Hello again spitfire.
How are you?
Foregoing all the face shape stuff, I think that you "could" wear your hair like this. I am guessing you want a radical, new trend for yourself and this could be fun!!! Your hair length right now will enable you to try it out. You just need a product to help you.
I will advise you how, just want to ask one question. Does this style fit your personality? Do you think you can carry it off in public and not care if anyone stares. Cause the old folks will. LOL!!!!! If we think enough of ourselves, like we are supposed to, and love ourselves enough to be who we want to be, than we should not care what others think, especially, the general public who doesn't know us at all!!!!
My advice would be to buy the smallest can of cheap hair spray you can find or if you have any hair spray than great. The small can of cheap stuff is just for experiment purposes only. Your hair will not quite look the way you want to wear it usually. This is for you to judge how you feel about your new look.
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In the privacy of your home, just before shampooing, bend over allowing your hair to fall towards the floor and spray, trying as much as possible to get near the scalp, not so much the ends. I know this sounds impossible. What I sometimes do, though I have to wash my hands off right away, is to spray my fingertips with the spray and very quickly rake my hair at the scalp with the purpose of getting the wet spray in that area before it starts to dry. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE CHEAP SPRAY HAS MORE ALCOHOL AND DRIES THE FASTEST OF ALL SPRAYS. Spray your fingertips over and over, repeating this action until you feel you have the entire scalp covered.
I only recommended a small can of cheap stuff so you won't be out much IF you don't like this look.
Have a blow dryer handy set on
LOW setting to s***d things up and get the look as you want it....all while still having your hair fall towards the floor.
Ok, now don't judge too harshly. The
top of your hair will be too long, yes so imagine it shorter. It will look a lot better and manage a lot easier once cut correctly, yet you have to decide BEfore you cut it. If you walk around the house for a while, checking it out and maybe have your best bud there to help you decide, KNOW that the products I would suggest you buy to get your hair how you want it will NOT leave your hair this stiff and BOZO like. This is just to see if you even like the spikes on you. Once the spray is completely dry, soften up the ends by finger raking with dry,
unsticky hands. As it loosens up, arrange it uniformly to see what you think. Then finger rake up closer and closer to the scalp all while observing in the mirror what you think.
PLEASE NOTE: I would never recommend that one use hair spray and a dryer like this on a regular basis, ESPECIALLY that cheap, major alcohol hairspray, as it will dry the heck out of your hair and ruin it. Just this once, or twice if you can't decide, will be alright. Shampoo, lathering twice as hair spray residue is the pits.
Spiking your hair will be fun and you can tell the stylist you are going to do this so you want the sides a
bit shorter than top {tell him/her you want the top to be no shorter than (we'll start with) 3 inches,} or you will resemble a clown. And yes, right now your top is way too long, regular spiking products are not going to keep it spiked, that would take freezing spray if you wanted this length spiked. It will take a while to train your hair not to part like it has for so long, yet I think you are going to love the new style! You may even decide to only spike some of it, in a messy like look that has been so popular.
These aren't perfect examples of what I'm picturing, yet I think you'll get the idea....
Nick Carter
Christopher J. Hanke
John Mayer
Bradley Cooper
James Stevenson
So experiment, before you go get that cut and then go for it. Have the stylist spike it. It can even be cut a certain way to help the process, a pro will know what to do. He/she can recommend products that you don't have to buy right away. Department stores carry Garnier "Fructis" products that work just fine! Then after your cut and spike, walk the mall, be happy, and don't worry about the old folks, just see how many pretty girls notice you!
