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'Soul Purpose'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


§ ita § - Mar 21, 2011 11:43:52 am PDT #18091 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm pretty sure I look better with my hair short than long, but I can't really visualise my hair long and natural. Too many choices I'm not willing to make.

People tell me I made a good choice because my head is shaped okay for short hair, but...my hair would be short anyway. So I kinda take it as a slam on my cluelessness. But it's no biggie.


Beverly - Mar 21, 2011 12:25:55 pm PDT #18092 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I have Ginger's teflon hair--though not the pretty color. I have found if I use product I can keep it off my face, long or short, and this is key. In summer I actually prefer it long enough to put up, because I hate the shaved-nape feeling, and also hot weather hair on my neck. Ponytails pull too much (I wince when I see someone running, ponytail swinging. Ow. Owowow.), so I do a Buffy kind of twist and skewer thing with pinchy clips or chopsticks or giant hairpins. I like the ease of day-to-day care of short hair, but dislike being dependent on the kindness of iffy haircutters, and the frequency of that need. Long and straight is not my most attractive look, but I can trim it myself, and get it off my face.

I need a live-in hair cutter. Not a stylist, I don't care what your vision is, I want it cut the way I tell you and shut up. Thank you, here's your (generous) tip.


erin_obscure - Mar 21, 2011 12:27:02 pm PDT #18093 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

I've had long hair most of my life, tried something new by chopping it off and donating when i turned 30 and still growing it back. I found short hair to be far too much effort given how much more wavy it gets when short. but i do recall it being a huge burden during hot VA summers. In OR, nsm. My one fail-proof straggle-proof hairstyle that can withstand a full day of ANYTHING is 2 french braids pinned up in the back. The french braid part holds all the short hairs away from my face, and it looks really fancy. I can get it done in less than 15 minutes, but it doesn't always look as good if i rush the beginning of the braids.


beekaytee - Mar 21, 2011 12:34:54 pm PDT #18094 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

Someone just posted a picture I am in from high school. It shows the length my hair was until I turned 26...pretty much to the top of my rump or longer. There were times when I could sit on it. Now, I can't imagine dealing with it.

In '99-01, I grew it out for Locks of Love. That was fun...and significant in terms of a major transition I was going through but once it was gone, I pretty much vowed never again.


Atropa - Mar 21, 2011 12:36:41 pm PDT #18095 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'm having one of my cyclical bouts of wanting to chop my hair into a sharp A-line bob and backcomb it. (It's not going to happen, I just occasionally think longingly about doing so.)

I am also craving BIG hair. I may break out the AquaNet for the Vampire Ball over the weekend.


Liese S. - Mar 21, 2011 12:40:33 pm PDT #18096 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

My hair is bad transitional right now. It's kinda funny because I feel like I don't really know how to take it out of androgynous. But I suppose until I'm also willing to give up the cargo pants and rock tshirts it's sort of inevitable.


Barb - Mar 21, 2011 12:54:23 pm PDT #18097 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

I found short hair to be far too much effort

This. It was neat to have the angled bob just once to see what it was like, but I'm just a shoulder-length or longer sort of girl. Right now, my hair's at the middle of my back and probably the longest since college, simply because I've been monumentally lazy about finding a stylist since we moved.

I did break out the color last night for the first time in yonks.


Trudy Booth - Mar 21, 2011 12:55:40 pm PDT #18098 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I found short hair a pain in the heat because I couldn't put it in a pony tail.

Like, I'd feel hot, I'd reach up to pull it back, there was no back. Oy.


§ ita § - Mar 21, 2011 1:06:00 pm PDT #18099 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You guys who say short hair is a pain, etc, are so cute. You could always get short enough that it's cooler and less massy than a ponytail.


Barb - Mar 21, 2011 1:24:57 pm PDT #18100 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

Yeah, but you have to keep cutting it. A lot. THAT'S the pain.