Hair

[jack]

For a while I've been shaving my hair off, because it's easy and fluffy. Now its grown out a bit, I'm wondering whether to do anything else. Realistically I'm not going to have the patience to look after it if it grew *long*, and I feel that'd look kind of stupid with the fuzzy baby down on top :) But it has a bit of curl, which is annoying when you want to get up and have it automatically lie flat, but I feel is nice enough it ought to be shown off somehow.

Seeing as how you lot have to look at it and I don't, does anyone have any suggestions other than shaving it short again? :)

Comments

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

grow hair!
hair grow!
haaaaair!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

*echoes*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I appreciate the feedback :) Although -- I believe we met at Becky's party? And I gallantly provided you with alchohol? And I like the leaf icons? And record and am grateful for the vote. But it's not enough of a relationship to dictate my keratin-exuidingness[1]...

Or rather, thank you, but would you care to hazard any more specific advice. What should I say to barber? What am I aiming for? What do you do to make it soft, strokable, and luxuriant? Does one thin it out all over and grow it at the back, or grow it all over and wait until it's long enough to gather? :)

[1] http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1672/?letter=P&spage=7 is a great page! Intriguing words relating to hair include:

capillaceous (Resembling a hair/many hairs)
caterpillar (yay, furry!)
depilate (ah, etymology suddenly becomes clear)
depilous (Deprived or void of hair. )
egagropilus (A hair ball found in the stomach and intestine. Ick.)
epilate, expilate (To pull out or eradicate (hair).)
floccinaucinihilipilification
horripilate, horripilation (goosebumps)
pilage (Ooh, dodgy, but actually The hair, wool, or especially fur, with which an animal is covered. or Collectively the hair of the entire body.)
pilapanthia (The fading of hair.)
pilar (A reference to hair.)
pilary (Ooh, dodgy, but actually Of or relating to hair or a hair; hairy.)

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

My personal belief has always been that the best thing to do with hair is nothing what so ever, not approaching within a 50m radius of any hairdresser :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, as mentioned, that is what I've been doing... But I don't think it's best at the moment. I can't remember what yours looked like; it must have been fairly nice or I would have remembered :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

icons? :o

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I can at any rate explain one of them, because I made it for Jack. :-) It's a sort of visual pun on his username. As it happens, I already had the d(a)emon handy; he's Squirdle, the hero of a short story I wrote called Merry Hell. Squirdle is Maxwell's demon, who realises that in fact he isn't the conventional sort of demon at all, so he doesn't have to be evil... or live in Hell, for that matter. The problem he has is getting out once he has decided that evil is not for him.

I thought Maxwell's demon would be quite appropriate for Jack.

[mair_in_grenderich]

it's just... I didn't recognise him with pictures! I thought I was reading a post by calamarain till I looked more closely

I thought I was reading a post by calamarain

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*I* always think that reading me/him and I *am* me! :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Also, do read squirdle, it was very amusing. And a tad *me* :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was holiday, I felt extravagant, I thought I'd use some of them before I get rid of them. I have a graphics tablet, I might actually draw dinosaur-jack :)

Wait till you see "Da Vince's Willy"! :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

I saw it already. So, who's Vince?

[rjw76]

shave it off! Hair is all strokable and lovely when it is just growing back...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you. You have to promise to stroke it though :) I've been doing it for ages, and it has been good, you've just missed it :)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Grow it and post pics frequently so we can check progress and comment ;)