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Post by oc6088 on Sept 17, 2017 5:05:57 GMT -8
I also suffer from oily hair. I cut my hair short and it hasn't really helped. Basically my hair is really greasy at the base near my hairline. The only difference now is I can't put it in a ponytail now so it's not as noticeable. I wear a bandana and live with it. Dry shampoo doesn't work for me. Has anyone heard of any type of sheets that work on the hair?
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 4, 2017 9:16:12 GMT -8
Has anyone heard of any type of sheets that work on the hair? I have heard of shampoo sheets, and various other semi-dry hairwashing things. But I don't know how they work, and you'd have to be careful to keep the soaps away from water sources. Does daily rinsing help? (i.e., without shampoo, just getting the head wet and rubbing the scalp a bit). It does help me.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 10, 2018 20:12:54 GMT -8
I changed the game entirely on this one. Super-short cut. I'll report back about how much I like it after 10 days in the backcountry.
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Post by mk on Jul 12, 2018 17:32:11 GMT -8
Wow, rebeccad -- that is a big change from long braids, and it looks great! How are you liking it on a daily basis? Have you been surprising yourself in window reflections and mirrors?
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 15, 2018 15:38:33 GMT -8
mk I don’t quite recognize myself, but it’s been GREAT this week out camping. I can rinse it and it actually feels clean, mostly. And so far the hat hair looks pretty good. 😁
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 26, 2018 20:31:35 GMT -8
Okay, maybe the hair can get a little wild After the hike and the daily dunking. The short hair really worked out well for hiking. I might look wild, but it was so comfortable, and easy enough to rinse (and sort of scrub with my fingers) that it didn't get itchy in 9 days!
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 27, 2018 4:05:30 GMT -8
Wild? No, I don't think so. but stylishly casual, definitely. Some women would pay good money at a salon to achieve that kind of casualness.
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Post by mk on Jul 27, 2018 12:33:45 GMT -8
It's very cute rebeccad! I would wear mine short if it would do that.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 27, 2018 14:50:56 GMT -8
I would wear mine short if it would do that. I had no idea what mine would do when cut! I'm pretty pleased, though in fact I kind of prefer the way it looks after a day's hiking (or a night's sleeping) to the "tidy" look it has when washed and combed. I think I want the front cut a little differently next time. I'll try again in a few months, likely. In general, though, I think this cut makes pretty good use of my cowlick and the "widow's peak" in the middle of my forehead. stylishly casual, definitely. Some women would pay good money at a salon to achieve that kind of casualness. LOL! Yeah, and some put a bunch of gunk in their hair to get what I got by hiking and rinsing it in creeks and lakes for days! Silly women :D
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 28, 2018 8:11:24 GMT -8
Aptly described. It amazes me how much women will spend on those kinds of "beautification" products, especially makeup. I quit that when I retired and later learned that some lipsticks contained lead. How much worse can it get? Eating food and getting lipstick containing lead into your system? Yuck.
I actually feel sorry for some of the anchors and women on tv - they look as if their whole face has been embalmed in cosmetics.
Never thought this would happen, but there were lawsuits against cosmetic manufacturers for selling lipstick containing lead: www.law360.com/articles/43798/l-oreal-hit-with-class-action-over-lead-in-lipstick
For anyone who wants to do research on this subject, see: www.snopes.com/fact-check/easily-lead/. Personally, I think this is an apologetic articleand would rather err on the side of caution. Besides, I'm too old to bother with makeup!
I too like the slightly tousled appearance after hiking. To me, it represents an active woman, someone not afraid to go outside, be active and get blown around.
That reminds me of a friend I had decades ago who was sadly so focused on her appearance and literally lacquered hair style that once after we were shopping in downtown Detroit, she called a cab to take her a few blocks back to her office rather than getting her hair wet. Kind of sad.
Hope you're experiencing everything you expected on your 10 day venture.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 28, 2018 8:51:37 GMT -8
autumnmist, there is a long history of women using heath-destroying things as cosmetics in an effort to meet some perceived notion of beauty or merely cultural norms. Louisa May Alcott calls out some of those in An Old Fashioned Girl, wonderful practices like taking arsenic for the complexion. I don't think they had any idea about lead then, and I'm sure many of the (face) paints included it. Then there are tight corsets and bound feet... I could go on and on and get rather irate about it, since I see these practices as women being willingly complicit in their own bondage to the patriarchy. Can you tell I grew up in the 1970s? :D Of course, my mother would say she wasn't really a feminist--just a tomboy, and grew up during the Depression and then WWII, so she never used makeup partly because she wasn't inclined, and partly because she couldn't afford it. So she never taught me. I figure I have saved us thousands of dollars over the 24 years we've been married (not to mention the years before that, but I was just surviving then), between not buying makeup and never paying for a haircut. Seriously, that cut 3 weeks ago was the first time in my LIFE I've paid for a cut. The long straight hair could be trimmed by anyone, and that's the main thing I'll miss about it--free haircuts every 6 to 12 months
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 28, 2018 8:54:01 GMT -8
Hope you're experiencing everything you expected on your 10 day venture. Oh, and we had a great time! I'm starting to put photos up on my blog, but it will be a while before I have the pictures edited and can do a proper TR. Here's a teaser, though, from the second day (the first day just got us 2/3 of the way up the first pass).
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Post by mk on Jul 28, 2018 11:17:58 GMT -8
Beautiful! Definitely a teaser, as I'm looking a little green with envy ...
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 29, 2018 8:39:21 GMT -8
women being willingly complicit in their own bondage to the patriarchy. Interesting observation. I don't know enough about corset history to know if women wore them voluntarily, or if there was just no alternative to being " au naturel", since bras hadn't been invented yet. Some years ago I "met" online a woman who actually thought corsets were better for women, especially for our shoulders as the corset provided underlift support rather than relying on uplifting from the shoulders. I think she did have a point. But the compression of internal organs, especially around the waist when the "wasp waist" models were worn was from what I've read quite harmful. I wasn't aware that face painting included lead; and you're right; the knowledge of health was probably limited during those days. The invention of the printing press was a wonderful step forward, but there was still a long way to go before women either wanted to or had the opportunity to become educated and take over their own health management. I'm glad I didn't live in the "good old days"! You do raise a good point about our own complicity. I think when our friends are progressive or as we used to say in the 70's when the women's movement gained so much momentum, "liberated", and reject confining or revealing clothing, we tend to see that as a norm. But in other, more "traditional" circles, those thoughts may still be governed by less enlightened decisions. I'm not in a social circle of women who dress this way, so my observations for "ordinary citizens" are that some women still dress provocatively and inappropriately, while others follow their own choices. But now I'm seeing more risqué and far less professional clothing on female anchors and consultants (and I'm not even referring to Fox News). I wonder if they're dressing in that manner b/c they think it's attractive, or if they're getting pressure from network management. Or if some of them are picking up on what I think is a trend to dress more provocatively and far less professionally since the election. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, is an interesting novel on the Chinese practice of foot binding, including a gut wrenching description of the process of softening the bones as part of the footbinding. The novel also delves into the literal indentured servitude of women to their husbands' parents. After reading that, I thought of the shoes I wore for decades while working in offices, narrow toe area, cramping and compressing the toes, yet for me in the mid to late 60's and up until retirement, that was just the way women dressed...those shoes were elements of professionalism, like the penguin suits women wore when "Dress for Success" became a mantra for acceptable office attire. If someone had told me I had to wear a corset, I would have said some nasty things to that person, but I voluntarily wore shoes w/o realizing or considering they weren't doing anything positive for the shape of my feet. I guess I was complicit in participation, but at the time I thought it was more of a style rather than conforming to any perceived male idea of how women should dress. I wonder if the term "tomboy" is even used these days to describe independent women. Look at the changes in high school activities for women, and think of the courses. I doubt there are many if any schools that teach "home ec" any more. So many vistas and opportunities have opened up for women. Life has changed so much...and in some ways stayed the same.
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 29, 2018 8:57:09 GMT -8
Your teaser photo has all the elements I enjoy in inspirational photos - overall, peace and serenity in the almost misty skies, silent guardians of the area in the mountains, craggy but softened by the snow cover and weathering, and a base of multitudes of stones, a few of which are submerged and have softened edges but the predominance of which are craggy and sharp....and raise the question...where did they come from, and what did they go through in their centuries of journeys and change? If they could speak, what tales would they share?
I'll be watching for more!
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