h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So how come when my hairdresser blowdries it - it looks like a kooky Meg Ryan / Natalie Imbruglia grown out crop and when I do it, it looks like an electrocuted cat on my head?

Well, you must be paying the hairstylist all that money for *something*, right?

good point but all she did was sort of blast it with the dryer!

That's the point. That inexplicable difference between seemingly similar things is why you pay her. (Well, that, and you can exactly take scissors to your own hair. ) True of most times when you pay a "professional". Frustrating sometimes, tho, innit?

I coulda sworn I put a 't there. That's can't. Makes a lot more sense if you *can't* do that.

*swings in through the window on a rope*
This is the Animal Liberation Front! Let the cat go!

I have descovered that if I blowdry my hair from the ANGLE that my stylist does it, I come much closer. The trick is:

1. Use a huge round brush. Those brushes, for some reason, are magic.
2. Crank your arm around nearly to breaking and blowdry your hair from above and behind. Think of where the actual air was blowing and try and replecate that.
3. Do the roots first and then pull outward.
4. If none of those work, understand that your hair is just going to have to look like an electrified cat. When I take the time and energy, my hair looks great, at 6:30 am on a Wendesday, I'll settle for "Not sticking up in every single direction".

Thanks - that is the first sensible advice!!!

Oh no! I made sense?? I must be behind on my insanity pills.

I cut my hair on Friday and have spent the weekend looking startlingly like Dale Winton - a worse fate to befall a man, I cannot think of

Bobby Charlton, maybe?

Oh, *surely* you don't post a question like that on h2g2 looking for *sensible* advice do you?

A fair point and well made - too late though, to save my Dale Winton haircut as I took the clippers down a blade and now have something between David Beckham and that bloke from the Communards...all very odd, but far cheaper than getting a stylist to make it look just as strange .

Ahhh Duncan to us you will always look like George Clooney / Matthew Mawhateverhisnameis / Russell Crowe (delete as applicable) Ahhhh the virtual world where all men are handsome and the women beautiful!

Except in MY mind, where you will now forever look like Jimmy Somerville.

EV!!! you are an ACE you are meant to be warm and fluff laden!

...except that Jimmy Sommerville was blond - so what I really meant was the colour and texture (if that's the right word? ) of David Beckham's hair but the funny little sticky up bit at the front which is as per Jimmy Sommerville (or, at a pinch, Tintin)

Mmm - its probably a good idea that we don't have photos on this site...this "using your imagination" is much better.

*struggles not to swoon as DJ enters the room*

I really have to get rid of this habit - perhaps hypnosis will work.

Warm and fluffy? At this time in the morning?

Ha ha...

Sorry, I just had an image of Abi with the frazzled cat on her bonce and it made me chuckle!

Bad hair day a couple of days too late I know, but they can be known to linger..