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halimede

The hair post.

Jun 08, 2004 13:45

Hair post, as promised to trickofthedarkFirst up, my number one definition of great hair is healthy hair, be it fine, thick, wavy, curly or straight as a board. Obviously if you like the teased up, heavily hair-sprayed look your mileage may vary, and that's fine. But the silken cascade of flowing tresses thing (think Mary Sue) is what my hair tips and tricks are ( Read more... )

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ihearthings_ii June 8 2004, 06:26:13 UTC

wooooo! you know, this post comes right after i've decided to grow my hair out again - you have great timing! thanks!

halimede June 8 2004, 06:34:26 UTC

Coolness! Check out the styling station and Madeleine's twisted pages for inspiration on what to do when it's long enough.

Styling station:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/242462
Madeleine's twisted pages:
http://www.haarkram.e-something.de/start.html

ihearthings_ii June 8 2004, 07:20:42 UTC

coolness. thank you! I had waist long hair in high school and chopped it all off - wow, that's two years ago, actually it was like, maybe 5 cm long all over, but I love my hair long, so...

snowgrouse June 8 2004, 06:32:26 UTC

Good stuff, thanks! I always go for a drying shampoo just because my hair gets so damn greasy all the time, so I'm intrigued by the bit that says it *causes* greasiness! Interesting:). I haven't yet found a conditioning shampoo that wouldn't muck my hair up, though. Should do some oiling soon...

halimede June 8 2004, 06:42:49 UTC

There was a whole bit on the living nature site about this. I looked for it when I wrote this post, but couldn't find it now. I think they reorganised all their info, and... Can't find it anymore.

Conditioner tends not to work so well for me either, but the oil is great --now I'm getting the hang of not too little and not too much. *g*

Oh, BTW, remember how I used to mix my henna with grapefruit juice? I've gone back to orange juice, because grapefruit seems to leave my hair more brittle than orange. Could be the enzymes in grapefruit juice or something. I seem to remember you didn't use grapefruit juice, but I thought I'd let you know anyway.

snowgrouse June 8 2004, 06:50:44 UTC

I used grapefruit juice once, methinks. I mostly use lemon and orange juice and hot water though. Vinegar never worked to release the tannins properly, grr. I just got a huge bag of unknown brand henna, will have to see how it behaves as I usually use Dulhan.

zaneetas June 8 2004, 07:22:41 UTC

This is awesome! Thanks for all the interesting information.

Combing or brushing it only when dry helps keep it undamaged. I bet this is why I had such nice hair as a kid: I hated the snarly, snagging feeling of pulling a comb or brush through my hair when it was wet.

Heh. I was always the exact opposite growing up -- I loved how straight my hair was when it was wet and being able to brush it without worrying that it was going frizz out on me was great. Plus, they always seem to show models lovingly brushing out their wet hair on commercials -- yet more proof that tv is eeevil, I guess.

It's also interesting to read that since -- if I don't comb my hair when it's wet -- it seems to instantaneously solidify into a impenetrable mass of knots and curls and I worry I'm doing more damage to my hair by having to untangle all that when it's dry then just combing it wet. Hmm. Seems like I'll have to come up with another plan for solving that problem now.

halimede June 8 2004, 07:38:11 UTC

Yeah, curly hair might be a slightly different story. I hear some people have success with 'finger combing' when it's wet, with or without conditioner. Me, I seem to pull it out when I do that. My wide-toothed horn comb is great, though. Hey, I'm going to another craft fair in September, this one was about four euros. You want me to check if they've got another slightly damaged one for cheap that I could send to you? You'll have to kick me around that time so I don't forget, but I'm going anyway, so it would be no trouble to look. Anyway, back on track, check out the long hair loom for more stuff for curly hair. There are different collections of tips and tricks up there, everybody does something else, there's bound to be something that works. :)

Oh! And my husbands (fairly short) curly hair seems less tangly with regular henna masks (he leaves them on only a short time, but it does dye a little bit) and I think senna might have a similar effect. Oils also help, but yeah, you'd probably want to comb those through when wet too. :)

zaneetas June 9 2004, 10:17:27 UTC

I tried a vinegar rinse last night and finger-combing. Now I have seemingly less frizzy, if a little tangly hair. :)

My wide-toothed horn comb is great, though. Hey, I'm going to another craft fair in September, this one was about four euros. You want me to check if they've got another slightly damaged one for cheap that I could send to you?

That would be so excellent, thanks for offering! I'll try and make sure to send you a reminder later in the summer...

Oh! And my husbands (fairly short) curly hair seems less tangly with regular henna masks (he leaves them on only a short time, but it does dye a little bit) and I think senna might have a similar effect.I've never thought much about using henna before -- mainly because I just assumed that it was used more as a reddish dye than as a conditioning product. And since I have red hair anyway -- yeah, red and curly. It's easy to see why Little Orphan Annie was the easiest Halloween costume ever for me growing up -- I just didn't give it a second thought ( ... )

halimede June 10 2004, 01:28:46 UTC

Cool! Maybe you could finger comb first, and then gently tackle the tangly bits with a comb? I'd be happy to bring you back a comb, so yay. :)
BTW, I can go on and on for hours about henna, (and henna mixes, like with indigo for black) as noticed, and so did many people before her. I know people who dye red hair with henna, and the color does change, usually it becomes darker I think. You might want to ask about it on the henna forum. Senna is a good neutral conditioner, and sometimes henna can be cajoled into giving very little stain, if color change is not what your after. But Senna (Cassia Obovata) is probably easier (Senna that's Cassia Angustafolia has some yellow pigments, so test a strand collected from brush/comb/showerdrain --in fact, that's prudent anyway).

ephemera June 8 2004, 07:44:52 UTC

*beams ( ... )

halimede June 8 2004, 08:18:57 UTC

Dude! That's a nice length indeed. :)
Also, whoohoo! Another hair geek. *g* (I friended hairbunniez too, BTW, lovely stuff.)

I'm thinking at some point I'll have to do a hairtoys post too, including a how to on sticks and forks, but I'm still composing the Epic Joey Rant in my head too, so I'm not promising that I'll do it soon... I've got a few wooden sticks, and a horn pin and a horn french twist comb. Bunjiis are great too (I've got two (that I got for free for being first customer) for that pigtail look ( ... )

dragovianknight June 8 2004, 10:57:35 UTC

Okay, I do dye my hair black, so now I must know more about this henna/indigo layering thing. Website?

halimede June 8 2004, 14:58:40 UTC

Basic info about indigo here, specifics about dyeing here, and more tips from me, here (there's very practical stuff in the comments. One WARNING: henna is acidic, commercial hair dye is alkaline. Hennaing too soon after dyeing can fry hair (and vice versa). A safe way to find out if things have cooled down enough to switch is to collect hair from brush/comb/shower drain and dye that. If it fries or goes green, you know you have to wait a little longer. If it goes glossy, silky, raven black, bingo!

The hennaforhair.com forum also quite a few posts about peoples results and troubleshooting and the like.

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rusty76 June 8 2004, 07:54:41 UTC

Fascinating! I've got medium longish hair (right between my shoulderblades) and have problems with oiliness and frizzies both. I'll have to try some of these things...

halimede June 8 2004, 08:21:09 UTC

Cool. I'd love to hear if it helped at all. :)