Help! My hair is too short!!

[danceronice]

@Sing Mia Song;7043242

And for heaven’s sake right back atcha, babe. Why does it bother you that some people prefer this look?

If it’s THAT IMPORTANT and you like a look so much, why not grow out your hair? I like being able to do buns and updos, so I don’t cut my hair short, I don’t cut up tube socks to make a falsie. If you’re putting panty hose on your head and not planning to rob a convenience store, you are making dubious fashion choices. There is no reason on Earth, especially given how awful hunter hair looks with modern helmets, for someone to feel they have to resort to nineteenth-century-style hairdressing fakery if they have short hair where at most a hairnet and some gel would do the job. Poofing and puffing creates a lot more opportunities for escapees (believe me, between dance and having to wear a hairnet around food, I have plenty of experience and the best way to control flyaways is a tight pull and if necessary styling products under the net.) People roll their eyes at the idea this such a necessary part of the look women with shorter hair should resort to bizarre fakery. If you like it and don’t think it looks absurd on you, keep your hair in a way you can do it.

Again, when MEN start wearing hunter hair with No Nonsense pinned to their head, it might be a legitimate worry.

[roamingnome]

[QUOTE=danceronice;7043348]
If it’s THAT IMPORTANT and you like a look so much, why not grow out your hair? I like being able to do buns and updos, so I don’t cut my hair short[/QUOTE]

Had you read my original post, I said that my hair dresser cut off 13" inches instead of 10", which would’ve left me in an OK spot. I AM growing my hair out as fast as I can, but only so much you can do in 5 days. I was merely asking for suggestions on what to do, no need to be snarky, isn’t that what this forum is about- to ask for help?

[englishcowgirl]

[QUOTE=Sing Mia Song;7043242]
And for heaven’s sake right back atcha, babe. Why does it bother you that some people prefer this look?

I like it because it is easy, neat, keeps my ears warm in winter, and I feel like it looks professional and put together. Necessary? No. But this way I know my hair isn’t going to go all jazz hands on me.

Y’all can laugh if you want, but I’m gonna keep doing it.[/QUOTE]

Exactly, OP asked how to do hunter hair with short hair. She did not ask to be judged because she likes to look nice. Good for her for showing respect for herself and her horse. Ima gonna keep doing it too!

You might try pinning it back with bobby pins right behind your ears. then put the hairnet over it and kinda tuck it up under the bottom of the hair. Cover the pins with the net and proceed as usual.

[fourmares]

If you just want it up you can french braid it on each side… however ir will not cover your ears an you may get laughed at by the other HPs.

[Sing_Mia_Song]

[QUOTE=danceronice;7043348]
If it’s THAT IMPORTANT and you like a look so much, why not grow out your hair? I like being able to do buns and updos, so I don’t cut my hair short, I don’t cut up tube socks to make a falsie. If you’re putting panty hose on your head and not planning to rob a convenience store, you are making dubious fashion choices. There is no reason on Earth, especially given how awful hunter hair looks with modern helmets, for someone to feel they have to resort to nineteenth-century-style hairdressing fakery if they have short hair where at most a hairnet and some gel would do the job. Poofing and puffing creates a lot more opportunities for escapees (believe me, between dance and having to wear a hairnet around food, I have plenty of experience and the best way to control flyaways is a tight pull and if necessary styling products under the net.) People roll their eyes at the idea this such a necessary part of the look women with shorter hair should resort to bizarre fakery. If you like it and don’t think it looks absurd on you, keep your hair in a way you can do it.

Again, when MEN start wearing hunter hair with No Nonsense pinned to their head, it might be a legitimate worry.[/QUOTE]

My hair is bobbed because I look awful with long hair. It gets stringy and it breaks off, so I still have the wispies. And the pantyhose technique is a lot faster than lacquering it into place. At the end of my ride, I pull it off with my hairnet, run my fingers through it and go.

My hair, my choice. But thanks so much for your judgment call on my “dubious fashion choices.” Don’t recall asking for it, and neither did the OP.

[2ndyrgal]

It doesn’t bother me, I just don’t understand

How hair underneath a helmet, can be so much a “style” that God forbid you have a bad hairdresser day, you have to figure out a way to fake it?

It’s just another representation of the boooooorrrrrriiiiinnnggg things in your average hunter ring.

Here’s how you over come hunter hair, get yourself a pair of 1 carat diamond studs, put your hair BEHIND your ears. One of our MFHs hunted with a pair of probably 3 carat ones. She has short hair. No one notices the lack of hairnet, they’re staring at the rocks.

[Sing_Mia_Song]

[QUOTE=2ndyrgal;7043582]

Here’s how you over come hunter hair, get yourself a pair of 1 carat diamond studs, put your hair BEHIND your ears. One of our MFHs hunted with a pair of probably 3 carat ones. She has short hair. No one notices the lack of hairnet, they’re staring at the rocks.[/QUOTE]

Alas, I can’t wear earrings (contact dermatitis with metals), so not an option for me. As for boooooorrrrrriiiiinnnggg things in the hunt ring, I can’t say the hunt field is exactly awash in variety. Excitement, yes. Variety no. And, yeah, I do this when I hunt, too. In that case it’s quite helpful in keeping my ears from freezing off.

[roamingnome]

[QUOTE=englishcowgirl;7043475]
Exactly, OP asked how to do hunter hair with short hair. She did not ask to be judged because she likes to look nice. Good for her for showing respect for herself and her horse. Ima gonna keep doing it too!

You might try pinning it back with bobby pins right behind your ears. then put the hairnet over it and kinda tuck it up under the bottom of the hair. Cover the pins with the net and proceed as usual.[/QUOTE]

Bobby pins! Why didn’t I think of that?! Thank you!

[roamingnome]

[QUOTE=2ndyrgal;7043582]
How hair underneath a helmet, can be so much a “style” that God forbid you have a bad hairdresser day, you have to figure out a way to fake it?

It’s just another representation of the boooooorrrrrriiiiinnnggg things in your average hunter ring.

Here’s how you over come hunter hair, get yourself a pair of 1 carat diamond studs, put your hair BEHIND your ears. One of our MFHs hunted with a pair of probably 3 carat ones. She has short hair. No one notices the lack of hairnet, they’re staring at the rocks.[/QUOTE]

Who said I was doing the hunters? Jumpers all the way!
And, pre-hair cut, I was SO SKILLED at hunter hair, I knew how to
1)Keep my hair neat
2)Keep my ears warm (and contained)
3) Show of my 1 carat studs that I wear on a daily basis, even WITH hunter hair.

I spent all that time I didn’t waste on learning how to find a distance or how to do lead changes in the hunter ring, and was able to focus all of my attention on how to do my hair!!!

[snaffle635]

[QUOTE=2ndyrgal;7043091]

No where, in any of GMs books does it say anything other than hair must be neatly contained, preferably in a hair net. [/QUOTE]

Yabbut, to be fair, the blonde rider in the photos in Hunter Seat Equitation is sporting possibly the most extreme example of hunter hair. Perfect little poofs / patties over her ears.

Maybe she is the hunter-hair inventor???

Oh, and OP - bobby pins all the way!!! I use 5-7 each ride…two or three behind each ear along the hairline, then 1 or 2 to pin up the hairnet ‘pony tail’.

[PaintPony]

[QUOTE=Sing Mia Song;7043242]
And for heaven’s sake right back atcha, babe. Why does it bother you that some people prefer this look?

I like it because it is easy, neat, keeps my ears warm in winter, and I feel like it looks professional and put together. Necessary? No. But this way I know my hair isn’t going to go all jazz hands on me.

Y’all can laugh if you want, but I’m gonna keep doing it.[/QUOTE]

Jazz hands - LOL :lol:

And it’s weird that some of you are so outraged that the OP wants advice on hunter hair. If you don’t like it, don’t do it! But don’t go around condemming it.

[ElisLove]

Wow, somebody sure has their panties in a knot over this issue! Not sure why someone hates hunter hair so much they need to be so rude about it.
When I did hunters I never had hunter hair cause my trainer was a guy and more of a jumper so I didn’t really know a great deal about it or how it’s done. I’m now a jumper but in my MODERN helmet, when I do my hair in hunter hair style it’s MUCH more flattering to my face.

[Prime_Time_Rider]

I learned that when I go to the hairdresser I always stress how important it is to be able to pull my hair back into a ponytail so that it will go under my helmet. My conversation with a new stylist always begins with "I ride horses and need to be able to pull my hair under my helmet, so…