Parenting: 4 & 5-Year-Olds Community

Ugh...I don't have time to do my hair. My hair before kids would look presentable if I just let it dry right out of the shower. Now....I am a hot mess!!!

My sister just had the Japanese straightening done about 6 weeks ago....she takes a shower and it air dries pin straight. I think I am going to do it! It is supposed to last 9 months too....

I use to be before I embraced my gray hair and let it grow long. Now, I go once every 6 months for a trim. I use to go monthly when I colored my hair for maintenance (roots and trim) and a full coloring and cut every 3 months.

I go about every 2 months for cut /color. My hair is medium length. It is actually the one luxury that I give myself. Other stuff is just here and there thing but I have to get my hair done!
However I tend to go to the pony tail thing quite often !

My hair is long, dark brown and very straight. I style it EVERY day....but I have a long straight style and it only requires blow drying and a little work with the brush.

I've started wondering about the color. I've pulling out grays more and more frequently.....

I've thought about that straightening...but my hair grows fast and I think it would be too expensive to do too often.

I just read that "Mermaid Hair " is in this summer - yeah! Sounds like the lowest maintenance for those of us with curly hair.

Haylen

I am 30 minutes to the door too, it's always pulled back in a bun. Every once in a while I take the time to dry & flat iron it.

I am definately not high maintenance- my hair is wavy, I kept it very short for a while and was able to straiten it, but now I am growing it out and am experimenting with products so I can let it air dry- I call it my NICU hair
I can get in the shower and ready to go out the door in 20-30 minutes I would say, but my hair is wet!
Love that the mermaid look is in, because it kind of looks like that, only my hair is bob length now. In the winter letting it air dry does not work at all, my hair needs the heat and humidity!

My hair is long and thick with a slight wave to it. I normally always have it pulled back in a pony tail or a bun. I do this so often that my hair actually hurts if I try to wear it down. I don't get trims that often maybe every year if that. I usually grow my hair out and then donate it to locks of love. Right now my hair is in the middle of my back. I have a few long bangs that I will trim myself if they are too long.

I haven't ever colored my hair. I wanted to but I'm too chicken. I had a perm once and you couldn't even tell I had had one. My hair is just to thick and heavy.

my hair is fine & straight. I use gel, mousse & a little hairspray because I don;t like fly aways or it getting into my face. I don't color it but do have a few greys & get my cuts at 8-9 weeks. Just like pp haircuts are my luxury to myself plus DD goes every once in awhile too.

As a black woman, I feel I should be more high maintenace about my hair- my mom is and always has been ( she fixes her hair to go the hairdresser !) - but I am too lazy.

My hair is not super thick or coarse, so I gave up relaxing it about15 years ago- but my hair frizzes when there is any amount of humidity- and it did even when I relaxed it, so I figured why bother.

I normally wear my hair straight. It is not naturally straight- it is curly- not big beautiful curls like my son's gorgoeus hair, and not super tight curls that you can comb out into a nice 'fro either- just frizzy curls. I usually just wash it and roll it on big curlers and let it dry naturally ( I only wash it once a week- otherwise it would be too dry). Once it's dry, it's mostly straight- the rest I do with my curling irion.

When I get it cut- and the last time was sometime at the end of last summer, it was into a bob. A bob is always what I do- I like it but I lack originality and the bob is easy and doesn't look horrible even when it grows out. Plus, every hairdresser can do it without f**king up your hair!. I usually get my hair cut in late summer and early fall because fall and winter are the only times I can consistently wear it loose without needing a ponytail to control the frizz. By late spring it has usually grown out enough for my ponytail, which is usually what I wear in the summer and on rainy days. I was just thinking this morning that I was dreading ponytail season- I think I am getting way too old for this!

I hate going to the the hairdressers- it takes too long-IMO- but I ahve always liked coloring my hair. My hair is naturally very, very dark brown and boring. I go through phases- they last years, the current one being 2 1/2 years- when I will dye it constantly (every couple of months)- sometimes I get it done, mostly I do it myself. I haven't noticed too many grays over the years, only a stray one here and there, which I like because my family in general doesn't go that gray. Currently I am going for an ashy light brown in the range of my DC's beautiful colors ( DH was born a blaonde, his hair is light bronw now). However, no matter who does my coloring, it tends to shift into the orangy realm- not always in a bad way, to me, since orange is my favorite color and it goes with my skin color, but I was thinking that I'm either going to go all the way to blonde or back to normal soon. But I do like red hair, which I had when I met DH, so we'll see.

Since I don't wash my hair daily, I can get ready pretty quick-my shower cap is my friend- but I usually use my curling iron, some type of moisturizer for my hair and some antifrizz leave-in conditioner ( none of them work on my hair enough to please me). I don't use gels or hairspray since they will just build-up.

My sister and I make fun of my mom for always fixing her hair- she even tried to do it in the ICU after her heart attack- but sometimes I wish I had an urge to put more effort in it!

LOL about your mom and her hair! My mom was that way about make up - it drove her CRAZY that I didn't "put on my face" everyday. Her bathroom was fascinating as a kid - she probably had 20 different shades of make-up.

My friends (white guys) adopted a black toddler and have gone to two workshops about how to properly take care of his hair! They have all kinds of conditioners and creams and my girls always say that he smells like summer (I think it is some sort of cocoa butter product)

I have frizzy curls too - I found a great product once that make my curls bigger and glossy...then I tossed the packaging and I can't for the life of me remember what it was. The bottle was blue...sigh.

I'd love to have my hair blown out professionally every week - I feel like Marcia Brady preening in the mirror when I get it done!

H

I got really tired of messing with my hair. It was long which was high maintenance because my hair is really thick & wavy (I'm Italian & Native American so my hair is thick as rope!). I got tired of messing with it & it's just to hot & humid. So I went & got it all chopped off (well darn near!). It's super cute though with lots of layers in the back & longer in the front with an A-symmetrical cut & it drys straight but with a perfect under curl at the bottom. Now I don't have to mess with it at all. No pony tails, no blow dryers, no flat irons, no products, nothing! I love it & it suits my personality.

My mom is part native American too and her hair was long and thick when she was young. She cut it all off years ago and loves wearing it short. My sister and I have been trying for years to convince her to grow it long because we've only seen pictures f it long- she says 'no way'! She likes fixing it constantly but doesn't want to deal with so much of it.

My sisters hair is really think too and she has recently started keeping it pretty short- I thinkit suits her personality, too.

I need a workshop for black women who don't have the nappiest hair who had kids with a white guy!
My kids have such beautiful hair. But their hair is definitely more on the "white" side and thinner and finer than I really know what to do with. DS's hair is really big beautiful curls that he loves right now but will someday likely want to cut off-I think it's imposible to mess up his hair. I have actually done it myself a couple of times and he looked great, so I don't worry about him. But DD's hair is more wavy and definitely frizzier but not in the way that mine is. She doesn't need all of the products but she does need something and will need more frizz control as she gets older so I'm trying to figure that out. But she has gorgeous blondish highlights that look like I've had her hair proessionally done- people have asked even though she's only 3! I know her hair can look amazing- her teacher makes her awesome hairstyles, but sadly, she got me for a mom!LOL!!