How seriously do you take your hair? [Archive] - SV650.org

TamSV

02-09-14, 04:26 PM

I don't have any. In the days when I did, I would go to the barbers once a month.

I fully surrendered to male pattern baldness about 15 years ago and bought a set of clippers to do it myself. I probably do it every 3 weeks or so.

I've got waterproof clippers I can use in the shower which means no hoovering required afterwards. :thumbsup:

Some people worry about being baldy but I don't think I would have my hair back TBH.

Jayneflakes

02-09-14, 04:33 PM

Mine gets dyed when it needs it, the colour varies from black to purple depending on my mood when I buy the dye. I had it trimmed lovely while away and like a central parting with bangs that I can tie back in to a pony when I am working on the bike or riding.

However, I try not to brush it too much because with my age now it is not as thick or as strong as it was in my twenties. If it gets too too unmanageable I will get it cut into a bob and make do with that. Being of the Goth persuasion means that at the moment my hair is long and hangs almost to my waist when down.

I am due to dye it again and just have to find the time when I feel up to the wife doing it for me. Onec my hair has been done I will also wax my eye brows and shape them to thin arches of vampyric evilness.

I shaved it all off once when I went through a really butch phase in my life, that was just after bleaching the whole lot white and dying it bright pink! At that time it was down to my bum and when people saw me afterwards, they assumed I had a terminal disease!

I could not date a girl with short hair, I like the wife's hair which is long down her back and also dyed, but more red than purple. I also shape her eye brows, but she hates the pain and threatens to thump me if it hurts too much!

timwilky

02-09-14, 04:49 PM

No #1 every month. Still feels long when freshly mowed.

My eyebrows grow quicker than my head. and as for the hair on my arse?????

Spank86

02-09-14, 04:51 PM

I usually keep mine short at the back and sides. The front keeps itself short unfortunately.

Bluepete

02-09-14, 05:21 PM

No #1 every month. Still feels long when freshly mowed.

My eyebrows grow quicker than my head. and as for the hair on my ****?????

What about your ear hair? That's got gotta be keeping up with the 'brows!

Pete ;)

Littlepeahead

02-09-14, 05:24 PM

Without washing it each morning with shampoo and conditioner, then applying serum, carefully blow drying, spraying in heat defence gunk then using a £200 pair of straighteners I'd look like this every day

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/09/02/ed8189e3821d5971692d8f1dce9ff46f.jpg

I have it cut (and de-gingered if needed) every 7 weeks at a hairdresser an hour's drive away because it's a friend who owns the salon, she's very good and it only costs me £45 mates rates, Tony & Guy or similar would be £150 or more.

Some days it is tempting just to do a Britney.

Nutsinatin

02-09-14, 05:35 PM

You can cut your hair?

Geodude

02-09-14, 06:25 PM

Not had it cut in about 10 years and dip head in sink now and then when i can be bothered :)

rickylp

02-09-14, 06:34 PM

The missus wont let me grow it gets clippered on a zero every 2 weeks! Suits me actually, that way i dont ever need to brush it or worry about how it looks when i take the lid off!

Jayneflakes

02-09-14, 06:34 PM

I have it cut (and de-gingered if needed) every 7 weeks

Am I truly alone in thinking that Redheads are beautiful? Mind you I dye the wife's hair red, so I get to enjoy it. Her natural hair colour (if we ignore the grey, she is 49 on saturday!) is a medium brown and her hair is so fine that it is like spider silk. It is beautiful for a couple of days after being washed, but it soon gets full of engine oil, bits of motorbike and owl stuff! Sadly she gets eczema if we wash her hair too often and we have to use really gentle stuff when we do. :twisted:

Not had it cut in about 10 years and dip head in sink now and then when i can be bothered :)
With your beautiful wavy locks, you should be washing your hair in a mountain stream and then flicking it about the place like a tart. ;-)

squirrel_hunter

02-09-14, 06:35 PM

I would go bald if I could. We have evolved past the need for hair, if my head is cold I wear a Tea Cosy.

But for now I keep it short, as short as I can without a razor. I get it cut every couple of weeks. I've had the same hair style for many, many years now. Though I question the word style.

Littlepeahead

02-09-14, 06:46 PM

Mine is still red, the ends go a bit light in the sun so I just get them darkened down so the colour looks even. It is naturally the colour of a baby orangutan's bum fluff!

Fruity-ya-ya

03-09-14, 06:14 AM

I had long hair as a teen and decided last month to grow it again. I'm not precious about my mop but need to keep it neat for work. I'll probably get more comments as it gets to the in between stage but I couldn't give a stuff what's said. I cut my hair short after listening to my classmates at school saying it looked awful only to be met with a chorus of 'why did you cut it all off, it looked great really' so when it gets long this time, anyone moaning at me can go poke it.

Mauler

03-09-14, 06:49 AM

Having dreadlocks down to my bum has pros and cons.

Pros: less daily maintenance, fairly unusual, zero brushing, pretty much the same after wearing a lid as before, still gets washed (when I feel like it)
Cons: can get in the way, can get sat on, zero brushing, weighs a ton when wet

They'll probably have to go at some point but...not yet!

dizzyblonde

03-09-14, 07:48 AM

My mum cuts my hair when I can be bothered. It's so fine, one or two snips and it's done.
I went to the hairdressers a few months ago with the kids for their haircut, and they charged me a tenner for attempting to cut mine, which was the worst cut ever.

My eldests godmother is a hairdresser. Over the years I've had alsorts of things done, for the cost of the stuff to do it. I've also learnt how to do extensions, streaks and dyes.
I dye my hair every four weeks at the roots, it takes five minutes to slap on as a hairdresser would do it. I could and have done in the past, done my own streak foils in pink.

I have to wash my hair every day, as I have extremely greasy hair. That, with fine hair is horrid.

Pegasus gets a buzz cut from me when his bald bits start feeling crowded.

Spank86

03-09-14, 10:11 AM

... they charged me a tenner for attempting to cut mine, which was the worst cut ever..
at £10 for a womans hair I'm not surprised.

Mine usually comes in at £8-9 but any idiot can use clippers and dash through it in 10-15mins.

dizzyblonde

03-09-14, 10:52 AM

at £10 for a womans hair I'm not surprised.

Mine usually comes in at £8-9 but any idiot can use clippers and dash through it in 10-15mins.

It wasn't at a barbers!!
It was at a hairdressers. I asked them for a trim, literally the inch on the ends, a three snip job that I can do on somebody else. They cut a layer in and made my hair appear thinner on the ends than it did before! I'd have been better sticking my head upside down and doing it myself!

They charged a tenner because the boys were having their hair cut too. Styled rather than hacked off. I always take them there, as they do a very good job on the youngest. The eldest, they could sell his hair to men with solar panels :lol:

punyXpress

03-09-14, 12:41 PM

You're 'avin a giraffe! ;)

Specialone

03-09-14, 12:59 PM

I cut my own using clippers, wife does the back of my head for me, my eyebrows and nose hair are starting to grow quicker than my hair on my head.

Brettus

03-09-14, 01:44 PM

Nose hair is a real bug bear, grows quicker than my beard which is frustrating.
Eyebrows thus far are behaving themselves.

Anyone tried one of those Babyliss easy cut jobbies?
http://images-its.chemistdirect.co.uk/Babyliss-Easy-Cut-V2-180634.jpg?o=mTX@49GkishLWwDYbzMzxNTC0d0j&V=d8aH

I'm sure the obligatory CF section it important to the performance of it ;)

NTECUK

03-09-14, 01:52 PM

I used to do allot with it when I was a teen and in my 20's
Maybe that's why it fell out

Littlepeahead

03-09-14, 02:03 PM

If anyone is worried about a lack of hair I reckon I can get enough black fur off my two cats in a week after using the Furminator comb to make a wig, just send me your address and I'll post you over a jiffy bag full of the stuff and a tub of Copydex, job done.

Spank86

03-09-14, 02:10 PM

Jayneflakes

03-09-14, 02:10 PM

For all of you chaps who are lamenting the loss of your hair, there is a cure while it is still thinning. However if it is totally gone, there is no hope for you I am afraid.

The cure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castration) though does have some minor side effects, but will allow those of you worried that you may get hair loss keep your fine locks. Good luck... :smt084

SIII

03-09-14, 02:12 PM

I used to do allot with it when I was a teen and in my 20's
Maybe that's why it fell out

I second this - In my 20's I had a 6" quiff with the back, sides and top No.1 Looking from the top, My hair was the shape of a horseshoe, with the front 6" high then tapering back to 1/2" at the back. Drove around in a 1959 Hillman Minx (In the 90's) looking a right rocker/rockabilly/punk type character, LoL.

Now No.1 all over !!! So yes I believe your theory is correct.

NTECUK

03-09-14, 02:28 PM

My dad had a great head of hair up to the day he died.
So as mum's not slap head it's got to be a good theory.

Good call J F.
Just need two bricks a steady hand and a band aid.

Spank86

03-09-14, 04:15 PM

My dad had a great head of hair up to the day he died.
So as mum's not slap head it's got to be a good theory.

I heard somewhere that male pattern baldness is actually passed down on the female side of the family.

NTECUK

03-09-14, 04:47 PM

That makes sense. Never did see Grandad with out his hat

Bluepete

03-09-14, 05:44 PM

http://youtu.be/9YFtWaHwL3c

Weirdo

Pete ;)

dizzyblonde

03-09-14, 05:54 PM

http://youtu.be/9YFtWaHwL3c

Weirdo

Pete ;)

Wait til she has to cough up a hair ball. People have died from chewing their own hair!

dizzyblonde

03-09-14, 06:18 PM

Once upon a time my other half had a full head of hair
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As time went on and he matured he had it cut off.

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You can still have it styled in a variety of ways
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Its not so great when you look like a monk while someone holds the scissors

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Looks great newly shaved.....

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..... just like the old days :lol:

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MisterTommyH

03-09-14, 06:32 PM

Never really been that bothered. Used to have it short back and sides, trimmed on top.

Then this little bit on the back started to get very very thin and I refused to try and hide it, comb over or anything else so I went straight for a grade 1.

Started cutting it myself but got fed up of cleaning up clippings so now I get it clipped at a barbers. Problem is that with it being that short it needs cutting every 2-3 weeks or it just looks fluffy (except from the bit at the top).

Geodude

03-09-14, 06:43 PM

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/310790_2430976570120_1398254638_n.jpg?oh=a90a53405 2e67721a5eee6b24c8ec43f&oe=545F4EC3

Phwoooooor :smt007 :smt049 :D

dizzyblonde

03-09-14, 07:04 PM

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/310790_2430976570120_1398254638_n.jpg?oh=a90a53405 2e67721a5eee6b24c8ec43f&oe=545F4EC3

Phwoooooor :smt007 :smt049 :D

Ain't it sexy :smt082:smt050 Looks like Anita Dobson!

Geodude

03-09-14, 07:05 PM

Nah her tashe was fuller ;)

dizzyblonde

03-09-14, 07:07 PM

Nah her tashe was fuller ;)

The resemblance was uncanny!

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Geodude

03-09-14, 07:11 PM

It really is her hehe i still stand by my original statment of Phwooooor ;)

Littlepeahead

04-09-14, 07:11 AM

It is a sad fact of life that as we age, gravity has the same effect on men's hair as it does on women's bosoms and buttocks. It all heads south. You lose it from the top of your head and it starts sprouting out of your ears and nostrils.

dirtydog

05-09-14, 10:01 PM

Some people worry about being baldy but I don't think I would have my hair back TBH.

Hair is overrated!

I've been clippering my hair since I was about 20, it started disappearing when I was in my teens

Quiff Wichard

07-09-14, 09:50 AM

Hair ?

Me my Bro and my sis in the 80's

14335

dirtydog

07-09-14, 12:39 PM

Er you still look the same quiff

Quiff Wichard

07-09-14, 03:42 PM

Hair wise or weight wise... ?
Stop !...
I know the answer...

dirtydog

07-09-14, 08:14 PM

Well I didn't want to say, but...

Quiff Wichard

08-09-14, 04:08 PM

My sister always sings ..
" in the wonderland zoo .. ... Help help here come the bears .. "
When she sees this pic

Only folk as old as Tim Wilkinson will know the tv programme I'm on about

Geodude

09-09-14, 07:53 AM

I liked The Funky Phantom more :)

Fruity-ya-ya

16-09-14, 11:07 AM

Mop update, since deciding last month to grow my hair a friend at work has undergone a course of chemo and subsequently shaved his head.
To show our support a bunch of us whipped ours off too (the Mrs hates it) so I'll have to put extra effort into growing it again.

Maybe time to try growing a beard???

Brettus

16-09-14, 11:58 AM

Grow a beard and part it, it'll look like you've got your head on upside down ;-)

Cool re head shaving, how did the transition go? Notice the cold more now?

Fruity-ya-ya

16-09-14, 12:09 PM

Grow a beard and part it, it'll look like you've got your head on upside down ;-)

Cool re head shaving, how did the transition go? Notice the cold more now?
Yep certainly breezy!

I've had it all shaved off before as a kid and forgot how odd it feels in the shower.

Sarah is not a fan as I look like a thug so I thought I'd complete the look with a beard.
Hair grows in spade fulls on the top of my head but my face is less Brian Blessed and more Worzel Gummiage.
In for a penny.