like a boy. A NERDY boy. This time around, though, I suddenly discovered the headband. Now I just push it back in a headband and it looks all right. Soon it'll be long enough to put in a ponytail. Of course, it's also a sort of toothpaste aqua right now--it was "Enchanted Forest," according to the Manic Panic labeling people, which was a bright greenish teal, but it faded pretty fast. I may dye over it soon; I'm still thinking about it.

-- Cabell (rhymes with "Scrabble") (mizuonna@angstlust.com), August 31, 2000.

Meghan, I voted in your damned poll, you wench and I voted in favour of the short pixie-ish 'do. Let me tell you, that was a difficult thing for me to do, too. See, when I was a child, my mother, in her infinite (ha ha) wisdom decided that I should always have my hair cut short in one of those damned pixie haircuts because my hair was and is, very thick and in her never to be humble opinion, totally unmanageable. When I got older, I rebelled. Free at last, I grew my hair...and grew it and grew it and...anyway, you get the picture. Now it's below my waist and wallowing in a thick sea of wavy, hard to manage glory. She hates it which makes me love it even more. So, in spite of my own personal aversion to really short haircuts, I think you'll look sweet, sharp and sexy/cute in a short haircut.

-- Sasha (sasha@travisasha.com), August 31, 2000.

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