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BECAUSE I HATE MY HAIR!

Small rant: I have the finest, thinnest, yuckiest hair in all the universe. You might be surprised to know that I am 1/64th Mohawk, which you'd think would give my hair some oomph, but it doesn't!

I have been cutting my own hair for about three years, partly because I'm economizing and have a sort of can-do attitude (highly unfounded).

If you had baby fine, thin, straight hair, what would you do? I had long, straight, greasy, stringy hair for decades, then I had it cut shorter. Now it's getting longer. What is a good length for me, knowing that I want to be able to easily put together a somewhat vintage look?

My original look, ca. 1990 (the dress is soooo 80s isn't it?)

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At its shorter end, when I first had it cut, it was about like this:

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If you look at my current listings you will see something intermediate. I am so dissatisfied with my own cuts and am about to get a real cut... Would anyone be able to offer a good direction for me and my hair?
 
Maggie, you might be my younger sister or god knows, daughter...we have the same hair. Mine is currently hugely long and thinner than ever, pinned on top of my head in an anti-do somewhere between Katherine Hepburn and Marge Simpson. The only satisfactory haircutter I ever had trained with Vidal Sassoon and understood bone straight hair...he gave me a fabulous asymmetrical bob, very short, that I still remember fondly.
I actually quite like the shorter look above, as well as your current length. It works well with vintage, gives it a bit of a contemporary twist.
 
There are some current layered cuts which frame the face longer in the front short in the back which work great with your sort of hair. I ts sort of a layered Bob. Keeping the back shorter than front make sit fell less droppy and you can use a electric straightener for a edgier look. I say layer the front to frame the face looks great and feel less droopy....

Will try to find picture....

-Chris
 
Goodness, I often wish my hair were finer than it is - then I could get all sorts of extraordinary haircuts (if I cut it short, it starts looking like a wedge....a la this)

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If I had your hair, I'd have a very sharp 20s style bob - like Louise Brooks or something like that. I have the fringe at the moment (got my hair cut the other day and the fringe is too short for me, I'm very annoyed - I prefer it more 60s and in my eyes), and it's currently very black but I could never get my hair to sit like that without endless straightening and tonnes of smoothing products.

Embrace your beautiful hair!!
 
Maggie, wanna trade hair? I HATE my hair!! Although my skin is "caucasian", my hair is the United Nations and I can't do a frickin thing with it! It's so thick and I can't even brush it today as it's so matted so I just bunned it. As soon as it sees a remote raindrop, it turns into frizzy wire. On my wedding day, my mum had to straighten it TWICE to get it even remotely flat.

SSSSSSSSSsOooo, if I were you, I'd let it hang free and enjoy it! I'd get a fringe too and just wear it loose. Let me live through you!:headbang:

Lei
 
I've had baby fine hair all my life
Wore it like your horn pic a LONG time ago

I do have bangs now (fringe to all you UK'ers) and prefer a messy bob look that I can wash and wear or play with product if I want to...which I hardly ever do.
 
Well, I have the same hair as you, Maggie. I can tell you what not to do. Don't let them razor cut it. Be sure to always use scissors.

Longer layers will give it more poof and actually coloring it gives it more body. I let my hair grow out long a couple of years ago and with the weight of it, it just seemed finer and thinner. I think an above the shoulder length would look great or even that length in your shortest hair pic. Flirty little bangs would look cute, too.
 
Thank you for the morning laugh! Wendolene! Katherine Hepburn crossed with Marge Simpson! Hair that is the United Nations!!

I will trade hair with you Lei, I thought it looked GORGEOUS in your wedding pics.

I've never been able to pull off bangs/fringe. Maybe I just had the wrong style, but they tend to make my face look really round because I have these Campbell's Soup kid cheeks. Louise Brooks' cut I have the feeling would do that to me. I LOVE her look, but it's a tough one to pull off. What you are saying Chris definitely sounds like it might work...and that's in? I like that sort of proportion.
 
How funny this is Maggie.
I always LOVE the way you hair looks in listings....

But the man above is right, we never seem happy with our hair.
 
I haven't done much in the way of hair for years, ( i qualified and then left after 5yrs , little pay or satisfaction)

l only cut my mama's hair these days and the dogs (we shant go there!)...but l think yours would look cute like this ...

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because you have the features and bone structure...a blunt cut will give the appearance of more body and the hair colour ... l'd love to see it a more vivid red , would give the same effect!!

You could sooo carry it off...AND fab FOR ALL THOSE VINTIE PICS!!

btw razor haircutting is banned here now..health and safety...smafety!!!
 
Amelie! So cute! I have to see that movie, and then maybe I can think how it might be for me. I think I'd feel completely naked with hair that short!

And yes: Jonathan, you probably never hate your hair, do you?
 
Maggie it wold invigorate you and give you Pazazz, as if you havent enough already!!

I think you can carry it ...perhaps tweak for YOU...not so short in the neck or wispier fringe (bangs) but l still maintain that would be a great hairdo for you as is....
 
Maggie -- you and I have the same hair.

I cut it fairly short last year - ala Louise Brooks but with shorter bangs (My bangs simply MUST be short because the minute they hit my brow bone they go all... tweeky).
I rather liked it an am considering cutting it back. I got LOTS of compliments on it.
But-- as we are wont to do, I started waxing nostalgic for my long hair. Now that I'm growing it back (currently about 2" past my shoulders) I'm remembering that it just gets thinner and limper the longer it gets!

I do think you'd look SO sweet with a cut like Amelie -- although I think her's probably has a bit of natural wave to it. I'd considered it myself (I did have a fun little sweep at the front tips like her's does), but since mine is finer and thinner and with NO wave, I doubt it would come off like I want it to.

Can't wait to see what you decide on, though!
 
Originally posted by Elsewhere

But-- as we are wont to do, I started waxing nostalgic for my long hair. Now that I'm growing it back (currently about 2" past my shoulders) I'm remembering that it just gets thinner and limper the longer it gets!
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Ditto, so thin too as I get older, but I do have a bit of curl that helps and I LOVE being able to wear a pony tail or have it in a clip. I've had short hair all my life so this is kinda a nice difference.
 
I have the exact opposite problem. Thick as a shag carpet and curly as all get out. Frizzy on humid days without umpteen coats of product. Long from it's 3rd year of growth after a post-baby shortening (bad nursing/pregnancy hair)

Currently it's wadded in a ball and secured with scrunchies, where it will stay for the majority of the summer. It only unfurls at shower and bed time.

Thick hair is like a hot blanket in the summer, curly hair has attitude like a 14 year old girl.
Yep, sometimes it's hard to be pleased with what you're given.

I like the reddish color on you, Maggie...maybe some layers, just slight ones, might give an illusion of body?
 
I am also bearer of the super-fine hair burden. Mine is wavy, with a tendancy to make ski-slope shapes at the sides of my head. I finally broke down and located a stylist who specializes in wavy/curly hair, and she has worked miracles!!! I really like my hair now, and I dont have to touch a blow dryer or straightening iron. I think I found my lady via Curly Girl.

I join with the others in saying I think you look lovely as you are, Maggie! But I also understand the depths of hair discontent that can plague a girl. Maybe it's chromosonal, Jonathan! :BAGUSE:

anna
 
I have fine hair also and very similar to your current style Maggie. Not too thin, but it doesn't hold a curl very well unless I use piles of hairspray, which I have not done since the 80's!

The current plan is to grow it a bit past my shoulders over the summer and do a few more layers...off to the stylist tomorrow...so you never know what I will decide!
 
I do have long layers, as well as I could manage on my own. I must say again, there is no motion in my hair, nada, zilch. No sweep, no fun little twirls, no nothing...it barely curls at all! Straightening iron? What's THAT?~! I have the feeling it would take a genius hair cutter to really make it great. Oh, and I USE hairspray, volumizer, etc.

Good luck with yours Bonnie! I think I am going to do something this weekend, so I'd love to know what you get and how it feels.
 
Besides the fact that you are "cuter than a bugs ear" and that I am quite late in responding to your post; even with thiner, flatter hair, if you keep it medium length you can always do a french roll in the back for a 50's look. If it is a 60's - 70's look, find yourself one of those small teased-up dancing curls wigs. (we wore them with our bangs parted in the middle, the rest tied on top in a knot and then you add the little wig aka: the Goldie Hawn look on Laugh-In) They look fab with mini's, grannies, and scooter's.

Ok...that is my 2 pennies worth.

Nadine
 
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