I have a love/hate relationship with my hair. Love how it looks when I leave the salon, but hate that I can't quite duplicate that same look @ home. One of the things I'm trying to do is grow my hair. Most of my adult life it's been on the shorter side, but the truth is I love long flowing thick, lustrous Rapunzel hair. I know the rules say women over fifty or FORTY, depending on whose version of the rule book you read are supposed to ditch the long locks, but I think that has more to do with the tendency of hair to thin as we age. And no one looks good in long stringy hair. I sure don't want to be one of those older women with grey no body droopy frazzled looking locks permanently trapped in 1972. You know what I'm talking about. But I still have a lot of hair, so I can pull off long.
The cool thing about hair is that pretty much anyone can have a decent looking style. I mean think about it. A lot of us, yours truly included, may not have gorgeous faces, smooth skin, or great figures, but nice hair is fairly easy to get. Ok I understand that inner beauty is much more important, our outer person is fading away, and those of us over fifty are not going to look as fresh or youthful as our twenty something daughters, etc, yada, yada. But I'm just saying when we do want to get our pretty on, hair is a great place to start cuz you can see immediate results. Yes, patience is a virtue, but a dose of instant glamour every once in a while probably isn't going to kill anyone..
True confession, I color my hair. I don't like how much darker my color has become or the large amounts of grey that have appeared. Now some women can pull that off. But with my very light skin and brown eyes and tendency toward dark under eye circles, I am not one of those women! I need some brightness and warmth around my face. Which is why I do reddish brown with golden highlights. It also suits my personality better then the coffee colored strands with streaks of grey. Next to my pale skin, it makes me look like Dracula's mom. (Or at least his much older sister).
But in my quest to have hair that looks more like a Disney princess than a demonic entity, I seem to have reached a stand still in length. I'm tempted to cut it shorter again cuz right now it's @ that awkward just barely on the cusp of long stage, an annoying length that hits the bra line and where the back tends to fall partly inside the collar of any loose fitting shirts. So I'm looking for ways to help it grow without having to throw out my blow dryer, curling irons, or straightener. Cuz my hair is crazy weird when left au naturalle. Straight strands next to curly next to old lady s wave next to one end flipping up another down another sideways. My hair has more personalities than Sybil!
So I've been reading about this shampoo called Follicure that's supposed to help your hair grow, or at least make it thicker and fuller looking. They sell it at Sally Beauty Supply, so I thought I'd give it a try. Will let you know what I think. Anyone know of any other ideas to help hair grow?
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