Does your hair affect how you feel?

lostinrates

dundeediva wrote: »

It could be worse!!!

I'm a ginger and have always had the ususal jibes all the way through school etc but for the past few years I have grown to LOVE my hair and i genuinly wouldnt change it for the world!!

My worst hair cut was when I was 11, imagine the picture... think bushy ginger hair, in a bowl cut, I had fixed braces at the time, was overweight and had the hugest NHS specs you have ever seen. Worse than that though...my school photo was taken a week later and the disaster been forever captured!!!

I never understand the attitude towards red hair, IMO it's the most beautiful of colours, whether it's spun gold strawberry blond, firey hinger orIrish seter deep dark red. Stunning. I used to dye my hair red, but it's never the same out of a bottle

onlyroz

I let my hair do it's own thing, and on most days I look like Tina Turner. Life's too short to spend it all worrying about bad hair days.

balletshoes

yep, my worst school picture (in fact worst picture of me ever taken in my life) was my first year high school one - omg I have no idea what was going on with my hair!

aliasojo

dundeediva wrote: »

I'm a ginger and have always had the ususal jibes all the way through school etc but for the past few years I have grown to LOVE my hair and i genuinly wouldnt change it for the world!!

I've honestly never understood the jibes redheads seem to get. I think red hair looks lovely. I passed a girl going to school this morning and she had the most beautiful long curly red hair, it was a strong rich red and was very striking.

It does seem a bit ironic if she were to get jibes from people who's hair could best be described as being 'mouse coloured'.

Mrs.W_2

In stories such as those of Samson or Rapunzel, the individual is denied the right to control certain aspects of their lives. They've very little to do with actual hair.

aliasojo

balletshoes wrote: »

yep, my worst school picture (in fact worst picture of me ever taken in my life) was my first year high school one - omg I have no idea what was going on with my hair!

Friend and I both got our long hair cut short for our first year in secondary school. She really suited hers, I just looked like a boy. I managed to 'lose' that particular school pic.

jackieblack

Piggles12345 wrote: »

I don't understand people who don't bother with their hair (I mean no offence if this is you- this is just my opinion).

I don't understand people who waste hours faffing about with their hair (I mean no offence if this is you- this is just my opinion).

Life's too short!

aliasojo

jackieblack wrote: »

I don't understand people who waste hours faffing about with their hair (I mean no offence if this is you- this is just my opinion).

I think you are all being too extreme. It's not really a case of either 'not bothering at all' or 'faffing about for hours' for most of us, we just want to wash, dry, look halfway decent and feel presentable.

lostinrates

Mrs.W wrote: »

In stories such as those of Samson or Rapunzel, the individual is denied the right to control certain aspects of their lives. They've very little to do with actual hair.

True, but the point is that hair was a suitable vehicle for the sense of identiy and power, something people, some people, could relate to.

lostinrates

aliasojo wrote: »

I think you are all being too extreme. It's not really a case of either 'not bothering at all' or 'faffing about for hours' for most of us, we just want to wash, dry, look halfway decent and feel presentable.

I 'do' my hair every couple of days, it's still important to me. It takes a whole to do ..curly hair needs to go back to wet, so washed or dunked, then obviously needs time to dry at least in winter or with a hair dryer before an evening out. Sometimes I do something with it, ig yesterday I spent about two and a half minutes putting bobby pins in mine to put it up, then in the evening a couple of mins conditioning it. Today it's loose, and haven't touched it. Probably will put it up tomorrow morning again.

Caring doesn't mean spending hours on it.