Hair despondency

Straight or curly, fine or thick?

I just chopped all mine off and I love it. Can't tie it up, but I think a funky band will work for the gym.

Sophie, I have dark brown hair and had it chopped into a bob in the summer. It was the best thing I have ever done with my hair. I love it.

You could have a long length bob (so you can still tie it back) with layers chopped through the ends. As for colour, I have tried all brands of home colours with little success covering grey, until I tried Superdrugs (I know!) own brand. Their dark gloss brown has lasted over 6 weeks with no fading so far. I know home colouring is not for everyone, but it's really very good.

Good luck either way.

It's dead straight, although it gets a bit of a wave when v long. Fine, but lots of it. I can't do short hair because it's too high maintenance, I have a fat face and I'd feel butch.

Hole, I loved my bob this time last year but I have so fallen out of love with it ? I've tried home colour loads but it just wrecks the condition of my hair because it's so fine and breaky.

Oh, and I am convinced it's all falling out. Although this may be paranoia.

Fat face? Nope.

I think a longer bob would look good too. With layers so you can have flicks in it.

I use that new 10 minute home hair dye thing with a comb - think Eva Desperate Housewife advertises it. I really like it.

Honestly, the superdrug one comes with a once a week conditioner that lasts 6 weeks, it's only about 4 quid too.

My hair is fine too, but looks surprisingly thick because there's such a lot of it and it's wavy. I feel your pain though, I think hair at our age can be a real minefield ?

You sound just like me about your hair - I won't cut mine too short as I have a fat face, can't not colour it as am afraid of grey hair coming through, and am bored with it.

Mine is quite fine, but has lots of waves in, although these all tend to go in different directions so I look as though I've got a bad dropped out 80s style perm! I have to straighten it if I'm going out, or curl it properly otherwise it looks awful.

I've grown mine out from a bob, although my hairdresser cut it back up to shoulder length the other week, as the ends were getting a bit raggedy.

So, no suggestions, but can sympathise on the hair front.

I was worried about maintenance, but it is on of the lowest maintenance styles I have ever had - 5 mins tops to do it in the mornings. I'lls ee if I can post a pic a bit later (have to finish up soem work first)

is that a dye or one of the semi permanents? i've been using the casting ones and i'm lucky if they last a week.

I changed my hairdresser and now my hair is fab - he's been cutting it now since July and it has really changed - the curl is back (natural ringlets unfortunately) and I can style it myself.

I use kerastase and bedhead products now which have sorted out the hair loss, which was two brushfulls a day. I have also started taking a Sea Kelp vitamin a day too.

If I came out of the hairdresser £77 lighter and unhappy, I would be going back tomorrow

It's a permanent hair dye, I find most of my grey is at the front and if I put it on there first and leave it a few minutes longer than the rest then it works a treat.

Soph I think a sort of long layered bob would suit you.

I really really want to do something with my hair. It's shoulder length, has the slightest wave and there's lots of it but it's very fine and flyaway. I'd like to do something interesting and have it cut shorter into a proper grown-up style, but I'm scared ?

I don't have much time for styling it - the most I can do is dry it with a brush rahter than blast it ?

If I were feeling brave I'd post a pic so you could all advise me

(sorry for crashing!)

It sounds just like my hair too. I used to have lovely thick hair but I really don't know what happened in the past few years as it's now really fine. I am also convinced it's falling out (which would contribute to the thick to thin thing). I'm going to the hairdresser tomorrow, but it seems whoever does it, even when given carte blanche, I always end up with the same cut (layered in the front at varying lengths).

I would be interested in any suggestions you get - I can't do a fringe as I have a cow lick <sigh>

I'm not that fussed about the cost, because he did exactly what I asked him to - I was and am just in a funk about it. Next time maybe I need to ask for some long layers and some highlights to break it up.

Hazel, I can imagine you with longer hair set in soft waves - I don't think it's *that* time-consuming if you can get the hang of velcro rollers. And the colour is lovely.

I have done the velcro roller thing in the past but can't do it every day - tbh it's a bonus if I get to rough dry it all the way through these days ?

I used to have this:

and now I have this:

This is the sleek look. I can also funk it up a little. I'm now thinking about some choppy auburn highlights. Takes all of 5 mins to do in the morning. My hair is really fine but plenty of it, and straight.

What about a long bob like VBs old one?

I've just changed hairdresser to Headmasters and the girl I saw there was very good. I actually prefer her to my old one. She was very honest about my hair and came up with some new suggestions on how to have it and I love it.

Also sounds like mine, I went from a shoulder length bob to just last week having it cut to about 2 inches below my jaw (I have a long neck?) and layers put in aswell as a side sweeping ear length choppy fringe thingie. Like it much better than being all one length and I can still tie it up (just as the back is layered quite a bit to) as it's much more interesting than before. I have thin hair to but this style makes it look thicker. I also use Superdrug home colour and think it's ace.

I really wouldn't get a VB cut- v high maintenance.

I went into my hairdresser clutching a photo like this last time and really like the cut I got- long layers with long side sweepy fringe (almost like not having a fringe but a bit more structured)- I think something similar would really suit you. V good for fine but abundant hair (which I have too) and v low maintenance.

I've got a cut a bit like the Cameron Diaz one above, and also have fine, straightish hair but quite a lot of it (and the dreaded fat face).

I like the look of it on me when just done, but the slightest bit of breeze and it looks like the messiest mess ever dreamt up by mortals. I'm not sure whether this is just a by-product of having fine hair, anyway, though.

I also have to colour my hair all the time due to significant grey, sob. I use L'Oreal something or other (Excellence? or the other one? God, I can't remember) which covers well, but I've never found one that doesn't fade. However, I colour it red so that's the worst for fading; my hairdresser has said that every red will fade, no matter what the make.

I'm actually going to the hairdresser's this morning, funnily enough. I'd like something a bit different but I don't have a clue and also is there a bloody hairdresser on this earth who actually gives you useful ideas based on your face shape, hair and lifestyle, rather than expecting you to know exactly what you want and be the expert? <grumble grumble>

Hope you find the right style for you, Sophie, it's a bleeder, isn't it.

God, it must be the time of year or something, but I'm having serious hair despondancy at the minute. I hate my hair, it's wiry, coarse, unmanagemable, seriosuly going grey and just a nightmare.

I really want to do something with it, but unfortunatley anything , apart from afro/banshee/kate bush in wuthering heights, would be high maintanence. grump!

Oh, and I hate hairdressers so would never go more regularly than about once every 2 years.

Ooh I love the Cam Diaz hairdo. In fact, I love Cam Diaz full stop ?

I feel your pain Soaps - I am soooo bored of my hair. I'm trying to grow it, but it starts flicking out like blimmin Betty Boop, then it gets split and straggly when it gets past a certain length, so I end up chopping it back and looking really frumpy for ages, while I desperately try to grow it long again ? It's a vicious circle for me, gaaaah.

Let's just shave our heads and be done with it, I will if you will ?

Gorgeous hair by the way Bostongirl - very Katie Holmes! You do know though, that I just squinted to see what you really look like behind the pixelation ?

I'm another superdrug permanent colour lover, I've tried others but they just don't have the lasting effect & also they make my hair really shiny and always cover the endless grey's that I find.

I had my hair cut into a bob and the beginning of summer with a slightly graduated back (no steps round here), I'm now in my winter plummage (highlights in the summer / browns in the winter) and I'm rather happy with it.

I'm considering having my hair done like the ginner from girls aloud

see

http://www.girlsaloud.co.uk/site.php the main banner picture, like that

Sophie - you could try semi-permanent dyes as these don't damage your hair. I used a reddy brown L'oreal one to cover my root regrowth after hilights (I wanted a complete change and was getting annoyed with expensive trips to the hairdresser for the upkeep of highlights) It has faded a bitm but has lasted for 2 months so far and I wash it every day. It says on the pack it lasts 6-8 weeks so it's done way more than that.

And at £6 a box, it's a real bargain too.

KJB, I've used those and they still knacker my hair <sob>

I like the Cameron Diaz style actually, but not the Pob.

Bostongirl, your new hair is fabbity fab, but wouldn't suit me at all.

G&T, I like your hair. The Sarah Palin 'do you were sporting the other night was tres chic.