Anyhow, it's obvious that like so many you're going to do the "undercut" or this look, no matter how many Cassandra-like warnings are given here.
This is all just treading water until someone suggests "That girl in Die Antwoord," right?
Mr. T haircut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should have a "no women can comment in this thread" policy. Bros discussing hairstyle nos before hos discussing hairstyle pros.
Sort of topical: I've been seeing young women with grey hair lately. I know premature grey happens, but I don't recall seeing young guys with grey hair nearly as often. Is there such a thing as grey highlights?
Nice, welcome AL! Let's keep the streak going. So, guys, can we all agree -- women's hair=so nice and soft?
Maybe it's only two women I've seen like that.
I think there's an intentional graying trend.
I've seen very young people [early 20s] with dyed grey hair. Sort of a silvery colour.
Ah yes, via 13:
http://jezebel.com/5425434/gray-hair-is-totally-inif-youre-a-british-hipster-under-the-age-of-25
These were women with much more natural looking gray hair. Kind of salt and pepper. Maybe they just had young faces and cleavage.
The answer is quite simple: Flobie, set to 5".
Oh, and n-degrees-of-separation-thing, I've met one of the models mentioned. K /risten M/c Menamy. My wife used to occasionally babysit her kids.
OK, as the OPoster, HG can hang out. But nobody else.
I'd rock a pompadour.
You and Elvis.
On the OP, clearly a Sassoon 'Kwan' cut.
http://oldnewcharm.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/style-inspiration-nancy-kwan.html
The "I Dream of Jeannie" could work.
I need a haircut also. I think I'll get same one I've been getting since 1996, but a bit shorter because hot weather.
the front must be at least 5" long, because otherwise it doesn't have enough weight and stands straight up in the air
What if you just always wore a big bandana, Bret Michaels style?
Maybe I could affect a bandana, in the "I don't want to muss my hair in the convertible" style.
What's the word I mean? Not affect. Or is it?
re: 31
Head scarves?
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3069/2848391182_17f87d651a.jpg
or
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6y8rx4rgh1qzuqdwo1_500.jpg
Or 1940s:
The first. The knot under the chin in the 2nd would drive me nuts, and the third seems too cutesy in 2013, even though riveters are tough in the 40s.
Shorpy has loads of those war-time kodachromes, with the headscarves [and generally great outfits]:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/6343
Head scarves make me think of my grandma.
Which isn't a bad thing but maybe not the right image for the new millennium.
YOU THINK I DON'T READ BLOGS, DO YOU.
32: I think affect works.
Don't do what I did: my hair was at a pretty good length about 6 weeks ago, and I had it cut shorter for the summer: not nearly short enough to be short, but short enough to be on my neck and not easily tied back. I should have listened to the stylist, a Jersey Shore kind of guy who is always right about this stuff. I was worried about the mutton dressed as lamb effect, of having hair that looked too long for my age, and etc. The stylist disagreed, and suggested just a trim. I wish I had listened to him, my hair is driving me nuts.
It takes a certain confidence to wear a bandana and not feel self-conscious, to affect that air of jauntiness mixed with retro-chic irony. This confidence I lack, but heebie, you might be able to pull it off?
Oh wait: are women allowed to comment in this thread?
Women can only comment on the new thread if they pretend to really enjoy it.
I remembered that I have headbands, wide cloth ones that are possibly a halfway step to a bandana, and I went and put one on. Maybe those (and headscarves) are what I want to feel slightly more put together.
I like those headbands. Also, a nice scarf can serve as a headband, without looking like a grandmotherly headscarf. If folded and arranged properly, of course.
No! Our sacred space has been violated!!! I blame feminism.
Feminism and going off the gold standard.
Braids! And then lots of bobby pins to secure them off your neck and against your head.
For a wedding we attended, I took chunks of hair and tied them in knots with tiny rubber bands at the end and then bobby-pinned them into an updo of sorts, but that's not a sustainable day-to-day style. I'm growing my hair out and wearing a bun pretty often and trying to style it up a bit at times, so I'm ignoring how much fun it could be to have a more interesting style and how much I wish my hair were more gray.
Not nearly enough hair for Leia-style. It tends to be happiest trying for a Pippi Lockstocking-style, but with bobby pins, I can pretend I was going for Heidi-style.
If you had long enough pippi longstocking-style braids you could use wire to make them into a double helix over your head. That'd be sciencey.
46: My grey temples are a critical source of gravitas given my otherwise still-boyish aspect. But I wouldn't have paid for them.
I have only one grey temple. I'm nervously waiting for the other to switch.
I have grown insecure about the chopstick-based updo I was all excited about earlier in the year. It's really comfortable, and it keeps my hair in place and off my neck, which is most of what I want in a hairstyle, but I've started suspecting that it looks kind of terrible.
On the other hand, I work for NYS. We all look kind of terrible. It's in the nature of state government.
One of my nose hairs has gone white. No change in gravitas has been observed.
Years ago (hmm, actually more than a decade ago) I got a lot of amusement from a co-worker who was very style-conscious , but commuted from far away , and started to ask me where to get a haircut near the office. He was most of the way through asking before realizing that he was asking completely the wrong person for haircut advice (These days I hit a local salon 2 or 3 times a year to get neatened up, but that's about it).
Unless you've heard of a different way of making the past tense, it's a fairly old word.
My gnu got neatered and here's his gneaticles.
I have been cutting my own hair for a year now, and a few months ago, I cut a guy friend's hair. It was kind of exciting, and lots of people have commented on how good our hair looks. I think I might have a marketable skill, you guys!!
Have you considered rocking a Minnie bow?
Since you're growing you're hair out I won't suggest a reverse wedge, but as far as using tools, I found pigtails were a really useful solution when my hair was in that in-between stage where it wasn't long enough to do a full ponytail. Plus, I found that if I twisted the hair in the bands (like a bun, but two of them), it would be super-wavy and full of body when I let it out.
I've been rocking the braided pigtail buns look lately, mostly because I hate having my hair get in my face/hang down on my neck, and the messy pseudo-bun ponytail I've relied in these past few years actually looks really awful. My Zumba teacher & the few students who've stopped by my office this summer approve.
Yeah, I've done the half-pulled-through ponytail since I was fourteen or fifteen, and it's lately dawning on me that it looks sort of...frayed and unkempt, in a way that's charming when you're fifteen, but just frayed and unkempt twenty years later.
My non-bun bun style this summer has been to do three ponytails, each above the next, and twist the bun (kind of like a bantu knot except you guys probably don't do bantu knots, you just twist until it turns on itself and then catch it with the rubber band so it's a twisty loop) and usually the lowest one is just a half-pulled-through ponytail because the hair at my neck is short but the top one (as if you were just pulling back the front hair to a barrette) is long enough that it hangs down over the others. This is supposed to give you a Gibson Girl sort of look and I do like it, plus it's easy.
I think you're probably looking for a variation on a wedge, depending on how much you want in the way of bangs/layers. But you're growing it out? To the back of your neck?
I chopped 10 inches off my hair recently for 67-style reasons, and so I have a short layered curly bob with bangs that is either evocative of the 20s or of, um, most of the guys in Game of Thrones (according to shiv.)
I'm semi-successfully trying this hairdo out today.
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A math professor just addressed an audience of more than half women as "gentlemen." Wtf.
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I skipped the part about the curling iron and the pomade, obviously.
But you're growing it out? To the back of your neck?
No, I've already grown it out, a few inches longer than my neck. I could be easily convinced to chop it into a bob, but I'd have to overcome the slight sunk costs thing - that it takes so long to grow it out, am I sure I want to, etc.
70: I'm going to give that one a try. And address my next mixed-gender group as "ladies."
