Hair Pet Peeves

[sonsireegemini]

I don't know why this bothers me, but it does - when women pat their heads instead of scratching the itch

LOL...i hate that too

 

[sonsireegemini]

Stinky hair

glued down shiney hair

butt length unnatualy looking weave

hair lines starting at the ear and still the woman has tight braids.

Men with finger waves

 

[preciousjewel76]

I see tons of "hair don'ts" walking around downtown Atlanta. The ones I love to hate the most:

*Ponytails secured with rubber bands

*Silky straight phony-ponies on women with beady-beads at the hairline. I want to pass them a stick of BTZ Stiff Head SOOOO bad!

*Bleached hair (esp. with dark roots)- why is this even a style? Orange hair is only cute on Muppets.

*People who let their children walk around with lint in their hair. Please don't let your babies look a hot mess when your hair is on point.

*People who walk around with combs (I mean regular styling combs) stuck in their hair. WHY???

*Young men who walk around with half of their hair in an afro, and half of it in twists. Again, WHY?

 

[dlewis]

I see tons of "hair don'ts" walking around downtown Atlanta. The ones I love to hate the most:

*Ponytails secured with rubber bands

*Silky straight phony-ponies on women with beady-beads at the hairline. I want to pass them a stick of BTZ Stiff Head SOOOO bad!

*Bleached hair (esp. with dark roots)- why is this even a style? Orange hair is only cute on Muppets.

*People who let their children walk around with lint in their hair. Please don't let your babies look a hot mess when your hair is on point.

*People who walk around with combs (I mean regular styling combs) stuck in their hair. WHY???

*Young men who walk around with half of their hair in an afro, and half of it in twists. Again, WHY?

yes, I do agree.

 

[Carla From VA]

Only 7 strands of the hair are at the shoulder length, the rest is just grazing the neck, and they won't trim it all evenly! So many women feel that if they have one strand of long hair, then its all good, rest of the head be d**ned!

See through hair

Smelling other folks hair on the Metro, bleah

Not washing hair for several weeks thinking that washing too frequently will strip the relaxer

People who really, really need to work out for their health, but refuse and have high blood pressure, but they are not sweating out their perms

People who think that the cure to all their hair woes is grease chock full of mineral oil, lanolin, and petroleum jelly

Folks who ask me if my daughters hair is still growing (almost waistlength now). Of course it grows all hair grows, its what you do to retain the growth is key. One day I am going to say, no she is 2 but it has completely stopped growing. She doesn't make new skin cells either....geez

Relaxing every 3-4 weeks, following that with haircolor and Ampro gel, and wondering why you hair never gets any longer

Sisters with patent leather Barbie doll hair with no obvious part in the scalp

 

[Junonia]

Fingerwaves (I can't believe that style hasn't disappeared or is making a comeback)

Women with short hairdo's but have it slicked to their head with gel...or the gel is "old" so you have hard pieces of hair sticking up

Multi color hair do's. You can't possibly work in an office.

Hair in a ponytail and it's dry and damaged....I always want to pass out a card and say "Log on to Longhaircareforum.com"

In addition to the bolded, Jheri curls. My friend has a Jheri curl. Is this coming back??

 

[honeybadgirl]

I was so mad at her, because you know they think we all do that. And she was in a meeting patting like crazy. He called me I his office and asked how often i wash my hair and then asked her, she was like every two weeks, he said that's why it itching. He let her go home and told her that he would rather not see her do that again.

WOW....

 

[Southernbella.]

Junior high school aged girls who have been wearing relaxers with so much heat just long enough to lose/break their hair. You know the look I'm talking about. I call it a "flame ponytail" because they have what little hair they have pulled back into a high ponytail on top of their head that is shaped like a little flame of fire. It is so thin that it sticks straight up and looks like a flame at the end of a candle. The rest of their hair will barely be locked into that ponytail and so juts forth in patches along the rest of their hairline.

OMG, I see this all the time! I'm mad you came up with a name for it.

I hate all silky, glossy weave. It's just too fake looking. I know there are weaves with texture...At least TRY to be convincing.

I can't stand to see little girls with braids/ponytails so tight, they have little bumps on the parts.

I can't stand men who go too long without a haircut. It bugs the CRAP out of me, and it looks gross.

 

[Southernbella.]

Oh, I have white girl pet peeves too...

Bleached blonde hair that's dry with hundreds of broken hair sprigs sticking up at the crown. There's nothing wrong with being a brunette!

Striped hair. Not everyone is equipped to highlight their hair at home. Go see a stylist and get the right blend going.

Coming to work with wet hair. I had a girl at my old job who saw clients with wet hair, and it took FOREVER for my boss to finally say something to her.

Blue-black hair against pale skin. Very few can pull this off, and that's usually celebs who have people do their makeup.

 

[hennagirl]

Everyone else has been so clear and funny. I will try to explain my pet peeves because I see them all the time.

Haircut Maintenance/Salon Visits
If you are going to have a cut or style that requires maintenance and/or regular salon visits -- MAINTAIN and/or visit the salon. I dislike the Halle Berry short cuts that have either grown out or aren't maintained so it's just short, gelled up mess. I work with women who will see a picture of Halle Berry or hear her name and say, "That's my cut when I have it done." My silent thought is why don't you have it done all the time or have a style you can maintain. I have had to inform a couple of my white co-workers that I did not speak for black America therefore I could not comment on why my hair was so pretty and so and so's was always so "unkempt" - literal quote.

 

[dlewis]

Everyone else has been so clear and funny. I will try to explain my pet peeves because I see them all the time.

Haircut Maintenance/Salon Visits
If you are going to have a cut or style that requires maintenance and/or regular salon visits -- MAINTAIN and/or visit the salon. I dislike the Halle Berry short cuts that have either grown out or aren't maintained so it's just short, gelled up mess. I work with women who will see a picture of Halle Berry or hear her name and say, "That's my cut when I have it done." My silent thought is why don't you have it done all the time or have a style you can maintain. I have had to inform a couple of my white co-workers that I did not speak for black America therefore I could not comment on why my hair was so pretty and so and so's was always so "unkempt" - literal quote.

I agree with this, why do white's think they can ask one black person why another black person does such and such. I don't answer for all Black America.

 

[RosesBlack]

I can't stand people touching my hair or my ponytails/falls.

It drives me insane when girls who's hair looks like a hot mess snicker at my kerchief.

People judging on the basis of hair texture. Get over it.

When I wear braids people tugging, tying or otherwise messing with them.

Biggest one though is when I've had "stylists" walk up to me with some ***** dried out looking hair and offering their "expertiese" since I don't really wear my hair styled. I get SO mad.

 

[longhairdreamzz]

Women wearing weave/braid/extension colors that do absolutely nothing to compliment their skin tones.

Women who complain about always being broke yet they are going broke thanks to the money they pump into keeping up a certain hairdo

Women and girls who continue to get hairstyles that totally destroy their hairlines

Women with funky hair but refuse to wash it

Hair that is so stiff and frozen in place it looks like a piece of stone

Mega raggedy ends

Severely dry hair - the kind that needs major prayer and a s**tload of moisturizing treatments

Women and girls removing tracks and braids in public and then dumping the hair all over the place

Yep I hated back when I was in school and girls used to this. And they're only excuse for this was "I'm just keeping it real" WTF!!!!

 

[SimpleKomplexity]

And in Mississippi

Yes lawd....I see this everyday...and them stupid diamonds on their spritzed swoop in the front...Bling Bling anyone?

 

[Soliel185]

Oh, I have white girl pet peeves too...

Bleached blonde hair that's dry with hundreds of broken hair sprigs sticking up at the crown. There's nothing wrong with being a brunette!

Striped hair. Not everyone is equipped to highlight their hair at home. Go see a stylist and get the right blend going.

Coming to work with wet hair. I had a girl at my old job who saw clients with wet hair, and it took FOREVER for my boss to finally say something to her.

Blue-black hair against pale skin. Very few can pull this off, and that's usually celebs who have people do their makeup.

THE SKUNK HAIR!! If I see one more girl clompin around in her high heels at Target thinkin she's the ish with this hair color I'm going to walk right up to her and beat her w/ one of those little red baskets.

How in the hell is anybody getting away with PLATINUM blond on top and dark Brown underneath?! It looks incredibly skanky, and it just makes me think you didn't have the $ to get your whole head done.

* the fire ponytail kills me too. It's the end of the world for you to wear a bun but you'll walk around with that mess showing off your "length"? OY!*

 

[JustKiya]

I don't know why this bothers me, but it does - when women pat their heads instead of scratching the itch

I always assumed they were doing that, because if they scratched, my biggst pet peeve would show up - cornflake sized flakes of dandruff. *shudder* I was behind these two ladies in the post office, and I SWEAR, it looked like they had a bad case of lice, there was so danngone many HUGE flakes of dandruff scattered in their hair. I mean damn. At least brush that ish out in the morning, I'm. just. saying.

 

[SleepyJean]

I'll add: women who might have long flowing hair, yet they pile soooo much "grease" in it (usually petroleum jelly looking) that you can see each and every line from the comb in it. Ick!! Just limp, greasy, dirt attracting hair. I can picture this girl's hair it stayed that way week after week after week.

My mom does this!!! My mom is a natural 4a/b who reaches BSL easy! She still uses sooo much grease when she presses her hair, though. I've been trying to get her to stop, but sometimes I think...she must be doing something right. Her hair continues to retain. As the expression goes different strokes for different folks.

 

[Butterfly08]

Well, because it makes you look like a fool (pardon the judgment) in public. I'm definitely guilty of patting my head on rare occasions, but in the privacy of my own home or when I'm not in mixed company (or in public).

When I first saw my cousin do this years ago, she was in braids and I seriously thought something was wrong. Up to that point, I'd never had the urge or inclination to pat myself in the head (nor had I seen other ladies do that).

I was waiting at the airport with a female (caucasian) colleague of mine, and we saw a girl patting her head quite vigorously. My colleague =
I had to explain that she was hitting her head because she was itching - It was a little embarrassing . Of course the next logical question was, "Why doesn't she scratch?"

Patting does NOT help. I don't understand the purpose. I get a seamless comb and lightly rub (when I'm home). Better yet, I don't wait 2 weeks to wash my hair. Frequent washes cure the itchies.

 

[Butterfly08]

I hate one thing more than this, little toddlers with braid extensions or phony ponies . Actually, the thousand-ponytail hairstyle looks cuter the more I see this!

Yes, I saw a baby not even old enough to walk with weave. ONLY IN FLORIDA.

 

[LongHairDreams]

I don't know why this bothers me, but it does - when women pat their heads instead of scratching the itch

^^^I was thinking that the person may be getting ready to get a relaxer. That was the only time I patted my head. Otherwise I scratched.

She was sent home early to wash her hair because she said she was patting because her head itched from not washing (to some it up).

^^^What was her reaction when you said how often you wash your hair? If you responded at all.

**I didn't realize this thread was started over a year ago.

 

[envybeauty]

^^^I was thinking that the person may be getting ready to get a relaxer. That was the only time I patted my head. Otherwise I scratched.

Two women I know did just that this past weekend. They called it the ghetto scratch. Basically because they could not scratch really well under their weaves in public.

 

[envybeauty]

I can't stand people touching my hair or my ponytails/falls.

I almost caught a case in a club in DC earlier this month when some chick pulled on my ponytail. Not phony pony, but my ponytail. On the dancefloor. When she was a good arms length away (so no, it was not in her face). My friend had to pull me over because I was heated.

Don't try me by touching my hair!

 

[Rei]

I hate to see someone that has braids in for so long that the roots are matted and caked with dirt.

 

[Cloud06]

On Everything yall said!

I hate when ppl compare "good" and "bad" hair!
What does that MEAN? Cuz I'm not white or mixed I have "bad" hair that's shinier, softer, and more even than YOUR type 3 hair?
I mean get real! Anybody can front a wave nowadays.

And Yes the jheri curl IS back and not in a good way!(it was never good, juicy but never GOOD)

I hate hard looking styles

Babies that cant think or learn cuz they hair weigh down their brain.

Comb-overs

Women with thinning hair that comb all their hair to the front of the head like a daytime wrap! Whats up w/ that?

Women who wear sleevless shirts or short sleeves with a bush of hair waving at me from their underarm, any pubic hair showing in public is uuughguuughgEEEWWW!

Hairy legs in a summer dress

One eyebrow!

And whats up with celebrities with bad weaves? You make millions and probably paid a cuple hundred dollars for that hair, why cant you blend it?
EX. NICOLE RITCHIE on drugs!

 

[Extremus]

STICK STRAIGHT FLY AWAY RELAXED PONYTAILS WITH A BOBO THE CLOWN PLASTIC AFRO PUFF ON TOP

Only 7 strands of the hair are at the shoulder length, the rest is just grazing the neck, and they won't trim it all evenly! So many women feel that if they have one strand of long hair, then its all good, rest of the head be d**ned!



Sisters with patent leather Barbie doll hair with no obvious part in the scalp

MINES ARE:

• girls who wear long weaves and THEN wear a style that purposely displays their bald edges [i.e wearing it all combed/brushed to the back]
• unnatural-looking weaves/wigs
• girls who try to pass their weave(s) as their hair
• girls who get full weaves and then all hell breaks loose when it gets wet. It's not yours anyway (Maybe I'll have to be a weave-wearer to understand)
• WEAVES PERIOD, I GUESS.
• PEOPLE (IRL) WHO ASK ME, "WHAT DO YOU PUT IN YOUR HAIR TO MAKE IT LONG?" AS IF THERE'S A MAGIC CREAM/OIL THAT MAKES YOUR HAIR SUPER LONG
• my mom who re-touches her hair every 2 weeks
• my mom who will put on a relaxer, from root to tip, just because her hair is frizzy
• my mom who will put on a relaxer, from root to tip, before she does any type of exercise so she won't "sweat out her perm"
• my mom who said the "no-lye" relaxer makes her hair thicker (it's still thin as all hell)
• my mom who thinks just because we've always had the same length, when my hair grows to a certain point, her hair will catch up and that I'm wasting my time doing "extra" stuff (LHCF practices) to it.
• my mom who tries to give me hair pointers just because she took cosmetology classes

ffrant:

 

[cmesweet]

• Little children who are their mother's Mini Me. I am referring to little girls that have the exact same hard cased toward on their head as their mother.
• Children who have dry, broken off hair.
• Children who walk around school and town with their hair all over their head. I am referring to the style that looks like they took their hair out of a ponytail 2 weeks ago, and the hair never moved since then
• People with no hair trying to tell me about my hair.
• Folks that ask for hair advice and make up every exscuse of why they can't do that.
• Hair patters bother me.
• People who get braids of 2 colors, one i front and one in the back. One of my students have brigt blue braids in the front and then black hair in the back.
• People who purchase any "black" hair product because it says GRO on it. First of all, it's not even spelled correctly and if it worked then why isn't your hair to the floor?

 

[Sounique]

I ask her to wear a hat when we go out, and if she doesn't, I put on my hood so people can't recognize me

 

[Ivonnovi]

My boss let the other black lady in the office go home early to wash her hair because she was doing this.

I don't blame the boss. I think the "persitent head-patting" is about as ofensive as a man tugging is ________.

I know she doesn't, but what if she had lice and he sent her home to fix the problem? To me it's about the same. Her recurrent repetative "I could have had a V-8" head patting is a clear signal that something is WRONG.

An occasional itch/scratch is ok, but to sit there pounding your head just looks plain silly!

 

[bamachic08]

I don't know...I think that is a bit much, b/c you pat iso scratching...sent home? Why not just say you are disturbing the meeting can you stop....was she cracking herself upside the head or something?

u are too funny

 

[vainღ♥♡jane]

i hate that the relaxed ends of my hair are some ugly brown color, while my new growth is a pretty shiny black. ugh.​