I've had feathered hair, mullets, flat tops, buzzcuts and baldness, but the inspiration for this post comes from my wife. Since she is on vacation for a month, she let me shave her head. She was considering an ultra-short style for summer, and I dared her to do her hair like mine, which has been kept shaved more or less since 93. Never thought she'd go through with it, but she can be pretty determined at times, especially when I was so certain she'd chicken out. She just never struck me as someone who would do it, but she really surprised me.
As it turned out, she looked pretty good. She didn't hate it, as she had expected, and I actually liked it. The urge to tease was still there, however, and I gave her a bit of "who loves ya baby", "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera", and a couple of cracks about V'ger. All in fun, of course.
To her credit, she handled it better than I did the first time. She had been all ready to wear hats and scarves, but mostly just went out bald. She made me wear hats, however, so we didn't look like one of those families that wear matching t-shirts. A bald couple is stranger than a bald woman. She got a couple of stares, but also a lot of compliments, the most surprising coming from my mom (Simon Cowell as a 70-year-old church lady), who still disapproves of my bald head after more than a decade. We also had a great time scaring the living crap out of the girl who rents our spare room.
My wife is about a week into the regrowth, and has been fascinated by each stage - scratchy, velvety and fuzzy, so far. Sounds like she's going to let it go until it grows out to the ultra-short length she'd intended. Hmmm, growing it out to ultra-short. Weird.
Anyway, what is the wildest 'do' you've ever had? Was it a mullet, mohawk, pompadour, afro? Blue, green, pink? Ever shave your head?
Post Edited (07-01-04 08:13)
In the mid-80's, I had curly perms in my hair. In 1985, when I started a new job, one guy saw me and the first thing out of his mouth was "stay away from my daughter." His daughter, I learned, was 13, so I said, "no problem."
In the early 90's, I let it grow and grow. The lady who cut my hair told me each person has a maximum length their hair will grow, so I wanted to see what mine was. At the same time, I let my beard grow and grow. I looked 100% like pure scumbag there for a while. My wife has seen some pictures from those days and has said she'd never have talked to me looking like that. (It was also done partly as an experiment in sociology....to see if people treated me differently-they did).
Now, it's a simple flattop. Well, not so simple. Since moving two years ago, it has taken me numerous tries to FINALLY find a barber around here who cuts a decent flattop. My hair has looked like crap for most of the two years we've lived here.
In college I let my hair grow all the way past my ears! which my mom let me know in no uncertain terms was not acceptable to her. Kind of put me in a bad mood on my graduation.
Now I keep my hair shorter, partly because I'm out in the workforce but mostly because I get annoyed when my hair gets long.
So Andy, you're saying that your "Lieutenant Ilea" fantasies have finally come true?
Hehe! Just kidding.
Actually, I've been losing my hair for about 5 years now so I just buzz the s**t off once a week.
No guard on the clippers.
Here's a picture of me taken in February of this year:
(http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/98e6eca9/bc/b5e3/__sr_/51e0.jpg?phyC85ABKMrQC1eQ)
I originally posted that pic on the Pro Wrestling thread that Scott wrote.
I am supposed to be in a wrestling pose.
Post Edited (07-04-04 03:15)
I've had the exact same hair for 21 years.
Brother Ragnarok wrote:
> I've had the exact same hair for 21 years.
>
Really? You *never* get a haircut? The exact same hair?
jk :)
My usual hair cut are "flat tops" I like the look and it fits the shape of my head nicely. My wildest would be around the time I need a haircut and I slack off from brushing it for a day or two.
In 1973 when I joined the Navy I had hair almost to my shoulders and big set of mutton chop sideburns. In boot camp they took it all off in about 30 seconds. After I got out I wore in over my ears (it was the 70's) until about 1985 and I just started wearing it about like I had it in the Navy and it's been the same since (except grayer)..
80's=heavy metal=big hair
end of story
I dyed it purple once, altho that was entirely a misrepresentation of color by Clairol, not to mention the beginning of the saga in discovering that redheads do not take to dyes very well. I intentionally dyed it blue and had a mohawk for halloween, if that counts ;-) My hair was probably 3 feet long and it was 1986..good times ;-)
Post Edited (07-01-04 20:30)
Did she go through the fascination of rubbing her stubbly head? It's an interesting sensation. So much so that when I shaved my head in high school I couldn't keep away from rubbing it every couple of hours. In fact, I think I had other people rubbing my head. Always a good thing when you're trying to attract girls.
Speaking of which, has anybody seen Sinead O'Connor with hair? She's surprisingly pretty. Why are the pretty ones always insane?
Anyway, my wildest haircut was when I shaved the entire top of my head bald. Just the top of my head. I left the sides with hair. I looked like a forty year old, this when I was still in high school. I was going to shave my head like Mr. T, but that took a lot of work so I skipped it to the just the top of the head. Of course I was also too lazy to cut it for a while after that, so had a regular butch top on the top of my head with really long hair on the sides. It must have been a weird look, and I wish I had pictures. I'm sure I got weird looks, but I didn't pay attention because I was in that "phase".
Of course this was directly after I had used excessive Brylcreem in my hair for the better part of the year. Keep in mind this was the mid-90's.
Man, this is making me feel bad. I'm not going to have hair for too much longer. Why bother being extreme with the balding haircut when it turns out I was only ten or so years away?
My haircuts haven't been extreme, except fwhen I gave myself a haircut at the age of 5. But when I was in high school it changed colour almost every month. It has been white blond, gray, purple, blue, orange, brown, red, green, auburn and pastel pink... occasionally it has been several of these colours at once (I was a big punk fan in high school). Now it is my natural medium blond and has been for a while.
spiked mohawk with devil locks.
I haven't ever done anything weird with my hair. At times, it's been fairly long, like shoulder length, but that's mainly because I'm too lazy to get it cut. I also have a mustache and scruffy beard, also because I'm too lazy to shave. A guy I knew once remarked that I was starting to look like Jesus.
Thankfully, I don't seen to be losing my hair at all and so far the only gray I have is in my facial hair.
Just a pic of me and the Mrs. They say that when couples are together long enough, they start to look alike. There might be something to that.
(If I can get this stupid HTML to work, you will see it. Scott, how do I do this?)
Post Edited (07-02-04 18:17)
andy....to post a pic:
type IMG in brackets, then type the link, then type IMG in brackets again, except put / in front
it will look like this, only use BRACKETS instead of those ( )'s
(IMG) http://www.typeyourimagelink.jpg (/IMG)
Post Edited (07-02-04 20:42)
Here it is. I think we make a cute couple. Kind of like THX and LUH. She's out to a respectable buzzcut now, and still growing.
(http://www3.sympatico.ca/lorijac/bald.jpg)
Post Edited (07-03-04 11:00)
Woah! Its Larry the Cable Guy and the Misses!
Advertising space...thats what i call that!
Hey, i'm loseing my hair, and i don't care. I don't say my hair lines receding, i say my foreheads advancing! Its all in how you look at it.
And lookin' at that pic, AndyC, i dub thee "Low Drag"!
ASHTHECAT wrote:
> So Andy, you're saying that your "Lieutenant Ilea" fantasies
> have finally come true?
Would you believe my wife made the same joke? I told her no dead Indian b-movie actress could possibly compete with her.
Seriously though, I did find her new do kind of exciting. Go figure.
Mofo Rising wrote:
> Did she go through the fascination of rubbing her stubbly head?
She seems to be rubbing it more now that it's grown out to about a quarter inch and gotten softer. She didn't like the prickly feel of the first few days so much, but actually thought it looked pretty funky - not like a buzz, yet not shaved smooth either.
The weirdest was her initial reaction to touching it when it was smooth. She said it seemed kind of unreal, almost like she was wearing a swimming cap. She also couldn't really connect the sensation with her own head. Kind of like she was rubbing her own scalp and feeling mine. That was interesting. The texture was familiar, but only in a certain context.
I recall the first time I shaved my head, it was a bit unreal to reach up and feel a surface where there had been hair. Still, it was the only shaved head I'd ever felt (until a couple of weeks ago, in fact), so I did not know the feeling or associate it with anything else. My wife's reaction was something of a surprise.
Kind of a fun experiment all around.
Post Edited (07-05-04 13:30)
MOHAWK in elementary school
My hair was Crayola Purple for a few days last year... but that was on accident.
My mother never let me cut my hair when i was a kid.. i had strawberry blonde wavy hair past my butt forever... then one day i chopped it off to my cheeks.. bad idea when you're 12... i looked like a chipmunk... so i grew it out again.. the curl never really came back and the color turned more red-brown over the years.... finally in my sophmore year in high school (the year my husand and i first dated) at the end of the year i went crazy .. i dunno some adolescent mood swing and chopped it of into a layered bob and dyed it purple.. i LOVED IT!!!! and have experimented ever since... i never grew it past my shoulders until now....... for my daughter and my husband i will regrow my hair.... men love long locks on a woman... 'sigh' atleast until i can't fight the urge anymore.. LOL
you can't be a woman.. LMAO men are so content with themselves just as they are... damn this estrogen... DAMN!!
i like her shirt... does it come in blue??? LOL