Credits: top left, Jill Watkins-Wright, top right, Jean Louis David, middle left, Royston Blythe, middle right, John Carne, bottom left, Gregory Kaoua, bottom right, Andrew Mulvenna. All images via ukhairdressers.com.
Ok so I'll be the first to admit that I'm a bit shit with hair. In fact most beauty things I'm pretty inept with. I blame having a feminist mother. But anyway, my problem is maintenance, if only you could get a haircut & it would just stay like that, not grow out, or look shit after a nights sleep or a wash after the hairdressers. Another problem is that I don't really like the hairdressers, that kind of forced social interaction has always annoyed me. They don't give a shit where I'm going on holiday, I know this. Although both the hairdressers I've had have been absolutely lovely people with interesting things to say, it's still just such an alien environment.
But it's got to that stage again where I can't really ignore my hair & just put it up, pin it out of the way & forget about it anymore. I tried to convince my boyfriend & mum to chop off the back bit that's really grown out, but they both refused. So I have to actually think about what to do with it next. I've had a blunt fringe when I was younger. I've had it longish & wild (horrible). I've straightened it (too much work). I'm kind of over having it short with a bit on the top or really short like here & the second picture. I really loved my halloween afro (here) so maybe I could get a perm? Does anyone know anything about perms? Everyones told me they suck. But I've never dyed my hair or anything so it's in pretty good condition.
The last option is just to get what I have now polished up a little bit. Chop off the mulletty bit at the back, shorten the bits around my face & just sort of diffuse it every morning like the middle two photos. Boring, but at least it would buy me some time! Oh & the last two images are just amazing so I wanted to post them, I would love crimped cat woman ears or a hat of plaits. Wouldn't you?
i though about perming mine a while back and when i talked to my mum about it she said some places do semi permanent perms, so you could try it out for a bit?
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hope whatever you settle on goes well :)
Ahhh-i'm so rubbish when it comes to hair, trim it every now and then and that's it hah! I might just do it up like that plaited hat and leave it like it. I really liked your halloween afro too, i'm sure whatever you do with it will look great though!!
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