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Originally posted by kluurs:

... my $80 hair cut stylist t.

Was enjoying reading this thread until I got to this, at which point I screamed and fainted. Is this one of those Robert Kraft kind of places, and it’s for a haircut and a lap dance or something?

That's what I pay, too.

i paid $35 until this year, when my haircutter gave up her chair. the new guy i'm seeing charges $50. i don't know that he does any better of a job.

Shaving it off can be a freeing experience...

No mess, no care, one soap in the shower!

(I kneel down with the clippers once a week to buzz off what is left. I've never gone for the full razor cut yet.)

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Originally posted by Cindysphinx:
Nina, I think you coined a new term: hair splaining!

Yeah, there are plenty of natural hair specialists out here. I ditched my old stylist. I'm sure she could handle natural hair, but she was super far away, and there are plenty of places closer to me.

Tonight I might try a roller set, but there are obstacles. I exercise in the morning, so how is that going to work? Wake up, style hair, run around for an hour?

I really need to suck it up and cut it completely off. Like this:


That would take real guts, though . . .

This is pretty amazing, and I'd imagine pretty easy to exercise with.

Those eyelashes, on the other hand....they must take some work!

Good luck with your hair transition. I know you will rock whatever natural hair style you end up with!

Thanks, everyone! I'll see if I can post a picture of the current, erm, situation.

Those eyelashes are sort of ... dramatic, but not too much imo and with her total look it works quite well.

OTOH I recently saw a young woman with false eyelashes, except that they were so over the top it kinda creeped me out and I imagined she had fuzzy caterpillars crawling on her face!

I've never had false eyelashes.

Has anyone tried them?

My sister-in-law tattooed eyeliner on her eyelids.

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Has anyone tried them?

Oh yes, and it .... well, actually no.

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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:

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Has anyone tried them?

Oh yes, and it .... well, actually no.

LOL

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I've never had false eyelashes.

Me neither. Unfortunately, as a life-longer glasses wearer, I think they would brush against the lenses.

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My sister-in-law tattooed eyeliner on her eyelids.

That would scare me to death! When I tried to get contacts, I couldn't stand to have the nurse putting them in -- they want to do it for you the first time (maybe that's only in Japan?) Anyway it was a total nightmare because I could not prevent myself from forceful blinking and jerking my head back. Eventually I convinced her to let me do it. (And then I gave up on contacts after about 6 months, but I digress...) There's no way I could let someone come at my eyelids with a tattoo gun.

Does she like it?

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Originally posted by Cindysphinx:
I've never had false eyelashes.

Has anyone tried them?

My sister-in-law tattooed eyeliner on her eyelids.

Yes. Years ago when I was a bridesmaid for my partner's marriage to a woman (it was purely for residency purposes). You get used to them; you know, for special occasions. Not everyday.

Re: The hair. Kudos to you! (I've been toying with the idea of experimenting with Henna. Hm.)

Yes, she does.

I have a deeply-embedded aversion to any permanent cosmetic decisions.

See, I play tennis with a guy my age. Apparently, he decided to get a hair transplant many years ago. I say "many years ago" because he got hair plugs, and there are now two significant problems.

First, the transplant left him with visible rows of plugs that are less than an inch long, with lots of scalp in between.

Second, his hairline kept receding, so the plugs are on the top of his head, then there is an empty area below that has no plugs, then there is a strip of hair.

Now, for all I know he is happy with it. But if he is not, what is a transplant specialist supposed to do now? And I can't even imagine how he could shave his head, on account of the rows of plugs.

So when I think of any sort of cosmetic, erm, improvements, I think about the people who get a poor result and have to live with it the rest of their lives.

Oh, and SK?

MS got contact lenses when she was *nine.* She just reached right up and put those lenses into her huge eyeballs on the first attempt. I have always wondered whether the size of her eye somehow made it easier?

OMG I just googled "hair transplant plug" -- yikes!! (the things you learn on WTF...)

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So when I think of any sort of cosmetic, erm, improvements, I think about the people who get a poor result and have to live with it the rest of their lives.

Yeah, that would concern me as well.

Re your daughter, wow! I think sometimes just the younger you are, the more fearless you are. I got contacts at age 29 because I didn't want to have glasses on at my wedding, and I thought I would like contacts and would just switch over. But I *hated* them and could never get used to them. Also, at the time my prescription wouldn't allow me to get disposables, and I thought the care of the contacts was the biggest PITA imaginable. As I said, I gave up on them after 6 months. But my wedding photos were nice.

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