tlatzoteotl
November 10th, 2017, 02:30 PM
Hello! My name is Lisa, and I've had long hair pretty much all of my life. I will often get comments from strangers when I go out in public, so I guess I’ve done a good job of taking care of it.
I found this group while attempting to find another way to put my hair up in a bun now that it's a good bit shorter, and it really made my day to find a group dedicated to long hair. My hair is BSL length right now, after cutting off a ton of hair this year. I had been getting a U-shaped cut the last 2-3 years, but I decided I was ready to have it all be one length again. So, in July of this year I started with the first 3 inches. I thought it would be way too short if I took it all off at once. By October, though, I felt like it had grown out enough to take off the rest of the ends to get it all up to the shortest length, and that was another 3 or 4 inches. For me, this is short. I have on occasion over the past few years gotten that U-shape where the shortest pieces were shoulder length, and I always love it at first. It gives my hair a lot of volume and I love the way it swings around my shoulders. Unfortunately, that only lasts for about a month, and I decided that it's not worth it anymore. It's funny...whenever I cut my hair (usually about once a year) no one at work notices, even though I always take off 3-4 inches at a time. It’s not a big deal, but you know how usually people will bring it up any time someone gets a haircut. One time I had a lady ask me a few months after my last hair cut if I’d just had it cut. LOL Last month I did have one coworker that noticed, but apparently it was only because she noticed the ends looked trimmed. So, people are just used to me having long hair, and I guess anything longer than shoulder length is "long" to most people.
So, I bought some hair sticks (http://a.co/87TXDf1) and forks (http://a.co/ctoBkrD) off of Amazon when it started getting warm this year in an attempt to stop using elastic ties to put my hair up (my usual style has always been a half-up ponytail if I don’t just part it in the middle and leave it down…but then it gets in my face while I’m trying to work and gets on my nerves), with the goal being less breakage. I have never in my life been able to put my hair up in a bun, so I thought I'd give these things a whirl. I also found a beautiful Celtic knot barrette (http://a.co/74eG6hN) that was big enough for my hair in the half-up style.
Anyway…when I did a search on YouTube to try to find someone with very thick hair who used these sticks or forks to put their hair in a bun, I came up with almost nothing. The people with supposedly "thick hair" looked to me like people with normal hair or even thin hair. I suppose it wasn't completely in vain, since I did learn some techniques, but I haven’t found anything that works perfectly the first time. Sometimes I can manage the cinnabun style with all of my hair at once, but it depends on the day. It usually looks the best when I put it up without looking in the mirror to get work done around the house. If I'm planning to leave the house, I can never seem to get it to look as pretty. I have also discovered that if I braid it with an elastic tie at the end and then just sort of loop and tuck, it will hold well enough with one of the forks. I did that just now when I took some pictures for my avatar – it actually looks kind of nice, and I didn’t even secure the end.
My hair history....there were a few missteps along the way when I was a kid...an awful perm...a misguided attempt at full-length layering...but eventually I discovered that the only way I was happy with my hair, and the only thing that really works, was to do nothing to it except trim the ends about once a year. I'm extremely lazy when it comes to vanity stuff, so it works for my personality. I wake up, brush my hair and my teeth and head out the door (I have also never been one to wear make-up).
I found this group while attempting to find another way to put my hair up in a bun now that it's a good bit shorter, and it really made my day to find a group dedicated to long hair. My hair is BSL length right now, after cutting off a ton of hair this year. I had been getting a U-shaped cut the last 2-3 years, but I decided I was ready to have it all be one length again. So, in July of this year I started with the first 3 inches. I thought it would be way too short if I took it all off at once. By October, though, I felt like it had grown out enough to take off the rest of the ends to get it all up to the shortest length, and that was another 3 or 4 inches. For me, this is short. I have on occasion over the past few years gotten that U-shape where the shortest pieces were shoulder length, and I always love it at first. It gives my hair a lot of volume and I love the way it swings around my shoulders. Unfortunately, that only lasts for about a month, and I decided that it's not worth it anymore. It's funny...whenever I cut my hair (usually about once a year) no one at work notices, even though I always take off 3-4 inches at a time. It’s not a big deal, but you know how usually people will bring it up any time someone gets a haircut. One time I had a lady ask me a few months after my last hair cut if I’d just had it cut. LOL Last month I did have one coworker that noticed, but apparently it was only because she noticed the ends looked trimmed. So, people are just used to me having long hair, and I guess anything longer than shoulder length is "long" to most people.
So, I bought some hair sticks (http://a.co/87TXDf1) and forks (http://a.co/ctoBkrD) off of Amazon when it started getting warm this year in an attempt to stop using elastic ties to put my hair up (my usual style has always been a half-up ponytail if I don’t just part it in the middle and leave it down…but then it gets in my face while I’m trying to work and gets on my nerves), with the goal being less breakage. I have never in my life been able to put my hair up in a bun, so I thought I'd give these things a whirl. I also found a beautiful Celtic knot barrette (http://a.co/74eG6hN) that was big enough for my hair in the half-up style.
Anyway…when I did a search on YouTube to try to find someone with very thick hair who used these sticks or forks to put their hair in a bun, I came up with almost nothing. The people with supposedly "thick hair" looked to me like people with normal hair or even thin hair. I suppose it wasn't completely in vain, since I did learn some techniques, but I haven’t found anything that works perfectly the first time. Sometimes I can manage the cinnabun style with all of my hair at once, but it depends on the day. It usually looks the best when I put it up without looking in the mirror to get work done around the house. If I'm planning to leave the house, I can never seem to get it to look as pretty. I have also discovered that if I braid it with an elastic tie at the end and then just sort of loop and tuck, it will hold well enough with one of the forks. I did that just now when I took some pictures for my avatar – it actually looks kind of nice, and I didn’t even secure the end.
My hair history....there were a few missteps along the way when I was a kid...an awful perm...a misguided attempt at full-length layering...but eventually I discovered that the only way I was happy with my hair, and the only thing that really works, was to do nothing to it except trim the ends about once a year. I'm extremely lazy when it comes to vanity stuff, so it works for my personality. I wake up, brush my hair and my teeth and head out the door (I have also never been one to wear make-up).