Adventures in Hair

[gothwalk]

I'm taking a day off for relaxation purposes, and also for purposes of catching up on some phone calls that seem to need to be made in office hours outside lunchtime. I hear that some people find the whole shower, do stuff with hair, dry hair, yada thing to be relaxing. I like showers, so I figured I'd give the rest a go, when I have the house to myself, and nobody's likely to wander in and be scarred for life by the sight of a naked hairy man crouching over a hairdryer. The sensations are nice. The smells are nice. The blow-drying thing, while it still sounds a bit obscene to me, feels nice, as long as I remember that my depth perception without glasses sucks, and don't stab myself in the forehead with the comb, or worse, the eye. However. Drying your hair with hot air probably works very well for people with straight hair. Mine is not straight; it's best described as frizz, and very curly if I really bully it. The hair dryer works well for the curls, but it does something else too. It adds volume. My hair, gods help us all, does not need volume. At this moment in time, I most closely resemble an 80s rocker puppet by Jim Henson. I could also find part time theatre work as the small barky thing in The Dark Crystal, if I was small and barky. But there's definitely a muppet theme here.

Comments

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

"and nobody's likely to wander in and be scarred for life by the sight of a naked hairy man crouching over a hairdryer"

Thanks so much for the image

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Always happy to brighten your day.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Frizzease is your friend. Rub a bit of the serum through your hair while wet, comb through, then blow-dry. result: curls, but no poofyness.

[graylion.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see that hair effect - you don't have a webcam, do you?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

We don't. This is probably a good thing.

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

I hate volume as well but unfortunately my hair will never curl. So I just have to find the best way to get my hair to become as straight as the shortest path between A and B. Right now it's an ugly thick and wavy, bleh...

[ailbhe]

Blowdrying just makes my hair *completely* unmanageable - it floats away like dandelion clocks on the breeze, and I can't plait it, because bits always escape. Also, it clings to my fingers. And my hair is a very straight kind of hair, verging on homophobic.

[frostious.livejournal.com]

thank you for the muppet mental image - i really want to see your hair now. :3

give some of that volume to me, please?

[springinautumn.livejournal.com]

"...nobody's likely to wander in and be scarred for life by the sight of a naked hairy man crouching over a hairdryer." I for one, don't see that mind-picture as "scarring," at all. <---Which comment, has now scarred you, for life. LOL! [Evil Giggles]

OK. I'll crawl back into my cave, now. >,-)

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

My hair does similar things, and I swear at times exhibits perverse semi-sentience. L'Oreal's Elvive shampooey-stuff for "dry frizzy or rebellious hair" does wonders for my massively recalcitrant hair.

[graylion.livejournal.com]

well your hair being as gorgeous as it is, I wouldn't complain too much ;-)

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

It's always best not to poke yourself in the forehead with an eye.

I always have trouble blow drying my hair -- about 3" shy of waist length, wavy enough to be frizzy but not curly, and lately, full of split ends and breakage, which is why I'm contemplating having it cut back nearly to my shoulders and starting over. The last few days, I've just braided it while it was wet, then taken the braid down the next morning and combed (not brushed) it so that it was crinkly for the day.

[shiftercat.livejournal.com]

As a fellow frizz-head, I sympathize, and offer advice.

1. Do not blow-dry your hair. If you must, get something called a "diffuser", which attaches to the end of the blow-dryer and means there's less direct heat applied. Me, I just don't bother.

2. Use shampoo and conditioner marked, "For Dry or Damaged Hair".

3. I used to balk at doing anything even slightly high-maintenance in regards to my appearance, but I've found that hair gel helps a lot. Finger-comb it through the ends of your hair while it's still wet and let dry over the course of the day. Dep Anti-Frizz and Salon Selectives "feel'n'control" both work well, and are less expensive than that hair serum someone else mentioned above.