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| Bushel n Peck |
Posted - May 11 2012 : 7:40:21 PM
Arrrgh! I am so sick of getting bad haircuts!
This latest on makes me look like a recovering chemo patient. I just want to cry. The latest MJF cover inspired me to let my hair go long. Mary Jane has such beautiful locks, OK I admit I am a wee bit jealous! I have very fine thin hair my scalp is starting to show in places; I picked up some vitamins for hair restoration and I have rogaine to help with the balding spots.
I'm really starting from scratch here. Anyone else want to join me?
my blog: http://bushelnpeck.blogspot.com
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
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| sweettea |
Posted - May 15 2013 : 6:07:45 PM
Great thoughts Tammy! I love it!
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
| Tammyb |
Posted - May 13 2013 : 4:17:26 PM
I have had longer hair for a few years now. Love it ! I am 52 and graying but I love the way it looks. If I want it up then up it goes ... same with leaving it down. I think we all just need to decide what we like and go for it! Long or short - love your hair
Tammyb
Live to leave a legacy
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - May 07 2013 : 2:10:06 PM
Oh How I wish I could let mine grow. My husband likes it long, I like it long but I also like it short. I let it get to a certain point and then it is off to the hairdressers. I had it permed in February and it has been trimmed twice. I like the little wave a perm gives but then it gets to the point of growing out and the top is straight and the ends are sticking out. I am constantly wetting it to get it to look like something. It is very fine but also thick. I am blonde, have never colored my hair though everytime I go somewhere new which is not too often anymore they want to know if it is colored. Every time I say "No that is why you can hardly see my eyebrows." I love the look of long hair and the longest I have ever had it was down to my hips. Dh loved it this way but I kept getting a little cut off at a time until it was back to shoulder length and then I got it all cut off as a "reward" for losing a lot of weight. Of course the weight came back on, though I am working on that again but thinking about letting it go to see how long it will end up. Problem I have is, even though it is thick it looks very thin when it is long and I like it full but I have no curl whatsoever without a perm. I don't like the damage a perm does to my hair. May be jumping in here to get some encouragement to keep letting it grow.
farm girl sister#43
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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| Betty J. |
Posted - Apr 04 2013 : 08:05:59 AM
It seems funny now, ironic maybe, but I was trying to grow my hair out for three years. I didn't cut it at all, not even a trim. Then the doctor told me I had lymphoma and that the chemo would cause me to lose my hair. Well, it did. I was bald and naked for hair all over. The last to go were my eyebrows and lashes and the first to return. It is all over now and things have been clear for two years. I keep my hair cut short now like I previously had. Since it came back even thinner than I started, I figured "oh well."
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Betty in Pasco |
| Lavender Rose |
Posted - Apr 04 2013 : 07:42:04 AM
I also dyed my hair for about 20 years. I went grey at 23. I too had to go through the awkward stage of letting it grow out, but afterward I got compliments on my hair. Never did cut it off as it grew out though. Just trimmed it once in awhile. I have always had long hair below my shoulder blades.
My neighbor and I both have long almost all white hair now and we both have decided to not ever dye our hair again. Who wants to go through growing it out again. ugh!
Long hair is easier to put up on your head in a bun, or braid it. Do pony tails, etc.
Lavender Rose
Each day we add to our legacy--good or bad.
Our Daily Bread |
| sewsweet |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 4:07:58 PM
I'd been dyeing my hair for over 20 years. My hairdresser would cringe when I suggested I would like to see what my real hair looked like. She would say I was too young to "go gray." I'm in my late 40's, but my gray started when I was 18 (premature gray just runs in my family). I finally told her that I wanted to let my hair grow out. She went on and on about how old I'd look, and how coarse my hair would be...and so on. So, I did what I had to do. I switched hairdressers!
I am so happy I let my hair grow out. I don't look very good in really short hair, so I purposely suffered through a period of "skunk stripe" and had it trimmed as short as I could stand. It took a little over a year, but I now have a full head of non-dyed hair and I love it! I get WAY more compliments on my hair now than I did before.
If you want to go au natural, I suggest that you try it. If you don't like it, you can always go back to the dye, but I have a hunch you probably won't! |
| sweettea |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 2:08:46 PM
Thank you Heather and Tracy! Heather, I started used semi-permanent hair color years ago but it didn't cover the gray. Even permanent hair color didn't work for me. So, I backed off to semi-permanent hair color again and after a while I went cold turkey and went off all hair color. I love being gray...no, silver, it sounds better! I've heard there is a demi-permanent hair color but had never checked it out. Perhaps that would be a way for you to transition? I've determined that as I age, I want my hair to reflect who I am. I don't want to fall into standard that sometimes seem set for us that makes us feel we need to have a certain hair style or color. I found a quote one day that I absolutely adore. It sums up what I think about aging, hair color, hair length, style, heck, even life itself! "We need to turn off the wrinkle cream ads, stop dousing our heads in dye, and start looking in the mirror to tell ourselves we’re beautiful. Those gray hairs? They’re amazing. Those laugh lines you always look for in photos? They’re wonderful. You're a ravishing Queen in your own right and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise! So smile, laugh and know that your joy is more beautiful than boxed color or Botox could ever be." ~Lauren Richwine
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
| hwright95 |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 08:18:24 AM
Love your color Candace
Heather Wright~ Farmgirl Sister #2187 “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
#8213; Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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| hwright95 |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 08:17:20 AM
I turned 36 this year have some gray coming in,I have always had it long but I want to stop coloring it, but don't want the in between stage of half dark/ gray half bleach blond
Heather Wright~ Farmgirl Sister #2187 “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
#8213; Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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| Bushel n Peck |
Posted - Mar 07 2013 : 07:20:12 AM
Pretty lady, Candace!
Thank you for posting your pictures. Your hair is growing out nicely, and fast!
my blog: http://bushelnpeck.blogspot.com
my doTerra essential oils online store:
http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/tracyajohnson/
I sing because I'm happy; I sing because I'm free!
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches over me. |
| sweettea |
Posted - Mar 06 2013 : 7:53:03 PM
I thought I would follow Tracy's lead and post a picture of where I am with my hair also. Since I didn't post one when I started this journey of growing my hair out I'll have to post that first. I started growing my hair out last spring, about April or May if I'm remembering correctly. I got tired of bad haircuts and flat-ironing my hair. When it's shorter I have what I call "bed-hair-wave". The curls don't show up until it gets shoulder length or longer. With the Minnesota humidity my hair frizzes up when it's short and I was continually frying it with the flat iron trying to eliminate the bed-hair-wave and the frizz. That was the start of my journey. So, I started with a jaw length inverted bob. Here's about where I was last spring:
Here's where I am now:
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"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
| Lyndell |
Posted - Mar 05 2013 : 11:21:43 AM
I get caught up in the romance of having long hair. Boy, do I. I fantasize about cascades of beautiful, shiny, locks & intricate braids and buns...
The reality of it is that my hair is SO thick and SO frizzy (and sticky and heavy, especially in summer--hard water doesn't help) and SO stubbornly wavy that every time I start growing out my hair I can only get so far before I throw my hands up in the air and beg for a short, shaggy bob. I hate spending much time on my hair, and the longer it gets, the harder it is to take care of. Wearing it down is rarely an option since it's always in the way... not to mention it doesn't air dry nicely, so even wearing it "naturally" requires an hour or more of drying/straightening/etc. And, after its been in a pony tail or, well, anything else really, for a whole day, it has weird waves and kinks in it that are impossible to get rid of without washing it again.
The moral of the story is, be careful what you wish for! It all depends on your hair type.
I sincerely wish I had enough money to hire someone to do my hair every day. Don't we all?
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Farmgirl Sister #4236 |
| monique |
Posted - Feb 27 2013 : 01:28:28 AM
Tracy,
that really looks lovely!
quote:
Originally posted by Bushel n Peck
Here is the current length of my hair. I have not cut it since starting this thread..jpg)
my blog: http://bushelnpeck.blogspot.com
my doTerra essential oils online store:
http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/tracyajohnson/
I sing because I'm happy; I sing because I'm free!
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches over me.
http://thymeandlavender.blogspot.com
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| HemetGardener |
Posted - Feb 26 2013 : 3:02:49 PM
Hi girls,
I have started growing out my hair as of January of this year. When it is long, it is thick and heavy so I have it layered. I love the femininity of long hair and the ability to do more with it, like put it up, or half up or whatever.
Hugs for the journey. Don't give up.
Terri |
| MagnoliaGirl |
Posted - Feb 09 2013 : 10:31:33 AM
Hi sweettea,
I appreciate the encouragement. I suppose at this fun stage in life worrying about hair fashion trends is a thing of the past for me, haha!
I am reverting back to my past...all of the pictures from my childhood days show me with very long ponytails, and so I will return to that easy style. Of course all the blond is about gone...now I am many shades of gray!
Have a happy week-end :)
Sister 4595 loves to Smile, Laugh & Giggle!
~Creative Stitching at Sweet Bay Magnolia~
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