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From a recent trip down to Pasadena, where it was blazing hot and very dry...my ends were not happy. Also, I'd had to double rinse in the previous couple days,
WOW now thats a great picture of some hair. Looks great! Keep it up!
Hey, it is great to see you here again Trolleypup! I just mentioned your sushi scrub hat here last week. Any chance you would post some of those pictures? Any other hair photos are great too while you are at it. That stop sign one is a particular favorite of mine.
Getting a bit too bossy and greedy (especially considering I haven't gotten around to putting Bill's Ebisu pictures online yet),
Elizabeth
This progression is obviously getting out of the scrub, but I think you can get the idea. Its pretty amazing how much hair this thing can hold, how secure it is. They are still in process on the plain color pony scrubs, so those of you who don't want Bright PINK Polkadots or the like should just keep checking back from time to time.
Blue Sky Scrubs
Just went back and looked at that thread.
I'll grant you they aren't cheap, on the other hand, you get something that works really well, and is not otherwise available. I suspect they are being manufactured in fairly small batches which would tend to bring the price us, as well as not being produced in a thirld world country.
Their patterns and marketing are a bit stereotypical, but I certainly got no negative vibes when I was emailing the owner, and they *are* in the process of getting plain colored pony scrubs made. Shrug.
I'm probably going to go ahead and another one in an (inappropriate to my age and gender) pattern since I could use a spare.
How to put one on:
Put your hair in a low ponytail, secured with an elastic or scrunchy. Take the pony scrub and pull the ties so the tail part makes a pouch. Put it on your head, and flip the pouch part up on top. Put your hair in a mushroom bun...sorry...if you can make a regular bee butt type bun, do that, only leave an inch or two of "stalk" between the elastic and the bun, if you aren't so good with buns, twist the ponytail and wrap it around itself or wodge it up into a handful (again, leaving some space between the elastic and the bunch of hair), flip the pouch down and stick the hair in it, cross the ties under the ponytail and tighten them, this will close up the pouch and secure your hair, bring the ties over the top of the ponytail and pony scrub tail and tie a shoelace knot.
Using your fingers or somesuch, poke the bits of hair sticking out around the sides under the edge of the scrub. If it is too loose or too tight, it is real easy to pull out the knot, adjust it and tie it back up without disturbing the pouch.
For a hardhat or climbing helmet, keeping the ponytail low helps with the fit of the hat.
The joy when you taking out after a day (or more) of dusty nasty sweaty windy work/hiking/whatever, and have untangled, clean, happy hair, with maybe a bit of bun waves, is an amazing thing.
You remind me of someone I met while at Lompoc.... sure you are not him?
I'm pretty sure I've never stopped in Lompoc.
Dude, you have some awesome hair. I see it is a few inches longer than classic length now. Although coarse hair is more resistant to damage, it is good that you are moisturizing the ends. May it reach your ankles some day. (If that is what you desire.)
Long hair forever.
Absalom
Thanks, it was good to see you pop your head up at LHC. I have lots of accumulated damage in the length from not protecting it for years, most of the tangles and splits and damage are in the lighter toned areas.
I hope for ankles, or longer. After being stalled for years, my current regimen of water only (mostly) has dropped my shedding quite a bit, and I am back on the 1/2"/month track.
I have lots of accumulated damage in the length from not protecting it for years, most of the tangles and splits and damage are in the lighter toned areas.
You may want to dust those split ends. Usually a split end only involves the last 10 millimeters of a hair strand. A magnifying glass is helpful to see the spilt ends.
My ends are so damaged that I am unable to find a single one that comes to a natural point. Even so, most of the damaged tips terminate in a ball rather than a split. Due to rather fine and fragile hair, I will probably never get it past knee length.
Having coarse hair is a plus when it comes to growing to extreme lengths. I seem to remember you mentioning having asian ancestry. Asians have the strongest hair. I quite by accident, got a closeup look at a strand of asian hair, and was amazed.
A while back, I discovered a strange strand of black hair on my floor. It was 522 millimeters long and 100 microns in diameter and came to a perfect point with no damage to the tip. This strand of hair was very strong, almost like a piece of wire. It was obviously not one of mine, but where did it come from? I have a friend who is Chinese, who had recently visited me, and I determined it was one of his.
Anyway, good luck with your goal of ankle length.
Absalom
Oh, I dust, and it helps, but the reality is that the ends are well worn (years of exposure to high elevation sunlight doesn't help). The tips are visibly thinner in diameter than younger hairs. So I have years of growing out damage to go.
Ditto. I can find tapered tips, but not in the last foot of hair. The longest hair has all been dusted at one point or another, and shows a blunt tip.
Sounds like my mom. Shanghainese wire rope hair. Sadly I have fin(er) curly red/brown hair on my dad's side.
Thanks.
Fabulous Hair. Enjoyed peaking in on your trip reports. Thanks for sharing.
Your hair looks hands-down AMAZING!! So, whatever you're doing... keep it up!!!
I think that those of us that live in San Francisco have it pretty lucky with our cool foggy summers, --- a perfect climate for longhairs! I'll be going down to So. Calif. to visit my b/f in Riverside in a few weeks, and he just told me yesterday that it got up to 110 degrees. Although I'm looking forward to seeing him, I know I'm NOT looking forward to Riverside!
- Ken in SF
Or not doing, since I'm effectively water-only.
My hair got all crunchy and dry in Pasadena and it was only in the high 90s. But it calms right down, as soon as I got back. If I could have, I'd have kept my hair up the whole trip.
As always, very very glad for SF weather!
Dude, that is a really awesome looking mane. Would be great to mosh and headbang in! I wish my hair was that long :P
I would take all that heat anyday if suddenly I could have hair as long as is yours right now. Heat, double rinse, call it what you like..............but your hair is pure dynamite!
Great hair! Did you have to leap onto that spot?
It was a billion degrees, we waded out to take pics...noone accidentally fell in though, although I thought very seriously about standing under the fountain.
Fantastic mane! Great picture, too.
Thanks for sharing this,
- Oren