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[ SECRET POST #4412 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4412 ⌋

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[Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid]

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[Haunted (on Netflix), "The Slaughterhouse"]

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[Criminal Minds]

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[The Promised Neverland]

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[British rapper Big Narstie]

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[Criminal Minds season 4, episode 13, "Bloodline"]

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[Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider]

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[Criminal Minds]

That hairstyle doesn't actually look low-maintenance to me. It looks flat-ironed and would probably need at least some product to keep it from going everywhere.

Meanwhile, I can just wrap my almost-waist-length hair into a bun, shove a couple spin pins in it and I'm ready to go in under a minute. And it's a lot less likely to be grabbed, either by perps or by babies.

(Not that I personally know about having hair grabbed by perps.)

Agreed. As someone with superfine hair (that is curly if I let it grow, which I usually do not because I am way too fucking lazy to deal with hair), it looks like she spends quality time with a flatiron and product in that pic.

I agree it's a weird looking cut too. Almost wig-like.

I had hair that length when I was a teen and the amount of upkeep it needed to not look like ass was far more than I expected or was happy with. I chopped off my long hair under the assumption that it'd be easier to deal with but it wasn't.

These days my hair is down to my ass and unless I want to look fancy when going out I just curl it up on top of my head and pin it in place, takes me like 5 mins.

I wish I could pin my hair up! It's too fine to stay in for long without mass amounts of products. But my go to mum-hair round tiny children was to plait it.

I wish I could pin my hair up! It's too fine to stay in for long without mass amounts of products.

Saaaame. A ponytail I can do, obviously. But putting my hair into a bun involves:

- Six or eight bobby pins.
- The low-key pain of said bobby pins poking my scalp all day.
- The annoyance of said bobby pins slowly working their way out of my hair and me having to shove them back in all day.
- The crunchy feeling of a whole bunch of product in my hair.

Updos are hard as fuck for people with extremely fine, extremely slippery hair (plus they don't look very good, because instead of a nice big textured bunch of hair, you just get this tight little knot on your head).

Friends, have you heard the good news about Spin Pins?

My hair is baby-fine, and a couple of those hold them like iron, super-comfortable, no product needed.

They can't help with the "small pun" issue, but I don't mind that because I'm just getting it all out of the way while I do stuff, I'm not worried about how they look beyond "neat."

Wheras my hair is super thick and curly. I could put in a ponytail when it was long, and that was about it. Braids would great really messy and look terrible really quickly. And were also painful. Ponytails were painful after a while.

I don't know about this character, but I've had women with naturally straight hair telling me that cutting it short was definitely higher maintenance, because before they could just let it hang down, but now they need to use products and spend time styling it.

My hair is more wavy/semi-curly and I experienced something similar when I cut it shorter before spending a semester in the tropics. Without it's own weight pulling it down, my hair turned into a fluff ball that I had no idea how to manage. I wasn't even aware at the time how curly my hair was (neither was the stylist). Now that I know I manage the curls better, but I still won't cut it shorter than shoulder length.

Interesting. My hair is super thick and also wavy/semi-curly. It is so thick that even brushing it was a challenge when it was long. It would get tangles underneath. Cutting it in a bob (a bit shorter than JJs in the picture) has been much more low maintenance for me. No product except a little argon oil some days.

Edited 2019-02-02 23:16 (UTC)

My hair is very curly but also extremely fine. I recently cut it in a bob thinking it would be lower maintenance (it was also very hard to comb even using truckloads of conditioner) and regretted it - the length made up for the lack of volume, but now it looks terrible if I just let it be and I need to carefully style it instead :(

I too have thick, curly hair and I can't manage it at all if it gets past about chin-length. It starts to frizz and tangle and it's awful. Shorter than that, though? It's literally just wash, scrunch and go.

Same. I keep my hair super short currently because I got sick in my 20's and it started going crazy thin and falling out (I used to have ridiculously thick hair), and because it's so short you wouldn't know it's curly, but if I let it get long enough it gets weird curly until it's long enough to be weighted down.

I never minded JJ's hair at any point. I like the character a lot and think the actress is very pretty, so - it's all good.

I don't get the 'new moms need new hair' thing, though. I mean - sure, if you want a change, go for it, but - a baby can be put in a bouncy chair or whatever for the five to fifteen minutes you need to do your 'do. Unless you're rocking some kind of crazy thing that takes two hours, there's no need to chop off your hair just 'cause you have a kid.

My sister was tired of curious baby hands constantly grabbing into her hair and pulling/tangling into it, no matter if it was in a bun or in a plait, or just hanging down. She gave up eventually and chopped it off to chin length. :)

:D
My mom cut her hair when her braid kept swinging down and smacking us four in the face (she didn't cut it until I was at least five, I think). I had waist-length hair when my daughter was born and never cut it.

Mine was just past my armpits. I cut it to just below chin length. I've had half as many headaches since I chopped it. I honestly never realized how heavy my hair was until I cut it. But I have super thick hair that was just impossible to keep on top of when it was long.

No kids, but my cat did like to bat at my hair when it was long.

Heee. I get a headache if i put my hair in a ponytail all day, so generally I go with it down or up with hairsticks (which makes me look like Olive Oyl). I'm not a big hair-do person, i just don't have the skills or the patience.

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philstar22 - 2019-02-02 23:28 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2019-02-03 02:45 (UTC) - Expand

It's because mothers are supposed to have nothing to distract them from being the (impossibly) perfect mother. How dare any mom put her own vanity above being constantly available for her children?

(Never mind the facts that babies need to be left alone for brief periods of time sometimes so that they'll learn how to self-soothe.)

I always boggle at the tv-trope new mom who is all 'i haven't showered in three days!!' Really? You have a crib? A car seat? Stick the kid in there and take a shower. They'll be fine.

Take the baby in the shower with you and now both of you are clean. That's what I did.

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tabaqui - 2019-02-03 05:20 (UTC) - Expand

That cut wasn't good. A little shorter would have looked better to me and lower maintenance. But yes, that's totally flat-ironed and has all the product in it. Honestly, it really depends on people's hair. My hair is much lower maintenance shorter. Keeping it long was difficult before I chopped it off. But I think it is different for people with thinner and/or straighter hair. Hers looks like it is easier to care for long.

But the actress really was pregnant, so it's quite possible this was the best they could do with her post-pregnancy hair, since for most people it looks pretty terrible then, thanks to hormones.

I didn't mind her having shorter hair, but I can see where, with the way it's styled sometimes, it can look a bit odd.

I love JJ's hair in general, though. I wish mine could be as shiny and soft.

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