Shastrix
October 7th, 2009, 09:42 AM
This is probably more of a question for the guys, but how does one manage sideburns with long hair? I wear my side burns in line with the bottom of the hollow of my ear (if that makes sense). Fortunately, my facial hair is the same colour as my head hair so the transition is seamless, but the side burns grow much more quickly than the hair at my temples which grows really, really slowly.
At the moment the temple hair tends to stick out awkwardly perpendicular to my head because it doesn’t fit behind my ears (this is only a minor irritation when I’m wearing my glasses as it can be tucked away, but looks ridiculous when wearing contacts). Should I trim this hair short and include it in my side burns or be patient and see if it will grow long enough to stay behind my ears? - though I doubt it will ever be ponytail-able.
What I have been doing up until now is classifying anything below the crease where the top of my ear meets my face as "side burn" and shaving it short but leaving anything above that to grow - hence the silly sticky out bits. I suppose women would also have the same troubles with temple hair, though without the sideburn complication...
On a related theme, what on earth am I supposed to do with the wispy hairs at the nape? Again, the hair is growing, if slowly, and will probably be brush-able up and out of the way eventually, but in the mean time it ruins the smart look of a ponytail. I am reluctant to trim or shave the hair as I would inevitably remove some of the longer hairs and over time would probably end up with a reverse-receding hair line.
When looking around at women wearing their hair up they don’t seem to have as much wispy nape hair. That either means this is a "man-thing"; there is a good method to avoiding the problem; or that they have had long hair much longer and therefore the hairs are long enough to be styled. Is a suitable solution just to lacquer them in gel or hair spray until something can be done with them?
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At the moment the temple hair tends to stick out awkwardly perpendicular to my head because it doesn’t fit behind my ears (this is only a minor irritation when I’m wearing my glasses as it can be tucked away, but looks ridiculous when wearing contacts). Should I trim this hair short and include it in my side burns or be patient and see if it will grow long enough to stay behind my ears? - though I doubt it will ever be ponytail-able.
What I have been doing up until now is classifying anything below the crease where the top of my ear meets my face as "side burn" and shaving it short but leaving anything above that to grow - hence the silly sticky out bits. I suppose women would also have the same troubles with temple hair, though without the sideburn complication...
On a related theme, what on earth am I supposed to do with the wispy hairs at the nape? Again, the hair is growing, if slowly, and will probably be brush-able up and out of the way eventually, but in the mean time it ruins the smart look of a ponytail. I am reluctant to trim or shave the hair as I would inevitably remove some of the longer hairs and over time would probably end up with a reverse-receding hair line.
When looking around at women wearing their hair up they don’t seem to have as much wispy nape hair. That either means this is a "man-thing"; there is a good method to avoiding the problem; or that they have had long hair much longer and therefore the hairs are long enough to be styled. Is a suitable solution just to lacquer them in gel or hair spray until something can be done with them?
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