Hats and long hair

Dawndra · #21 07/15/04, 11:28 PM

um... I think they grow in grey ... cause they are usually grey from the roots...

cloverfarm · #22 07/15/04, 11:52 PM

My gray hair seems to be gray from teh roots ... I kinda wish it would hurry up because it's WAVY!

NO idea where that came from.

I gave up on long hair last year when we had a very hot summer and milking cows on hot humid evenings was just wiping me out. DD and I both got serious hair cuts, hers for swimming and mine to give her moral support. The beautician saved DD's for Locks of Love because it's such a pretty red.

I tried super short hair but unfortunately I look like a hobbit with short styles ... so ... back to medium. (Actually with long hair I looked like Princess Fiona in Shrek, as an ogre) Now it's layered. Which makes it lighter and breezier. Before it was all one length, much heavier and trapped more heat.

Glad we've had a temperate summer here!
ann

TexCountryWoman · #23 07/16/04, 01:05 AM

I have very long baby fine straight hair. I wear a cowboy hat or a bandana. I wear a braid or a loose pony tail and never get head aches with my hat. I am just not a "bun" person. I also have a vey nice sombrero with chin string for windy days. I have had every hair style and color their is, but I am back to my real self with the long hair....yes it's turning white....and of a different texture. I quit coloring it several years ago. I love the new color. Me.

cowboy joe · #24 07/16/04, 05:21 AM

Blu3duk is right...almost as many guys here with pony tails as gals. For what it's worth...I usually wear a western hat with a bandana underneath...the bandana keeps my hair from bunching up and getting caught on things...

Good luck...hate to see you shave your head!

MelissaW · #25 07/16/04, 05:43 AM

I wear a cloth fishing hat (ala grumpy old men) with two braided pigtails. I don't know how those of you who cut your very long hair off mustered up the courage! Mine is practically a seperate entity! We've been friends for so long, I can't bare to part with it :haha: !

frontiergal · #26 07/16/04, 07:19 AM

Here are many head coverings including snoods
http://www.headcoverings.com/CoveringsOrder3Snoods.htm

cloverfarm · #27 07/16/04, 07:31 AM

It was definitely an adjustment.

Ann

mygrayfarm · #28 07/16/04, 07:39 AM

I used to have short hair, but now it's long so I can pull it back when I'm working with the animals. I brush it straight back from my forehead - spray it so the wisps stay down - and plunk a straw hat on my head. The hair spray (White Rain is cheap and holds like a champ) seems to keep the hair back as well as a ponytail and it pretty much stays put with the hat on/hat off action.

Of course, it takes a little doing to coax it out of "hat-head' mode when i'm back indoors...

Phantomfyre · #29 07/16/04, 07:49 AM

Melissa, cutting it off isn't that scary. Really!

Because all I ever did with mine was pull it back, it was breaking off, and little by little, my ponytail started looking really pathetic. Just a rat's tail hanging down my back. Yuck! That's what finally did it for me. I had been trying to muster up the courage to cut it for years. I was in a dressing room trying on some pants, and looked in the angled mirror that lets you see your behind, and I was MORTIFIED by how scrawny my ponytail was.

So I went on the 'net, searched for a style that I liked and that I thought would work with my hairtype, printed out the picture, took it to a hair place and said, "Like this!"

Best hair decision I've ever made. I love it. It's not terribly short - longer in the front and shorter in the back, (at the nape of my neck), so I can pull the front back into a clip if I want, or just slap a hat on. And if I do want to style it, it doesn't take long.

However, if you're not convinced, I sometimes used a baseball cap with a velcro adjustment strap. Much easier to adjust and put on/take off the hat with a ponytail. Just undo the velcro.

Diana

Jena · #30 07/16/04, 10:00 AM

I did cut all my hair off once...when I was 18. I hated it and it let it grow back.

When I left the place, I about broke my neck turning to look for traffic...no hair weight to slow it down!

On the good side...I never got it stuck in car doors or windows, my husband didn't end up laying on it in bed, thus trapping me in the middle of the night and all those long hairs that I find all over the house disappeared.

Jena

Dawndra · #31 07/16/04, 01:26 PM

My husband swears that I sit at home all day & knit my long hairs into his clothing... hehe.. he really hates to find a long red hair in his nether regions... but wouldn't have me any other way!

cloverfarm · #32 07/16/04, 01:36 PM

Oh, ow ... I forgot about shutting it in the car door. And I forgot about long hair clogging the bath tub drains. After I got it cut, DH was like

which surprised me. I didn't think he had an opinion. Actually he might have been too polite to say what he really thought. :haha:

Ann

big rockpile · #33 07/16/04, 06:18 PM

I cut mine after I was working on a Truck and while I was crawling under it,it kept pulling,then when I got through it was full of Grease.

All my little Girlfriends at the time just :waa: :haha:

big rockpile

Cyngbaeld · #34 07/16/04, 07:30 PM

Ever catch it in the ceiling fan? OWWWWHHH!!! :haha:

:haha:

#35 07/16/04, 07:55 PM

Didn't Jeff Foxworthy have a redneck joke about big hair getting caught in the ceiling fan?!

Just kidding!!

#36 07/16/04, 07:57 PM

Sorry, I wasn't signed in.

Christine

Cyngbaeld · #37 07/16/04, 09:43 PM

Christine, I don't have 'big hair', nor am I a 'red neck', I'll have you to know I have 8 yrs of university under my collar. :haha: :haha:
At the time my hair was below my knees and I would brush it into a pony tail, clip it and braid it while bending forward. And one day when I stood back up it flipped too high. I was always a bit more careful after that.

MelissaW · #38 07/17/04, 03:22 PM

These stories about getting hair stuck are too funny! I once shut mine in the SUNROOF of the car! I guess the wind sort of blew it up there! And the places where we find that long hair! Oh dear, I wish I could tell the story about what happened when the cat accidentally swallowed one of my hairs, but it's just to gross to share!

soulsurvivor · #39 07/17/04, 03:37 PM

I guess long hair is kinda gross. I hold over the big trash can when I brush it out just to catch the hair that comes out. I have a good crop of hair but lose a lot too. I can't stand to have it on the floor cause one hair would trip an old person.

cloverfarm · #40 07/17/04, 04:25 PM

FWIW -- my mom said she thought something was wrong when she suddenly started to find a lot of my hair in the bath tub drain. Turns out I had thyroid problems.

Ann