Minor mystery of the day, inspired by the Grauniad

[tree_and_leaf]

Why do people describe the bob as a low maintenance haircut? It's a great look, but that's blatantly not true.

Comments

[antisoppist]

I had a bob in a fit of being grown up and civilised when I got married and although my hair is thick and as the weight for it, there were always weird curly bits that turned the wrong way if I didn't blow-dry it properly while brushing and it's not got enough proper curl to make it look deliberately casually messy.

Post-divorce, it's now a long plait with a fringe.

[tree_and_leaf]

It sounds like you have very similar hair to me. I love the idea of a bob, but I too always get the weird curly bits going the wrong way.

(Also, I have a minor grudge against the haircut because it will never make me look like Louise Brooks).

[antisoppist]

it will never make me look like Louise Brooks I know! It is very annoying of it. Mine does the casually tousled thing OK when it gets to shoulder length but then I feel like a spaniel. Long works better but I'm not sure how I'll feel about it when it's all gone grey.

[ankaret]

I am enjoying my hair having silver bits in at present in an 'I wonder where this will go next' way, like growing a plant, but judging by the other women in my family if it ever goes completely grey I'll be very surprised. Unless I have to escape from Nazis or something, of course.

[antisoppist]

I got my first grey hair at 19 and confidently expected to be totally grey by about 30 so it's more surprising that it isn't greyer by now, but still gratifying that it is much less grey than my youngest sister's. There is a woman at choir who totally rocks elegance and grey hair in complicated buns and plaits and I aspire to this but even a French plait makes my arms hurt and I can't see I'm going to improve at complicated hair skills suddenly in my 70s or something.