I hate my hair - rant thread

[sill]

My hair seems to stay dry no matter what I do. It is driving me insane. I just want it to be nice and soft

Try washing your hair twice with the schampoo.. That will give it the vitamins it needs or something like that

 

[Sav_]

^ Thanks



I just recently realized that my hair desperately needs regular clarifying! So I used a clarifying shampoo the other day and all my hair products can sink in now...my hair feels 100x better already.

 

[seanutbutter]

My hair is blonde but gets greasy and dark so easily.

Regarding greasy hair, I have the same problem. My hair is very thick and blonde, and if I don't wash it at least once per day it becomes flat and greasy. I guess I'd rather have that over dry hair, but it can still be annoying at times.

 

[Lara_L]

My latest hair disaster: I had washed and dried my pale blonde hair, and started to GHD it when I discovered that my sister had somehow gotten depilatory wax on the GHD, and the wax (and there was a lot of it!) got stuck in the outer layers of my hair. There was no way of getting the wax out, and I had to cut two (large!) sections of hair out. And after all that, there is still a big chunk of hair that is now purple, like the wax. I'm too depressed for words.

 

[Sav_]

^^ OMG That's horrible!

 

[18ForEver]

Regarding greasy hair, I have the same problem. My hair is very thick and blonde, and if I don't wash it at least once per day it becomes flat and greasy. I guess I'd rather have that over dry hair, but it can still be annoying at times.

Its so irritating.Then the blonde can look yellowish or dirty
Im lucky i dont have to wash it everyday,you must spend heck of alot on shampoo

 

[seanutbutter]

My latest hair disaster: I had washed and dried my pale blonde hair, and started to GHD it when I discovered that my sister had somehow gotten depilatory wax on the GHD, and the wax (and there was a lot of it!) got stuck in the outer layers of my hair. There was no way of getting the wax out, and I had to cut two (large!) sections of hair out. And after all that, there is still a big chunk of hair that is now purple, like the wax. I'm too depressed for words.

I'm so sorry! The only positive thing I can tell you is that it's just hair, and of course with time it will always grow back. Still, I can understand how horrible it must feel.

18ForEver - Oh, you have no idea! I even keep a few bottles of shampoo in the closet just in case.

 

[18ForEver]

^^Awh gosh its funny but maybe,just maybe theres a cure?
Something crazy like standing on one foot,holding a light bulb,squirting lemons in your hair

 

[Meg]

Did you try soaking your hair in super hot water like in the sink? That could heat up the wax and you could maybe scrape it off....

Seanut - have you tried washing your hair less? I mean, if you know you aren't going to be going out/actively seeing people for a two week period, you can effectively train your hair to start producing less oil. During the school year, I wash my hair about every second day or so but in the summer, I can go up to 4 days without washing my hair and it still looks normal.

My problem at the moment is that my hair seems to be changing texture?! I honestly don't know how this is happening but basically I have stick straight hair. Like Asian straight (though I'm white), even my eyelashes are naturally straight. Except there is one small section of hair that is super kinky and coarse (along the lines of African American hair), that my hairdresser found about 5 years ago. Well now, I'm noticing that some of my newer hair (ie the ones that you can easily see along your part line, that stick straight up!) is coarse and is a little bit kinky, like it had been super curly but has been straightened. But I don't use a straightener. So I have no idea where this is coming from. But maybe it's part of aging....

 

[seanutbutter]

Seanut - have you tried washing your hair less? I mean, if you know you aren't going to be going out/actively seeing people for a two week period, you can effectively train your hair to start producing less oil. During the school year, I wash my hair about every second day or so but in the summer, I can go up to 4 days without washing my hair and it still looks normal.

I've heard that washing your hair less can help cure greasiness, but like you say you need to have a few weeks where you're not going out much to test it out. I may try it this summer when I won't have to worry about what it will look like. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Meg]

^
yeah, that's definitely the difficult part. Thankfully, I don't hang out with people much in the summer

 

[nijuyanah]

I have the same problem with the greasyness: having blonde hair aswell, and it really seems like it looks even worse when it gets greasy than with a darker colour. I don't wash it everyday but at least every third.
I already tried not washing it for a week but it didn't really work either... And actually, when I was younger, I never had such problems!
Though my hairdresser said it's just a matter of time until that changes again because it's up to hormones how fast your hair gets greasy.
The only thing I would suggest is a reaaally gentle and simple shampoo! No fancy ingredients or something because they only increase all the greasyness...

 

[lalibertine]

My hair is currently at that horrible inbetweeny stage where i don't want to get it cut because it will be too short but the layers are so long it looks silly. My hairdressers fault for putting far too many layers in. I also dyed it black over christmas and now want to lighten it up again, so i decided to try and get it back to my natural dark brown, but the colour has only taken to the roots so now i have brown roots and the rest of my hair is still black

 

[seanutbutter]

I got my last haircut way back in November, but I only a few days ago did I notice that my hairdresser cut my hair shorter on one side for some reason, leaving one side longer than the other! And not in a trendy, edgy way, either, but more of a 'that doesn't look quite right...' way. I can't believe it took me until now to notice, but now it's all I seem to see when I look in the mirror!

 

[dumbfairy]

^Is there anyone you know/trust to neaten the other side up for you? I've had this happen to me too and never noticed for a while

As for greasy hair,I've never had it,and I find I can go for about 1 week without washing my hair with no problems at all. I can't wash my hair every day,nor every other day. It's definetly just finding what works for your hair

 

[angelfish]

i recently started interning at a magazine and my coworkers decided to "revamp" me (Devil wears prada style)
so the hairdresser gave me bangs which i LOATHE. i have really strong features which bangs just make look even more harsh. i went from having a a short black bob (which i got recently and was still adjusting to) to adding bangs, and im a bit traumatized by the whole affair.
here is a picture, they only look half decent from the side view.
ugh

 

[Meg]

I don't think a fringe necessarily looks bad with strong features, there are a lot of people who I think make it work (Lady Gaga and Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for example). I just think it needs to be blunt and full and not wispy and separated (though maybe this is just the picture)

 

[angelfish]

^really?
i think blunt would be WAY worse, it would look too severe. the wispiness kind of softens it imo.
oh well, im stuck with it now...thanks for the input

 

[Meg]

Well to be honest, I don't think she you have strong features (ie big nose, big forehead, big eyes, etc.) but could just be the angle. But here's an example of what I'm talking about

rachelwarner.com

I'm sure you are familiar with Lady Gaga's fringe. I guess playing around with it will help. I don't think it looks bad though

 

[23 seconds]

I hate my hair right now. Really hate it.

Last fall, I dyed my bleach blonde hair to dark strawberry blonde (almost auburn), then decided to dye it with a blue vegetable dye to make it super dark with a blue tint. Bad idea. It faded to the most undesirable shade of green after a couple of weeks. So I decided to cover it up by dying it a soft black/dark brown, and just when I thought the green had dissapeared, after a few washes the black/brown dye faded and the green was still there! I dyed my hair twice during the time afterwards, but the green never left.

Just this new year I used 'Colorfix' (a color stripper -- not bleach), and although it removed the black/brown dyes I'd been using, it made my hair strawberry blonde -- with a huge green tint. Now I look like a redhead with an ash toner gone wrong -- in green.

So yeah. I really hate my hair right now.

Anyone have an suggestions how to get remove vegetable dyes? I really don't want to bleach my hair again. And I don't want to cut it either.

I managed to remove the vegetable dye soon after I made that post. I used clarifying shampoo, had my hair bleached, and did (and still do) weekly deep conditioning/protein treatments. Although I'm happy my hair isn't totally dead and that I didn't have to cut it, ever since I've been rocking the blonde, but (yes, a new coloring issue) the color is slightly uneven. The roots of my hair are brassy and there is a subtle difference in the tone, for which the ends are an ashier blonde and the roots are warmer. Argh.