Are we all really not having our hair done?

I did the same Gagajo... I got really fed up paying out a fortune for my grey roots to be done every 5 weeks.. so decided to see if my hair was white/grey or silver under my unnatural blonde. It’s turned out to be a glorious silver in very good condition ...... the woman who cuts my hair loves it .... but mostly I love it! Go for it! What’s good enough for Judy Dench it’s good enough for moi!

Grump, grump!
Irritates me that the presenters look as if they have no Corona hair problems. If they can have it done, why can’t we? I bet they don’t stay 2m away. If the BBC has PPE- give it to the NHS. Feeling righteous???
Then this morning, chatting to my new neighbour over the fence, she mentioned she used to be a hairdresser Before having children. Guess what I’m thinking?

I coloured my hair for years but got fed up with it, so it was cut very short and left the colour to see what came through. At first I resembled a hamster with my hair having brown, blond, and various shades The end result was a head of lovely white hair. Now I just have to find sale for longer curly hair.

My style is now Worzel Gummidge but have to grin and bear it.

Not everyone goes to the hairdressers all the time, I used to go twice a week to have my hair done but these days I mostly do it myself, as I just done have a good hairdresser since we moved and its tooo far to go to my old one in Upminster. I do my own hair every day, I use box colour when it is needed as for me it lasts much better than anything the hairdresser would use and Iam happy applying it never had a disaster (which I have in the hairdressers) and I know what colour I am getting (I alternate between two similar colours to avoid build up). The only time I visit the hairdresser these days is every 6 weeks for a trim. I was due to go the Saturday after lockdown but my hair is just getting longer, I am still styling it every day. I can however tie it back now. For me lockdown is not an excuse for standards to fall. I still put on my makeup each day and do my weekly manicure and paint my nails even though I am not allowed out for another 6-8 weeks)

Watching The Big Night In last night I noticed that Zoe Ball definitely had not had her hair done and thought glad its not just me, but know what you mean about Nicola Sturgeon!

Right from the start, I felt people in the public eye would get their hair done.

It must be difficult for women with especially styled hairstyles which need regular maintenance. My hair will only need the fringe trimmed and I can manage that myself.

If there's a partial relaxation of the rules and shops and businesses start opening, maybe they'll let you get your hair done if you just have a dry trim and wear a mask??

Those of you who have said their hair is going grey cos no Hairdresser to colour it, can get dye online, no prob, Nice and Easy is as it says on box, easy to do. If me at 85 can do it, you young ones can!

Im so lucky my daughter lives with me and is a hairdresser, im highlighted and trimmed to perfection

I bought some thinning scissors,recommended by my hairdresser as my hair is so thick,it is shortish so managed to do it ok,In fact it was lot easier then I thought it would be.
Ok I did get carried away a bit and it’s a tad shorter then normal.
I then coloured it myself.

How nice it would be if we all had our hairdressers giving us online tutoring. I think Nicola Sturgeon should realise that the appearance of our hair is not the most important thing at the moment.

One of our local female presenters on tv did look a bit worse for wear last night and I could see a faint moustache! Poor woman, she's obviously not used to looking after the essentials herself.

My hair has grown so much I'm sure I will be mistaken by a stray bird soon thinking it is his home. I have managed to cut my fringe, which wasn't too bad. I watched YouTube and cut upwards at an angle. Hope hairdressers are one of the first businesses to reopen - then we probably won't get an appointment for weeks/months!

Aepgirl Nicola very much recognised it wasn’t important and did make that clear in her interview, but she recognised it was a lighter moment that is also needed at this time. Not often I agree with the woman but I did here.

I have cut my own for years. I started by cutting DH's, with a Phillips hair clipper that went up to a 42mm setting. Then I got fed up with getting cuts from professionals that were nowhere near what I had asked for, so I tried on my own hair - and since then have never paid a hair dresser for at least 30 years. The original clipper wore out (in mid-cut!) so I had to buy another, but Phillips still make one (the 9000 series) that goes up to 42mm - as far as I can tell it is the only one on the market.

In fact, I suspect it cuts my hair longer than that - maybe 50mm, which is about two inches. I avoid cutting the front where it frames my face, and trim this a bit longer with scissors. There are interchangeable combs which guide the hair into the cutters, and feed it in at the appropriate length, so there is no chance of getting a "baldy" by mistake! This made it possible for me to allow DH to cut the back, where I couldn't see whether I had caught all of it. I wouldn't have trusted him with scissors! Nowadays I have to do that myself (or ask a passing daughter or female friend) but I have evolved an effective technique - which I will detail later if anyone would like to know it. The instruction leaflet rather glosses over that part.

I have a short pixie style and have always cut my fringe and used to cut the children's hair when they were little.
The best thing I bought recently on line was a thinning scissors. I watched a few videos and had a go on myself, I think I did a pretty good job.
I know what you mean about looking in a mirror and missing the cut completely - that takes a bit of practice.

I used to laugh when my dad went to the barbers and asked for a three month haircut - I guess it was to save money in them olden days! I am laughing at me now as I had about 8 inches taken off my long gray hair just before lockdown. So I guess I have the three month haircut now! For anyone wishing to embrace the gray this is the perfect time to do it. I did so several years ago and am so glad I no longer fuss with roots and colouring.

Annepl is that Worthington of the Red Barrel Beer?

My mother always swore that the best shampoo was a bottle of Guinness - you didn’t wash your hair in it mind, you drank it and didn’t give a hoot how your hair looked !!!

Loved this.

Put a coloured spray on the roots till the hairdressers are open. Chemical colours can be a bit dodgy. You can cut your own hair with instructions from Youtube. I did mine and it looks great.

Have been home colouring and cutting my hair for the last 20 years. Nice n easy dark blonde every 12/13 weeks. Nice n easy dark blonde root touch up every 2/3 weeks. Its’s the simplest thing in world, works extremely well and costs peanuts compared to hairdresser prices. I started after a disastrous hairdresser experience and have never looked back.
Cutting is pretty straightforward too. My hair is shoulder length . I comb it all forward into a front ponytail and snip a straight line across. This produces natural layers. I get my OH to check that the back is reasonably even. My hair is slightly curly / wavy - which I think helps. Superdrug do the same two colour packs but I find their “dark blonde” slightly lighter.

Alex on the 'one show' admitted the other week that she wasn't as groomed because she was having to do her own hair and makeup. She actually looked fine. I think a lot of the are doing their own

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Are you sure these well groomed people on TV don't have a husband or wife who is good at cutting hair.

I know make-up artists are employed by TV, but most women can make up perfectly by themselves.

I knew I should have got DH to retrain as a hairdresser!

Grateful I decided to stop all the coloured highlights and went for silver to match my roots. No problem with colouring now. I do have two aerosols of Loreal medium blonde root spray going spare if anyone desperate!