Well!!! Ha!!! I found a different hair dresser today, went to see her and next Tuesday we're gonna begin to set the town on its' ears. LOL LOL. Seriously, she had some good ideas, I pointed out a feature of my face that I had some questions about and she assured me there was a way to diminish it so it would look fine. I have a lot of faith in her and I trust her to tell me what will be good for me and what won't. Actually I made her promise she would do that. It is gonna take some patiencs and practise to get this style down right for me. The style I've had for a long time is just a really curly style that I just shampooed and kept picking at it while it dried. Of course it didn't lay flat on the top of my head like the new one is gonna do. Thanks for all your encouragements everyone and Kit, I also wish you could tell your Gramma how swell she looks. Bet she was a beauty. And don't you just wonder what she thought about all the new hair-dos going around about then?

I just type the word "hairstyle" or "haircut" into Google.com, and then when the results come up, I click on "images" on the top left (which, if you're not familiar with Goodle, makes your search pull up thumbnails of images instead of text). Pretty awesome for finding haircuts! I've found my last three styles that way.

For too long. I have very thick, coarse hair with a natural curly/wave. I don't suit it very short - besides, I would need to have it cut every week - it grows like a weed. I greyed in my 20s and am now 63. The grey is iron grey and my complexion is yellow - but this is not apparent until someone holds certain colours against me - then it sure is. And of course my natural hair colour was auburn - I am of Irish heritage. Only colour that suits me - I have tried on wigs in other colours - awful. And red fades. I have my hair cut in layers and keep it a few inches below my ears (when my hair dries after being wet it curls "up" so I need to makes sure that I still have those few inches to peak out from under my hat - and I always wear a hat - red fades). It is very expensive to have it coloured in Toronto - and I do not have highlights - hair is so coarse it appears to be highlighted anyway. I do try and extend the colouring by wearing said hats and basically have it done every 8 weeks - unless I am going somewhere say at week 5 where I have to take my hat off. Not everyone can cut my type of hair. Unfortunately the best colour for me is Goldwell - not cheap. I recently (due to a funeral) had to go to a different salon since my colourist does not work certain days of the week. They used L'Oreal Professsional - which is a good colour product, but apparently I am now allergic to the current formulation. Wonderful. And to think I used to do it myself before the colour was d/c'd. And of course with so much grey now I would not want that tell-tale 2 inch patch of off-colour auburn. I do use a curl enhancement product - but it is hard to find one that is not for fine, thick hair. I need strength in the product.

I bought a Conair, probably at Target. It has 1,000 watts. I use mine with dry hair in the am. You can detach the brush part and use as a hair dryer but it's not very strong. I usually flip my head down and use hair spray. Then I flip my head back and do the hot air brush in sections. Then spray again when done. I'm not one who likes to spend a lot of time on hair and makeup. I do my hair in just a few minutes. It doesn't look like I just came from the salon but it looks fine....just wish I could get and keep a little height at the crown. Mtn....thanks for sharing your brush. Looks like it might be easier to use than mine since the brush part is not so wide. I may give it a try.