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EMTonya · 01-26-2006, 10:16 PM

i blow mine out because it is wavy in some places, but straight in others. if i dont blow it out, i'll sometimes wear a hat or stay home

it's short now too so it takes less time to dry.

JeniLyn · 01-26-2006, 10:23 PM

I put "leave it curly every day", which is mostly true, but I do use a straightening iron on my bangs and some pieces of hair that frame my face.

This is the first time in my life that I've had an actual hair STYLE. I usually just have it all one length. My sister is an extremely talented stylist and I finally just told her to have her way with my hair--and I LOVE it.

Jeni

stephen_layla · 01-26-2006, 10:28 PM

Mine is wavy/curly but it can be curlier if I don't try to pull out the curl when I dry it. I have found that short hair is easier for me to deal with if I want to pull out the curl and style it. When it is long, my hair is just too thick and wavy to pull out the curl with the blow drier. My arms would fall off it would take so long. Mine isn't that cute ringlet kind of curl. So, when I first get it cut, it is short enough to blow dry into a style. Between cuts (I usually go every two months), I just scrunch it up and put in some smoothing creme. I wash every two days or so.

Breila · 01-26-2006, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by AngelaJ

The longer mine gets, the curlier it gets. Most of the time, I wash daily, add a teeny bit of gel, and it dries looking okay. If I blow-dry it, it gets much curlier and puffier. If I try to straighten it, it just goes all frizzy and curls back up as soon as I go outside in this thick South Carolina humidity. My biggest problem is that I can't find anyone who can cut it to look nice, nor can I find a style that works well with curly hair, is easy to maintain, and someone around here can actually do........

LOL

What she said! Mine has been short, long, and everything in between over the last few years. When it had a lot of length to it, I let it air dry and do whatever it wanted to, it was really the only thing I could do.

I got it cut this past weekend, and it is a great cut, IF I blow dry most of the curl out. I don't have the time or the patience for that,

. So far I have done it, but I know it won't last.

I vote for easy, I want my long, all one length, with curls back. Personally I liked looking like a modern day hippie, LOL

sweet~potato · 01-26-2006, 11:10 PM

My hair is wavy/loose curly. For a while I blow dried it straight, only to find that half way through the day that it became frizzy and started curling up in weird ways on its own. Now I just put a little bit of gel in it when it is half way dry. On cold days I give it a little shot with the blow drier because my head is so cold but that makes it too poufy some days. Yesterday my dh told me my hair looked like Oprah Winfrey when she wears her hair curly.

It got too poufy yesterday, lol.

my2girlz · 01-27-2006, 12:32 AM

My hair is strange! Straight on top, spiral curls on the sides, and wavy underneath. I keep it shorter now. It's chin length now. It's much easier to manage. It takes me 5 min. to blow dry it and an add'l 2-3 to run the iron through to straighten the rest. I don't like it stick straight though so on the ends when I'm running the iron through it I curve it towards my face. Most people don't know I have curly hair!

Alohamelly · 01-27-2006, 12:35 AM

My hair is wavy, but I wish it was straight! I think I might get straight perm (relaxed, whatever you call it). I got an Ogilvie home straightener kit that I haven't tried yet.

Most days I just twist my hair up in a clippie and straighten my bangs with a flat iron.

tracey · 01-27-2006, 01:43 AM

when i was younger (late elementary school) folks thought i was mulatto bc i have a mediteranean heritage (was much more prominent when i was younger) read: olive skin (pale but olive) and hair that was fro-curly.

by junior school it had relaxed to serious spiral boingy curls. that worked great in the 80s during the time of the spiral perm, lol. i carried a butane curling iron and a can of aqua net EVERYWHERE and "fixed" my bangs btw classes

my hair now, after 3 kids...i'm 31 so it's been quite a while since the fro days...it's naturally curly. depending on my cut and style (effort i put forth) i can have boingy curls or almost straight hair. it's extremely versatile now that i'm older and know what to do with it. my hair is also thin...i don't have the thick mane some folks have. i can however ONLY brush it when it is super wet (right out of the shower.)

i use a pantene mousse for curls and a product called "curls rock" by um...Tigi i think but not sure. it's upstairs. it's pricy but man does it make a difference. i use it every day when i leave the house (put it on wet and i NEVER blow dry unless i for some odd reason want to blow it straight...which is rare to never.) i then scrunch with my hands as i remember for the next hour or two until it's dry. if i remember to scrunch a bunch, it's more curly. otherwise it's wavy/curly. if i use a blowdryer and diffuser while scrunching i get boings.

my hair is currently below my shoulders maybe an inch or two. i haven't had a cut (other than my own trims around the front) since last april (it was cut waaay to short then) and still has layers. as long as i have some long layers, i'm good with the shape and body. if it's *all* the same length, it pulls the curls out and gets a weird shape.

haircuts give me panic attackes...literally. MIL cut my hair for the last 8 years but won't be doing it any longer and i'm literally queasy thinking about finding someone else.

i usually (nowadays) wear it all down or pull the sides back in a barrette. by evening i usually have it pulled up in a twist, in a barrette or flexi, and that leaves tendrils all around my face and nape.

it's a look that works for me

this pic gives you an idea, but i was kinda pissy, lol...it was christmas day so about a month ago, my hair is a wee longer now.

Sabra · 01-27-2006, 02:36 AM

I brush my hair.

The closest I get to styling it most days is braiding it. My hair is almost always braided or in a ponytail. It is long and very thick and since the climate here is a warm one, leaving my hair down equates to draping a cat over the back of my neck. Not comfortable at all. Putting it up, since there's so much of it, would give me a splitting headache. My sister keeps her hair short specifically to avoid the headaches, in fact. But I like it long, so I deal. I haven't the patience to blow-dry it, nor the inclination.

MamaNurse · 01-27-2006, 02:45 AM

I voted Stick it up... but that doesn't always apply.

My hair turned wavy after I had Spencer. 99% of the time in the past 6 yrs, I wore it up, but now, I have a better cut and it's pretty long....to my boobs... and so I wear it down the day I wash and then up the next day. Wash every other day. If I'm doing lots of housework when I wash it, it goes up right away.

Only blow dry a couple times a yr for special occasions.

Evan&Annekasmom · 01-27-2006, 03:14 AM

I have wavy frizzy hair. It was a lot more curly/wavy before kids.
Often my "waves" are just calicks (sp?) now.
If I want to look halfway decent I use a gel/pomade and scrunch the front to get waves and blow dry the rest of it under.
I have"problem" hair.
Ev's hair is just like mine. Mama spit works well to tame his. Hmmm... Maybe I should try that! LOL!
Jen

mamaferreira · 01-27-2006, 11:18 AM

Mine is naturally curly, so when it's long I usually just let it air dry and keep the curls in. I had it cut short around Easter of last year and started using the flat iron after it had dried. I've now switched to blow drying and then the flat iron and I usually wash it every other day or so. I'd forgotten how much damage the dryer does to your hair though... split ends suck!

choleblack · 01-28-2006, 09:20 PM

I couldn't voite barb because I preferto totally ignore my hair & wear extentions!

Seriously. I had to take my dreads out this week and I had forgotten how much I Hate hate hate my hair. super thin, randomly wavey. I blow dry it if I'm doing something when I want it to look nice, but then it looks so thin. I leave it most of the time & it just looks like I slept on it funny & didn't brush it (even though it's not tangled). Pull it back & there is so little that I might as well be bald. *sigh*, did I mention that I hate my hair?

Chole

elsie · 01-28-2006, 09:54 PM

Mine's different every day. If I am doing something special (nice dinner out, interview) I straighten it. Then, I can go 3-4 days w/o washing it and it stays relatively straight.

If it really needs washed and I don't have time to straighten it, I let it go wavy. I don't like it that way, but people tell me it looks fine. So, whatever, I deal. And certainly, with all the roughing it I do, it is wavy plenty of the time. Can't straighten it at camp after going swimming in the lake!!

If there was some magical way to get it straight and keep it that way, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

cristian_bella · 02-10-2006, 02:04 AM

I have really curly, thick hair like Korwynne. I ALWAYS wore it curly up until this past year & I caved. I bought a flat iron & dryer. I have an AWESOME hairdresser in Albuquerque & she did step by step on how to do it (and w. yummy Aveda stuff at that) & I got hooked. I like the way it looks, my dh likes it, too, but my parents hate it.