How do you abuse your hair?

[Modem Butterfly]

Personally, I use hot rollers and spray the crap out of it with a humidity-fighting hair spray just so it does SOMETHING during the summer (I live in the south). I usually wash it every other evening and I use hot rollers the following AM. If my hair is sufficently damp, it still looks okay the next day.

What do you do?

[no name no slogan]

1. I call it funny names

like "hair hat" and stuff like that.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. "Hair hat"? Is that you, Trent Lott?

[no name no slogan]

10. or Jim Traficant

[arwalden]

2. I Shampoo With Bar Soap. (Irish Spring)

[Modem Butterfly]

4. Yeee-ikes

Split end city!

[Misunderestimator]

7. You Do?!?

[arwalden]

12. Well...

Between these two lines | | is the average length of the hair on my head. It's so short and it's cut (shaved) so frequently that split-ends are never a problem. Short hair doesn't lack "body" or fullness... it just sits there doing nothing.

Plain old soap works fine for me. (However... I'm not ashamed to admit that I also enjoy using herbal and floral scented soaps from Crabtree & Evelyn.)

[Misunderestimator]

14. Ah... well, that makes sense then. I didn't know it was that short.

LOL @ Crabtree and Evelyn.... I'm partial to whatever is the cheapest and is both shampoo and conditioner. A huge jug of it lasts me months. :)

[Modem Butterfly]

15. Right, I forgot the Marines make you keep your hair short

:evilgrin:

[bertha katzenengel]

3. I wash it and brush it. Get it cut about every six weeks.

That's it.

[Emops]

5. I spike it

Adds about 2.5" to my height.

[H2O Man]

6. I am thinking

about cutting my hair. I tend to every year when it is this hot. I have grown it since about 1974. In 1988, I cut two feet off; it was below my waist at the time, and I had a broken arm which made caring for it difficult. Maybe I'll listen to Neal Young's "Almost Cut My Hair" and put it off another year.

[no name no slogan]

9. Donate it to Locks of Love

www.locksoflove.org

I did that a year ago when I chopped off my hair. I'd only been growing it for five years, but I still had a footlong ponytail.

Locks of Love uses the hair to make wigs for kids going through chemo. It's a really neat organization, and it means so much to the kids.

[Modem Butterfly]

17. I used to have hair down to my butt

I've had it a few times actually. I got it cut after my grandmother died a couple of years ago and I've kept it shoulder length since then.

[jmm]

11. Except for dying my hair a couple times a year

and using a blow dryer maybe once or twice a month my hair is pretty damn pampered and I only need to trim it once or twice a year.

[RebelOne]

13. I am blonde and keep it that way with touch-ups

every 6 weeks. I have to wash it with volumizing shampoo and conditioner, as it is very fine. I then load it down with mousse and set it with sponge rollers. I used to use hot rollers, but it they were making my hair break off. Since it is so fine with no body, it takes about three days after a shampoo before it develops any body at all. So I only wash it once a week.

[Trigger Hippie]

16. I wear my hair in a ponytail all the time.

Now I have broken strands that fly out all the time. And sometimes I don't even brush my hair. :)