Life goal achieved: bishōnen hair

[dorchadas]

It's been a long-time goal of mine to have hair long enough that I can put it back in a messy low ponytail, inspired (honestly) by Hotohori from Fushigi Yūgi. And just recently, thanks to a donation of all of thosesocks's old hair ties and the length of my hair, I can finally do it:

I can finally do something with my hair other than just having it hang loose. Took me long enough to figure it out.

Comments

[omnipotent]

I take it you were never interested in the long single braid, like Duo Maxwell?

[dorchadas]

It's less uninterested and more incapable.

I can braid my hair, but it's not in any way neat. It's a scraggly mess, with stray hairs everywhere, and I've only ever done it as a temporary measure to get it out of the way, because for years I didn't own anything to restrain my hair other than the clips I used to put it up for the shower.

My hair looks pretty great when other people braid it, though. Here's it braided for a LARP I was briefly in:

[omnipotent]

Oh, I love that. It really does look good!

Perhaps a bit of product to smooth the hair before you braided it might yield a less messy braid? My hair is a much different texture than yours, but if I want it to look smooth(ish) I usually need to use a pomade.

[dorchadas]

Thank you!

You're right. My hair's wavy enough that it's always a bit rebellious (even in that braid it's still trying to escape) and I've partially used not styling it at all as an excuse to not deal with that. But if I do want to do anything other than let it hang loose, I'm going to have to find some way to tame it a bit.

I should ask next time I go in for a trim.

[omnipotent]

Also, I wish you could "heart" posts here like you can on LiveJournal.

[dorchadas]

[lovelyangel]

It looks great! Hotohori would be proud! 😊

[dorchadas]

Thank you!

[corvi]

That's pretty impressively long hair.

[dorchadas]

Thank you!

I looked up the statistics and in North America only like 0.3% of adults have hair waist-length or longer, and for men, it's 0.01%. Which helps explain why I meet so many people who say that they recognize me from somewhere..

[moonreviews]

Wow, that's really not a lot :O
And long hair looks so much better (on both men and women).

Also, your hair is really pretty :) And nice song choice for this journal XD

[dorchadas]

Thank you!

I agree! And one thing I take solace in is that if someone asks me for my opinion and I say long hair looks better, I'm practicing what I preach, so to speak.

(I do think long hair looks much better, and it's more versatile. There's so much more you can do with it...even if I usually don't do anything )

[slayer_bon]

holy heck, anime is real. dang. Undertale was onto something. :^)

that's so cool! sometimes I wish my hair looked good somewhat long but I got Thicc Curl Hair and when it's dry, it makes my head look triangular. 'cause it just sticks out. I started cutting it short a bit after I came out to my mom as nb, and I love how easy it is to handle... but lately I've been thinkin' 'bout longer hair. I know I won't actually do it, though.

[dorchadas]

My mother has that same kind of hair, and keeps it shorter for much the same reason! I ended up kind of midway between that and my father's hair.

If my hair is neck-length, it does this awful outward curl and looks like whatever that popular 60s women's hairstyle is called (Google tells me "flipped bob"). I had to suffer through that to get to the point where my hair had enough of its own weight to hang down, but it's been long for twenty years now, so it's easy for me to be cavalier about it.

[umbral_ice]

I miss having long hair, but I can't because of my job. :(

[dorchadas]

Oh, ugh.

I'm fortunate that I've never had anyone ask that of me. Even in Japan, they just asked me to keep it tied back, which is reasonable.