I have no idea what CJ's hair is really like. He has always kept it buzzed. I tried to get him to grow it out one summer and it maybe got an inch long before he couldn't stand it and begged me to get it buzzed again.

I do remember spending time with K-Bug, after she would wash her hair, combing it out and working through the tangles. There were tears, but she wanted her hair long, so she would suck it up and deal.

I've had my hair short for the last few years, so not much in the way of tangles, but now that I'm trying to grow it out, who knows.

Let us not EVEN speak of what happens to my hair during sex. Not. Even. Funny.

We need to send Teppy on one of those zero-g flights so we can get pictures of her with Space Hair.

Let us not EVEN speak of what happens to my hair during sex. Not. Even. Funny.

Snerk.

My hair is super fine, too, and very short right now. When I get up in the morning, it's not snarled so much as ... bent. Like, it's so fine, it just bends funny. My bedhead is legendary in this house.

I wonder if I have the patience to grow it out really long again.

I find that once mine is ponytail length it no longer takes patience to grow it out, just inertia -- and I have that in spades.

A fellow in our neighborhood opened up his own salon in the basement of his house and he gives a fantastic haircut for $30, including tip. This gives me such joy, I can't even tell you. We can never, ever move out of the neighborhood now.

I haven't colored my hair since the Fall, so I have been pleasantly surprised by the I'm-not-as-gray-as-I-thought-I-was discovery (although I have a lot more gray than my DH).

I haven't colored my hair since the Fall, so I have been pleasantly surprised by the I'm-not-as-gray-as-I-thought-I-was discovery

If I stopped coloring my hair now, I think I might discover the opposite. Sadly.

My hair was never cut until I was 12 and it was knee length. Mother would wash it once a week and it took about a half hour to comb out, while I stood and whimpered. Of course, once she braided it into two pigtails, it was the easiest hair ever, until the next week.

My hair waves when it's damp and goes stick straight when it's dry, except for a couple of cowlicks that stick straight out.

Let us not EVEN speak of what happens to my hair during sex.

I loved the sex scenes in The Big Easy, in which Dennis Quaid catch her hair and she's say "Ouch." Usually movie sex seems to magically do away with awkward body parts.

My mom had bad memories of painful combing and braiding sessions as a child (even though she, like me, has pretty straight hair), so she kept my hair like this mostly:

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When I chose to grow it out myself when I was in junior high I had no idea how to deal with the knots that would form at the back of my neck. Plus I don't think I really used conditioner then. weird.

If I stopped coloring my hair now, I think I might discover the opposite. Sadly.

My hairdresser and I have talked some about letting my gray grow in. She has some process she'd use so that it wouldn't look like progressively bigger grey roots. I'm kind of intrigued about what I'd look like, the grey is pretty extensive now I think. But I'm not ready to take the plunge.

My hair was never cut until I was 12 and it was knee length. Mother would wash it once a week and it took about a half hour to comb out, while I stood and whimpered.

Wow. My hair never got below waist-length, and at that length, it would generally take an hour to comb out. (The length of one China Beach episode. Or Northern Exposure. For some reason, those are the shows that I always remember being on TV while my mom was combing out my hair. Once in a while, it was thirtysomething.)

Plus I don't think I really used conditioner then.

In college I lived with 3 other girls, and I was *stunned* to find that none of them used conditioner. None! And their hair was shiny and healthy.

If I didn't use conditioner (in the shower, rinse out, and then once I'm out of the shower, a spray-on leave-in conditioner), my hair would be unbrushable straw.

I use the Curl Friends leave-in conditioner. It works wonders.