The Random Hair Thoughts Megathread

[foreveryours]

Lol! I never thought of it that way

It has saved me from quite a few low ceilings and cabinet doors

Yep, I don't like the weight when moving my head quickly, but a bun has saved the back of my head from a sharp corner or edge here too

[rosenester]

Those look cute, Zesty! I have a few packets of the standard goody medium size claw clips, I got the ‘planet goody sustainable’ ones because I was interested in what material they used, and they are very strong, came in a 4-pack, for $5-6.

I spend so much on my hair, I have to try to find some low cost options for some things! I also agree, Much prefer my routine with ‘cones and a good amount of leave-ins. I am 100 percent happier with the slip and ease of detangling I have now. I may ask for a Ficarre for a gift, or get myself one if I continue to struggle with the wooden sticks I have…down the road, like holidays or next spring for my bday (not a low budget item)!

[Zesty]

Those look cute, Zesty! I have a few packets of the standard goody medium size claw clips, I got the ‘planet goody sustainable’ ones because I was interested in what material they used, and they are very strong, came in a 4-pack, for $5-6.

I spend so much on my hair, I have to try to find some low cost options for some things! I also agree, Much prefer my routine with ‘cones and a good amount of leave-ins. I am 100 percent happier with the slip and ease of detangling I have now. I may ask for a Ficarre for a gift, or get myself one if I continue to struggle with the wooden sticks I have…down the road, like holidays or next spring for my bday (not a low budget item)!

I think I've bought clips from that Planet Goody line too! I have so many clips around (some of them failures, unfortunately). Ficcares are definitely worth a try, they're so pretty. I have two waiting in the wings but they aren't quite the right shape for how I currently wear my hair.

I literally use three leave ins these days. Serum/leave in conditioner > blow dry spray > oil. All with heat protection since I'm blow drying (just to be safe, I never use the hot setting and keep it far away from my hair, as is recommended). Since I spend all my money on those products perhaps it is good that my hair likes cheap toys now...

[squirrrel]

Just measured my ponytail circumfence and it turned out to be 3.1 inch. Don't know if that is thick or not but it's me I guess.

2-4 inches are average thickness. Thin is below the 2 inch mark and anything above 4 inches is where thick hair begins. Welcome to team average (though you are on the thicker side of average and I am on the thinner side).

[squirrrel]

My "default" clips at the moment are these from Amazon: https://a.co/d/5dEkYmz How about you?

They're close to being dupes of the Goody Kimberly clips that I found on eBay, but those were like $10 each and both of the ones I had cracked at the base of a tine after just a few weeks. We'll see how these hold up (ha, pun). Anyway, I digress...

In my case it might also be due to cone usage and leave ins? Now that I think about it, I might have gone back to silicones around when I hit classic. I guess I'd rather have easier detangling than better hold -- despite the slight risk of hair getting caught in the springs. Another upside is that claw clips tend to be super affordable, at least compared to the Etsy stuff I was buying before. They're just not as pretty (IMO) and unique.

Oooh. I haven’t seen this style of clip before, Zesty. Interesting.

[Zesty]

Oooh. I haven’t seen this style of clip before, Zesty. Interesting.

I hadn't either! I saw it on a Facebook group and they proved kind of hard to find because I still can't come up with a good keyword to search for. I was happy to come across those. But I like them because they're so much flatter than most claw clips. I can clip them on the top edge of a cinnamon bun and it holds great all day.

[Bat]

Just measured my ponytail circumfence and it turned out to be 3.1 inch. Don't know if that is thick or not but it's me I guess.

I think that makes you ii thickness 4+ is iii

[lapis_lazuli]

I hadn't either! I saw it on a Facebook group and they proved kind of hard to find because I still can't come up with a good keyword to search for. I was happy to come across those. But I like them because they're so much flatter than most claw clips. I can clip them on the top edge of a cinnamon bun and it holds great all day.

I've never seen them either. I'm intrigued This brand has several other interesting designs.

[MusicalSpoons]

Just stocked up on some Love Beauty and Planet conditioners, aaaaaand they've changed the recipe. They have taken out the methyl-whatsit-ones and SLS, which is good, and they smell the same, so hopefully they'll be okay still.

Also slightly tempted to rinse and condition my hair sometime Sunday-Tuesday, with the heatwave, to do a sort of hairtyping … but I don't actually think I can sit anywhere without my hair without my ends pooling on the floor (is it really too long to feasibly do a proper hairtyping?! )

[Doomy Daisy]

Going through this heatwave has given me a lot of food for random hair thoughts. To be honest, most of them about how silly my head would look if I completely shaved my head? lol

I have a weird bump on the top of my head. I wonder all the time whether someone dropped me when I was a newborn and they never told my mom. She didn't know I had the bump.

And now back to shaving my hair... It makes me think that it would take me probably a decade to grow all of my current length. And that made me think we don't really have a lot of time on earth for hair growth journeys from scratch.

Sorry to anyone who read this. It's been 43 degrees Celsius for a week now, my country is literally on fire. I can't function.