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Aerows

(39,961 posts)
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:02 PM Jun 2013

Hair and heat

So I got my hair chopped off by about 3 inches. It's still at my shoulders. I did it so it wouldn't be so damn hot this summer. I literally sweltered like I was in a smokehouse last summer, and couldn't do it again.

I got a haircut. It was a nice swing bob where the ends caressed my shoulders. I was still dying of heatstroke. Now I have is whacked in the back about 1/2 inch, with strands in my face and GOOD LORD IT IS LIBERTY!!

It isn't hot anymore.

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Hair and heat (Original Post) Aerows Jun 2013 OP
K and why don't you post pics? NYC_SKP Jun 2013 #1
Did you think I'd be Stepford? Aerows Jun 2013 #3
Not at all! I was just dating myself... NYC_SKP Jun 2013 #7
That's just wrong Aerows Jun 2013 #8
If i shave my back will it cool me down ????? olddots Jun 2013 #2
I'm fairly incapable. Aerows Jun 2013 #4
What you've done with your hair sounds lovely. In_The_Wind Jun 2013 #5
Thank you Aerows Jun 2013 #6
I grow my hair longer in the summer LWolf Jun 2013 #9
I have more ways to put it up Aerows Jun 2013 #10
Keeping it up is the key. Arugula Latte Jun 2013 #15
Me, too. I seem to be hotter with a pageboy. Can't get it out of my face. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2013 #13
I have thick, ass-length hair. For now v REP Jun 2013 #11
God Aerows Jun 2013 #14
I guess my father knew this 50 years ago ConcernedCanuk Jun 2013 #12
Debating on doing that myself. GoCubsGo Jun 2013 #16
I have spent the last 10 years kurtzapril4 Jun 2013 #17
i need a haircut fizzgig Jun 2013 #18
Receptionist where I give blood rurallib Jun 2013 #19
Not just heat, convenience. Denninmi Jun 2013 #20
oh ya handmade34 Jun 2013 #21
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. K and why don't you post pics?
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:33 PM
Jun 2013

They don't have to be of you, actually, but maybe something representative of your hair... i.e.:



 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
7. Not at all! I was just dating myself...
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:54 PM
Jun 2013

Meaning giving away my age, not meaning that I would actually take myself on a date, though I have done that!

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
2. If i shave my back will it cool me down ?????
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:42 PM
Jun 2013

people that know me would say nothing could make me cool .

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
6. Thank you
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:49 PM
Jun 2013

I've had it long for several summers, but couldn't take it anymore due to the heat. It's still sexy , of at least I think it is.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
9. I grow my hair longer in the summer
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 07:37 PM
Jun 2013

so I can get it up completely off of my neck and face. I cut it in the fall, when temperatures come back down.

Summer? Heat? It's ponytail time.

REP

(21,691 posts)
11. I have thick, ass-length hair. For now v
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 08:08 PM
Jun 2013

It's near 100. Even though it's up in a bun, it may be on the floor soon. I just had four inches removed, but obviously, not enough.

I come this >< close to shaving my head each summer...

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
14. God
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 11:46 AM
Jun 2013

I couldn't imagine enduring that in summer, but I'm glad you can, because long hair is very pretty.

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
12. I guess my father knew this 50 years ago
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 08:34 PM
Jun 2013

.
.
.

I never really knew why he gave us all "brush cuts" for the summer.

Now it makes sense!

CC

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
16. Debating on doing that myself.
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 05:09 PM
Jun 2013

I went from a shorter-than-I-want to just-past-the-shoulders. I have been wearing it pulled back into a pony tail, so it's pretty cool. Been trimming my bangs myself, and will hopefully decide what to do next by the time they grow back over my eyes again.

kurtzapril4

(1,353 posts)
17. I have spent the last 10 years
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 06:00 PM
Jun 2013

trying to get my hair to grow past my shoulders. I switched to a new shampoo, and within 2 years, it's down to the middle of my back. So, I ain't cutting it, no way, no how! I put it up in a bun or ponytails if it gets too annoying. Apparently, we're going to have a cool, wet summer here, so I leave it down most of the time. Last summer it was hot as hell and droughty, so I had it up most of the time.

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
18. i need a haircut
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 06:04 PM
Jun 2013

my pixie is just shaggy dog now and i'm dying in this heat. i wore my hair to my shoulders or longer for years and shaved it all off when i turned 30. i'm never going back to long hair.

rurallib

(62,343 posts)
19. Receptionist where I give blood
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 08:20 PM
Jun 2013

had hair to the middle of the back - really thick and tangly.
Just before she went on vacation (a trip home to Kenya) she got a buzz cut.
That was March - she still is buzzed and so happy about it.
She actually looks younger and she doesn't have all the maintenance

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
20. Not just heat, convenience.
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 08:57 PM
Jun 2013

The longest hair on my head is about 2 inches. Over the ears, tapered down the back to an inch or so above the collar, only short "bangs" (is it even called that in men's cuts?).

I couldn't stand it any longer. At almost 50, it's as thick and full as it used to be, which is great.

Beard trimmed really close, too - more like lengthy stubble, actually.

handmade34

(22,755 posts)
21. oh ya
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 09:08 PM
Jun 2013

the last time I worked in Arizona, I shaved my head... so much cooler

(and much easier to tend to)

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