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The left and right sides of my hair look completely different. They have a different shape. The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is having always slept on my right side for years. For the past few months, though, there hasn't been a pattern to my sleeping positions.
Anyway, I think my left side (your right) looks good, but not my right side (your left). Would straightening my hair be a good idea? This is very frustrating.
I think it doesnt look all that bad, it kind looks like to me your hair is shifted in a direction, and if i just walked up and saw you i doubt id even notice it was, Definently dont straighten your hair, i ruined my hair last year because i straightened it, and i really regret it my hair is very frizzy,prickly, and im possibly thinning, though i think that has to do with somthing else...anyway i guess you could try just sleeping on that side and maybe it will even out for ya, but imho your hair looks excellent
HAH! I have the same problem. The left side and right side rarely look the same.
I actually think the side I part my hair on tends to lay better. I fight it by blow drying (GASP!) and just kind of doing what I can with it. Using a hair straightener is really bad for your hair. I had been using a straightening brush (it's like a double brush that closes around your hair) with the hair dryer, but I didn't like how many hairs it pulled out, so now I just dry it, and brush it with my hand, and then do the sides the best I can with a brush.
I just realised that on my left side, my hair is for the most part all the same length. On the right, it flips up and out like that because it's shorter on the outside than on the inside. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to wait until when it's long enough so that I'm comfortable with getting a trim to make the length even. At least it won't be as big of a deal when it's past shoulder length.
And thanks, guys, for stopping me from straightening it.
I get my haircut about every 8 weeks. It's important to get the ends snipped, because it takes care of split ends, and also can help stimulate growth. It also keeps it even and balanced.
I usually just have her tap the ends, but a couple times I've had to have a couple inches taken off the back to try and keep the back and sides fairly even.
Even though you don't want to hinder your growth, isn't it better to take some off and even it out, then to have it look unsatisfactory for a few months?
I'll think about it. I'm just concerned that, out of the two local hair salons, there might not be someone I can trust not to take off too much length.
Trims do shape the hair is a specific way some people desire but it is not going to help growth any. Eight weeks is also a pretty short amount of time for splits to become a problem unless there are a lot of damaging products or processes going on with your hair. By all means go for it for shaping but that's the only benefit, except to the stylist's wallet of course.
Elizabeth
She's actually made the comment a couple times....something about stimulating hairs out of some phase....I don't know. I wasn't really paying attention.
I tend to trust professionals, though. And I don't think she's just looking to take pad her wallet, since she could easily convince me to come in more regularly. Especially since, when my hair is short, I get it trimmed every 4-6 weeks (and she knows this, since she's been cutting my hair for the last 3-4 years).
In conversations with strangers I hear that old wives' tale a lot from people who want to be helpful but have no long hair experience when I mention my hair does not gain length anymore. Rather than something taught in cosmetology school I think your stylist picked up the idea that trims activate growth from folk wisdom.
Growth only happens from inside the scalp, nothing that goes on at the end is going to impact growth rates and certainly not making up for length lost to trims. Part of the perception of enhanced growth can be the observation that hair seems to lose that blunt line so quickly since some hairs really are growing faster than others due to their youth and surpassing the slower growing hairs near the end of their life.
Elizabeth
My hair grows unevenly too. As you can see, I have long since given up on trying to remedy the problem.
Absalom
LOL..I have the same problem,probably even worser than yours..I would advise you to not worry about it,it's what makes you..you!
Sometimes some peoples hair does grow in an uneven fashion for reasons unknown...........and which may never be known.
In any event, the photo shows great long hair and I really don't see it as being uneven.
Just let it continue to grow and it may even-itself out on its own a bit more. Once it is 1/2 way down your back you "might" consider the slighest trim of all "if" the uneven really bothers you that much. But for now I wouldn't mess with it at this stage.
And please remember: one is ALWAYS their own worst enemy when it comes to how they look.
Your hair looks great!
I would also like to add that it might LOOK uneven because it's shaped differently..(more wavy on one side for example) but that doesn't necesarily mean it IS uneven.
Dear Friend,
Give up your frustration and begin celebrating. Both sides of your hair look great, and the work off and on with each other.
I am responding before reading any other responses, for I believe what I want to share with you is especially important.
I am speaking as a psychologist about normal development. It is essential that both sides of our bodies not be exactly simetrical for it they were we would not be able to tell directions.
While for the most part our bodies are bi-laterally simentrical, they are not completely. True, we have two arms, two legs, and two heads, but we only have one heart and it is not in the middle of our bodies, etc.
We are stronger on one side than on the other, and most of us would describe ourselves as either righties or lefties.
I do not know this fr a fact, but it is worth a PhD in research: I hy pothesize that lefties are represented more frequently in the long haired mail populations than righties.
If those of us who part our hair in the middile achieved actually idential results we would look artificial.
You have great hair. Celebrate it. That will be 5 cents please.
James
