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Curly/wavy hair vs non-curly/wavy hair

Posted: Dec 13, 2012

Feedback, please. Where do you sit in your opinion? Are you happy with your hair or are you envious of your counterpart's hair?

Okay, I have wavy/curly hair. Basically just wavy, but if it's cut short, it's curly.

I have an interesting observation. People with curly/wavy hair want straight hair, and people with straight hair want curly/wavy.

Being one of those curly/wavy people, I have to stress to you envious people who have straight hair and want wavy/curly, it's not all it's cracked up to be. What you are forgetting is that wavy/curly hair DOESN'T NECESSARILY CURVE/WAVE WHERE YOU WANT IT! And, if it's humid out, forget it. Even if you manged to glue the curls into the direction you wanted them (or tame the frizz which often goes along with it), all that work is gone and it boings back into where IT wants to go.

People envy my waves/curls. I envy their straight hair. My straight-haired friends,though, did tell me that in humid weather their hair flattens. That is completely opposite of our wavy counterparts, we just poof out more.

My ideal would be THICK straight hair. It has lots of body and it does not get crazy wild and it does not flatten.

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Same problem here - Dread the bad hair days

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I have the same problem, wavy/curly hair that definitely has a mind of its own. Thank heavens for the Chi hair straightening iron. It's the only one I've found that gets hot enough to really straighten my hair...of course, it still takes me an hour to do it, but it does stay stick straight (even with sleeping on it) for about 3 days, when I have to wash it and begin the cycle all over again. Plus my hair is obscenely thick, so I have to section it into 8 different sections to make straightening it manageable.

If I ever hit the lottery (like THAT is ever gonna happen, lol!), first of my list of luxuries would be someone to come give me a professional blowout and straightening every other day. Ahhhh, not having to deal with my hair on my own would be heaven!!!

That's my dream, too! - Curly/wavy and not liking it

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I would love for someone to do my hair for me every day! I have struggled with my hair all my life. I have a book about embracing your curly/wavy hair, but the author forgets that just because you have curly/wavy hair it doesn't mean it looks good on you. I have a small head and a round face, so unless I grow my hair below chin length and straighten it I look like a cheerful bowling ball.

I have thick curly hair, and I've always wished - for straight hair. I think it is

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worse now that most of the styles you see are for people with straight hair. When I was young, there were still a lot of curly styles that were popular.

Curls - The girl with the curl in the middle of her forehe

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I am of mixed race and I have extremely curly kinky hair. As a child I absolutely hated it, it being the 80s and the feathered look was in. I had a stepmother who referred to me as n***er wool as well, so that didn't help. When I was 17 I got an absolutely awful haircut and decided from then on I would not cut my hair and see what happened. Now at 40 I have very long, thick curly black hair (with a little salt coming in now) and I get complements on it all the time. I wash and condition and comb in the shower once a week and other than that I kind of run my fingers through it a bit, but that's it. I think you have to embrace what you have. Once I did that, it stopped being an issue for me. The only issue is that I "shed" quite a bit and my hair is hell on the drains, so I have to be careful. Every so often my husband will get a 4-foot hair in his soup as well, but I try to keep is back while cooking.

I try to embrace my hair the way it is, but dang it, tired of - looking ugly - sm

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Have to say I absolutely HATE my hair. I used to have gorgious gorgious natural curls. Now at 55 my curls are gone and I've just got a mixture of fuzz and frizz. Every once in awhile I will see a curl from my youth peaking out, but its always underneath the frizz. The last time I needed to get my hair cut I was going to go to the lady who did my husbands hair because she did a great job (and he's really particular about his hair), but she doesn't work weekends, so found a different branch to go to (one of those generic haircut places all over the country). I figured they have to pass a test and know how to cut hair, how bad can it be. Besides, I've had many haircuts by different people, they all were okay, but this one a few weeks ago was the worst and I'm talking about WORST!. Told her to trim my hair to just about my shoulders. Closed my eyes and looked down (per her instructions so she could trim the back) and next thing I felt was cold scissors on the back of my neck and within 1 second she had cut my hair to above my ears. I sat in panic. Couldn't say anything or leave as only half was done. Meanwhile she's telling me about the wonderful natural waves I have and how people would die to have these waves (while she's is chopping the hell out of it). Of course I don't have my glasses on so couldn't see anything, but it's always been that way and in the end it would come out great. Not this time. Meanwhile she's talking about shampoos and what kind is best and she had really pretty hair so I'm thinking it will look fine, just my imagination. Then she's telling me I look like a little flapper girl with my waves and I'm thinking - lady I'm 55 years old 200 pounds and I aint no little flapper girl and have no little girl flapper costumes at home, so you better make my hair look decent (keeping this to myself). So, after cutting and combing and wetting it down it was "reveal" time. She handed me the mirrow commenting on how cute my hair looks. I looked in the mirror. My hair was below my shulders before. Now my hair is above my ears. No curls, no waves, but she did take water, parted my hair down the middle and combed it flat to my head (had to use my sleeve to dab the drips of water running down the side of my head and neck). The shock on my face was nothing compared to the shock on my husbands face when he saw me. Needless to say not going back there.

On a brighter note - a couple days later after I could play around with it my husband told me he really likes my hair this short. He told me it makes me look younger. So...I am going to keep my hair this short, but once it grows out I'm going to go to the lady that did his hair or have on of my neighbors recommend someone.

I would embrace my hair, but just can't do it. I've never considered myself pretty (except when I was little growing up), but now I'm just downright homely. Luckily my husband doesn't feel that way, but I do. Maybe a new and decent haircut will make me feel different and let me embrace my hair. Right now I can't bring myself to do it.

I think the ideal nowadays - is thick, luxuriant and wavy...

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I remember the bad old days when girls used to iron their hair to make it board straight, but I don't think this is considered attractive any more.

I used to iron my hair - I'm the OP who started thread-see msg

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I used to iron my hair, literally, on the ironing board with an iron. One time, I let the iron sit too long on too hot and I ended up singeing (sp?) one side of my hair, right at my ear, and I looked like I had a big poof on one side of my head. I also stunk like burnt hair for while, no matter if I washed it or not.

That was in 11th grade, in the early 70s when parted in the middle and poker straight was "in."

curls - calimt

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Used to fight the curls but as the years have gone by, I just go with them. I use Noodle Head and it really curls it and makes the ringlets spread out more.

Noodle Head, Care Free Curl Gold, Argon Oil, and Natural 7 oil are all great for curly hair and believe me, I have tried TONS of products that made me look like a brillo head. Sometimes I mix Noodle Head with Natural 7 oil and I really get nutty curls. Fog and ocean myst make lovely curls but I can't buy them!

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