Post | 01/06/2009 12:00 am

Marlo Thomas's 'Limp, Flat' Hair

Marlo Thomas
My hair. It’s limp, flat and needs an enormous amount of volumizer and coaxing. (It also requires a lot of talking to, but I’d rather not get into that right now.) I look forward to the day when I don’t give a damn. Telly Savalas must have died a very happy man.

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Mugsy Peabody
Well, Marlo, if your limp flat hair has yet another thing in common with mine, that is your natural color, and you’ll go to your grave wondering what you would have looked had you gone gray!
By Mugsy Peabody on 01/06/2009 1:24 am
beverly linens
Mugsy, You just have to wait long enough. I colored my hair at about thirty as my blond hair turned dishwater. I stopped coloring it at about sixty, thinking I would go gray like my mother. She had beautiful white hair by then. I discovered I hadn’t and it was still dishwater. I said oh heck and left it alone. Slowly oh so slowly it is finally gray enough to be pretty. Just be patient. My problem is in my old age I only look young and spritely if I keep my hair very short. Finding someone who can cut it without making me look like a boy. Sometimes I let it grow awhile and then go get it cut and a very short cut takes ten years off. It makes me feel good.
By beverly linens on 01/06/2009 3:16 am
Mugsy Peabody
Oh, Beverly, what a tale. But I have to say, my mother’s hair at 84 was brown, with little streaks of gray now and then. I’ve got her genes. My brothers are all gray now, and when I see the youngest, he always picks through my hair, looking for any evidence. Poor boy.
By Mugsy Peabody on 01/06/2009 5:07 am
C jay
Ah, so - mine’s has always blown like a newborn’s and there is little that helps it except … a perfect “cut” from the top Tony & Guy “cutter,” in any city! I was told that once I turned gray it would become round (vs. flat); I checked - those grays are still flat, and not moving into the red very quickly. Sometimes, an Aveda body-perm worked with the long styles I’ve had - I have to avoid laurel-sulfate in anything and everything or my crowning glory is in tatters. I focus on seeing only perfection. ;-)
By C jay on 01/06/2009 5:33 am
Dona Howlett
Marlo, You will never get to the day when ‘You don’t give a damn’ You will always enjoy being beautiful……………..
By Dona Howlett on 01/06/2009 6:06 am
James Gemmell
Limp…needing volumizer…glad that doesn’t describe me. <;-) . Seriously, though, Mar…your looks are the envy of almost every woman you meet, I’m sure. Glad I don’t have to fuss and muss like you ladies!
By James Gemmell on 01/06/2009 3:27 pm