Shoot the Wall (A.K.A. The Rant Thread)

[Carol the Dabbler]

Oh, you have my sympathy!  My hair used to do the same thing, which is why it's now too short to tangle.

[Hikari]

17 hours ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

When mine was long, I would often go for months between shampoos, because washing it was such a hassle.  There wasn't much oil buildup because I have very dry skin and hair (but still...).  Now that it's short, I wash it far more often (every few weeks, which is just about right).

Wow, I can't even imagine this . . months between shampoos?  You ladies must save a crapload of money on hair products.  I have baby fine short hair and I wash it every day.  Sometimes twice a day, if it's been very hot or I have been swimming.  I wish I didn't have to, but it's non-negotiable.  After sleeping, with a headful of hair product, I wake up and it looks like a matted dog.  My hat's off to you for not putting harmful phosphates into the water table, but dry skin or no . .doesn't your head start to smell after several days?  My hair absorbs every smell that I pass through in the course of the day.  Overlaid on top of the mousse and hair spray my hair texture forces me to use, is aroma of any restaurant I've entered that day, (Subway, or Thai food, cigarette smoke, etc.) 

Going for months without a shampoo and still looking decent is a superpower I can't even conceive of . . but my hair is like candy floss.  Sometimes I wonder if shaving my head altogether wouldn't be the way to go.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Believe me, I've considered shaving it all off!  (And if Alex hadn't objected so strenuously, I might have given it a try.)  But then you gotta *keep* shaving your head, so maybe it's not quite the time-saver that you'd think.

I know exactly what you mean about your hair, though.  Alex has hair like that, and (even though he uses nothing on it except shampoo and rinse-out conditioner) if he skips even one day of shampooing, he could style it into a Presley 'do with no need for added oil.

I've never noticed odor being a problem.  Of course I can't stick my nose into my own hair nowadays, but when it was long, any restaurant odors seemed to dissipate overnight (just as with the clothing that I'd worn to the restaurant and then hung up to air out).

Not saying that my hair looked its absolute best after a few months, but nobody (friends, husband, et al.) ever said anything about it.  Mostly my scalp would get itchy, and after putting up with that for a while, I'd finally get around to the ordeal of shampooing.  Nowadays I try to wash it every few weeks.  My stylist and I have worked out a cut that works really well with that regimen.

[Pseudonym]

I wash mine probably three times in two weeks. I use dry shampoo after a few days. And agree on shaving - very tempting, but last year I had an undercut, and it was a complete pain to keep getting shaved because it grew out so fast. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I tried dry shampoo once, but all it did was make my hair feel dirty.  What is it supposed to do, absorb excess oil?  If so, no wonder it didn't do anything for me!

[T.o.b.y]

Pseudonym, I feel for you but at least you have made me feel better about not having the curly hair I always wanted. Mine is straight and fine and boring but at least easy to brush. 

If I don't wash it with shampoo every day, it looks disgusting and I feel terrible and grungy. I used to use conditioner as well but now I have switched to a special oil that I just have to rub into the tips after I get out of the shower and that works just as well if not better and saves me time and water. 

I neither blow-dry nor style. I go to bed with wet hair and braid it in the morning or put it up in a bun. It's really long right now because I haven't gotten round to having it cut in ages and I must say, it's really no trouble at all. 

The last time I had short hair was when I went to elementary school. In many ways, long hair seems easier to take care of. 

[Pseudonym]

Yup, absorbs oil, takes away any iffy smells. 

Even though it's more of a pain to wash, at least when it's longer I can do that too - chuck it in a bun or french braid it. Going to bed with it wet is impossible though, it will just be one huge giant knot when I wake up. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

When mine was long, I had to keep it braided or at least tied back, or it'd be all puffed up and tangled.  In particular, I couldn't drive with it down, because it blocked my peripheral vision so that I couldn't see to the side without actually turning my head.  Minimally, I had to braid the sides, and that was one of my dress-up styles (with the other being putting it all into two braids and wrapping them around my head).

I love the look of long, loose hair, but could never wear mine that way. 

[Artemis]

On 5/21/2018 at 2:22 PM, T.o.b.y said:

Pseudonym, I feel for you but at least you have made me feel better about not having the curly hair I always wanted. Mine is straight and fine and boring but at least easy to brush. 

If I don't wash it with shampoo every day, it looks disgusting and I feel terrible and grungy. I used to use conditioner as well but now I have switched to a special oil that I just have to rub into the tips after I get out of the shower and that works just as well if not better and saves me time and water. 

I neither blow-dry nor style. I go to bed with wet hair and braid it in the morning or put it up in a bun. It's really long right now because I haven't gotten round to having it cut in ages and I must say, it's really no trouble at all. 

The last time I had short hair was when I went to elementary school. In many ways, long hair seems easier to take care of. 

^ Ditto to the above.

I'm still jealous of you lot who don't need to wash your hair at least every other day.  No fair.

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

2 hours ago, Artemis said:

I'm still jealous of you lot who don't need to wash your hair at least every other day.  No fair.

If it's any consolation, your hair probably looks better than mine ever does.  Mine is very stubborn and absolutely cannot be styled, so I have to just work with it.  I'm a bit jealous of people who can make their hair *do* things, and also of Asian women with long straight black hair that swings when they walk.

[Artemis]

5 minutes ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

Mine is very stubborn and absolutely cannot be styled, so I have to just work with it.  I'm a bit jealous of people who can make their hair *do* things, and also of Asian women with long straight black hair that swings when they walk.

^ Same, though.  I can't style my hair for anything.  It's too heavy, it won't hold one.  Neither curlers nor hairspray nor clips wield any power over the unrelenting weight of my hair.

 

 

[Pseudonym]

Mine won't hold a curl I try to put in it either - it'll do it's own crazy thing, but try to get neat pretty curls? Nope. I straightened it last night because I have a busy morning and no time to fuss with it, and it's gone weirdly puffy. :S

In glancing at headlines over the last two days I've seen two horrible animal cruelty articles pop up. Didn't click on them but just the titles were bad enough.

[Pseudonym]

There's a bloke on one of my other forums who's going on about how delicious the black pudding he had for breakfast was. I don't know how anyone can eat it, it's a sausage made mostly out of blood.  I'm mostly vegetarian, so most meat makes me a bit squeamish, but blood pudding?! 

[T.o.b.y]

... And mine is too slippery. Pins, barettes, whatever, they just slide right out. I can't "do" anything with mine either despite the length. Just a simple braid or a bun and for the bun I need one particular kind of clip that is mostly marketed to little girls and therefore comes in either pink or purple with little satin flowers on it. Very professional looking. 

[T.o.b.y]

5 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

There's a bloke on one of my other forums who's going on about how delicious the black pudding he had for breakfast was. I don't know how anyone can eat it, it's a sausage made mostly out of blood.  I'm mostly vegetarian, so most meat makes me a bit squeamish, but blood pudding?! 

I am funny that way, it makes little difference to me what body parts are being eaten. I don't find liver, lung, blood etc inherently more disgusting than muscle tissue. It's all equally weird and off-putting when I think about it too hard. 

[Pseudonym]

I just find it all gross. 

[Artemis]

7 hours ago, T.o.b.y said:

... And mine is too slippery. Pins, barettes, whatever, they just slide right out. I can't "do" anything with mine either despite the length. Just a simple braid or a bun and for the bun I need one particular kind of clip that is mostly marketed to little girls and therefore comes in either pink or purple with little satin flowers on it. Very professional looking. 

^ Same here too, mine's too slick and fine.  I wish so much I could get that voluminous wind-tossed look that some people have, but no-can-do.    I can do a braid or a bun, and that's it.  And I too can only do the bun with one particular kind of clip.  No other clip will work, only that one.  Luckily for me though, it also comes in black and clear, lol.

 

 

[Artemis]

I saw this and was reminded of the hair discussion in this thread.

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When your hair is wavy/curly sometimes there is a fine line between "messy romantic waves" and "evil witch who lives in the woods."

 

 

 

[Pseudonym]

Wouldn’t call Loki’s hair romantic waves, it’s mostly straight! But it’s definitely a good point.

Sherlock’s hair amuses me in ASIP, after whipping that corpse it’s definitely taken on a bushy look, but then when he meets John in the lab it’s back to being coiffed. He’s definitely nipped into the toilets and put some water in it to sort it out. 😆

[Artemis]

I would call it wavy (at least in "The Dark World" and "Ragnarok"), but in either case it was reminding me of all the hair discussions I've seen here.    I don't think there's any scene in which I thought Sherlock's hair looked too messy, lol.  In fact in TAB I thought it looked too neat.  I was sad to see his hair all flattened and slicked back.

 

 

[Pseudonym]

Not messy, just fluffy, the way curly hair goes the second you dare move the wrong way.

[Artemis]

Is that a bad thing though?    I think I like fluffy, lol.

My dad has curly hair that he's always complaining about how fluffy/poofy/something-or-other it looks, and I can never see what he's talking about because I always think it looks nice, lol.

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Two consecutive posts:

On 5/23/2018 at 9:49 AM, Pseudonym said:

There's a bloke on one of my other forums who's going on about how delicious the black pudding he had for breakfast was. I don't know how anyone can eat it, it's a sausage made mostly out of blood.  I'm mostly vegetarian, so most meat makes me a bit squeamish, but blood pudding?! 

 

22 hours ago, T.o.b.y said:

... And mine is too slippery. Pins, barettes, whatever, they just slide right out.

I find that large snack-bag clamps will hold fairly well in blood pudding.

One of my co-workers (a devout Catholic) was saying how much she enjoyed blood pudding, so of course several of us had to mess with her head by pointing out that according to the Bible (the book of Acts, I believe) Christians are forbidden to eat blood.  Dunno if she was ever able to enjoy it again.  (I feel almost ashamed of myself.)

[Pseudonym]

 

8 minutes ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

I find that large snack-bag clamps will hold fairly well in blood pudding.

Is that mean to say clamps will hold in hair? I hope so...

[Sheerluck]

On 5/23/2018 at 9:49 AM, Pseudonym said:

There's a bloke on one of my other forums who's going on about how delicious the black pudding he had for breakfast was. I don't know how anyone can eat it, it's a sausage made mostly out of blood.  I'm mostly vegetarian, so most meat makes me a bit squeamish, but blood pudding?! 

Sorry, I have to agree that black pudding is lovely. I'm not a huge meat eater, but I do love offal. Steak and kidney pud, faggots, sweetmeats, and even haggis.