This is not a joke, I really have long hair questions. This is unquestionably long hair, right?
I have short hair, but I have long hair, if you know what I mean. It’s very similar to my weight confusion. I am about a size 14/16 in my inner vision, except that my actual body is a size 20. I am about 5’6″ unless you measure my height, which turns out to be three inches shorter than that.
So with the hair. I have short hair in my mind. It just happens to be long enough to put up, I been thinking to go straight to Charle A Hair Studio.
How do long hair women get their hair to stay together in one piece? Mine is all frizzy chunks unless I get it professionally blown out or do something to it with an iron.
How do I have a 6″ section of my hair at the back of my neck? Is that a layer grown out or have I broken all that hair somehow? Did a mouse nibble that section in the night? How did that happen?
Does longer hair ever wind up looking shiny and sheetlike like the Duchess of Cambridge or is that only thick-haired people can manage? I have extremely fine hair. I don’t really care to have Duchess Katherine hair — she’s a whole different type of gal than I am — I just don’t understand how some hair does that. You should also know how to remove tape extensions if needed, and here you can learn how.
Do other long-haired women find it IMPOSSIBLE to do actual hairstyles, or have you never tried? I find it to be impossible even though YouTube and Pinterest ladies tell me everything will take five minutes. No, it doesn’t. It takes 30 minutes before I finally give up and twist it and clip it again.
All of you coarse-textured long-haired people have it easy. You can do all the styles! If you want, you can even sit in a chair for four hours and get a trillion braids and do amazing sculptures with them. You do not have my confusion and ineptitude.
I am not trying to have long hair; it just grew like hair does when you ignore it. I am not for or against it but it confuses me.
Color, I understand. I understand that this current color is far too warm (gold,brassy) and faded out blonde, and that I want a richer, cool brunette with ashy highlights. I shall achieve this at the salon next week. My hair “pulls warm,” which means that no matter what I do and how often I use blue shampoo, it gets brassy and yellowish.
Long hair people, talk to me. What’s the deal, here? It’s so strange to have hair that catches in my handbag strap, that I have to decide to put in front of or behind my shoulders, and there’s hair on my shoulders, which just feels weird.
Please explain. If you have shiny duchess hair, what are you doing to get it that way?
I will probably cut a bunch off but it still fascinates me.
I’m with you. I have long-ish hair because it balances my features out, but it’s super-fine and doesn’t really “do” things. It doesn’t hold a curl or a style or a braid or anything. It just hangs. As for the Duchess, she has access to unicorn tears, apparently – I have to avert my eyes when I start to feel a little jealous.
1. Long hair. You have it. “Below the shoulder” long hair, aka what happens when you move / your stylist retires / you forget to make several hair appointments in a row and just keep putting it up to get it out of your face and look civilized until you have time to deal with it. (I have this style, too, but mine is erratically curly.) The thing to watch out for – if it is a thing that worries you – is that long hair which hasn’t been styled in a long time drifts toward the Granola Mama look.
2. I have no idea why there’s always a section at the back neckline that only grows out to about 6″ but I have that too, unless I’ve cut it shorter. Hair gnomes. I think they’re like the tooth fairy except they don’t leave you money.
3. There are a ton of hairstyles that look great on mid-length hair (just above the shoulder to just below the shoulder) that just plain do not work past a certain length. This is how you tell you have long hair – the thing that used to work just won’t anymore, so you use unprofessional language and stick it up on top in a clip and decide to deal with it later. (French Braiding works, hair wise, but style-wise I’m not sure it’s the best look for middle aged professional white gals so I tend to use that for gardening and similar activities where hair containment trumps appearance.)
Long hair veteran here. I wear a ponytail to bed most nights, and it’s my go-to on hot days as well (Otherwise, a bun or French twist secured with a bent aluminum knitting needle – super-smooth yet holds firmly). My guess is that the 6′ bit at the back is from breakage due to ponytail holders. I cannot use the super-grippy silicone ones, or any with metal crimps or I will shred my hair in no time! If not the hardware, simply wrapping too tightly or removing them roughly can cause breakage over time. In my experience, color treatment makes breakage more likely, too. I stopped several years ago and have a lot less breakage.
I had long hair for most of my life and it occasionally gets back to that length when I fail to make my quarterly hair cut appointment. My hair is also very fine (which is mostly why I stopped intentionally growing it out past a certain length) and resists most forms of styling that leave my hair hanging loose when it is long.
For up-dos, I have found that my hair has the most hold and malleability if I put a light mousse in my hair after I get out of the shower and then style it while it is still damp. Both regular bobby pins and those little barrettes that gymnasts use that match hair color work well to hold things in place. I have also found that twisting my hair before pinning it helps give the pins/barrettes more to hold on to.
My hair is like yours. Actually, yours looks thicker and glossier than mine.
The tending toward a warm color is likely due to your hair coloring formula and perhaps your water chemistry. The peroxide lightening is showing as the color fades away.
Schwartzkopf brand hair color seemed less prone to do this.
Chlorine might strip the color, not sure.
Mine knots up and static-clings to walls once it’s 2 inches past my shoulders. I don’t get how folks do long hair either. Taking a silica supplement and perhaps a hair-skin-and-nails supplement both seem to help, but I suspect they also mess with my hormones.
Mine tends to be long as well, but its that super thick stuff. I have the Duchess of Cambridge type hair- very wavy/curly, straightens wells, very thick. (My braid is about as thick as my wrist). It’s fun, but It is heavy and hot, so I do lots of braids in the summer. If I wash it and put it up, it’s usually still wet when I take it down at night.
I think fine haired girls need a good salon and someone who can cut their hair to have shape. I’d be cautious about ironing it, since it would be much more fragile. And never never iron when wet!
My hair has been intentionally long for a while, but it’s getting to the point of driving me crazy with how long it is – about to the middle of my back. It’s pretty thick; the hairs themselves are fine, but there are a WHOLE LOT of them, and my go-to way of doing a bun has gotten too heavy/floppy so I’m reevaluating. I don’t ever really style it down, but it’s fairly shiny naturally and semi-wavy (mostly from all the buns I put it in) so I can let it down without looking too weird. I use John Freida’s Radiant Red shampoo and conditioner & not much else.
I’ve been tinkering with braids because I want to do something with it, as I feel there’s not much point of having it long if I hide it away all the time. I started doing a Katniss-style braid (off to the side, sort of wrapping around my head, a-la http://oran.ge/2bvQiDD) without realizing that was my inspiration, but now it’s so long it gets tangled up in the early stages of braiding of any kind and it makes me tired to have my arms up for the amount of time it takes to finish the darn thing.
I definitely have to tie it back at night while I sleep, I and I haaaaate the catching in the handbag problem. My 3-year old often pulls it on accident or on purpose if I don’t have it tied up, though he loves it. He actually said something very specifically complimentary to me about it the other day, though I don’t remember how exactly he put it. I have a tendency to go extreme (i.e. chopping to short bob) when my long hair gets on my nerves, so I’m really pondering what to do next!