Have you ever had your hair thinned out?

[Kimberleigh]

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Originally Posted by jessiekins1 so have i. and stylists always bad mouth each other's work. it's just the way the industry is. you always want more clients and you want to retain as many as possible. that's why stylists do that.

Yes, but I don't *know* you...You're just some random chick on the internet to me. So, you could see who I would trust just a little bit more, right?

Plus, if you really want to get down to it, I just don't care about having my hair thinned out anymore. My hair is about 15in shorter now than it was when she first informed me that it was "bad for my hair". Maybe she's changed her mind after 4 years; I don't know. She puts enough layers into it to lighten up what I've got. So if I have no complaints about it, what's the big deal?

 

[Beauty Mark]

At least with my hair, layers and thinning do essentially the same thing. I just prefer layers now, because I think they give me more styling options

 

[msmack]

thinng out my hair has always ended up with me in tears... I have really curly hair ... its like an army of 100 different curly q's that hang out where they want too. then the stylist comes along with a razor or thinning shears and makes all the 100 curls retaliate and split up and go freakin' crazy...fly aways galore. no more uniform curls... just crazy fuzz. thats my thinning out story lol hope you understand it!

 

[myshka]

I asked my hairdresser for a style that I could put into a pony tail when I cut my hair from waist length to shoulder length. I was doing field work for school that month and wanted something managable in wind tunnels. It was fine when he cut it because I checked and yes I could pull it back. But then he thinned it and it was hell to manage.

 

[Beauty Mark]

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Originally Posted by msmack thinng out my hair has always ended up with me in tears... I have really curly hair ... its like an army of 100 different curly q's that hang out where they want too. then the stylist comes along with a razor or thinning shears and makes all the 100 curls retaliate and split up and go freakin' crazy...fly aways galore. no more uniform curls... just crazy fuzz. thats my thinning out story lol hope you understand it!

The key to this is the razor or shears have to be really, really sharp to not cause split ends.

 

[user79]

I used to have it done because I got my whole head cut into layers with the ends thinned out. I liked the overall look and it made my hair super manageable and easy to style. I've been thinking of going back to it because while my hair is getting longer and more one length now, it's also looking really weighed down and boring and just....blah!

 

[thenovice]

I get my hair thinned about every month or so. I have so so so much hair- and my hair is naturally wavy. Getting it thinned really cut down on the waves. She did it with thinning shears.

 

[faint___heart]

It was the worst thing I could have ever done to my beautiful curly hair :[ It was awful growing it out...ahh.

 

[thelilprincess]

yes - both good and bad. i had a haircut, damn crappy $5 place my brother took me to - and the lady insisted that the bob cut she was giving me would look right unless i let her shave off the bottom half of my hair. i relunctantly let her and really regretted it. mind you, that shaved underneath look was instyle 4 years before i got it, but this was my senior year and i couldn't do an updo for prom because of the shaved hair. crappy crappy haircutter - i wound't even call her a stylist. believe me, i had bob haircuts before, and those haircutters at Fantastic Sams and whatnot never had a problem. you'd think that since this haircutter was also asian, she's be able to cut my coarse asian hair. ok, that was my rant.

my current hairstylist - wonderful! she cuts my hair in such a way it doesn't look like a thick coarse mess. she moved to florida but comes back to california every 3 months. i still have her cut my hair. but i think i might have to find someone from california since my bangs can't wait 12 weeks for a trim.

granted, hair grows back. but a bad cut makes me feel terrible until it grows out. great hair makes me feel good about myself. so find a good stylist and let him or her work the shears.

 

[smerestain]

i always get my hair thin out everytime i get a haircut. I have thick hair, and so thinning it out and adding layers make it look so much better. it gets thicker again after a month or so but its worth it

 

[Smilla]

I have to get my hair thinned out or I get the dreaded "Triangle Head" that afflicts so many women with thick wavy hair.

 

[lainielainie]

I got my curly hair thinned out and it was TERRIBLE. It was almost a year ago and I still don't have the nice ringlets I had before. Curly hair needs structure and weight to form nice curls and thinning it out completely destroys it. I have a ton of hair, every hair dresser is always like "you have the thickest hair ive ever worked with" but it feels like even more now that its out of control and "fuzzy" a lot of the time. I wanted to get mine thinned because I had that "triangle shape" like crazy, but it just made my hair worse, especially since I ended up damaging it by straightening it after every shower because I couldn't handle it.

 

[blindpassion]

I have incredibly thick hair and I get it thinned every time I go to the hair dresser. I straighten my hair after every shower, and my hair takes up to an hour to straighten if its not thinned out at least every two months. It's fantastic for people with thick hair.

 

[Magic Markers]

My hairdresser did it once to mine, and I liked the result. I need to get it done again probably. I just have more hair in the back than the sides... Haha.

 

[Dark_Phoenix]

I have super thick Arab hair... it's wavy and hard to manage so I have it cut into various layers. I think it's great since it's taken alot of the weight from my hair (i.e. doesn't take so long to dry or look as poofy). I'm going for a Thermal Reconditioning (i.e. Japanese Hair Straightening Treatment) this weekend though, and it should help thin it more.

 

[frocher]

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