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I need help!
My hair is finally getting to be the length I've always wanted it- about mid-back. BUT, I'm losing a lot of it on top, particularly in front. I don't want to look like Hulk Hogan! My stylist, who has always given me great advice on growing my hair out, has suggested that I considered cutting it shorter to make it look fuller. She said that keeping it long just makes it look even thinner and is harder on the hair.
So what do I do? It's not that bad yet, but I think I need to do something NOW before it does get real bad. Has anybody out there had this problem? What did you try- and did it work?
Any replies either here or through E-mail would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.
Derek
Derek:
Humans have some sort of intrinsic drive toward novelty. That's why otherwise sane advertising agencies will "update the look and feel" of a company's graphics and in the process throw away the identity and image that may have been built over many years -- just because someone got tired of looking at "the same old thing" and wanted to "try something new."
When I first started growing my hair, after about the first six months, my (then) stylist told me that long hair would make me look fatter. I had heard this "conventional wisdom" from someone else, and because I'm justifiably paranoid about my weight (and because the foxy stylist knew how to maniupulate my testosterone-drenched ego), I gave her carte blanche. By the time she was done, I could've passed a personnel inspection at Quantico and my face looked huge -- and fat.
The point is, you shouldn't let anyone talk you into something just because they say, "You'll look better if you FITB." If she's really a good stylist, tell her that, "Well maybe I would look better with short hair, but how 'bout if you just make me look as good as I can possibly look with *long* hair and I'll *think* about getting it cut sometime in the future." Whatever you want to do, just make sure it's what *you* want. Good luck.
. . . jim (sort of Friar Tuck with a long pony tail) in san diego.
I have shoulder-blade length straight thick hair(very healthy). I work with one guy who has had long hair for about three years, and now is going bald, and another guy who had long hair for years and years, and has lost most of it on top in the last 5 or so years.
Both of them are quite bitter about their hair loss, and I tend to feel guilty about my full head 'o hair when around them. When so many longhairs define themselves as such, it has to be quite difficult to deal with the loss of that defining factor.
Do any of you "full-heads" feel a certain guilt when around the follicley challenged who have long sections of hair. Maybe I do only because I know two guys who are pissed about their hair loss.
kilgore