General Chat

I just can't believe my luck.

The step has grown out of my bob but , other than that, it has pretty much kept it's shape and just got bigger.

Mine is silvery and usually short like Judi's too, Ann, but it grows very quickly. I have not seen my hairdresser for 13 months now although we have spoken.

I don't bother doing anything with it for my Zoom dance class because by the end it is sticking to me with perspiration. :-0

Mine is usually very short (think Judi Dench), very silvery, with 3 colours of lowlights in the top. It hasn't been cut for 14 weeks now instead of the usual 7 weeks. I now have long mutton chop sideburns with wings above that stick out sideways so I look like Maureen Lipman. The top and back are full of Marcel waves with bits sticking out and it's down to my collar. When I do my courses on Zoom I plaster it down with water and use some old hairgrips at the side and stick a stretchy band on to hold it back if that fails. I have already booked my next hair appointment for the day after they open again on the 12th April. The state it's in I wouldn't be surprised if they charged me extra for a 'restyle'.

I am very happy with it as it is now out of my face.

This is the fourth time that I've cut the front and sides since last March but this time I have ventured to layer it. I have let OH cut the back three times but when he went wild with his new clippers the last time, I have let the back grow again and it is curling on my shoulders.

OH offered a fourth time but I was not game to let him loose again! :-0

JoyLouise, the reason my sister is 'commissioned' to cut my hair, is because, when I was 12, she was 17, and we were both, sober, I let her cut my hair - and she gave me a mullet!

I've never forgiven her, so the alcohol (provided by her) and the hair cuts now, are 'payback'! :-D :-D :-D

I now have a mullet. :-D

:-D :-D Maggie

Ann, years ago (well, 25 years ago) when I was at Uni, I had very long hair, which I wore in a French Plait.
I treated myself to a professional hair dye and miniscule trim at 'Toni & Guy'.
They took my plait out, washed my hair, dyed it, trimmed it - and that was that!

Apparently, putting it back as it was, was 'styling'. :-|

So, I stood in the huge window, and very slowly, (it normally took me 3 minutes at home, I took at least 15 minutes in the window), put the plait back.
Then I paid - and didn't tip!

I should be able to get mine cut in a couple of weeks when they open up again....not a moment too soon.

My hair's usually (all being well) a chin length bob with a bit of 'long' layering - 'all being well' refers to how much vino my sister - who cuts my hair - and I have had. :-D

It was last cut in June, I think.
Now, I usually put it in a French plait when I go out, as I hate my - very fine, but lots of it - hair over my face.
The layers are long enough to be gathered with the longer bits.
It's quite a short plait, so I tuck it under and secure it with a grip.

I haven't dyed my hair for 15 years, and I love the colour.
So does my new neighbour, who, after introducing herself, asked what hair colourant I used! :-S
Had to admit, it's just jet black hair gone silver! :-D

Me too, Sylvia. It always felt rather swish.

I have tried to do one since lockdown but in the end I've let OH cut the back of my once-layered hair three times since last March . As you both say, layers make it nigh-on impossible to get a neat, smooth French pleat, as we called them.

It is back on my shoulders again and this week I have been sorely tempted to scoop it into bunches and just chop it off. OH has 'kindly' offered to get his clippers out again - which was one of the reasons I stopped letting him cut it! :-0

Sylvia, the shorter layers might end up wispy out of the pleat. It has to be smooth to look good. I have not seen anyone with a pleat for years, wonder if hairdressers are even trained to do them. Very elegant

Ann ...... I used to be able to put my hair in a French pleat back in the 60s.

I was thinking the other night of trying to do one again, except that my hair was layered as usual when I had it cut last August, so it might not be so easy to the pleat!

Who has nicked my hair net? :-0

My hair is absolutely disgraceful. It's not been professionally cut since a year ago last January:-0

OH was cutting the bottom of my hair during the first wave of this crisis, while I cut the sides and fringe. But since his stroke it's just the fringe that's been cut.

Will be hitting the hairdressers once I've had my 2nd jab! :-D

:-D In the late 50s I did sometimes have my hair in a French Pleat but it is so thick it took for ever to do.

We’ll all be back to 1940s scarves on our heads soon ;-)

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/802837071046999168/

Von My hair was very short and is now all over the place!!

I agree with Ann in Glos. My hair was just all one length and resting on my shoulders

this time last year. It’s now several inches longer but I’ve decided to keep it like this for

a bit longer. Much easier to manage. :-D

I am a double for Worzel Gummidge :-D :-D :-D