Choosing the right hairstyle for me - hmmm! Well over the years I have chosen hundreds from various magazines and hairstyle books, but the sad fact is that whatever I might think - my hair thinks otherwise, and about 99% of them never get off the drawing board.

You see - the thing is - although I am not one of these women who whine about my appearance, I am what I am - take me or leave me, but I truly admit that if there was one thing I could change about my appearance it would be my horrible, flat, thin, lifeless, fine, straight hair!. No matter how hard even the best hairdressers try, none of them can make a style work on my hair for longer than 5 minutes. So no matter what hairstyle I find that's right for my age, height, colouring, shape of face or whatever, my hair has some very different views.

Yes I know all the rules - if you have a round face, then wear your hair long and not short, and if you have a square jaw, try and draw attention to your cheekbones and away from your jaw, - but all that is pointless when your fine, flyaway hair just flops about lifelessly whatever cut it's given. My hairstyle disasters have been legendary, - back in the 70's I had a Farah Fawcett-Majors style, that looked good in the hairdressers, but fell flat and lifeless in the five minutes it took me to walk from the Salon to the bus stop. Then in the 80's I had a succession of perms, which did add volume to my hair, but also broke it so badly that it eventually started to fall out, and I didn't facy the ideaof wearing itchy, hot wigs, though I guess at least those would have given me the chance to experiment with the syles I always wanted but could never have.

So what is the solution? Frantly, now the only hairstyle that works for me is leave it straight, and let it hang loose to the shoulders, and preferably tie it up. I know a short style looks dreadful on me as my face is too wide, so I need the length around the face, but even a hairdryer breaks my hair into little split ends, so I can't do anything else with it. Add to that the fact that my hectic lifestyle means any hairstyle has to be very low maintenance, and the tying back is the only solution. It's a very sad state of affairs.

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