Butch Attire & Fashion

Originally Posted by Kelt

While on the subject of appearance, I decided to play with hair. Since I've only had 2 now 3 hairstyles in the last 30 years this is significant for me.

I knocked the corners off my flattop and am growing out the top a tad.

Going for kind of a George Clooney in "The American" look. I have a little more pepper to salt ratio but since we have a similar face shape I thought I'd try it. I'll never look good like him but we both have that longish, trending toward jowliness-with-age shape.

It's weird to look in the mirror and see a round top of head. So what did I do today but go out and buy a flat-topped hat (pork pie).

How bizarre! For the first time in more years than I care to remember there's hair happening here too.
Like you Kelt, I've only had a couple of hair-styles as an adult with a full, to-the-bone all over shave being the one I've had for the longest time.
At the start of the year I decided to grow a 'quiff'. The aim is a full 50s combed back, Brylcremed, Tony Curtis 'do...if I can be patient enough before shaving it all off in the summer.









From one budding Hair Bear to another...good luck dood!

[DapperButch]

Daktari! Love it!

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by Daktari

How bizarre! For the first time in more years than I care to remember there's hair happening here too.
Like you Kelt, I've only had a couple of hair-styles as an adult with a full, to-the-bone all over shave being the one I've had for the longest time.
At the start of the year I decided to grow a 'quiff'. The aim is a full 50s combed back, Brylcremed, Tony Curtis 'do...if I can be patient enough before shaving it all off in the summer.

From one budding Hair Bear to another...good luck dood!

Hey Daktari my sartorial chum!

I always like taking hints from your looks. Yeah I don't know what came over me. I missed one of my regular haircuts and it got me thinking. I crossed the fifty mark a bit ago and thought that maybe it was time to have a grown-up haircut. Then I watched a movie and thought "I could do that".

Thing is I am totally clueless how to work with it. I don't even know how it grows or what the color looks like laying down. I always just washed it and hit it with a little water based pomade to make it look like hair and not fuzz, that was it.

Now I have the time and inclination to play with it a bit and I can always just take it off if I don't like it. I'm never really more than two or three weeks away from a bad or good look. Also, starting to play with hats for more than just keeping my head warm although once again the curse of being one size too small hits here too. I have found a couple of online resources so once I have a style or two I know I like I can order size appropriate.

The haircut I've had for the last decade was a lot like this:



Doesn't work quite as well over 50. I don't want to be one of those folks who try to look 25 forever.

I have no desire to get on the hair coloring cycle I just won't put time into it. I have a hard time with more than 5 minutes max on prep. I am learning to play with other "products" I am sticking with the line that I like but trying different like types like creams/wax/etc.

The direction I'm going is more toward this: not much different but to me it is change.







I'll just have to see what happens over time and figure out where I run out of patience. I dunno, it looks pretty long to me.