I has a haircut...

[teylaminh]

My hair = FAIL.

My hair thinks: "Gravity FTW!"

My hair says: "Products: DO NOT WANT."

Styling? "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG."

STUPID HAIR IS STUPID.

You get the idea.

I've tried product after product after product all to no avail. Supercuts-Derek used wax AND hairspray to attempt to hold the style, and it had succumbed to gravity within five minutes. I've tried "wonder wax" (which made it feel disgusting) and Bed Head texturising paste (which added texture but no structure) and out-of-bed fibre putty (did nothing) and this morning even L'Oreal 'indestructible' gel. Which my hair, of course, destructed.

The gel has worked best of everything, but apparently I need a whole tube to get it to work, if this morning is anything to go by.

But of course, as soon as I sleep on it a little weird, it gets a kink in it the size of the frelling Eiffel Tower which no amount of water, gel, wax or flattening will tame. The hair, it doth mock me.

Someone needs to invent permanent hair thinning. NOW.

The only thing which works is hair straighteners, which doesn't do me much good when it's this short other than to sort my fringe out. Apparently even my uber-barnet of hairy dooooom cannot repel 200-degree ceramic. Take THAT, you evil mass of dead skin cells! Ha!

Srsly. This is getting a little boring now. I mean, what else can I do, short of hanging upside down until the product sets?

*sulks*

Comments

[joetimewaster.livejournal.com]

After reading the first five lines my keyboard is now covered in drink via nose.

mega roffle!

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Heh, sorry. What better way to describe the unending frustration than via macro?

[miss-scooter.livejournal.com]

What are you trying to do with your hair? Spike it up?

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. Hold a style, any style, I'm not fussed. It's just too thick to do anything with and always has been, even when it's short. Being why I usually attempt it for a couple of days and then give up. :(

[miss-scooter.livejournal.com]

I've used a tonne of hairgel over the years as I used to spike my hair up!
I have very thick hair and have had problems with getting it to stand up.
What I discovered is that if, after washing it, you blow dry your hair up so that it's all fluffy but big. They put the gel in and style it up.
I stuck with L'Oreal studeo styling cream in the blue tub, but when I had my mullet style cut and wanted the back to stick out I used is Vo5 Texturising gum, which worked for me! It's hard to get off your hands though, you cant just wash it..have to scrape it with ur nails. Lol.
I have a very small amount left in the tin, that I dont have a use for. If you want it to try it you can have it.

[miss-scooter.livejournal.com]

When I say blowdry it up, I mean actually brush your hair up and back whilst you dry it so it is up in the air, all fluffy and big.

I hope this helps..even just a little :P

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

I don't have a hair dryer! They make my hair frizzy so I never got around to buying one...

I'm using L'Oreal Indestructible Gel (I have the tube and the gel spray) at the moment and that's half-working, but mostly I attribute that to not having time to mess with it much in the morning, so I tend to have to finish it off when I get to work by running wet hands through it.

I wouldn't mind a go with the VO5 stuff you have left if you don't mind, though. :)

[miss-scooter.livejournal.com]

There really isn't a great deal left but at least it's a sample of what it's like, so you dont waste your money if you don't like it.

You really should try using a hair dryer, and you can get anti frizz ones. Use the dryer, borrow one off someone and then use the gel, but you have to brush it up as you dry it to train it to stick up, and then put the gel in.

It took me years to discover how to do this and then I never went back to just putting gel in to wet hair!

I have a few tubs of gel, one that I never used and wont now that I have long hair. I might let you have that one aswell. How do you want me to send them to you or get them to you?