Don't look at me

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[quirkybird.livejournal.com]

Who the hell could, honestly? This is why I have a pixie cut that my also-a-cartoonist landlady gives me with a buzzer. Because she understands.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the courage for a pixie cut. Life would be so much simpler.

But I lack the strength of will.

[quirkybird.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite problem - I feel hair hanging down the back of my neck, and I lose the will to do anything but whine about it until somebody gets fed up and comes at me with scissors. Then I resume my carefree life.

[wilypueo.livejournal.com]

That's why I wait until my hair is so out of control that even a bad haircut would be an improvement.

Note: Even by that standard, I am overdue for a haircut.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I yearn for a return to the days when men and women alike wore giant powder wigs beribboned with silk and festooned with live birds. Happier times. Except for the peasants, of course. They still had to get haircuts.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

You could do like a sailor and moosh it all back behind your head and stick it down with tar...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Aha! There's my favourite icon! ;D

[b2creative.livejournal.com]

Aw heck, dull, dry and listless is my hair's natural state!

Just pull it back and stay away from mirrors - you'll be fine.

[cyanocorax.livejournal.com]

Mine too. That's why I've designed my whole persona around it. As if it is all part of some masterful plan. That and my nose.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

As anyone can tell from that masterful portrait you use as your icon, your nose is shaped like a question mark.

[cyanocorax.livejournal.com]

Ah, I never realized that! (Obviously I'm not the artistic genius on the block)

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

I say just shave your whole head and be done with it!

Yay!

(Yeah, not helpful, but think of all the really nice hats you could get away with wearing?)

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'd have a weird, small head if it were naked.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

hey, at least you have hair to get messed up...More and more clumps in my comb each morning...Le Sigh.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Who needs hair when you have a fine, metal helmet? I might start wearing a metal helmet.

It's going to take a couple of years to grow back to how it was. ::weepweep:: Pardon me, I have to go curl up in a corner now. After that I'll go find some barbarian women to sell me their hair for a wig. I hear German captives have those fashionable red locks; and if they're your own captives, you might not even have to pay them much.

Hair Shock

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yeow!!!! Hair Trauma sucks so bad!!!!!

After many such experiences over the years, though, my friends & I made a rule: You get 24 hours to cry your eyes out. Then you have to wait 5 more days, because it might just be Hair Shock, which happens when your hair is asked to do something it hasn't been doing lately, and rebels. It may calm down and settle into its new hairpath and be just fine.

Really.

As for the dry frizzies, I adore this stuff: (oops, link is not clear - it's)
HAIR OIL from Mountain Spirit
http://www.mountainspiritherbals.com/body_oil.htm
Dark Hair--roses, rosemary, lavender, mandarin peel, ylang ylang oil in an olive oil base.

You're supposed to wash it out next morning, but I actually leave it in for days, sporting a cloud of exquisite fragrance wherever I go.

Besides, howcan you not want to support a bizniz whose homepage says: "We have closed our downtown retail store and are working out of our home yurt." ?

Re: Hair Shock

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Good, 21 more hours to cry my eyes out. I'll get back to you in five days on the aftermath of the Hair Shock.

That Mountain Spirit is a dangerous website. They have smelly things I can put in my bathtub, and I love smelly--I mean, exquisitely fragrant bathtubs. I wonder if they can rush me that hair oil?

I used to want a yurt. Now I want a cob cottage shaped like Bilbo's house.

Re: Hair Shock

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Do not stint on the crying. It is an important part of the process. If you try to be brave, you will only end up driving the wrong way down a one-way street or something . . . Just cry. And let me know how it turns out.

And meanwhile, go nuts with those oils. Nothing is quite so cheering as really good smells, I think. And baths.

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

:-(

My chrome-domish sympathies!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

The longer I wail about it, the sillier I feel to be wailing about it.

Of course, I haven't looked in a mirror in a couple of hours :)

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Nah, believe me, from my follicleful days, I remember the trauma. It's like hacking up your *identity.*

I have a marvelous set of plush reindeer antlers with little bells on them - I find they're a marvelous distraction from anything else going on above my ears.

Just a suggestion, of course! :P

[xanath.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

Bad hairdressers are the bane of existence--especially when they refuse to listen to you. :( I hope your hair hurries up and grows back.

--Kris

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

::waaaah:: it grows sooo slowly ::waaaah::

I am a total crybaby, but Ellen says up above that I'm allowed to indulge for a full day!

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Have been reading your comic for a while now and adore it.

And I swear by Hair, Skin & Nails for healthy hair that grows fast. Even though I gave the link for the GNC brand, I have found that other brands work just as well. Give it six weeks. You will really be amazed.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to try. I woke this morning, and my hair is just as short, uneven, and ridiculous as I remembered. Random sections are above my shoulder, some thin straggles are about shoulderblade length, and I really don't want to have to chop it all off above the shoulder to made it even. Now I am still sad, but I am also MAD.

I'll try Hair, Skin & Nails. I'll go out and buy it today. I'll try everything. Vitamins, conditioners, oils, whatever. I'll also probably pin up my hair and wear hats until summer.

Oh, I was almost too MAD to say THANK YOU for the compliment on the comic...

wow...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry to hear what happened to your hair. That same thing happened to me when I wanted a haircut similar to Mandy Moore's short hairstyle one year and ended up with a mullet that took about a year and a half to grow out. I love the illustration you created on the previous entries!
~Nadia

Re: wow...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I'd lose my mind if I'd ended up with a mullet. I am so not a mullet person :P

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

When I was very little my hair was dry and brittle - it would break off in my hand. It got better as I grew older but I always wanted long hair and I could never get it past shoulder length. A few years ago I had surgery and it was recommended as a supplement since it is packed with biotin - which the body uses to repair the cells in hair, skin and nails (duh).

My hair is now down to my butt and strong and healthy. Pretty good for a 56-year-old broad.

I would recommend having a friend take pictures and going down to the salon and complaining to the manager. You just might get your money back. Also let the manager know that you will publicize the name of the place in a negative manner unless you get some satisfication. And let him know that you have a readership across the USofA. Good luck.

[echanchisai.livejournal.com]

UGH! I hate when hair dressers screw up!! :(:( Drink a lot of milk, and it should grow out quickly! :-x

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am allergic to milk. I'll have to find other ways to get those nutrients. Like... pizza. I'm also allergic to cheese, but that never stops me.