I was born with really fine hair. R E A L L Y fine hair. As a child, my mom kept my hair cut short because she just could not find a style that would do much of anything. As a teenager, I remember being envious of the other girls who had long, thick flowing locks, while I really had to work on my hair to give it any type of fullness.
When I was a teen, I spent countless hours with a curling iron and hairspray, trying to get my hair to do something it just did not want to do. We didn’t have all of the fancy hair styling tools we do these days, so it really was quite a bit of work.
Now that we’ve come so far with the internet, the possibilities are endless for just about everything we might need to make our lives easier. And to make us look gorgeous. Take for instance the BaByliss root boost which creates volume without back combing. Yeah back combing – something else I tried for fullness, but it only left my hair tangled (and the occasional round brush completely stuck in my hair). I’m pretty sure that this hair tool would have made my life so much easier. Or perhaps even the BaByliss big hair tool for some much needed volume.
Would life have been simpler had I been born later? I am not sure, but I do know that had these fancy hair tools been invented while I was younger, that I would have been a much happier teenager, and my mom would have appreciated that!
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I have the opposite, thick hair, and I hate it! It takes forever to dry, it’s a pain in the butt to straighten… I wish it were thinner and had all sorts of fun highlights and things going on to look “young and cool” LOL
I guess it’s normal to want what we don’t have…it would be nice if there was an in between that we would both be happy with 🙂
I am with Mandi too, I have the opposite my hair is thick thick thick! and it never wants to do anything but be wavy and frizzy. Takes me forever to get it straightened and I have to get thinned when I go to the salon so that it is manageable.
But back in the day when I was working at a call center a co worker and I were talking and she has hair like yours and she and I came to the same conclusion that you just want the opposite of what you have.
Yep – it’s true!
You can borrow my thick hair anytime you like. I hated my hair growing up and still do during the summer. In Florida during the summer, my thick hair becomes frizzy and unmanageable. I think you have beautiful hair by the way.
Well you are too sweet! Mine just becomes extra flat in humid weather! At least you have body, even if it is frizzy 🙂
I have hair just like yours and it drives me crazy some days. My mother was the one who always tried to style my hair and make it “poofy”… it never did work. Now I stick mostly to braids or buns. Thanks for the post!
Poofy hair…oh boy!
I have thick hair and used to be extremely jealous of the girls who had fine, pin straight hair. Now I’m (sorta) liking my thick, wavy hair because I straighten it every day. 🙂
At least you have a choice! I think that would be pretty neat. No need to be jealous 🙂