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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 24, 2014 22:15:05 GMT
Even stick straight hair cannot resist this heat and humidity! But...but...but...I grew up in the world's most humid state and you would think my hair would be used to it by now!! I mean, 48 years of it should account for something, right?? But no. Alas, it is not so. Where I used to have lovely wavy curls, I know have something that resembles a brillo pad. This aging thing sucks donkey balls.
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Post by fuji on Jul 24, 2014 22:28:10 GMT
This is me. I guess it's O.K. It's certainly easy, but sometimes I would like a style.
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knotlazy
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Jun 26, 2014 18:00:51 GMT
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Post by knotlazy on Jul 24, 2014 23:30:20 GMT
Oh, me too! I'm 56 and started getting lots o grey at 30 so I've been coloring for a long time. When I was young, my hair was super thick and straight as a board with no blow drying. I am old enough that parted in the middle stick straight was the style and blow dryers hadn't been invented yet. So I was SOO lucky...had perfect hair through high school. Till Farrah Fawcet and her "do" became popular. My hair would NOT curl like that. Went limp. I did the perm stuff for a while but spent the late 80's with long hair and bangs....cut my hair "mom" style in the 90 & 2000's.
Now, my hair is much lighter in color as the gray doesn't keep the brown color well so I get highlights when seem to keep getting lighter and lighter. I have waves an kinks if I let it dry on its own so I rarely do. It's now longer with no bangs which is easy except I do have to use a curling iron as when I blow dry it gets bushy and the curling iron tames it a bit. But the curls rarely stick around. Flat ironing doesn't help much so I don't bother.
It is also SOOO much dryer..I used to wash every day..now it's every 3 days and day 3 is always pinned up or in a pony tail.
And to the Pea who mentioned "old man eyebrows"....I totally understand that too. I now have a gap in my left one. And gel doesn't make the unruly ones lay down.
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lisasahm
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Jul 10, 2014 23:08:59 GMT
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Post by lisasahm on Jul 24, 2014 23:37:26 GMT
Yep, all of the above! And even though my hair is still as thick, now my eyebrows are thinning and the remaining hairs are going all "old man crazy" on me. They are coarse and curve the wrong way, and I have trouble finding brow products that work. But on the plus side, the old moustache is going gangbusters!! Oh the EYEBROWS!!!!! Must they grow THREE INCHES?? Really?
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 24, 2014 23:44:58 GMT
Your hair changes every 7 years like the rest of your body. I have always had curly unruly curly hair very thick and baby fine. People (hair stylists ) have looked at my hair and said I have very coarse hair and then they feel my hair and their mouth falls to the floor. As I get older and the gray it turns the finer it gets and the wilder it gets. I used to keep my hair long but the past few years I have cut it into a shorter inverted bob with some layers because..... 1 I can't stand it on my neck any more and I hate wearing it in pony tails, 2. with my tendinitis it is very hard for me to brush long hair with out my arms killing me. This way I can look at myself in the mirror and feel I still have long hair.
I know it is horrible.
The one thing you can do is put some gel in your bangs before you dry it. I use a instyler so it drys it and straightens it at the same time. I just straighten my bangs I don't mess with the rest of my hair because it will curl up no matter how many hours I stand in the mirror and straighten it. but for some reason if I put a little gel in my bangs before I straighten it It stays straight until I wash it again.
Good luck...
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linda~lou
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Jun 25, 2014 21:57:08 GMT
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Post by linda~lou on Jul 24, 2014 23:50:11 GMT
Oh my yes! My hair is so thin, I mean see your scalp thin. I use so many products on my hair, it's laughable. My mom had beautiful hair until her 80's. Her hair was SO thin, I used to tease her about these poodle perms she would get, you could still see all her bald spots. Now I fear my dear mom is coming back to haunt me and is saying, see that's what you get for teasing me! I'm sorry mom But I promise you, I will get a wig before I get a poodle perm!
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 25, 2014 0:02:47 GMT
My hair went curly almost over night about a year ago. Super weird. I just assumed it was all the years of eating crusts on the bread FINALLY paying off like my gramma always promised it would. My mom and aunt lament that their hair hasn't changed at all with their age (they are twins and both have straight hair). It is strange to get used to, the hardest part is that it reacts so differently from day to day. I do like the curls though, I always wanted curly hair!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 0:20:06 GMT
I've also always had wavy hair, but now it's super curly, dry, frizzy and thin. Aging sucks. FTR, I'm 45 years old.
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Sue
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Jun 26, 2014 18:42:33 GMT
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Post by Sue on Jul 25, 2014 0:29:22 GMT
I had dark brown hair with lots of body when I was younger but I started turning grey at 15 and began to color my hair then. By the time I was in my early 40's I was sick to death of dying my hair and I went natural... meaning all gray. Now that I'm in my late 60's I'm suffering from "pink granny scalp" and extreme waviness on top which I fight constantly. I've heard disparaging comments made from time to time about women and their "helmet head" hair and I've thought to myself... just you wait, you might be the one with "helmet head" hair too when you grow older because hair does change as you age and we don't get to choose what we're left with!
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