How do you do your hair?

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I can remember every visit to hairdressers that I've ever made, because I have only been 9 times in my whole 45 year life, ( my mother cut it until I was about 10/12) .

The rest of the time I have cut, shaved, bleached, ( with interesting shades of red, orange, strawberry blonde, aswell as white), and repeatedly recut it, myself.

Cutting it is often an almost therapeutic, though sometimes obsessive/compulsive, activity of perfectionist "sculpting", usually short to very-short at the back and sides, with a fringe of varying length. Sometimes a short bob. It has only been shoulder-length/longer on a couple of occasions since I was a child.

I rinse my hair under the shower, but use no shampoo or anything else on it. Haven't needed to since my scalp recovered from regular, ( culturally-inculcated ), shampoo use, ( which strips off natural oils and stimulates increased oil production), 18 years ago.

It used to be very dark brown, slightly wavy, but is now increasingly silver-grey.

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I just have it short. I look like a boy. I don't like looking like that any more, but I have to have it short because sensory problems prevent me from having it any other way

Attempts at cutting my own hair have been disasterous. I stopped trying to do that a few years ago....but I have in the past had adult versions of the home-self-haircut/color disasters..I learned my lesson after my mid-20s.....also I have several school photos of hair disasters from when I cut my own hair as a child....maybe I thought it was theraputic then....my bangs at some horrible angle...my hair hanging down in clumps......I really don't knwo what I was thinking because I don't remember that era of my life...I just ahve the photographs

Dye it (blonde) so that the color is a little more uniform. It's a chestnut color originally, but I have blonde streaks in the back...makes me look like the bride of Frankenstein if I wear it the wrong way.

It's curly, so I use leave in conditioner to make it shine and not frizz.

I cut it myself...because I have a hard time with anyone messing around with my hair or my head...comb it, a curling iron hides the blunders fairly well and smooths out some of the places that always seems to lay the wrong way.

Finger comb the curls and forget about it basically. I leave it past my shoulders...had it cut short before and I couldn't stand it...nothing to fiddle with when I got nervous.

Naturally wavy, so sometimes left to dry, stints of always straight, stints of always curly and recently wavy/straight and due to add a couple of dreads to the side with silver bands on them, joy!

Cutting my hair myself has yielded much, much better results than letting someone else do it. I've actually gotten a lot of compliments on the 20's style bob w/ short bangs I just did.

Usually when I have it done professionally, I come home crying. I find the experience awkward and draining, and then I have to pay them money to touch my head (yuck!) and misinterpret my suggestions. I'm done with that. I don't care if my hair looks like a halloween wig.

If anyone lives in the Tampa Bay area, I'll cut your hair for free. Don't expect anything fancy, I can only do trims and bobs and I'm not half bad at that.

Ouinon, it's interesting about not shampooing. Seriously, no negative effects of not using shampoo? Right now I use a biodegradable kind and either use conditioner or olive oil to condition. But I'd be afraid my hair would get really, really oily.

I get it cut and dyed every few months. Every day I also wash it, comb it, blow dry it and usually just let it hang loosely down my shoulders.

My hair is almost always in a braid and I wear either a bandana or a head scarf, my hair is long and curly, so in the rare instance that I leave it down, people are socked and say, 'you should leave it down more!'

My mom says how I should do it. But I use bangs because I eat my hair. After medication I stopped eating my hair.

I have thick curly hair thats cut above my shoulders with layers but my curls are big and lose not tight. Sometimes I take my bangs and pin them back in a poof, since it looks bad slick back, my hair has too much volume.

I'm too scared to cut my own, having seen what I did to my Barbie dolls as a child...

I've never been to a hairdressers before... I don't like people playing with my hair (although with long blonde hair in an all girls school it was harder to stop them then you'd think). My mum used to cut my hair, but now I do it.

For people who know full metal alchemist, I have Ed's hair, plus about ten inches on the end. For those who don't, I have long blonde hair with a long fringe (chin length), and a really short bit at the front. XD; Normally I just wear it loose, or if I'm having a bad hair day, back in a plait.

I've started wearing wigs a lot recently though. I have three I can wear at the moment (and one on order): a green one that's shoulder length and wavy, and two short ones (one pink, and one orange) that I usually spike up.

I just got my hair cut short two weeks ago-going from a tellum (reverse mullet- long in the front, very sort in the back) to a tightly cropped hair do with a long fringe.
The back is so short that many people thing I shaved my head when in actual fact, it was merely chopped off bit by bit by my stylist.
It's easy to manage-just wash, blowdry and use a small blob of wax to spike it- but as it's growing out rapidly, the two long pieces on either side of my face are giving me no end of grief by refusing to grow flat.

I always had a kink in my hair but now that it's mostly 3 inches long save for the front, it's not much of a problem anymore.

I also dye my hair blue-black as it works best with my skin tone (pale, sallow skinned) and eyebrows.
(Honestly- who has light brown natural hair and JET BLACK eyebrows?! That makes absolutely no sense! O.o)

I like to wear my hair in two stranded ethnic twists. After washing and conditioning, I make the twists. I find that my scalp is rather dry, so I usually start by massaging a little oil into the scalp. I usually watch a movie or two while doing them, because it takes about 3 to 4 hours. I make a zig zag parting at the front, to avoid stressing the hair, since I noticed that making a side part over and over caused breakage. They last about a week, and then I take them out and start all over again. My hair has grown a lot from doing this.

Has anyone purchased that Intyler to straighten or style hard to curl hair? My hair didn't grow back thick after my daughter was born and it's always been hard to style. Perms work ok for me, but I hate them and they can look dated if you arn't careful.

The styler looks good, but why do I want to purchase 2 and pay over 100$????