OK, I'm out of the curly hair closet.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

For years I've had trouble with my hair. I always thought it was straight, but with some weird kink in it, so I spent a lot of time combing it straight (I sound like such a girl). However, a few weeks back, I just stopped combing it. Just like that, Cold Turkey.
Since then, my hair has gotten curlier and curlier, so that it now (on a good day) looks like Jim from the Jesus and Mary Chain (not him, just his hair, otherwise I definitely would be weird) and on a bad day, it's really starting to Kramer.

This was, somehow after 27 years, an actual shock to me. What does that say about my self-awareness?

[redqueen]

1. Well if you never grew it out

it's not too shocking that you never knew.

Love the Kramer look. :7

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. But that's just it, I had long straight Iggy Pop hair.

I guess the curl needed to be nurtured. It needed some lurrve.

[redqueen]

6. Oh

Well, that is intersting! I wonder if my hair would curl if I stopped combing it. I'll never find out because I'm not cutting it, and not combing long hair will just end up with a huge tangle, not curls.

Dang! I want curls!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Yeah. I've kept it short for a long time, so maybe the shorter it is,

the curlier it gets.

[Wickerman]

2. stopped combing?

good for you, personal hygeine is way over rated anyway. I say go for it. The Reid look is cool.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Yeah. Jim's a cool looking guy.

[VelmaD]

5. We want pictures

Ok, ok, I want pictures.

:)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. OK. Can't do it at work though.

My avatar is me with straight hair from a few weeks back, as a guide.

[VelmaD]

15. Kewl

You do realize that I may have to take you over my knee for having naturally curly hair all this time and not doing anything with it. ;)

You wouldn't believe how long it takes to put the perm in my naturally straight-as-a-board hair. *big sigh* :)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. We always want what we can't have, Velma.

Just like me and my unrequited love for Whitacre.

:nopity:

[VelmaD]

18. Oh, I know how ya feel...

Ever since I found out he looks JUST LIKE Rick Santorum I've been pining away. *sigh*

[tigereye]

25. since Rick is my (gag) Senator

I did not think that. But it was funny to ponder that others did.

[tigereye]

24. I thought there was something going on between you and Whit

;)

you two are like the cultural maelstrom - you ought to take your show on the road! Like Lollapalooza, rock and roll DUpalooza. I would pay
(well maybe) to see it. Oh wait, I don't have to, I can see it for free! You guys were on some r and r rant a few days ago that had me splitting my sides. Morrissey rant I think. Hysterical!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. Haven't see him today. Very Strange.

[tigereye]

36. he's playin with his axe somewhere...

or doing work. Whatever that may be. I don't get how y'all can post so much, I never had any time when I was in an office all the time. I was a manager and did clinical work, so I had zilch time. That is why I do consulting now. :) Since I work at home a lot and have several locations where I do work, it is fun to have a virtual "water cooler."

[Fenris]

8. I could think of worse hair than Jim's

I, however, was born with what hairstylists have told me is "Asian" hair, meaning straight with absolutely no curl or wave to it. I still don't know quite how I feel about it. It certainly can be boring at times. I wouldn't mind some definition.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Weird thing is, I have a friend from Hong Kong who's running for office

in the election, and he has curly hair, which is bizarre for a Chinese guy.

[Fenris]

13. I cannot imagine what that looks like

Or maybe I can and it is quite humorous.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. You can. Imagine Jackie Chan with curly hair.

He has pretty long, like collar length hair, that is curly like a deeply curly thing.

[Fenris]

26. Very strange.

I do like uniqueness, however.

[fudge stripe cookays]

37. Cut like Moe! Cut like Moe!

Sorry.

I heard a comedian a couple years ago who said that all Chinese waiters have the same haircut. Then I started noticing they were right.

[curlyred]

10. as a fellow curly who came out of the closet a few years ago

I can sympathize. :)

You should check out naturallycurly.com. Great supportive website with lots of good tips.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. OK. I'll take it one step at a time.

I'll be going to Curly Bars soon, I guess.

[MissMillie]

16. I gave up trying to straighten mine 15 years ago

and I'll never go back. I shower & shampoo, towel dry, and smooth in a little gel... and I'm done w/ my hair. I'd rather sleep the extra 15 minutes in the morning...

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

19. You have "wavy" hair

If it was truly curly you'd have known from the start. Wavy hair is like curly hair without the strength of its convictions. Length adds weight, and weight flattens the wave. This was patiently explained to me by one stylist after another who wanted to cut my length and release my inner curl. But they had not lived with my weird kink, or grown up in a world that offered only hairspray and Dippity-Doo to control that annoying flippy thing it did, when all I wanted was long straight hair like the cool girls. :cry:

But now messy hair is stylin' so the waviness makes it easy to look au courant. Welcome to Wavy World. :hi:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. How dare you suggest thay I am not a true Curly!

Yeah, it's wavy.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

22. A true Curly

Sorry, had to do it:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. Yep. That's the true curly.

The one, the only.

[tigereye]

27. my husband's hair was like that - when he had more hair!

and so is my sons. My son looked like Little Lord Fauntleroy when he was little. Now he wants short hair, boo-hoo.

[NuckinFutz]

21. I know what you mean...

All the 'cool' straight-haired skinny girls used to make fun of big-boned frizzy-haired me. I figure I've got the last laugh though, cause all those girls are now forking it over for perms and bigger boobs. What goes around comes around.

[Whitacre D_WI]

29. Self-awareness is overrated.

Awareness of others moreso.

It is in only in the awareness of the nonphenomenal, the extra-empirical, and the subgeneric that we become as gods.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. Isn't DU a form of group consciousness, man? A group mind?

:smoke:

[Whitacre D_WI]

34. Get out of my Geist, you soulsucking, curly-headed beast!

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. Does this make your female friends "Shag Hags?"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

33. Yeah, but for entirely different reasons.

[Whitacre D_WI]

35. I should have seen that coming.

That'll teach me to talk to furriners.

[Az]

31. Thats kind of how I got to be the long hair freak I am

One day for various reasons I decided to see what I was supposed to look like. I have these genes that keep telling my body how to grow and I had been attempting to force my will on my hair. So I stopped cutting it. Never going back.

[Heddi]

38. SAME thing happened to me--honestly

For YEARS I thought my hair was straight, with just a slight..slight wave to it.

Always brushed it when I got out the shower, and for YEARS--we're talking from birth through age 21--I thought I had the most horrible, un-manageable hair on the planet.

Well, one day (I was 21, actually), I got out the shower and was in a rush and didn't blow dry or brush my hair.

When it dried, I was AMAZED to see how fugging curly it was. We're talking 'looks like a perm" curly.

So ever since then, in addition to finding out my hair had curl to begin with, it's gotten CURLIER!

It's still unruly and has a mind of its own, but it sure does make styling it a bit easier, and now I realize why bangs were never possible with my mop-head. And why short, page-boy hairstyles never worked. Or why anything that wasn't one length, and past the shoulders never worked.

it took me 21 years, but I finally figured it out.

Congratulations on finding your hair's true 'essence' :)

[cally]

39. Me too

I spent hours trying to straighten my hair. One day a stylist asked if I wanted it curly. She just scrunced it and let it dry and I had curls. It's sort of in between curly and staight, but I never knew I had those curls.

[Shananigans]

40. Screaming Lord Byron, I think you are the cutes thing since baby kittens!

:)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. Aw, shucks.

I'm speechless, I'm without speech.
Thanks.