Hair- on your head not the musical!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Katcina
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 11:13 AM

Just to my shoulders.

Tried to go from blonde to black once, more years ago than I will tell, and came out green. Made husband at time go to the store and buy the stuff to put it back since the attempt at black was to please him.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Firecat
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 10:54 AM

I think you SHOULD take it as a complimant!!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:05 AM

"Coupe-brosse" as they call it here in Belgium (short and spiky)and grey-white (since my twenties). Lady McMoo calls it "distinguished" but I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not...

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 07:48 AM

I dyed mine blue once. One of those wash in wash out midnight highlights for dark hair. I was purple headed for ages and ash blonde for 6 months. Now I have to do the regular nit checks, I notice that it is getting rapidly more 'salt and peppery' with emphasis on the salt....

Still long though, and still freak out the guys at work with Cousin It impressions.... hee hee hee.

LTS

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Firecat
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 06:30 PM

Just refreshing this.

My hair is now red and waist length. It was actually black for a bit but not all the dye washed out!!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: death by whisky
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 06:45 AM

Paddymac,as Gervase said,Chuffed to bits.It's a common enough expression in N.I.

Thanks Morticia for that gem,mint balls eh !

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Jim Krause
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 05:56 PM

I was dumb and cut my hair (this reminds me of a David Crosby song, how 'bout you all?) Used to wear a gray pony-tail. Shaved off my beard, too for the summer, another dumb idea. I figured it out, If I got my hair cut every six weeks at $25.00 a pop, that would work out to $212.50 per year. Holy cow that's a lotta guitar strings. I can get my favorite bow rehaired five times for that kind of bread, pay two years' worth of car insurance. . . . As for the beard, I just plain ol' got tired of whacking the stuff off every morning. I figger Nature put the fur on a man's face for a reason, let him keep it there. So, sooner or later, I'll be lookin' like my ol' self in the profiles section of this here site.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Irish Rover
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 04:47 PM

Well in the 60's it was shoulder lenght and sunny blond, now it is white and skin tight. my beard is white also but my mustash is redish.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Mbo
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 04:14 PM

Well after just one day in my return to the great outdoors, my hair has gone from dark auburn to red-gold.

A lament of the chronic HearMe addict: headphone hair!

--Matt

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Wavestar
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 04:09 PM

Hmm... My hair tends to be a topic of great conversation in my circle of friends, so... Long, (when pulled straight, about to the small of my back), but it's very curly, so it only falls to my shoulder blades. There's a huge amount of it, and like Melani, I can tie it in a knot and have it expand to fill the space, so it stays. I usually condition it in the shower, take all the knots out, but I don't dare brush it, because when I do it tries to take over the world... It, like many people's, contains almost all natural hair colours except black, but is primarily dark blonde / auburn. There is yet to be invented a word to describe its colour. It drives me crazy, but I like it anyhow...

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Gervase
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 04:17 AM

In my family it was either 'chuffed to bits' or, if it was my father talking, 'chuffed to buggery'.
We never were very couth, I'm afraid!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: hesperis
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 11:02 PM

Reading this has reminded me that my hair is finally long enough to braid!
I had short-ish hair for far too long.
As for the color, well, when people want to annoy me, they say "shit brown", but it's not really.
I would describe it as a pale shimmery brown with beautiful, natural highlights in the summer and lowlights in the winter.

~*sirepseh*~

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 06:34 PM

Paddymac .......the phrase is ( in full) "chuffed to little mint balls" which, I think was coined around WW1.....it's uniquely Brit in origin but has travelled.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 05:45 PM

I went to the post office the other day, and the guy there had an honest-to-God Flattop with Fenders!!! I was so jealous. Back when I had short hair I really wanted to do something like that, or get that Annie Lennox buzz, but I wasn't quite bold enough then. I'm bold enough now, but the long hair serves a purpose. Instead of a flattop, I'm going to have an old tattoo remade into a violin rising from the water, like Excalibur from the lake. :)

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: paddymac
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 05:19 PM

Thanks, dbw, for adding a new word to my ever-expanding slang vocabulary. Now, what is the locality where the word is commonly found.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:25 PM

Been out in the sun this weekend, mine feels like a haystack!

Micca is carefully avoiding this - he looks like a badger, especially when he's just been shorn. Otherwise he can grow his own hair horns a la Dilbert's manager....

LTS

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: SDShad
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 10:54 AM

Thick red hair, short and balding on top, braid down to my belt in back. The braid was much thicker until this past Saturday, when, a couple of hours before singing at a wedding, in a rush to get a little bit less of the claymore-wielding-Highlander look I took an electric trimmer to the top bits and inadvertently took off the left and right underside bits of what goes into the braid--a generous fistful of hair at least. Could've been a disaster, but the braid's still as long, and with the weather we're having right now, it's much less hot this way.

But a man who cuts his own hair has a fool for a client, or something like that....

Chris

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: death by whisky
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 09:36 AM

Doug R.Its good,sort of means proud

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 09:06 AM

Almost down to the small of my back, dark brown, though in the summer it sometimes goes red or blonde or a mix (depends on how much sun I get - sunbleaches at the drop of a hat.) Pisses off all the women at work and in my family.....*grin*

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 05:51 AM

I've currently got soaking wet DARK BROWN hair!! I am blonde really, though, albeit highlighted!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: alison
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 02:46 AM

Short & Red, much easier to look after and cooler here in the summer. Needed it longer in Ireland to keep my ears warm....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 01:49 AM

I never saw it, sorry. I never went to see Cats either. Or Carrie. I guess I have a thing against one-name efforts. What? Oh. Never mind.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: DougR
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 01:04 AM

death by whiskey: you were chuffed? Is that good or bad? DougR

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:15 PM

Bonnie my dear, I thought it was a great question and well answered by friend Gervase also.........As I get older, I'm not going bald, but I'm growing hair in some places where it never grew before. As for the head, well the ponytail is about a foot long.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: death by whisky
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:56 PM

I took the kids to the beach today.A French woman comes up and asks "Can I take a their photograph ?,red hair is rare in France."I was chuffed to bits.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:49 PM

My hair used to be longer, but when I was 15, I firmly decided I was going to get a high & tight and keep it short! We were in Okinawa, Japan at the time, and when I sat down in the chair, the Okinawan barber couldn't believe I wanted a high and tight! He kept saying "You want hi-ti?! You want hi-ti?!" Guess not many other military brats were getting them or something!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Shanti
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:42 PM

My hair was waist length when I got married, and it stayed that way, because my ex-husband liked long hair, until the second child was born. Then I just got sick of having little sticky fingers tangled in it. So, I cut it first to shoulder-length, then gradually shorter. Now, it's on the way down again.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: CamiSu
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:08 PM

Short, so I dont have to think obout it much and no one much notices if I forget to brush it... with a small braid to my shoulder blades. But it used to be middle of the back in a braid on the side or two braids or whatever. Once my boss tied my braid together as they were threatening to stick in the fiberglas resin I was putting on a canoe I was repairing. (His hair was long, too and we would wonder whose hair was in the finish this time.) Mostly brown with some grey. Red when the sun shines through.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:17 PM

Can sympathise with the long hair stories - keep getting mine caught in shirt buttons, wrist ornaments and other people's backpacks on the tube..... Never get a dress that buttons up the back..... I never wear dresses with zippers either now. Come to that, I hardly ever wear a dress!

I like to roll mine into a bun and skewer it to my head with two chopsticks. Those leather bun holders or metal clips are never big enough for the amount of hair I have (see pictures on resources, sorry, don't do clicky things), and pencils are too thick. I have some Japanese chopsticks that are slim and laquered (ah, wish that were me.....) and pointy, so they slip in easily and I never need look for a fork at a party!

LTS who actually bought a bowler hat to do Cousin It impressions.....!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Melani
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:07 PM

Brown--I can tie it in an overhand knot.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:03 PM

Dark brown, almost black. Very thick- I belong to the hairbrush-snapping club! It's bra-strap-length now but getting longer. When I was 21 it was hip-length; then I thought I ought to look like a grownup and cut it to shoulder-length; in my 30s I cut it down to 1 inch long, now at 40 it's back to the real me. Not much gray yet; and if I inherited my dad's head of hair (as I think/hope I did) I won't start to really go gray for another 10-15 years!
I wear it on one braid most of the time; on really hot days (we've had 3 so far this summer) I wear an old-lady bun, because it's too thick to keep off my neck any other way. In the winter it's like a mink stole- I wear it down and stay warm in all weather!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:00 PM

well let's see -this week its brown last week it was a kind of L'oreal mahogony and next week who knows??? Its been short and now its a kind of jawline bob - had it cut before Beverley folk festival by the hairdresser from hell -didn't think I would be able to go out for a week -can you have hair extnesions woven into a number one cut?

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: DougR
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:14 PM

...and short. DougR

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: DougR
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:13 PM

White. DougR

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:08 PM

Short and blonde with some grey.......see for yourself :) click here

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 01:52 PM

The only reason I have mine long is cos it doesn't suit me short! I had it bobbed a couple of years ago for my school Exchange to Russia an I looked like a prat!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Naemanson
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 01:34 PM

it sounds like the majority of Mudcat women choose to have long hair. I wonder how that fits into the overall demographics of the people here?

I would grow mine long except that it is so fine that it is gets stringy and is completely unmanageable. So I keep it short.

I haven't given up any of my '60's and 70's ideals. I am just as radical today as I was then. That brings me great joy for I work on a military base and am now in a position to cause great heartburn to the diehard conservatives with whom I work.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:59 PM

GUEST, you're lucky. I'm forever having to brush mine!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:54 PM

My hair is Silver Grey, shiny, has a wave, normal business style haircut,(over the ears and rounded neckline) slightly thinning on top with a hint of skin showing through in the back. I wash it, comb it(part on left side) and forget it. Throughback to my Navy days.

Sailor DAn

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:45 PM

Jeri, you're not alone when it comes to snapping hair brushes cos I once broke my favourite one and I now use it like a curry comb! I can do an impression of Cousin It and I've freaked my boyfriend out on several occasions by doing so!!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:17 PM

My ponytail is about three inches long.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:06 PM

Yes, hair can be too long. Mine (when it was down to my waist) used to get caught under my armpits at night while I was asleep. Then I'd change position and my head would get pulled sideways. What a pain in the neck! The Dylan-style mop does not present these problems, but it does cause various ill-informed people who don't know me yet to look askance at me as I pass by. They assume I'm some sort of dangerous deviant or radical. Radical, yes, dangerous, no. Pat Robertson is far more dangerous than I.

The really young kids ask me if I'm a man or a woman sometimes. Poor wretched victims of social stereotyping! They have my compassion...

I'm surprised how many of my peers from the 60's and 70's have utterly abandoned their youthful ideals, and their long hair along with it. Not that it matters what length your hair is...but I hate to see people just lie down in the face of life and surrender.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:00 PM

My hair is reddish brown (hard to describe the color) has currently reached waist level, and is wavy and thick so it goes sideways too, if not kept in elastic bondage. I break standard barrettes, and the odd hair brush. It has been long enough to sit on (around 1979) and will probably get there again. I could, like LtS, brush it down in all directions from a point in the center/top of my head, put a pair of dark glasses on over it and do a decent imitation of Cousin It. It has been as short as an inch long on top - cut with clippers and sort of spikey.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:08 AM

Mine is midway down my back, all one length. Mostly dark blonde although I like to put a little red in it once in awhile. (If you go lookit my picture in the photo gallery you'll see the last time it was really red, back in June. It's all washed out now, though.)

Ten years ago when I got married it was WAY short. I liked it that way, too, but the maintenance and upkeep got to be expensive. Then we got into living history and I wanted to be able to do those funky hairdos from the past, so I let it grow. I like it long, too, except that it tends to get caught in things like purse straps. Ouch!

Mister is losing most of his but he has a very smart goatee.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: GUEST,Shanti
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:49 AM

Blond (now) slightly below collar-length. Trying to let it grow, but I had short hair for a long time, and I get VERY impatient with it. Have had my hair all of natural colors but black. At various times through my life it has also been every length from pixie (a 50s term)cut to slightly below my waist. Think I'll stop this time at mid-back.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:42 AM

Tahnks a million for the advice Carol!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:33 AM

Firecat, this is my advise to anyone who wants really long hair. I speak from my own experience. If it's long enough to hang down into a garbage disposal while you're working at the kitchen sink, it's too long.

Also from my own experience. Sitting on your hair is not much fun either. It's a gastly experience when you sit on your hair and in doing so, your head gets yanked way back into an unnatural position and then you can't get up. It's not much fun getting it stuck in car doors either.

Best wishes,

Carol

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:18 AM

Thanks! I'm wanting to sit on mine so when I'm 18 (or when I've got enough money!) I'm gonna get extensions. Mind you, even though I said it's usually in two plaits, I've currently got it in a side plait a la Geri Halliwell!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:24 AM

As I get older , the most luxuriant growth seems to be in my head, not on it. There's a mat in the plug'ole every time I wash my hair, but my ears and nose - wow, where's the gardening thread gone?!
Nose hairs I can deal with, though. I remember sitting in the pissing rain in a muddy hole in the ground once (defending the empire, or a least a small bit of scrub near Aldershot) when I confided to the guy next to me that the hairs sprouting out of my nostrils were driving me mad with their tickling.
We were both covered in shit, armed to the teeth and looking like a couple of dangerous shrubberies but, surreally, we then embarked on a long conversation on male grooming - the pain of plucking weighed up against the irritating stubble that comes when you jam a pair of scissors up your snout.
Then he whips out his first-aid roll and says in triumph: 'This is the bugger to sort out your nose hairs!'
He's proudly brandishing a very neat angle-head artery clamp, and proceeds to demonstrate how it's done - grabbing a tuft, locking the handles and yanking great armfuls of wire out of each nostril. 'Here, you have a go,' he says.
Call me a wimp, but the idea of using them after he'd reamed his hooter just didn't appeal. To this day I'm a plucker, though.
Sorry about that - probably more information that you ever needed to know...

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 05:00 AM

Well of course it's on my head.... if I take my hairclips out, I can do an excellent impression of Cousin It. It really freaks one guy at work....!

I'd say it about reaches my tail bone (can't spell coxcyx). And that is from my head, not the other direction..... THAT has hardly anything at all!

LTS