Hair- on your head not the musical!

Subject: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:54 PM

Even sillier thread from the brain of the Firecat. How long is people's hair!!!

Mine's about halfway down my back so I always have to have it in two plaits.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:58 PM

Which hair are you referring to Firecat?

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:00 PM

Bonnie, it tells you in the title of the thread!!! I'm not a dumb blonde!

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:04 PM

Auburn hair--very very short! I keep it in the USMC "high & tight" style (my Dad used to be in till last year.) Right now it's slightly shorter than see here.

--M

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Branwen23
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:11 PM

Auburn also, and also halfway down my back, but I don't have to have it in two braids, because it's not real thick

-branwen-

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

Firecat, how do you know I am not a 'dumb blond' who has dyed her hair brunette, hoping no one would notice I can't read very well. Ask Catspaw, he knows I can't read very well.
I have very thick long curly ringlets. Having long locks of hair is a lot of fun.

Bonnie

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Catrin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:25 PM

I have short 'red' hair that's been red for so long i can't remember its real colour. I have it short because when I have ever tried growing it, it reaches shoulder length and then thins out to become a kind of long, wispy straggly knot. Short is easy and red is nice.

Catrin

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:54 PM

I'm supposed to have hair on my head too?

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:59 PM

Shoulder length moppette. I had hair to my hips in my twenties but had the brilliant idea that it needed to be curly. Two weeks after the permanent from hell I shaved it off - literally and wore a hat for three months until there was enough to style.Never let it grow past past my shoulders after that. Brown with red and gold highlights - some even natural.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 03:10 PM

I saw the most interesting thing. I exercise in a gym where after a while, you get to know the people around there. This one guy had a bald patch, and I noticed through the years the bald part was significantly taking up more surface area. Recently I saw him and the bald spot was gone. First I thought maybe he had a hair transplant, and then I notice he had dyed the skin within the balding area the color as his hair. I have never seen that before.
I think hair transplants are kind of like rows of tree reforestation. It looks so organized.
I was once married to someone who wore a toupee. I always thought it looked like an artichoke on the top of his head. One day he threw the toupee away and said to me 'I've been asleep for 40 years'

Bonnie

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 03:18 PM

Actually I do have hair up there. It's just getting thinner with every passing day. Still, I'd rather not hide the sin it's revealing.

And what's left is kind of a dark blonde and my beard is reddish brown except where it's grey. In the summer the hair on top gets lighter and the beard redder.

I keep it short these days but I used to wear it shoulder length. I still have a tendency to forget when my last haircut happened and will wait up to 4 to 6 months for my next one. The beard tends to get bushy and then I trim it back.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 05:13 PM

I have thick reddish brown hair about three inches long....beard is red with some dark mixed in....other hair is dark brown....

Amerginwhoknowsthisismoreinformationthananyonewantedtoknow

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 06:25 PM

My hair... What's left of it? Heh. Sort of light brown. Varying lenghts. The longest parts are halfway down my back. All sort of ragged and uneven. Like I grew out a bad haircut. Just long hair, sort of parted down the middle, thinning in front. Thinking of shaving it off, since I've had the same 'haircut' for... 10 years or so. And when I go bald, I don't want to look like (watermelon-smashing 'funny'man) Gallagher...

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:26 PM

I can sit on mine.... it's mostly blonde.... some of it is grey.

LTS

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:31 PM

You got hair on your arse, Liz?

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:32 PM

I can sit on mine.... it's mostly blonde.... some of it is grey.

LTS

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:34 PM

No, Amergin, on her chest.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:39 PM

Not much on my head, but there's lots in the bathtub drain... (and a fair amount on my chin).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Giac
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:54 PM

Right now my mostly grey hair is just past my shoulders. It is growing out from the last harvesting. There is a program called "Locks of Love," in which hair is collected and made into wigs for children who have lost their own hair to chemotherapy or other problems.

A local high school participates by giving free haircuts and styles. They wash the hair (while it's still on one's head, by the way), dry it carefully, then put elastic bands at either end and in the middle. Once the hair is cut, it is sent to the volunteer organization which makes the wigs.

My hair doesn't grow as fast as it did when I was younger, so it takes about two years for it to reach the desired length of 12-14 inches.

Anyone interested in the program can get info from any branch of Amer. Cancer Society, and, I'd imagine, from clinics specializing in cancer treatments.

Sorry if this is a thread drift, but you asked ...

Giac

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: MarkS
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:12 PM

Hair on my head? That is a memory from the past.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: paddymac
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:13 PM

Gee, I thought Banjo Bonnie's question was legit. :>) I mean, "Hair - on your head" could be on the scalp, on the ears, in the ears, in the nose, or a moustache or beard. Well, I'm making a perhaps dangerous assumption that people wouldn't cultivate extravagant eyebrows or lashes. Speaking of hair, I had a chance to catch Vince Martin live last night. His scalp is bright and shiny on top, but with mostly gray and wispy shoulder-length hair on the sides and back. He made lots of jokes about it. He gets around with the aid of a walker, but seems to be of high spirits (natural as far as I know). Said he was having a hip replacement come September so he wouldn't have to use the walker anymore. The funniest thing was his new Beltone hearing aids. They kept buzzing on him, loud enough that the microphones picked it up, and he must have tried to adjust the damned things 50 times during the show. He's now living in Virginia and has a year-old granddaughter. Aside from describing himself as a twenty-year old stuck in a sixty-year old body, his best line of teh evening was : "Kids teach you about mortality, but grandkids teach you about immortality." It was an enjoyable evening indeed.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:36 PM

Banjo Johnny is known for his distinctive flat-top with whitewalls, -- clean shaven, an ultra-sharp looking hombre.

Actually I'm glad to have any hair at all, at my age, but I think bald guys look okay too. == Johnny

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:45 PM

Ah...wonderful hair! A favorite concern of mine. When I was in my twenties I had the longest hair of anyone I knew for a time, brown, straight, parted in the middle. Check out my 24 year old photo in the resource pages.

For a while in the 80's it was kind of short.

Now it's the Bob Dylan type of wild mop, which is great fun and low maintenance. A few gray hairs coming in here and there, but it's still basically brown. Again, check the photos.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 11:22 PM

Mbo, what is she doing sitting on her chest?

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Lena
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 11:23 PM

People say I have a crisis of identity with the Thirties version of Liza Minnelli.My boss says I look jewish with my redicoulos longer locks on my face.Both my parents have curly long black hair.The freks is my little sister,who has an explosion of tiny blonde curls. I forgot:due to a very adventurous story,the second day of my life I got a white lock.It's still there.I'm very proud of it...

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:28 AM

You know Pat Riley's hair?Its not like that

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:30 AM

Lena, you got the Natalie Imbruglia look going on?

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:32 AM

When I got into chantey singing the hair on top of my head fell out, though there's hair a little lower (see picture on events thread - at Dave and Pam Swan's) and I grew a beard. This is what most chantey singers look like - balding on top and a beard. None of us looked that way before we got into this music. If I knew that was going to happen I would have chosen some other kind of music.

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Melani
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 01:02 AM

You know you've been at too many Renaissance Faires when you date men who have longer hair than you do!

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

Straight, almost to my waist, with stripes in it. (Brown and White.)

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: Bugsy
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:44 AM

Mine's Just over shoulder length, luxurious and greying.

BUT IT'S ALL COMING OFF ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 14th.

In aid of "Little Folk". A charity started by Western Australian Folkies to help the fight against Cancer in chidren.

So if any of you guys would like to Sponser me - Please send me a personal message and I will be glad to tell you where to send the money -And or course thank you on a seperate thread.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Hair- on your head not the musical!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:55 AM

I can't imagine why anyone would be interested in my coiffeur but it's pretty short, thinning on top but there's still a few gold threads among the silver. Mind you, at my wedding in 1970 I looked like Noddy Holder (though I never sang as sweetly as he did!)
:o)
RtS

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

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: 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: 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 - 08:42 AM

Tahnks a million for the advice Carol!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 12:59 PM

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

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 - 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: 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: DougR
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:13 PM

White. DougR

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

...and short. DougR