ILE, tell me what to do with my hair

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I want to get it cut and colored, but I have no idea what kind of cut or what color.

Pertinent information about me and my hair:
- Currently my hair is a few inches past my shoulders, and it is pretty much all one length except for slight layering at the bottom. It is very boring.
- My hair is very very fine, but there is a lot of it and it has a persistent wave to it that I attempt to blowdry straight when I can. (And thus my hair probably has a lot of heat damage, and could be part of the reason my hair is always flyaway and staticky.) I want something manageable.
- My hair is a very dull dark ash brown. I want to add some vitality to it so I don't look like a "Portrait in Shades of White and Grey"
- My skin is VERY VERY PALE and has cool/pink undertones. I don't want my haircolor to clash with my skin.
- My face is round and fat and I want my new haircut to flatter my face and not excentuate this.

A picture of me for reference:
http://www.quicksilvershapeshifter.com/melsakura.jpg

Note that my hair is shorter and more layered in this picture than it is now, and that it appears darker than it actually is. Oh, and my face is probably larger and rounder now.

I don't want to cut my hair VERY short but I am open to parting with quite a bit of it.

Anyway, your mission is to find me the perfect haircut and color.

Post pictures, give suggestions.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

shave it.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess, you can just...eat a dick.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but jess is a prick.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mtv.com/onair/osbournes/flipbooks/season_2_family/images/kelly_1.jpg

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

*sigh*

it looks beautiful already...

― michael (michael), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it looks great as it is! But I am partial to the natural look. (Hint hint: Gareth.)

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.blackandcoke.com/music/ludacris.jpg

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I am partial to the natural look

me too. speaking personally (and ideologically), i say *don't* color it. and grow it a little, maybe. there's a style that might work where your hair falls down as above, but then sort of twists, reversing itself over your shoulders - anyone know what i'm talking about? sort of like a Friends haircut, but less poofy. that might work.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a style that might work where your hair falls down as above, but then sort of twists, reversing itself over your shoulders

I should have added: it sort of frames your face on the way down, going out and then in

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry about the size of this one, but the haircut on the right here, in a darker colour, might be really nice.

http://www.makeovermagik.net/shrt100123.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

that's the one i'm talking about, but twice as long, or even a little more than that.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Go for something short and studiously unkempt.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you elaborate on that?
(And get Suzy to post her opinion)

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

purple ends?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I say don't fight the wave! If you get yourself a deep conditioner and use it religiously it will relax the wave a bit and also make your hair less flyaway. I would go for a deep auburn with maybe a few highlights. If you henna your hair with red henna you get a great color and deep conditioning!

Maybe something like this:
http://a820.g.akamai.net/f/820/822/1d/i.ivillage.com/substance/i/tools/H_S_F/60_th.jpg

Here is a haircut finder.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I should get it cut to look like Colin Greenwood's hair circa Pablo Honey.

http://www.quicksilvershapeshifter.com/colinpabloera.jpg

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 25 January 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes! If you like it, try it!

I once brought the Verve's A Northern Soul to my hair cutter and asked to have my hair cut like Nick McCabe's:

http://www.mtv.com/news/images/v/verve980708.gif

I like all the suggestions on this thread. Sometimes when you have longer hair people focus on that instead of your face, so going shorter can be nice for a change. Plus you can spend less time dealing with your hair and more time doing other stuff. When you have nice, thick hair like yours, Melissa, it always grows back.

I got my hair cut today, too. My recommendation: shaggy Japanese boy-girl haircuts for everyone!

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 26 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i reckon either keep it as it is (it looks great), or get a bob.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 26 January 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, well maybe not everyone . . . I mean, I find shaved heads really sexy, too, especially when rocked with a bit of bling. I do!

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 26 January 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I think a bob like the black-and-white picture above would be nice, or one that's like that down to your chin and then layered a little bit for a few inches.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 26 January 2003 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Now tell me. I get my hair cut at 10 pm tonight and I was thinking of getting it dyed black and crimped. Bad idea?

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Dyed black, fine. But absolutely NO crimping! DO YOU HEAR ME???!!1

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

if you dye it black, be careful about using dark henna. you can't remove henna (of any color) from your hair, it has to grow out. i learned this the hard way when my newly platinum crop had weird grey/green/blue bits from leftover henna.

crimped? seriously?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't listen to Kim. DEFINITELY crimp.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I want my highlights back.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

No, the crimping was the silly part. And I don't think I could pull off a dye job (way too conservative in my personal styling). I do think I want to get a bit different cut than I normally would, maybe something a little more radical in chunkiness up top. Is that not fashionable anymore?

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Is radical chunkiness fashionable?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I've generally found it not to be.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

well just ask your stylist to cut it a bit uneven [like instead of cutting the hair straight, making the scissor cuts in diagonal angles] and use one of those hair-wax sticks [circular motions on dry hair] to achieve the chunky/messy look, i guess. i think it looks cute.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

And I was going to post a pic if it looked good, too, which it DOESN'T. Well phil, that was more or less what she did, but it still looks dumm. I guess I could go back but I don't really have time for that.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Join Interpol.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I demand a picture!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I wore my year for a couple years in the way Phil described; I do think it's cute, but I'm also feeling it's kinda out, if that matters at all. The key though, with that kind of style, is less the cut than how you manipulate/mess up your hair once you've got the waxy stuff in it. If you don't like it, run your fingers through it, make different parts stick up, and see how it looks then. You need to play with it a bit to get it to stick up right.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm getting my hair cut tonight, too. I need suggestions.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

personal to phil: I'm right about that last bit, huh?

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hair-wax sticks"?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Mohawk, Mandee.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 April 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah: I'll post a pic on Thursday (don't know why though).

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Pictures are urgent and key.

I'm in the process of slowly dying my hair very very dark. I'm doing it incrementally as to not frighten the crap out of myself.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 17 April 2003 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Week before last I cut off 6 1/2 inches of hair to give myself a short bob.

My hair had previously been dyed black with bangs for a Bettie Page look. Now it's just below my ears, stil dyed black, with the bangs grown almost as long as the rest.

My hair is super thick and wavy. While long I felt like I was wearing a blanket on my head. The new hair is more comfortable and easier to take careof I've also been told it's more attractive and it makes me look 5 years younger.

Also, you can see more of my tattoos. yay.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 17 April 2003 04:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Sean is right. In Bangkok, I got the worst haircut imaginable, but it totally depends on how you apply the product stuff. Sometimes your hair will cooperate - it'll have a mind of its own. Make sure its dry/mostly-dry before you put the waxstick thingy on though. circular motions, anyhow, with your hair uneven and stuff, you can try so many different styles until you find one you like. just experiment. the Toni & Guy or FCUK hairwax sticks are pretty okay, but they're all esentially the same ingredients. you can flatten it on the side and sort of make it peak in the middle, or make it stick out in the back - just play around. you can have a different hairstyle every day!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.salon-collective.co.uk/images/osis/hard-up-wax.jpg

chris: "hairwax stick"

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a pic on the "What Do You Look Like?" thread, but that's as much of my hair as I'm going to show, and now I've been told that I look like Sean Hayes which really isn't true.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

ok my turn. I am trying to grow it all out; it is pretty much all the same length now but I wish it would be long for once in my life. It's so fine and thin that it just doesn't survive being grown out. :( Also I probably look better with it in a bob but I'm stubborn and want to grow it out. But I am thinking of trying to compromise with some sort of crazy multi-level cut. I also miss bangs kinda. So is it madness to try to have a few short bits around the face while keeping the rest long? No tapering or layering, mind, I will probably go for the I-cut-it-myself look by cutting it myself...just cutting a couple of chunks of hair off near my cheekbones. And maybe a fringe.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I want hair like lina's

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

teeny, deffo asymmetric fringe for you.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny, Maybe you should go to a reasonably priced salon. They're supposed to be experts on hair after all. And if you don't like it, you can blame it on them.

As for that photo, it looks to me like she air-dryed her hair, but put in a small bit of product & scrunched it while it was damp to help along her natural curl. Ha ha. That's what I do anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

She has tons of hair though. I want hair extensions or something, I think. Anyone ever done that?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll join in here as well. my last few haircuts have been total disasters. i'd been going to the same place for years and then all of a sudden my hairdresser totally changed the way she cuts, and i got an undercut (!!) and various takes on the mullet. the last time i got my hair cut a few weeks ago, i went to toni&guy, spent $70 and got a julian casablancas haircut. and i'm a girl. and it looks fucking beyond horrible. i should've told the guy to fix it but he was really stubborn and also i was being a wimp.

so, any ideas? my hair is quite thick, and in a wierd mullet state right now. i want something cute and short-ish (like chin length maybe) with a fringe. you'd think it would be really easy to find pictures of this type of haircut, but it's not.

(sorry for highjacking a bit, teeny!)

― sand.y, Friday, 17 October 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I want hair extensions or something, I think. Anyone ever done that?

When I was in HS, T. Put in extensions as a change from the braids. Are a pain when they start to fall out into the soup, though

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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