My hair is currently so shaggy, I could pass as Cousin It if I combed it just right. I finally said “Uncle” to my roots last night and died my hair back to some semblance if its natural color. Which was somewhat scary and depressing, since my hair hasn’t been any semblance of its natural color since about 1993.
Heck, my hair hasn’t had much of a semblance to ANY natural color since about 1993.
I love, love, love being a redhead but I can’t really handle the two-pronged commitment of a color that fades unbelievably quickly and hair that grows so fast my roots start to show in a couple of weeks.
So, the combination of hair in desperate need of some scissors and my burgeoning identity crises over normal hair has me craving a totally funky haircut. And I may or may not be seriously considering adding some purple streaks.
So, because I am lazy, I’m asking you, Internets, to find me a picture that I can show my stylist and say, “Please give me a haircut that looks something like this.” My requirements are few, but they are firm:
- Must be suitable for curly hair
- Must be (relatively) low maintenance
- Must frame my (heart-shaped) face in a manner that could be construed as flattering
- Must be able to handle the fact that my hair grows at a rate of approximately 17 feet a week. And I am terrible about forgetting to go in for cuts.
- Must make me look totally awesome
As a corellary to the awesome, my haircut:
- Must not make me look like a soccer mom
- Must not make me look like I stuck my finger in an electric socket
- Must not make me look back on it fifteen years from now and say, “What in holy hell was I thinking?!?!”
Also, I don’t do bangs. No sir. No how. No way. Not up for discussion. My hair detects the presence of bangs and then automatically curls itself up in such a way as to make it appear that I am heading to my local mall sometime in the 1980’s… and I’m wearing acid-washed jeans. I wish that I was kidding, but I’m not. All bangs on me become mall bangs. It’s an immutable law of physics.
I’m thinking shoulder length, but that’s totally negotiable.
So far, google has let me down completely.
Unless I want to look like a poodle.
Which…. no. Just… no.
This is what my face looks like:
I’m the one, at the bottom, attempting (unsuccessfully) to hide my horrible roots with a headband. Looking through photos for a picture of me to post, I’m struck by how terrible my hair always seems to look. Which is both enlightening and depressing.
So… I need a new haircut. Desperately.
I’ll send a whole package of cookies to the person who gives me the best suggestion.
I vote to leave it long. Short cuts require frequent cutting to keep them in some kind of shape, so they are annoying when your hair grows fast. I think when mine was chin-length I had it cut every 4 weeks.
You’re probably right, although I’ve found that my hair gets weighted down too much when it’s long and just ends up looking flat.
Ummmm, Carrot Top?
I vote for a pageboy cut.
Perhaps something like this? It’s a bit shorter than shoulder length, but looks reasonably easy to maintain, depending on how curly your hair is naturally.
I don’t have any suggestions but I can certainly comiserate with you since I am in the same boat- no cut OR COLOR since Sept 4 2008. My hair is in BAD shape right now!!
I could so rock that look… I’d just need to start taking some *more* steroids. And really step up my prop humor!
A pageboy would be super cute if it didn’t involve bangs!
Karen, that is super cute!
Sorry Hope, I don’t have a haircut suggestion for you. Since, however, you’re a fellow “sister of the curly mop top” I’ll say that recently I realized that if I use spray-in conditioner in addition to my regular conditioner my curls don’t frizz…as much as usual. Good luck in your quest!
Hope, before you leave your next hair appointment, make a date for the next appointment! My hair grows so fast that I have to go every 4-5 weeks (and try not to look at the gray roots appearing around week 3). I have my next three appointments already scheduled.
Of course, that’s all going to change. My stylist, whom I love and adore as a friend and who does a great job on my hair, is moving his shop. He’ll be pretty much 90 minutes away — too far to go after work and even too far for me to give up what amounts to being five hours of a day off. I am desolate. I’m still going to him for the next appointment because we’ve worked on growing my hair longer for six months and this is the pivotal cut. After that I need to find someone new. It’s traumatic, I tell you. Absofreakinglutely traumatic!
You’re so right, Mary. I need to schedule my appointments in advance! I so completely feel your pain about losing your stylist. I had the most amazing woman who cut my hair, but she left the hair business to be a stay at home mom. Nobody came close to her level of talent. All of the other stylists at that salon were in awe of her. I went in for a color appointment there once and the girl said “You have a [stylist] cut, I can tell.”
GS, I use curls rock every day and it seems to work wonders for my curls. It was recommended by the aforementioned awesome stylist and it opened up a whole new world of possibility with my hair. I also use conditioner that’s formulated for curly hair. But I haven’t tried the spray-in kind. I’ll have to give it a shot!
Hi Hope
I am reading your very entertaining blog because I clicked on the link from Patricia Wild’s blog… Anyway, I used to dye my hair red with henna–and the great thing was that it didn’t show roots very much, because the henna fades over time so there’s less difference between it and au naturel…
Just a thought.
Susan L M