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⌈ Secret Post #5657 ⌋

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01. https://i.imgur.com/X8xSXJf.png

[(Anonymous)]

Ah yes, I too like to pretend that the character is just wake up like that, is not affected by sweat, and some how those curls and volume are always on point (as a person with natural hair). But we all know it's just an amazing stylist T.T or wig. Shout out to all the fic writers who have their OCs as curly headed (of different textures) characters! And actually write a bit of the process into it -- like no, MC is not running his hand through her hair lol

Enjoy your hair, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

I think about this when watching TV and movies, too! I also have curly hair, too, and not only that, but it's also really thick. Other people manage to make their thick, curly hair look cute, while mine often looks like I stuck my finger in an electric socket, LOL. Or it looks really limp and blah. I'm not well versed in how to style hair at all, but I feel like it's something I should learn.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... nowadays I straighten my hair so I don't have to deal with the hardships of having curly hair (don't have time for that anymore) but, while standards set by TV are obviously always going to be crazy standards, I know now that it's not that curly hair is ridiculously hard to take care of, it's more that the correct products aren't as widely available as they should be and we keep insisting on the wrong products and routines.

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The secret is a personal stylist.

[(Anonymous)]

I want Bruno's hair in Encanto. Dude LIVED IN THE WALLS and had perfect curls.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favorite hairstylists was very interested in the science of hair (and she did just absolutely mathematically precise cuts) and she told me that there are two kinds of hair shafts - round, which is straight hair and flat, which is curly. From there of course there's also amount of hair, texture, oil production etc.

Hair is super individualized - I have by definition flat shafts: curly hair. It however only presents as wavy, and it took me years to figure out that just because it's very thick no, for the love of God, it can't handle layers. Every magazine says to de-bulk your hair, but in my case that was the worst thing for it and I followed the advise until I was in my mid-twenties and got a one-length bob (I was going through a flapper phase). I've kept it one length ever since and it never looks like the wreck it could be. Plus I've figured out it doesn't like being washed often (low natural oil production), I use two expensive products only just after washing (one to encourage curl, the other to smooth flyaways) and let it airdry but pinned in two strategic places so it won't curl over my face...it sounds like a whole production but it really isn't once you figure out your exact hair.

All of that being said, the stylist who taught me about hair types told me that if I was ever on camera they would never bother trying to keep my natural hair, it wouldn't be trusted to hold continuity from shot to shot. They'd put me in a wig and that would be the end of it, not even trusting straightening. (I live in LA, so every stylist has either worked on a set or knows someone who has.)

Also fun fact: almost every actress on TV who isn't wearing a wig has extensions in to make their hair look fuller. The best example is Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory. She specifically asked not to wear extensions except for maybe one or two episodes where she was dressed formally. It makes her hair look super thin and limp when she's in scenes with Penny and Bernadette (both of whom I assume have more of other people's hair on their heads than their own.)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have curly hair, but I too like to pretend that the characters I like just wake up like that. Occasionally I headcanon that a character makes a significant effort with their appearance, but not that often. I mean, I don't headcanon most characters as neglecting their appearance utterly. They take care of themselves, generally. But usually I like to imagine they don't do a whole lot extra.

Fun sidenote: I've worked as a background extra for years, and something I find really amusing is that 95% of the time you can tell who the actors are just by looking at them--especially the female actors. It's not even that they're better looking than the extras, though that can often be true as well. It's that they look polished in a way that nobody else does. Everything about them is just so.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you live in a humid environment? That can also cause frizz, OP. In addition to brushing your hair when its dry, rather than damp.

[(Anonymous)]

Right?? I want to know how people sleep with it. Everyone is like, don't dry brush it! Okay well how am I getting is straight enough to braid before bed then so that I don't wake up with a rat's nest? I struggle to shower once a day, I am not doing it twice just so I can comb my hair.

[(Anonymous)]

As a person with straight fine hair that goes limp and oily if you look at it wrong I always thought that curls even at their worst are much more cool looking

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watch more 70's shows, a lot of the actors on them have curly hair

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02. https://i.imgur.com/e4fNCtW.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I love the Discworld books, but if you don't care for Pratchett's writing style... well, that's it, then. You can't escape it, it's part of the total package. I can't even mentally separate his humor from his writing style, they're so bound up in one another.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/T2kyZmk.png

[(Anonymous)]

She is so damn cool in everything.

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04. https://i.imgur.com/nAePkAa.png

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the character. I know quite a few guys who have confided in me that they wish they could experience what it's like - it's a whole connection they miss out on with their kids. I'm sure they could happily skip the indignities of it though lol.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/yngtiVZ.png

[(Anonymous)]

Ah yes, truly the Madonna of our time.

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06. https://i.imgur.com/yGDqshW.png

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao this made me laugh with childish glee? Sorry about the nightmare tho (were they eating you? I'm assuming they're gummy candies shaped like bugs?)

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