A few newbie questions

A few newbie questions
Posted by Nyl on September 08, 2003 at 14:32:38: Previous Next

Hi,

I've spent quite a while looking around here before posting, because I didn't want to ask something that had already been covered before, so hopefully there won't be too much annoying stuff here. Although, I've probably missed huge threads where things like this are discussed, so sorry :P.
Having said all that though, lots of the subjects I'm interested in asking questions about /have/ been covered before, but perhaps not in the same way that I would like to find out about them, if that makes sense.

Anyway, firstly, right now I'm not really intending to grow my hair as long as most here, just down to shoulder-length or slightly more really. I also want my fringe (they seem to be called bangs here though, hopefully I've understood what that refers to right :) ) to be around the same length as the back, and to hang down to the side, etc. However, there aren't any "shoulder length" message boards I can find, so hopefully you'll tolerate me :).

So, the questions, in the order I remember them:

1) My hair is /very/ thick, which I've seen people here say is great for growing hair very long, but because I want mine to be (comparitively) short, what can I do about it? Is there some sort of stuff I can put on it to try to thin it out, or would it be a better idea to go to a stylist and ask for those thinning scissors or whatever they are? Because I think it looks better and is more controllable when it hasn't been washed for a day or two, but by then it feels horrible and I have to do something about it. When it's been washed, particularly round the back, it looks huge :).

2) I have been parting my hair in the centre recently to try to coax the bangs into the right place, but at the moment rather than hanging at the sides of my head, they're lurking more around the front. However, if I get rid of the parting, they only reach the bottom of my eyes anyway, so presumably it would be correct to say that as they grow longer they'll start to be more willing to go down the sides?

3) I've heard lots of talk about maintenance cuts, but would I need one if I'm only trying to grow it to shoulder-length-ish anyway? How long does the hair at the back have to be before people start thinking about getting maintenance cuts? Because right now it's probably about 2-3 inches or so above my shoulders (that's a rough guess), but I can't really tell if people who have mentioned getting maintenance cuts got them when their hair was well below their shoulders or not.

Err, there were a couple more questions, but I can't remember them now, so I'll leave it at that. If anyone can reply to this and answer them, I'd be extremely greatful :). And, just to inject a little bit of hope into this message (mindful of the main purpose of this forum), my father used to have very long hair (before he got a job in an office, pah!), so there's certainly been a precedent set in this family, that I may want to continue in the future :).

Thanks, this board has been extremely useful to me already and I haven't even posted anything yet :).
(And of couse sorry for no-doubt asking stuff that you've seen a million times before).


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