UPDO'S!! I'm exactly the same but I have been able to resist since learning a whole bunch of updo's.
Plus, it's a geat excuse to get all sorts of pretty hairtoys...
I find myself running my fingers through my hair all the time. I used to plait it but now I'm just running my fingers down the strands, feeling for the coarse ones. I love the way they feel - all bumpy and random.
I'm sure it makes my hair tangle more and it's not good for my hair but I just can't seem to stop. I don't pull out the coarse hairs ( I used to because when I was a young teen I thought a smooth one might grow back in it's place) - the urge is there but I figure it's pointless because then they just have to grow out again and they are better off being long.
I think it's a bit of a nervous habit. I've just had 2 weeks of holidays where we have pretty much done nothing so maybe I'm a little bored and once my normal routine kicks in again (tomorrow) things will go back to normal again.
Anyone else in my boat?
UPDO'S!! I'm exactly the same but I have been able to resist since learning a whole bunch of updo's.
Plus, it's a geat excuse to get all sorts of pretty hairtoys...
Yeah, updos and braids help me too, but I do the same thing. It is a habit, especially when I am tired, probably a vestige of my baby hair twirling. What can I do? Any chance the oils from our hands can help the hair?? Probably a stretch I know......lol.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.~Ovid~Nae
I put my hair up, but leave enough dangling so that I can stroke my face with it and feel it with my hands and not worry about tangling, until a few days later when it's time to wash it and get the newly shed hairs out. And I oil it, so feeling my hair oils my hands.
Pyerre Mehendi Mage in the Order of the Long Haired Knights
My name is Indigo Montoya. You terped my henna. Prepare to dye!
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I braid* it, but then I play with the tassles.
It doesn't seem to do it very much harm.
*Edit: oooh, you said "plait" so I could have used that word, too, and you would have known what I was talking about! I've got too used to Americanising what I write on here! LOL.
Last edited by chopandchange; July 19th, 2010 at 07:46 AM.
Stop cruelty to apostrophe's.
I have the same problem, and the ONLY way I've found to stop me from doing it is to put it up with no ends dangling whatsoever. If there is anything dangling, I will find it, and I will fondle it.
Lady Temperance, Keeper of the Border between Night and Day in the Order of the Long Haired Knights
I always touch it when its down or in a braid. I'll keep twisting strands trying to feel for fairy knots or splits. Probably not good for it, I try to make a conscious decision to stop when I catch myself doing it.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.~Ovid~Nae
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