Does your hair affect how you feel?

aliasojo

lostinrates wrote: »

Caring doesn't mean spending hours on it.

I agree, and that seems to be pretty much the middle ground that most folk would sit on, not the extremes mentioned by a couple of posters above.

balletshoes

aliasojo wrote: »

I agree, and that seems to be pretty much the middle ground that most folk would sit on, not the extremes mentioned by a couple of posters above.

yep, middle ground for me is 5 minutes with some mousse if I want the curl in, or straighteners if I don't.
I don't ever blow dry my hair these days unless I'm going out for the evening. I wash and condition it at night before bed, then straighten/mousse it in the morning (it always needs one or the other, even if I have blowdried it the night before). If I did leave it natural, no product and not blow dried, it would be sticking up all over the place and I would need a bag over it :rotfl:!

moneypuddle

Yes! I hate "day two" hair and never really feel myself with it

Same with skin though. A mahoosive spot can knock my confidence somewhat!!

mummyoftwomonkeys

We feel good when our hair looks good. I had quite an expensive job done on my hair last week (for me anyway) had it coloured and cut ans was really happy. Got into work the next day and not one person said anything lol oh well. Ive had lots of bad hair cuts and felt down after.

harrys_nan

I agree about bad hair days. I had my hair cut this morning and feel so much better, Ive gone back to being short again after trying to grow it. I have a lot of hair but its fine with a will of its own.
Yesterday I felt like the wicked witch of the west and looked it, today I feel human again. God bless good hairdresser

Devi

I completely sympathise with the OP.

My hair is long, black and frizzy with the only grey hairs I have at the front so it seems like I have a permanent halo of frizz which makes me look and feel old.

i have tried numerous taming products over the years, they work for a bit and then its back to normal. I hate straightening it every day too so haven't bothered recently as it still gets frizzy, no matter what I do to it.

So i think i am going to go a bit shorter and have a few layers put in and even thinking of chemically straightening it so that at least I don't have to straighten it too often.

Need to save up for it though as its not very MSE!

barbiedoll

I hate myself for being so shallow but yes, it really bothers me when my hair looks/feels horrid.

Now that I'm officially middle-aged, I'm not quite as fussy about whether the fringe is sitting perfectly etc etc, I spend a good part of my working day outdoors so I'm at the mercy of the weather anyway but I do like to feel that it looks ok when I step out of the front door. I don't see myself in a mirror until I get home again and by then, I don't usually care! But that "day-two" hair that someone mentioned......it's either looking great by day two, or awful, my hair still gets greasy and flat after a day or two and I'm a slave to the shampoo industry, I still haven't found the magic elixir to make me look great every day (although I'm quite pleased with the "Aussie" stuff that I got on special offer in the supermarket )

My hair is dead straight (finally, fashionable at last!) and boringly chin-length. I get a £14 haircut every two or three months, it grows quickly so I go from "longish" to "quite short" in a short space of time. Funnily enough, if I am having a bad hair day, someone at work ALWAYS says "oh, your hair looks nice today" :mad:
I guess it just shows that we aren't always the best judge of our appearance!

Savvy_Sue

Gingham_R wrote: »

Going to the hairdresser used to be more frightening for me than going to the dentist.

I spent years just pulling it back into a ponytail and not getting it cut.

:rotfl: I think some hairdressers used to feel the same way about seeing me - frightened, at least the 2nd time!

See I wanted curly hair. So they'd wash it, put setting lotion on it, put it in curlers, sit me under the drier, let it dry, take the curlers out and whoosh. There it was, completely straight again!

Now my hair does what it wants to do: parting where it falls, spiky bit at front which hairdresser trims with clippers. Given up on the curls.

But after the backcombed beehive I had for my parents' silver wedding (where I was still finding hairpins a week later, and still had hair in the shape of a space helmet, I kid you not!) and the overzealous 'trim' which took my mid-back length hair to collar length, it was about 20 years before I went back to a hairdressers!

And then it was on a 'charity cut' day, so that at least if I hated it I could say it was in a good cause!

lostinrates wrote: »

Today my hair is ok, but I have a rash all over my chin and cheeks. Tbh, I will be staying at home today, and had planned to, but I really don't fancy seeing clients with such a rash, nor hindering it healing my putting makeup on it.

I have a male friend with very little hair, and no vanity, but he hates it when his eczema flares on his face.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I didn't care until I took a course of medication that led to great clumps falling out all the time.


Then it mattered. A lot.

ciderwithrosie_2

gingin wrote: »

I had to have my passport photo done yesterday, so washed, dried and styled hair, exfoliated and moisturised skin, full makeup, knowing that this picture is going to haunt me for ten years. Had to pay £5 (it used to be £2 when I used to pile into the photo booth with 3 mates on a saturday afternoon!) and then it gave me three chances to get the photo right. All three photos were awful and I was too tight to pay another fiver so I gave up and settled for the least bad one - it was just a total waste of everything! And yes, it does get me down.

Oh I had to have mine done last year, did exactly the same as you - made an effort to look nice, all the pics made me look like an extra from Prisoner Cell Block H - hard as nails! :rotfl: