The Worst hairstyle you ever had
90’s bowl cut (Mushroom) back in high school
shareThat mullet I had for a short time made me look like a working class Aussie from the 70's or 80's. Think Mad Max.
shareI also had a mullet back in the 80, at its longest it reached my waist (but only if you pulled it straight, I have curly hair).
It started as a rat tail in my youth.
..Nothing I hate more than a rat tail.
shareCurly, or even wavy hair, both tend to spring up, thereby making the length look shorter than it actually is. My hair, which is very curly, goes into these sort of long ringlets that now go down to just below my shoulders, but, if they're pulled down straight, they go down to my waist.
When I was a baby, I had short ringlets around my head, and wore it very short as a small child. In transition, first, second and third grade, I wore my hair, which was then quite long, in two braided pigtails. At the end of third grade and fourth grade, and through the summer of 1961, when we all went abroad for several months, I had short hair, and in fifth, sixth and seventh grade, had it medium length, and wore two shorter pigtails.
In the summer before entering 8th grade, I was forced to cut it short, as always, and then I was adamant about growing it out again, despite my mom giving me a hard time. All through high school, I had longish hair, which I set on jumbo-sized plastic rollers to straighten it after shampooing it once a week, since long, straight hair was in fashion during the mid to late 1960's, when I attended high school. At the end of my Senior year, I experimented with having sort of a bob, which didn't work out very well, and in the fall of 1969, I had short hair once again. In the spring of 1970, my hair was then medium-length, and I decided, despite suggestions from people to get a little afro, to grow it long. I've kept it long since. Even at my last job, some people thought that I should cut my hair short. I told them to mind their own business (which got me called in by the boss of my department.), and they sullenly decided not to hassle me any longer.
Yeah I think mine qualifies more for "wavy," which it starts to do if I go too long between haircuts now. The spirals in my long hair would probably have an inner diameter of an inch or more, like if I let one hair curl up by itself on a tabletop to measure it.
I'm getting the impression your hair is probably a tighter curl, would that be right?
Yup. My hair's a tighter curl than yours, but it's not this really kinky-curly type of hair that some people have. My hair goes into these long corkscrew curls, which I like.
shareAlso, many people, including myself, know more about how to deal with really curly hair than they did when I was growing up. Curly hair (and I'm sure, to an extent, wavy hair, as well--correct me if I'm wrong.) tends to be drier, since the hair shaft of curly hair is more ribbon-shaped, and therefore, unlike straight hair, misses the distribution of the natural oils of the scalp down the hair shaft.
In her pre-teen and young teen years, my sister's hair, which was mousy-brown, was as straight as they come. When she got up into her teens, she'd constantly complain about how oily her hair was, and about how she'd have to wash it every two days. One day, when she, mom and myself were embroiled in a discussion about hair, my sister complained "There's so much that you can do for dry hair." The more I think about it, the more I think that my younger sister had a point; it's way easier to add extra oils and/or creams to dry hair, but removing excessive oil from hair that tends to be quite oily can be virtually, if not downright impossible.
Frequent shampooing has been found to stimulate the sebaceous glands in the scalp to produce even more oil, which, for a person with very oily hair, can be even tougher, if one gets the drift. it's a vicious circle.
Yeah that's interesting. Like most things, there is an up side and a down side.
I've always thought it would be better to have straighter hair, which is why I keep it so short now, but I would NOT want it to be more oily.
Maybe I'm better off with what I have.
Back in the mid to late-1960's, when I attended high school, straight hair, especially long, straight hair, was in fashion. One night, after I'd used a home-straightening product called "Curl-Free", when the family was sitting down to dinner, my dad pointed out, "You don't follow certain styles and patterns. You make the best of what you have, and make it attractive."
What dad meant by this was pretty obvious: He would've preferred me to wear my hair very short--and close-cropped, which I refused to do. Now that I'm a lot older, however, I do see dad's point, but I can still have long, naturally curly hair and still make it attractive. The people who used to say to me "Oh, Miki! You have beautiful hair! It's not meant for having long." were too entrenched in their own agendas and ideas of how curly hair should be worn.