The "best and worst hair pic" thread!

[chopandchange]

I just had an idea for a thread. I don't think this has been done before. I thought it would be a fun idea for each of us to post two photos of our hair: one of our hair at its worst, and one of our hair at its best!

The purpose of this would be three-fold.

1.Firstly, to poke fun at ourselves for our vanity in always selecting the best pics, and taking photo after photo after photo until we get to the stage where we delete about twelve and keep the one that came out right where our hair looks perfect and amazing. (Tell me I'm not the only one who does this)!

2. Secondly, to reassure newer members (who may be feeling inadequate or intimidated by some of the stunningly beautiful heads of hair on here) that we can all have bad hair days!

3. Thirdly, to be amazed at how a good hair day photo and a bad hair day photo can look like two competely different heads of hair!

Suggested rules for this thread: keep the pic size small. Don't "quote" other people's pics. And the bad picture of your hair has to be really bad! It's no good saying: "I know you might not notice it, but my hair was really greasy," or, "I didn't quite manage to tuck the ends properly on this updo."

Here's my contribution! I curled the ends of my hair oh-so-beautifully, and was really pleased with how nice my hair looked. Then I woke up the next morning with the worse case of bed hair ever! ROFL! Did someone come and attack my plaits in the night with a wind machine? I normally look like this in the mornings, but it made me laugh even more because of the contrast from the other day!

[zenobia]

Oh this is fun! chopandchange, your hair looks beautiful in the first picture!

Here's my contribution:

Good hair. My waves were soft and defined.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/wookyjean/goodhair2.jpg

Bad hair. This is what my hair normally looks like when I wake up. shudder:
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/wookyjean/badhair.jpg

[chopandchange]

Oh this is fun! chopandchange, your hair looks beautiful in the first picture!

Here's my contribution:

Good hair. My waves were soft and defined.

Bad hair. This is what my hair normally looks like when I wake up. shudder:



Thank you! I notice you didn't compliment me on the second picture! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Your "good hair" looks lovely and tidy, with beautiful blunt ends and a lovely colour!

As for your so-called "bad hair" pic: sorry, but apart from a little bit of floofiness sticking out at the right, that's just not bad enough! It needs to be worse!

[chopandchange]

Not many posts so far! Dear me, aren't we vain! Are you all being reluctant to actually post a bad pic of your hair? ;)

[rags]

I don't actually KEEP the bad pics! I delete them as soon as they pop up on my camera! :shudder: I shall have to save the next hideous one I get and post it here!

[Loreley]

What a good thread! :)

Ok, so, good hair day:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4250&pictureid=73065


Bad hair day (ugh):

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4250&pictureid=73233

[FrannyG]

Here's one of my hair about 9 months after joining LHC. My pre-LHC length was thinner than it is now, due to damage and breakage, and the wind whipping in my hair made for this delightful horror. :bigeyes:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m154/oopiedoop11/Hair/messy-1.jpg

Good hair photos are in my avatar, signature photo and in my public photo album on my profile page. :)

[serious]

Great idea for a thread!

Here are mine, both from last year :)

First,the bad one, it was taken after a deep oiling treatment:
http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/94_189/147_66/feb09duina-vi.jpg (http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/94_189/147_66/feb09duina-vi.jpg)

And the good one:
http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/94_189/147_66/goodone-vi.jpg (http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/94_189/147_66/goodone-vi.jpg)

And, I have tons of 'bad' pictures, it was hard to decide which one to post on here :D

[trillcat]

I will play!
Here is my hair taken about 5 minutes ago after finally taking out the french braid that has been on my head since about 9am yesterday. Note the lack of bothering to comb it out right now, and the lovely hair cleavage. :D
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q19/Silversouldream/Crazyhair002.jpg

Hair on a better day
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q19/Silversouldream/hair-3.jpg

Yikes, I am wearing the same shirt!
Note to self, go buy clothes!

[Speckla]

http://images116.fotki.com/v1596/photos/7/1199357/8766438/100_0335-vi.jpg


This is bad. This is why my curly hair doesn't get brushed. I've gone to work like this a few times because a coworker is going to braid my hair (it's easier to do it like this vs. very curly) and I get asked, "What happened to your hair? Where are your curls?"

I don't have any really good curly pictures saved.

[Pallas]

Seriously gals, I find your bad hair pics not that bad at all! (of course, chopandchange, those braids do look like they've survived a war XD)

Okay, then, let's see what is honestly my worst hair picture ever in all its greasy, and misplacement-of-hairtoolsy and cleavage-y glory:

:eyebrows:http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w55/Chaja-girl/th_craplace.png?t=1275228382

HOLY CRAP THAT'S SO SEXY

Haha, that was actually a challange someone gave on this forum. I had to do Elizabethan hairtaping. It didn't come out quite so elegant XD

My best hair picture is sadly really dark. But you can see it was particularly shiny and swoopy that day:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/image.php?u=28708&dateline=1271412676&type=profile

and of course that one is so incredibly sexy too, with the moustache :lol:

[MsBubbles]

This is a great idea for a thread but what's interesting is people's different definitions of their own 'bad hair'. I actually poke fun at my own impossibly nice hair photos and usually post the bad ones too in my albums.

Also I think there was already a bed-head thread a while back and this thread is something more than that.

Here's one I took where honestly it was the best one I could come up with after combing and positioning myself in front of the camera about ten times...

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3316&pictureid=53323

I couldn't get my ends to hang together for anything. I decided it was time for a trim after that photo.

And then trimmed, coned and sprayed with oil!

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3316&pictureid=70474

[Pallas]

Man I'm loving this thread. I probably have loads more funny bad-hair pics and I'll post them if I can find them ;)

[JenniferNoel]

Here's a good hair day, hair is a little greasy but the color is brilliant and it's super shiny. :D
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc15/jenny_the_strange/DSC06676.jpg

Bad hair day, before I ever tried henna, and before chopping the numerous splits on the top layer. Well, I guess it doesn't look that bad, but it's bleached and dull and henna-less. haha.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc15/jenny_the_strange/DSC06609.jpg

[chopandchange]

Rags, this is why we need this thread! A reason to keep the pics that don't turn out, and a place to put them!

Loreley, not nearly bad enough! Your hair is still verging on beautiful!

FrannyG, em, yes. It does look like it would be a cringe-worthy task having to comb that hair back to normality! Not quite the perfect golden tresses we've come to know and love, but still not very bad.

Serious, that's a bad "bad" photo! Except for the dubious patchy part in the middle, there's nothing bad about it really, is there?

Trillcat: that's a very good "bad" photo! Looks like hair from two different people!
Speckla, brilliant! :cheese:

[chopandchange]

MsBubbles, they both look the same!

JenniferNoel, nowhere near verging on bad!

Chaja-girl, yes, so far I have the dubious honour of having the "best worst" hair! Can anyone better me with a worse pic?

:cheese:

They're still all funny, though! I'm glad some people do want to play!

[JenniferNoel]

JenniferNoel, nowhere near verging on bad!



Okay, okay, if you say so. :cheese:
*Ego boost*

[chopandchange]

JenniferNoel, this is not the thread to come for an ego boost! This is the thread where we get to say: "your hair looks frizzy/oily/tangled/split/windswept/hilarious!" and for once, no one will be offended if we do, because it means they're winning the title of "best worst" hair!

Normally we spend all the time complimenting each other and saying: "you hair is so smooth/perfect/shiny/long" and are very careful to phrase things tactfully if there is anything negative that could possibly be said about someone's hair (rightly so, of course). I just thought it would be nice to relax, have a laugh at ourselves and go ahead and admit that, however much we take care of it, there are times our hair looks like crap! There should be no dissing people's "good hair" pics, of course! We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings! (So far everyone's good hair has been really good, anyway)!

I think mine and Speckla's tie for first place so far, with Trillcat coming a close second due to the awesome difference between her two pics. What does everyone else think?

The ultimate test has to be: would you go outside in public with your hair looking like this? If you can answer "yes," then it's not "bad hair!"

[trillcat]

Trillcat: that's a very good "bad" photo! Looks like hair from two different people!

You should see it now that I have combed it out!
Oh wait, you can!

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q19/Silversouldream/Crazyhair002-3.jpg

Egads!
But you know, this is so fun, posting up the pics of our hair as it really is at times!
Not just the beauty shots! And Oh yes, I am a person who will take about 50 pics only to pick maybe one that looks good.
Let loose the crazy hair!

ETA: lol, it looks like I have kitty ears, that is a box I am standing in front of.

[JenniferNoel]

JenniferNoel, this is not the thread to come for an ego boost! This is the thread where we get to say: "your hair looks frizzy/oily/tangled/split/windswept/hilarious!" and for once, no one will be offended if we do, because it means they're winning the title of "best worst" hair!



I think a lot of people such as myself are so self critical that when our hair may look bad to us, everyone else thinks differently. I always feel like just the slightest bit if frizz is like... awful... but I guess this thread goes to show that it's never as bad as it seems.

But this means I don't get my award? :( J/K. LOL.

[Annushka]

Here's mine - on the left is my worst picture ever (such thin and crunchy ends) and on the right is my best (beautiful waves and the lighting hides the damage).

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr326/Porkala/haircompareworstvsbest.jpg

[Sammich]

I really like this thread idea and appreciate you for bringing it up, makes me self conscious looking at all of the beautiful perfect looking LHC hair whilst I look at mine and ponder why it isn't in similar condition(Unless I take 100). :) I'll be posting my best and worst err, later on! I need to find the worst first!

[serious]

[QUOTE=chopandchange;1109765]
Serious, that's a bad "bad" photo! Except for the dubious patchy part in the middle, there's nothing bad about it really, is there? [QUOTE]



Not bad enough, huh?
What about this one: :D

http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/94_189/147_66/DSCN0674-vi.jpg (http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/94_189/147_66/DSCN0674-vi.jpg)

[trillcat]

I really like this thread idea and appreciate you for bringing it up, makes me self conscious looking at all of the beautiful perfect looking LHC hair whilst I look at mine and ponder why it isn't in similar condition(Unless I take 100). :) I'll be posting my best and worst err, later on! I need to find the worst first!
I agree, it can be really hard to look at all the beautiful hair here and then look at your own and pretty much make this noise, Pfffffft, I will never have this hair.
Well the truth is this thread, Bad hair days! :D
Like seeing a celeb without all the makeup, just real people who look like the rest of us.

[Sammich]

Wow guys, all of your hair is still so beautiful even at it's worst! ;)

OKAY. My best first, pretty softISH in these:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5609&pictureid=73242

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5609&pictureid=73241

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5609&pictureid=73243

My worst: (Last for the shock value, it looks dry doesn't it? o.o)

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5609&pictureid=73245

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5609&pictureid=73244

BUT It felt so soft and silky, but it was horrific to behold. Weird huh? LOL! :p All of them were no cones. :p

[Rose J.]

Bad hair day:
http://i47.tinypic.com/f3uqyp.jpg

Good hair days:


http://images50.fotki.com/v1529/photos/1/1372861/6515499/100_0609-vi.jpg

http://images40.fotki.com/v1248/photos/1/1372861/6515499/100_0268-vi.jpg
(Still frizzy though... *sigh*)

[chopandchange]

I think a lot of people such as myself are so self critical that when our hair may look bad to us, everyone else thinks differently. I always feel like just the slightest bit if frizz is like... awful... but I guess this thread goes to show that it's never as bad as it seems.

But this means I don't get my award? :( J/K. LOL.

I'm sorry if I upset you! I am very self-critical too! If you think the slightest bit of frizz is awful, my hair is a gazillion times more awful than yours! I am sorry if I made it sound as though we're not allowed to compliment each other. That wasn't what I meant. Your hair is gorgeous. You can have a special award for your "lovely hair so good that it can't be bad" pic. :D

[JenniferNoel]

I'm sorry if I upset you! I am very self-critical too! If you think the slightest bit of frizz is awful, my hair is a gazillion times more awful than yours! I am sorry if I made it sound as though we're not allowed to compliment each other. That wasn't what I meant. Your hair is gorgeous. You can have a special award for your "lovely hair so good that it can't be bad" pic. :D

Aww thanks so much! It's fine, ya didn't make me cry yet. :D
And thanks again for the awesome, newly invented award!

Oh, and sammich! Nice layer frizz!

[Sammich]

Aww thanks so much! It's fine, ya didn't make me cry yet. :D
And thanks again for the awesome, newly invented award!

Oh, and sammich! Nice layer frizz!

LOL! Thanks a ton JenJen, I loved your hair too in it's 'worst' state. ;) The best looks very silky as I said in your photo albums! :D
It's funny because I normally don't frizz, NO idea what brought that on! :p

[spidermom]

I saved this one because of the crazy frizz:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/spidermom/firstday.jpg
And here's a good one; much less frizz, defined curls:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/spidermom/November2009.jpg

The former is a more common look than the latter, unfortunately.

[MsBubbles]

MsBubbles, they both look the same!
!

Well that's alarming!

Hmmm...not wanting to go out in public with hair looking bad...that would have to be 2nd day afternoon hair for me. I never take pics of my hair greased back in an English Braid!

[chopandchange]

[quote=MsBubbles;1109943]Well that's alarming! quote]

I meant it in a good way!

I meant that they both look equally nice! :D

Stand up on this podium: *pins award to chest.*

I hereby award you another "hair so good it can't be bad" award! You have failed in your quest to have bad hair!

[MsBubbles]

Ha ha! This thread is cracking me up! Goes off to the recycle bin for more atrocious photos...

[Furiana]

Aww thanks so much! It's fine, ya didn't make me cry yet. :D
And thanks again for the awesome, newly invented award!

Oh, and sammich! Nice layer frizz!

Layer frizz. That's it! That's the word for what I get all the time. :cheese:

[trillcat]

Aw come on ladies and gents, don't fear the slicked back oiled english braid!
Come, walk with me , talk with me people, It wont hurt you, I promise (bwahaaahaaaaahaaaaa)


http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q19/Silversouldream/oiledbraid.jpg
And if you think it can't possibly get any worse looking with my hair today I have an over ripe avacado, and Im not afraid to use it!
:D

[Pallas]

Yo guys, I think I just found some amusement for all of us:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5403&pictureid=73404

Apparently that's what I look like with my hair half up in a claw-clip, after half-dozing off at my desk :lol:

[Locksmith]

Haha, this is a brilliant idea for a thread! I don't have any really awful pictures of it down, because I'm vain - I'll try and take one next time I have a decent camera to hand and a bad hair day! :D

Good hair (au naturel)
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4454&pictureid=68314

Good hair (bun waves)
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4454&pictureid=68150

BAD hair (attempting an updo I had nowhere NEAR enough thickness for) http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4454&pictureid=64790


It's not an updo I'll wear out, I reckon... ;)

[trillcat]

Oh my Chaja!
Laughing with you girl!
Your face in the second pic, I have many pics of me looking like that! (none on my camera to share though, sorry)
Get out of my face, or die, your choice.
:D

[Pallas]

Oh my Chaja!
Laughing with you girl!
Your face in the second pic, I have many pics of me looking like that! (none on my camera to share though, sorry)
Get out of my face, or die, your choice.
:D

HAHAHA you should see my toddler pics. I was one evil kid XD

Oh and Locksmith, Your cute little weird updo made me snicker XD So funny, I often try to recreate some cool updos and end up looking like I twisted a dead mouse and pinned it in place or something. XD

[natt i nord]

like I twisted a dead mouse and pinned it in place or something. XD

That comparison made me laugh :D

[Locksmith]

Oh and Locksmith, Your cute little weird updo made me snicker XD So funny, I often try to recreate some cool updos and end up looking like I twisted a dead mouse and pinned it in place or something. XD

It happens to me with irritating frequency, that! :p It's almost always at least presentable down, but up... well, it's not so much then. For bonus hilarity, this is what it was *meant* to look like...

http://dressytresses.com/images/spacer.gif

My hair was so much too thin I had to modify it into a full updo, and it still looks like a dead rat with deadlocks! :D

[Xandergrammy]

I'll let y'all decide which picture is which here! :gabigrin:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6/Xandergrammy/59e1dcab.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6/Xandergrammy/The%20Next%20One%20Thousand/And%20Another%20Thousand/Some%20more%20Xandergrammy/DSCN0026480x640.jpg

[JenniferNoel]

Wow, Xandergrammy! The first picture seriously takes the cake IMO. Wind tunnel tested!

[trillcat]

Wow, Xandergrammy! The first picture seriously takes the cake IMO. Wind tunnel tested!

LOL, you need a martini and a huge speaker in front of you!

You also have the same skin color as me, it's not easy being pink :D

[x0h_bother]

I LOVE this thread, but I too am vain, and I try not to take frizz/bad pics. I will hunt around when I get home though to see what I've got.

[spidermom]

Chaja-Girl; too funny! I'd get crazy fly-aways like that too, except for the amount of product that I use.

[JenniferNoel]

LOL, you need a martini and a huge speaker in front of you!

You also have the same skin color as me, it's not easy being pink :D

Whaaat? I can't hear you over the music! Say again?

:disco:

/end hijack

[trillcat]

Whaaat? I can't hear you over the music! Say again?

:disco:

/end hijack
What?? Me???, No?? I think she said she does not like green beans!"
ungst ungst ungst ungst, everbody dance now!
I am so sorry, resume thread

[Pixna]

One of my worst. I let it air dry without combing it or touching it so I could type my hair. This was from many, many years ago.

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww160/Pixna/PixnaTbearNatural.jpg

One of my best. A relatively recent shot (from two or so months ago) after washing, air drying, and, yes, this time, combing.

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww160/Pixna/100_2610_2-1.jpg

[spidermom]

I like the first one best, pixna; so much texture. The second one is nice, too, of course.

[Zéphine]

Not the absolute worst my hair ever looks, but the worst I have documented in a readily accessible picture. And it looks like that every time I wash it. (It's worse right before I wash it, but I don't have any pictures of that.)
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=3876&pictureid=55827

And one I like.
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=3653&pictureid=49392

[chopandchange]

I found some more little gems!

These are both "bad" to add to the general hilarity, though one of them doesn't look as bad as the other because back then I was still straightening.

Anyway, here we go.

Two-tone hair? That would be bad, right? Nah, not bad enough! Ladies, welcome to the world of three-tone hair!

This is what happens when they mess up at the salon and dye your roots a different colour from your length, and you get mad and swear off hair dye forever. Your natural roots start to grow, and the resulting hair is three different colours. It's a good "bad" look. Do I get points?

Yes, my hair really does go brown, then platinum, then flourescent shiny orange, then brown again. It's not a trick of the light! I don't know what they did to it, but it wasn't very good!




Then we have: how to grow out the bleach, á la chopandchange. Ignore it and pretend it isn't there. You look amazing. It's all about how you carry yourself. Not about how much those dark roots resemble a bucketful of grease and the rest of your hair belongs in a haystack.

[chopandchange]

How beautiful your hair looks in that bun, Zéphine! I cant see much wrong with the "bad" one, except that your hair looks wet or oiled!

[Fiferstone]

Oooh, I've got a GOOD one:

Here's the bad hair day:

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww146/Fiferstone/Hair%20Stuff/BadHairDaY.jpg

Check out the lovely mousehide color, the straggly, piece-y texture when unbrushed and uncombed, the utterly hideous bangs complete with impossible cowlick, and yes, it's waist-length. It looks like tailbone because my head is tilted back a bit and I'm bent forward holding on to my DS having his first-ever carousel ride (this is 13 years ago folks)
and here's a good hair day:

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww146/Fiferstone/Hair%20Stuff/003-1.jpg

After 3 years of being cone-free and using LUSH CACA Marron henna, after my first-ever Yemeni henna, and at about my first anniversary as an LHC member, after having discovered stretching the days between washes, coconut oil soaks, CWC, and ACV rinses. My ends needed trimming for this one, though.

Gee, do you all agree that the second pic is better?

[chopandchange]

I thought your hair looked lovely in the first pic and thought there was nothing wrong with it, until I saw the second pic and agreed they look like two different heads of hair!

[spidermom]

I'd definitely go with #2 Fiferstone. It looks so glossy.

[jasper]

This is an interesting thread. I'm seeing a lot of photos that I can relate to- some of these worsts are reminding me too much of my typical hair. When I went to look at my photo collection, I couldn't find a convincing "best" because the photo I took on my best hair day came out really blurry. But that day it was like I had someone else's hair anyway. So here I'll post my hair when I just found LHC, it is looking dry and dull as a result of the not-often-discussed-here SO method, or "shampoo only" that I had been following for many years.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/jaspersu/IMG_0329.jpg

And next is my hair a few months after joining LHC, after adopting CWC and trying some oil and using caramel treatments about monthly.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/jaspersu/IMG_0575.jpg?t=1275263830
I'm not saying this is a best hair pic, but I do think it's a yes-that's-better pic

[Learning_Mum]

OK, am I the only one that thinks it's hilarious that Xandergrammy's hair is bigger than her dog in the first photo?!

[Pixna]

I like the first one best, pixna; so much texture. The second one is nice, too, of course.

Thanks, Spidermom. My hair is so wonky if I don't comb it at all -- parts are really curly, others are really wavy, and others are almost straight. I have three different people living on my head! :laugh: Although I love my frizz, when my hair is piecey, knotty, and wonky it becomes intolerable for me.

[natt i nord]

Ok:

This was half a year before I joined LHC and on the day I joined my first German hairboard. It was an uncombable mess due to chemical dye for years:
http://s5.directupload.net/images/user/100531/temp/tmzscg5y.jpg (http://s5.directupload.net/file/u/19427/tmzscg5y_jpg.htm)
- September 2008 -


This was the last shot I actually liked. Almost half a year after my one-year anniversary in LHC and a few months after I discovered to love henna.
http://s10.directupload.net/images/user/100504/temp/lfqhssjl.jpg (http://s10.directupload.net/file/u/19427/lfqhssjl_jpg.htm)


So, that's a difference, he? :D

[chopandchange]

Does anyone else think that natt i nord's first pic actually looks like beautiful and shiny hair?

Sorry, natt i nord! You're yet another user who has failed in their quest to have bad hair! (but that's a good thing, really, so hopefully it won't knock your confidence too much knowing that your hair is too good to be bad). ;)

[jasper]

I'm with chopandchange that natt i nord has good looking hair in both pictures.

[natt i nord]

Sorry, natt i nord! You're yet another user who has failed in their quest to have bad hair! (but that's a good thing, really, so hopefully it won't knock your confidence too much knowing that your hair is too good to be bad). ;)

Damn, I even fail in having bad hair - I'm so useless! :wail:

:D

Thank you :)

[Sweetness]

Does "before and after LHC" count ?? :D

[chopandchange]

Does "before and after LHC" count ?? :D


We'll just say it does, shall we!

[Xandergrammy]

Wow, Xandergrammy! The first picture seriously takes the cake IMO. Wind tunnel tested!


Hilarious, isn't it??

[Xandergrammy]

LOL, you need a martini and a huge speaker in front of you!

You also have the same skin color as me, it's not easy being pink :D



:rollin: This one seriously cracked me up! Luckily I gave up the martinis 20 years ago, but the look is surely there, isn't it?

And you're very right- it's not easy being pink!

[Xandergrammy]

OK, am I the only one that thinks it's hilarious that Xandergrammy's hair is bigger than her dog in the first photo?!


OMG!!! I've been looking at this picture for 13 years and never noticed that!! You're right!!

[Xandergrammy]

Whaaat? I can't hear you over the music! Say again?

:disco:

/end hijack



I'll forever look at this picture in a different way! Thanks for the giggles!

[Heidi_234]

Blah: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3836&pictureid=51666
AWESOME: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3836&pictureid=49373

[PiroskaCicu]

My,my... this thread is fun! :D

This is my absolute worst hair photo.... and this was only last summer! Short...dyed blonde...two toned, and looking kinda dry. I think because it was damaged it became pin straight almost, which my hair naturally isn't.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk228/_peacefulwarrior/MiscfromCamera330.jpg

Here is another bad one but with longer hair, before I started reading about healthy haircare... looks so dry/tangled!
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk228/_peacefulwarrior/Picture066-2-1.jpg

And this is my favourite hair photo :)

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk228/_peacefulwarrior/Picture423-1.jpg

[Ladyskritek]

Not the very very best but this is a really good pic of my curls when they dry right.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/flappersinnylons/Picture1246-1.jpg

This pic sucks so bad. Most of my hair fell behind my back except some of the short parts in the front and my hair is all flat and straight. Grosssss.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/flappersinnylons/Picture1358.jpg

[Danelliia]

Honestly, most of these "bad" hair pictures don't look so bad at all!

I don't often take pictures of my hair, and I definitely don't take pictures of my hair when it doesn't look good. I'm going to keep my eye out so I can post some though! Or I'll take a picture on my next bad hair day :)

[Merlin]

This is my absolute worst hair photo.... and this was only last summer!

I hate to say this, but that's not bad at all, I know you don't like it but I think it looks pretty cute

[ilovelonghair]

Secret: I don't have any, because I promised myself not to take any, I would get too traumatized ;) Although some in my album aren't as nice as others.

[Pallas]

Hmmm you know, most of these "worst" pics aren't bad at all. Maybe people should not post their worst, but only REALLY FREAKING BAD hair photos?

[Merlin]

Go on, have a laugh...

This is really the stage at which I realised that I couldn't actually pull off long hair (and if anybody mentions James May I swear I shall not be responsible for my actions....)


http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp315/merlin_LHC/bad.jpg

I think you have to agree that this looks better, really. Mrs Merlin likes it a whole lot more too.

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp315/merlin_LHC/andyandhorse.jpg

[Speckla]

Psstt...no one has posted any real bad hair yet...except for me...:P

[chopandchange]

Psstt...no one has posted any real bad hair yet...except for me...:P

Hey! I take exception to that remark! Mine were bad, too! Check-out my three-tone hair! :p

[Merlin]

Hey! I take exception to that remark! Mine were bad, too! Check-out my three-tone hair! :p

Hey, if you hadn't said that was you with bad hair I don't think we'd have noticed... What we need is somebody from "a certain town in Wiltshire", spiritual home of the tragic perm: then we could all give up and go home knowing that victory was theres

[spidermom]

No, Merlin - I can't agree. I think the long would have been better with maybe a little gel and oil fingered through it to give the wave and curl a bit more definition.

[RoseRedDead]

I agree with Spidermom, Merlin. Not bad at all!

Don't have any pictures of my own to add so far. I'm incredibly lax about photographic evidence. ;)

[Merlin]

No, Merlin - I can't agree. I think the long would have been better with maybe a little gel and oil fingered through it to give the wave and curl a bit more definition.

Gel made it better, I grant you. Sort of the way that putting up screens around a road accident makes it better for passing pedestrians!

But thankyou, you're very kind :o

[Pallas]

Psstt...no one has posted any real bad hair yet...except for me...:P

Psshh, I'm not one to brag, but you just CAN'T say that my pic was a not-quite-l'oreal-but-not-so-bad pic. I mean LOOK!
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5403&pictureid=73404

That's not just a "Oh it's so frizzy/greasy/dry"-case. That's something that munchkins do to you while you're asleep so that you're positively scared awake when you look in the mirror the next morning.

[teela1978]

I usually take 2-3 pictures every few months, when I get an amazing picture I use it on LHC. I don't think I have any 'bad' pictures of my hair... my good/best pic (current avatar) is below. For me, a good hair picture is all about the spread of the hair and the light. If it falls right it looks really thick and full, despite not being very thick or full.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e117/lchamber78/20100224.jpg

'bad' pictures usually just don't have the hair falling right, with pieces clumping together or something... the light not hitting it right so its not super shiny... but these aren't all that bad, just not as amazing as my 'good' picture.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e117/lchamber78/20100210.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e117/lchamber78/20091231hair.jpg

[Angeletti]

so I was looking at past pictures of my hair and came across this monstrosity... dry crunchy and bleached from four years... bleach is evil. Here it is compared to the current

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/genazollner/bleach-1.jpghttp://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/genazollner/healthy.jpg

[JessicaVonMaim]

I rarely post and mostly lurk :o but this thread looks like so much fun!
So bad first:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f210/iHangBottles/n536256968_431866_4199-1.jpg
I tried using sponge rollers. I ended up with Shirley Temple like curls which I foolishly tried to comb out hoping for softer less defined curls... but I got an afro instead.
Now the good:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f210/iHangBottles/6256_142147526968_536256968_2902020.jpg
This was right after I made a huge hair chop this past summer to get rid of a lot of dry, unhealthy hair. Right after the cut my hair behaved so well and my curls looked a lot healthier and better. I am currently growing it back out, hopefully healthier than last time :p

[Pallas]

Jessica.... honestly I like that fro on you 8D

[Milui Elenath]

Here's mine. bad/good.
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=2726&pictureid=73919

The bad one did look worse when it was bigger. It might not win the worst picture but it does show how lighting can affect colour (the canopy looks a different colour?) and wind just makes strands look dry, shorter and one of my ends looks bent! But I confess I delete the really bad ones.

[Locksmith]

Psstt...no one has posted any real bad hair yet...except for me...:P

I don't know, I think my updo was pretty genuinely awful :p

[Aurantia]

Xandergrammy and Chaja-girl, your pics had me rolling. And Locksmith I love your sad little updo lol; that is some seriously cute bad hair. ;)



The Bad. Many moons ago I bleached the underside of my hair to get an olive color, which faded to drab yellow. Ah, youth.

The sun adds a fraudulent "shine" and the wind adds "layers". Believe it or not this was later in the repairing stages. I tried to find my expired passport photo of when this hair was still short -- you ladies would have had a laugh and a half at that mess.

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=5666&pictureid=73926


This is my favorite current photo:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/image.php?u=29666&dateline=1275631436&type=profile

(My best picture of all time was from high school (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=5658&pictureid=73777) but that was so long ago I don't think it counts.)

[kristymarie87]

Bad hair. This is what my hair normally looks like when I wake up. shudder:
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/wookyjean/badhair.jpg


I actually would love my hair to look like that when i woke up! I'd go out like that too :D

[xovictoryxo]

damaged
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs263.ash1/19041_1280848736015_1073943460_30908095_4703088_n. jpg
yucky frizz!!
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs139.snc3/18641_1275883251881_1073943460_30892034_3767678_n. jpg
more frizz!!
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs159.snc3/18641_1275883091877_1073943460_30892031_6832707_n. jpg


current!!
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs339.ash1/29128_1389822100281_1073943460_31189219_730574_n.j pg
best (in siggy)
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs506.ash1/29897_1426179289188_1073943460_31281196_7806428_n. jpg

my favorite :)
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs526.snc3/29897_1426179409191_1073943460_31281198_4695878_n. jpg

[EvaSimone]

Good hair:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/rszpara/belly096-1.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/rszpara/100_6758-1.jpg

Bad hair:
a sad braid that I didn't realize looked quite so bad at the time

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/rszpara/100_5917.jpg

Slept on wet: :justy:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/rszpara/hair029.jpg

[chopandchange]

Psshh, I'm not one to brag, but you just CAN'T say that my pic was a not-quite-l'oreal-but-not-so-bad pic. I mean LOOK!
That's not just a "Oh it's so frizzy/greasy/dry"-case. That's something that munchkins do to you while you're asleep so that you're positively scared awake when you look in the mirror the next morning.

No way!

It was clearly the same munchkins that came and attacked my plaits with a wind machine in the night! They must have relatives living in your house!

[zenobia]

Ok, I think I have pulled up a legitimately BAD hair picture. Talk about bleached out and damaged and roots and . . . ahhh!!! :shudder:

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/wookyjean/badhair2.jpg

And another good picture. This was after I got some color put back into my hair and discovered how to care for waves a little better. I still plan to grow out my natural color though. :)

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh220/wookyjean/June2-8.jpg

[Dreams_in_Pink]

I cannot believe you guys, there's no difference between your good and bad pics! Here comes the biggest difference of all times, hard to believe they're the same hair:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4555&pictureid=71983
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4555&pictureid=68354

I'll let you find which is good :D

[EvaSimone]

Holy Moly Dreams_in_pink! Your hair looks so much healthier and shinier in the second pic!

:cloud9:

And Zenobia I can definitely see some improvement from the first to the second pic, the first pic looks really dry and the second pic looks so soft and much healthier.

[GRU]

Not hard to figure out which is which....


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/ImaHockeyMom/boards/hair/b4-brushedout-1.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/ImaHockeyMom/boards/hair/color%20adjusted/0br-notbrushed-back-adj.jpg



In case anyone was wondering, this is why we curlies don't brush and/or comb our hair!!!

[getoffmyskittle]

:D: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/getoffmyskittle/P1000415-1-1.jpg

:(: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/getoffmyskittle/P1000245-1.jpg

[curlytm]

Good hair:
Slept on wet: :justy:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e159/rszpara/hair029.jpg

Please tell me I'm not the only one that LOVES this picture! I think your hair looks beautiful here. It looks lovely in the other pictures, too, but I just love the whimsical texture here.

[EvaSimone]

Please tell me I'm not the only one that LOVES this picture! I think your hair looks beautiful here. It looks lovely in the other pictures, too, but I just love the whimsical texture here.

Thank you! :o

[chopandchange]

Please could we try and stick to the rules I suggested for this thread, one of which was not to quote people's pics? :)

[angelperception]

great thread!

[angelperception]

oh, and i agree....most of yalls "bad" photos are REALLY not that bad at all! :)

[Pandora.]

WORST:
These were taken as soon as I'd joined LHC. My hair was just all over the place, and did not behave itself in the slightest. Also, bare in mind that my shoulders are arched back ina weird way that makes me look as if I have less hair (gosh I sound mental!)
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/mazza_pants/marcieshair.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/mazza_pants/marcieshair2.jpg

BEST:
A month of being at LHC, I can tell my hair is getting slightly healthier. Although, I have straightened and blow-dryed my hair, it stills looks better than it did nonetheless. AWFUL CAMERA PHONE QUALITY DOESN'T DO MY HAIR ANY JUSTICE! :p
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/mazza_pants/haha3.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/mazza_pants/haha2.jpg

I don't really take too many hair pictures. I'm usually quite occupied and/or too lazy to do take pictures anyways.

[fairystar32]

I will join in
My hair badly layered and hacked into by a hairdresser 2006
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r61/fairystar267/P8280085.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r61/fairystar267/P8280089.jpg

and now
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r61/fairystar267/IMG_1792LHC.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r61/fairystar267/IMG_1744-1.jpg

[Fiferstone]

Hey Merlin, my DH went through that stage about 10 years ago. His hair is less thick than yours, but shoulder length on wavy coarse-textured hair can be a nightmare (triangle pouff). Now that his is down past his shoulderblades it behaves much better. He does gel the sides or he gets what I call his "titmouse-tufts" :-).

It's just that shoulder-length is usually not fun, and no, it did not look good on him either, but he powered through it. You might reconsider even if you do look for a time like someone who is on a popular show about ridiculously expensive vehicles and creative ways of destroying them.

[GRU]

Omigosh, I don't know how I forgot about this one! Fiferstone's mention of "triangle pouff" brought it instantly to mind!

This was my hair (with layers and bangs) on a humid day in the summer of 1997:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/ImaHockeyMom/boards/hair/brillohead.jpg


This was my hair (no more layers/bangs) on a humid day last week:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/ImaHockeyMom/boards/hair/2010-June/outdoor-c-resized.jpg

[Locksmith]

GRU, that last picture is GLORIOUS! :O CURL ENVY! The earlier one... yeah, not so much. ;)

[Roseate]

I'll play! I just recently rediscovered this awful picture from April of 2009:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3382/3414226899_5b6fed49b1_m.jpg

Ack! My hair is like that cartoon guy in the desert "moisture... moisture... please..." And where are my wurls?

This one was taken in March 2010, so as you can see I was able to get to the oasis in time!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4441203631_70c23cb02b_m.jpg

I should tape a copy of that first one to my hairdryer, just in case I'm ever tempted.

[oceanwoman111]

Awesome thread Chopandchange!! I'm having a really bad hair day today. It's greasy at the roots, dried out from the glaze I put in a few weeks back, love the color, hate the texture. It has dried up conditioner in it and it is a tangled mess. :cheese:
I couldn't get the pic into the post, here's the link.


http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=5504&pictureid=74713

[eternallyverdan]

Unfortunately all of my truly horrendous pictures have been deleted, but I have a couple that are pretty awful.

Some severely disgusting braid waves, and last year after 5 years without trimming:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/forevagreenearth/Texture-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/forevagreenearth/pre-trim-1.jpg


And my two favorites; out in the sun and uncombed, and with some rag curls in (down in my siggy):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/forevagreenearth/outdoorlength.jpg

[GRU]

GRU, that last picture is GLORIOUS! :O CURL ENVY! The earlier one... yeah, not so much. ;)

What, you don't envy my FRIZZ-O-RAMA hairdo too???? :D

In some circles, I'm known affectionately as "brillohead" because my head looks like a rusted out Brillo scrubbing pad!!! :p

[chopandchange]

Hardly any of these "bad" pictures are actually "bad!"

Come on, people!

Can't you do better than that? :p

[Quixii]

I don't tend to take pictures of my hair when it's really bad, but I'll post the best and worst documented ones. xD
Best: (first one is plopped, second one is natural)
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=3902&pictureid=72704http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=3218&pictureid=72153
Worst: (clarified with no conditoner and brushed)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/young_artist/DSCN9431.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/young_artist/Hair/DSCN3730.jpg

[jasper]

Quixii your best is really beautiful! And your worst is kinda fuzzy, yeah. :)

[opbutterfly]

Ok then, chopandchange...

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad Hair (which, to be fair, had been through a schoolday):

http://www.butterfly.thornleys.id.au/photos/messy%20hair2.jpg


I don't have a whole pile of hair photos yet from which to choose a 'good' one, but please just accept this humble offering :)