57. You end up having to chase your loved ones around the house to take photos of your progress to place on your fotki.
68.You have a 'hair' binder, dividers and tabs...sectioned off for goals/length charts, product inventory, hair journal, glossary, and a section for when your friends ask you to do their hair (so you can track their progress too )
69. On payday, before writing your rent check or paying your phone bill, you stop by Trade Secret or Ulta "just to see what new sales they have this month"
and you get mad if they do it wrong and make them take it over!
74. After buying new products (shampoos, conditioners, creams, etc.), you have to lay them out, look at them, and smell them repeatedly before storing them with the rest of your products.
Gurrrrl, don't you know I've been smelling my products for 3 days now!You were standing behind me when you wrote this
Gurrrrl, don't you know I've been smelling my products for 3 days now!
- You have a hair care regimen.
- You call putting a plastic bag on your head "the baggy method".
- You call using saran wrap on your hair "the saran wrap method".
- You call using a scarf daily "the scarf-ing method".
- You would consider using/have used the Dominican conditioner "Whale Sperm".
- Your hair products are from foreign countries, not widely available in the US.
OMG girl, your whole post is the TRUTH!! I thought I was nuts!!It's like when little girls get new Barbies and sit all of them out at the same time, combing their hair, changing their clothes, etc
I sit on the floor take the bottles out of my "toybox", lay them out, and read the ingredients, sniff em, put them in order of use, and sniff em again, hehe
You too?!! Girl, I've procrastinated on one too many papers messing around on this board. Then I'll be up late scrambling at the last minute trying to hurry up and get it done and STILL end up "checking" LHCF. I say, "I'm just gonna check the hair board real quick, real quick....Okay-okay, 5 more minutes and then I'm gonna totally focus."you find yourself doing your homework after you search the hair boards. I always have to search the hairboards before I can begin to study or do anything school related
I have self-diagnosed OCHD (Obsessive Compulsive Hair Disorder).
Here are some things that I noticed about myself... please add your own.
1. You're a paid member of a Hair Care Forum.
2. You have a photo album just for your hair.
3. You have a blog just about your hair.
4. You meditate or use visulization techniques for hair growth.
5. You use products meant for horses in hopes of longer hair.
6. You manage to turn almost every conversation you have into a conversation about hair.
7. You do double takes at women with long/healthy hair.
8. You're a compulsive co-washer, doing it DAILY!!!
9. You're a compulsive bunning pin-up protective styling wearing hair hiding maniac.
10. You have a fear of stylist.
11. You have a fear of scissors/trims. YIKES!!!
12. You cringe at the sight of a brush.
13. You cringe at the sight of combs with seams.
14. You wear a plastic bag on your head when you sleep.
15. You're on a "hair diet".
16. You take "hair vitamins".
17. You have a "HAIR IDOL".
18. You know what the terms SL, APL, BSL, and MBL mean.
19. You are in a "Hair Challenge".
YES YES YES!!! I'M GUILTY OF ALL OF THE ABOVE HAHAHHAA I'M HAIR OBSESSED specially the bolded one lol my fam be like all you talk about is HAIR. i be in their face like wow your hair has grown! we could be chatting on webcam and i ll ask them to turn around and grab the hair and stretch it so i can see where it ends hahhaa its a disease no way i know i'm so vain but my hair makes me happy lol and lhcf is my drug lol
girl you described me prefectly
Also you know your hair obsessed if:
you have 200+ hair pics on your digi cam, which you didnt mean to take but it just somehow happened
Youre always trying to figure out what hair type someone is.