I've got the hair, but not the face!

I've been wearing my hair à la Dench for several years, Phoenix and, like yours, it grows fast, especially in summer. I get it trimmed back into shape around about every 5 weeks. Leave it more than six weeks and I look like an old mop. I just get a 'dry' cut - can't stand being faffed about with - and it takes about 20 minutes and costs £10 a time so maintenance costs are low in terms of time and money.

After a lifetime of struggling to manage fine, wavy, unmanageable hair, I've come to love the convenience of a cut which needs nothing more than a run through with my fingers if I'm really pushed for time. My bet is that you'll love it, too.

Having struggled with straight hair all my life, curling and curling and curling with various gadgets, last week I released myself from such tasks. I walked into my local Italian hairdressers and said “do you do modern perms-because I don’t want a grey haired old lady look”. He said sit down and oh how glad I am that I did.
I now have fabulous curls and now only need to wash - condition- mousse and let dry!!
At last I feel free to walk in the rain without looking like a drowned rat and
get up each morning scrunch my hair with some leave in conditioner and go!! I don’t look at all like the lovely woman in the photograph but have her hair ( all be it grey)
For all you gals struggling with pump water straight hair- go for it!! It has changed my life

Thanks for the chuckle BradfordLass, Luckygirl and Grannyknot.
My hair is growing back after chemo and I have abandoned the hats and wig. I love my very, very short hair and it's bliss not to bother with hair styling. Have decided to keep it very short and not bother with colouring it either. Will keep the badgery bits at the front and the little quiff.
Have admired the Judy Dench and Jamie Lee Curtis look for ages. I suspect though that they require rather more maintenance than is apparent.

Just had my hair trimmed. I have had it this short for a long time. ?

I am puzzled that Gransnetters don't seem to know she's Judi, with an "i."

When one asks the hairdresser for nipple-length hair, I presume it then has to be established whose nipples are being talked about, and this might involve either hairdresser or cuttee removing their upper clothing

I'm a naturally straight haired girl and had the big perms of the eighties and early nineties. For several years l have had layers in my shoulder length hair which gives it a little waviness. In my family some of us are lucky in keeping our natural hair colour; my mother in her late seventies has only a sprinkling of grey and in my mid-fifties l have the odd grey hair but am still mostly my natural colour. I have also inherited her thick hair, too. I've told her it makes up for inheriting her large thighs!

Great style Purplepoppies, but looks like you had custard pie accident

Oh dear one nipple lower than the other- have to have geometric cut I suppose

HettiMaud,
I have always has fine hair, but it got worse after chemo. My hairdresser recommends Nioxin Shampoo, Nioxin Scalp Therapy Revitalising Conditioner Step 2, an after-wash treatment Nioxin Diaboost, and a night-time intensive treatment Nioxin Night Density Rescue. It seems a lot of bother, these products are quite expensive- but they last ages. - AND they do work!
I now get compliments about my hair which is a real boost as some people don't know how bad my hair was - they just see the result.

I am thinking of old song, (but replace ears with ‘nips’)

Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro,
Can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow?

i have had quite a chuckle to myself reading this about our hair length or lack of it ,i keep my hair quite short nowadays as it is so thick still ,aka Judy Dench cut and have for some years ,it is easy to manage ,no bedhead in the mornings and as my lovely hairdresser says a wash and go cut ,so well recommended ,enjoy the day i always say ,we never know what tomorrow may bring (oh i am almost 80 )