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viktuuridance:
@bomberqueen17 replied to your photoset: noo yair noo hair! well, same hair, with the usual…
i’m gonna cut my hair in a minute too! not much but just a little bit off the end. by myself, in the sink. :)
best way to get haircuts, right? i haven’t paid for a haircut in like… four years, probably, because when i started getting vague genderfeels i couldn’t really find a stylist who would make my hair unfeminine in the ways i wanted, so i made do. i could probably find someplace now, but it turns out i really like the way i can make my own hair look, a lot better than i’ve ever liked how other people think my hair should look. and it’s free!
on the other hand shaving my sides has somehow made my top-hair thicker, or at least made me aware of how thick it is, and i’ve spent the last four months whining to SO about how i have so much fucking hair, what the hell. so, chop!
I have a combination of reasons that I don’t go to a hairdresser, total lack of executive function when it comes to making appointments or leaving the house as like, #1. But since I decided at 14 to grow my hair out, I’ve realized that hairdressers really really really don’t know what to do with very long hair, like, at all. It’s been more or less long enough to sit on since about 1996, and invariably they try to handle it like shoulder-length hair– dunk it in the sink, swish it around, yank a plastic-toothed brush through it starting at the roots. Holy shit. My mom hated combing my hair and still did better than that.
I went in for a “trim” in 2003, “please just take a couple inches off, just the dead ends” and she was like “sure” and cut off about a foot. I was horrified.
I’ve been back one time, because a derby teammate was a hairdresser, and I got eleven inches cut off on purpose, because she could donate it. My dude and I did it together, and she packaged them up and they matched, it was very cute. I don’t even care where she donated it.
(With hair that long you can’t sit in the hairdresser’s chair, you have to stand up for them to cut it. What’s the point if you can’t sit in the comfy chair??)
Apart from that, though– I know they’re professionals, but they’ve never seen hair like mine, so I do a better job, and it’s free, and I don’t have to have pants on. The scissors were ten dollars and I got them at the grocery store. I trim when my hair starts having tangling problems.
(I have the easiest hair in the world to work with. It’s flat thin fine straight white lady hair. It takes zero skill to know how to brush hair like that. It’s amazing.)
(I have like, no hair. I don’t dare do an undercut or anything because first off it’s like 45 inches long and would take forever to grow back, and second off, as it is I have the thinnest pigtails ever, I can’t imagine having *less* hair in it.)
(I should buy myself some false hair so that I have enough to do Princess Leia styles, in her memory. But they don’t make false hair in the length I need; most of it’s ~27 inches long, and I need at least 40 to blend it in. Maybe I can just braid ribbons in to bulk it up and do the crown braid style… The cinnamon buns look like a pain in the ass so I probably won’t bother with them.)
viktuuridance:
@bomberqueen17 replied to your photoset: noo yair noo hair! well, same hair, with the usual…
i’m gonna cut my hair in a minute too! not much but just a little bit off the end. by myself, in the sink. :)
best way to get haircuts, right? i haven’t paid for a haircut in like… four years, probably, because when i started getting vague genderfeels i couldn’t really find a stylist who would make my hair unfeminine in the ways i wanted, so i made do. i could probably find someplace now, but it turns out i really like the way i can make my own hair look, a lot better than i’ve ever liked how other people think my hair should look. and it’s free!
on the other hand shaving my sides has somehow made my top-hair thicker, or at least made me aware of how thick it is, and i’ve spent the last four months whining to SO about how i have so much fucking hair, what the hell. so, chop!
I have a combination of reasons that I don’t go to a hairdresser, total lack of executive function when it comes to making appointments or leaving the house as like, #1. But since I decided at 14 to grow my hair out, I’ve realized that hairdressers really really really don’t know what to do with very long hair, like, at all. It’s been more or less long enough to sit on since about 1996, and invariably they try to handle it like shoulder-length hair– dunk it in the sink, swish it around, yank a plastic-toothed brush through it starting at the roots. Holy shit. My mom hated combing my hair and still did better than that.
I went in for a “trim” in 2003, “please just take a couple inches off, just the dead ends” and she was like “sure” and cut off about a foot. I was horrified.
I’ve been back one time, because a derby teammate was a hairdresser, and I got eleven inches cut off on purpose, because she could donate it. My dude and I did it together, and she packaged them up and they matched, it was very cute. I don’t even care where she donated it.
(With hair that long you can’t sit in the hairdresser’s chair, you have to stand up for them to cut it. What’s the point if you can’t sit in the comfy chair??)
Apart from that, though– I know they’re professionals, but they’ve never seen hair like mine, so I do a better job, and it’s free, and I don’t have to have pants on. The scissors were ten dollars and I got them at the grocery store. I trim when my hair starts having tangling problems.
(I have the easiest hair in the world to work with. It’s flat thin fine straight white lady hair. It takes zero skill to know how to brush hair like that. It’s amazing.)
(I have like, no hair. I don’t dare do an undercut or anything because first off it’s like 45 inches long and would take forever to grow back, and second off, as it is I have the thinnest pigtails ever, I can’t imagine having *less* hair in it.)
(I should buy myself some false hair so that I have enough to do Princess Leia styles, in her memory. But they don’t make false hair in the length I need; most of it’s ~27 inches long, and I need at least 40 to blend it in. Maybe I can just braid ribbons in to bulk it up and do the crown braid style… The cinnamon buns look like a pain in the ass so I probably won’t bother with them.)
