Hair envy.

[wombat1138]

The Ukrainian Prime Minister has gorgeous hair. Among its impressive features are that she can get it to stay that way at all (I've occasionally attempted similar braid pin-ups, but they've always succumbed to gravity).

Sadly, despite a purported public demonstration of the lack of hair-extension involvement, I'm forced to conclude that the braid can't be completely authentic. If it were, her hair would have to have impressively uniform volume down to at least waist-length, since the braid's diameter doesn't have much visible drop-off from one side to the other. But she doesn't seem to've adopted her current hairstyle until 2005 of so; pix from 2004 show that within the year before that, her hair was only at upper-bosom length, and also that the blonde color is a relatively recent development. I assume that what she must be doing is fastening a waist-length thick cluster of extensions onto her own hair with the elastic for the "low ponytail" at the nape, and then braiding all of it together from there.

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[infinite-nemo.livejournal.com]

hm. I tried that once when my hair wasn't quite long enough... and people have tried it with pigtail braids...
if her hair is thick enough, it could/would work- the pin up might work, something like prom hair, where it isn't really worth the pain...
I'm jealous of her hair. and, her I guess. beh.
sad. I'd like to think it's real. Hair can grow a *lot* in one year... but color doesn't change colors after childhood naturally... [other than losing color :-P]
hah. if only I were more inspired. then I'd try something with my own hair. alas, it's too hot and I'm too lazy.

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think it's real.

I would too... if it is, how the heck does she keep it so lush? I mean, dang-- up around the top of her head, which works out to about brastrap-length, her braid still looks amazingly thick, smooth, and glossy; my hair doesn't get much maintenance besides conditioner, but by the time my braid gets to that length, it's only about half that width and sadly whiskery with split ends.

(Not that I really care that much about what my hair is doing as long as it stays out of my way, but I hate getting it cut-- esp. since the last time I was dragged to a beauty parlor to "trim off the ends", they whacked off about 6-8 inches. That was... hmm, good grief... fifteen years ago? I haven't gone back to one since, though I did whack off about the same amount again when my granny died. Supposedly *hers* was once knee-length when she was young, so I should have the genes for it, assuming that's how things work-- male-pattern baldness comes from the maternal side of the family, so why not hair length as well? But mine always stalls out somewhere between wrist/fingertip-length, so maybe it just doesn't want to go any further. Sigh.)

[eeedge.livejournal.com]

You could have hair like that, too, if you had the time and money to have a professional do it every morning. (Probably yours won't reach that blonde color, though, even with dyes and the like... :p)

I envy you the genes to get your hair as long as you do. Mine stops growing mid-chest. C, my now-5-year-old, has her hair nearly long enough to sit on, though.