HOW TO STYLE LONG, FLOPPY, IN-YOUR-FACE HAIR TO MAKE IT MORE EXTREME ...

 

Details

This is about styling long, loose, floppy hair for the most visually exciting and 'moving' effect.

Briefly, what makes this kink of cut more extreme is the additional hair it places in your face or other precarious positions designed to get in the way and annoy.

In other words, the more extreme the cut, the more directly it will have the hair positioned to lie or hang right in front, just above or in front of the eyes and face -- as opposed to all being off to one side. Positioned right in front, the more it will be falling down and dangling in eyes and face the longer and heavier it will get. And thus the more it will need to be swung, tossed and jerked about in order to get it back out of the way.

Less extreme cuts may have a long bang hanging down, but it's off to one side, easily kept out of eyes and face. Or if the bangs swing across the forehead, the part is too near the top of the head, making for an arc that easily avoids the brows and eyes. Styles like that, we don't want.

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There are a few ways to style hair so that more is in play in front.

SIDE PARTS

Part the hair lower on the side where the hair originates, so you can sweep the bangs all the way across the forehead like this guy does.


EXTREME!

That's in contrast to this, where the bang contains none of the hair at the part's origin -- rather it's all made up of hair from one side and is easy to keep there. Again, not what we want.


WIMPY

Or this, where the bangs don't continue across, but get feathered at the brows


WIMPY

This guy's bangs extend the whole distance but they start way too near the top of his head instead of one side, making for bangs that are easily kept to one side, thus not our idea of fun.


WIMPY

Here the long bang grows way off on the right side. No, no, no.


WIMPY

Here he started the part far closer to the top of his head than to one side. Alas, he could have done better.


WIMPY

Now, just for fun, let's balance this out with some pix of guys with much more extreme cuts

This guy started his part way down on his left side and he's pushed a lot of hair over horizontally to his right. It hangs way low over his eyes.


EXTREME!

Same thing here, low part, lots of hair sweeping across and likely covering one eye nearly all the time..


EXTREME!

Here the part is neither high or low on his right side, but he still pushed a lot of hair forward. Looks styled to purposely keep his left eye buried under some really sexy hair.


EXTREME!

Here the brunette starts his part low and pushes a lot of hair across. If he lets the hair that's currently sweeping just over his left eye grow longer, he'll probably have hair falling down into his left eye too -- not just the right eye that most of his hair is aiming for.

The blond starts the part aligned with the outer corner of his left eyebrow, so his full, heavy thick bangs of blond hair fall foreward into the center of his face, and are likely too heavy and thick to keep pushed off to his right. So it's likely that his hair hangs down over his right eye most of the time -- maybe all the time. Love to see videos of him handling all that hair!


EXTREME!

With these horizontal styles, eventually bangs of hair that used to swing across the forehead above the eyes will grow to be too long and heavy.

But there is much we can play with in this style before that occurs. For example, with a part that starts way off to the side and low on the head, more hair can be collected forming heavier strands that swoop across the forehead. Starting lower on the side, the bangs will have to lie more horizontally as they extend across the forehead. Perhaps at first they'll be able to counter gravity by finding support resting across the eyebrows. But as the length and weight increase, strands will begin to fall farther down, perhaps to find some suspension by hanging across the eyelashes. But when that can no longer support them, there's nothing left there that can hold these strands up. So soon hair will start arcing down across the far eye -- the one that all the hair originally was supposed to lie above. And then with even more weight, the arc will fall down across the near eye too.

Here's a progression showing hair going from somewhat in-your-face to extremely in-your-face ...


 

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BANGS THAT HANG

The non-extreme style grows the bangs really long just on one side of the face. The extreme style has them just as long or longer in the center or over more of your face.

Here are pix of the same guys with less extreme and more extreme looks. The less extreme cuts have the bulk of the hair off to one side while the more extreme cuts have the bulk of it hanging more directly in the center of the face.
 
In the top pic, the part starts above his right eye, so when it hangs down it'll be hanging to the right side of his eye. In the next pic the part is moved over to start above the nose and grown a bit longer so now it will hang naturally over his right eye.


Nothing Special


EXTREME!

Here, in the first pic, the right edge of his bang starts above his left eye or nose. In the next one it starts above his right eye. Grown a bit longer, it fully buries his left eye and drapes the left side of his nose.


Just OK

EXTREME!

The more hair you have falling in your face, the more attention it will demand from you to do something in order to be able to see past it. Gone will be the days when you played and diddled with hair where you could easily flip it into your face and out. When it gets to an extreme length it falls where it wants to (or rather where it's styled to fall) and on its schedule, not yours. And you have to deal with it then -- or at least the next time you need to see out.

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OTHER LOOKS

Curly or wavy, cut long and heavy in front. Hair like that will flop down in your face in a big mass. It's obviously in your way, and obviously a hassle to deal with.

You may or may not be able to flick it or push it out of your way. At some point it will just hang there -- in your face, in your eye(s), in the way. All the time. But still really hot!

EXTREME!


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OR ... MAYBE WE'LL GO FOR HAIR THAT WON'T STAY OUT OF THE FACE AT ALL

Flips and tosses, however becomes less and less effective at getting hair out of the face the longer the hair gets. After bangs get to a certain length, flips and tosses become less and less effective at moving the hair out of the way anymore. Flipping and tossing less, the boy has to rely more on pushing his hair out of his face with his fingers. So he'll do it less often resulting in his hair hanging down in his face more. And beyond a certain length, his hair won't even stay out of his face at all unless he holds it out using his fingers. If my boy is up for it, we could see what it's like to take it to this point. The S/M quotient will be way higher -- perhaps enough to compensate for the less frequent movement of his hair.


 

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THE POINT OF EXTREME IN-YOUR-FACE HAIR

The point of all this is to keep growing your hair so that it falls ever more frequently into your face -- and just as frequently has you responding with a flip or toss to get it back out of your face. Your hair will be engaged in an increasingly frequent cycle of movement -- fall, hang, swing about, get flicked, cascade, dangle, get flung back, avalanche down, swing about, get tossed then pushed ... and again, and again, and again.

I will want to find out how frequently you can make this can happen. How much flipping and tossing and shaking and pushing your hair around does it take to turn your hair from a fun toy into a device of torture? How far out on that fun-to-torture spectrum can you go?

Observers will wonder why you put up with all that hassle -- beautiful hair can't be worth suffering that much hassle. They'll wonder why not just cut your hair? That's part of the game as you play with an extremely beautiful, extremely demanding style. Do you want to show off with it? Can you deal with it all the time? Can you make it fun most of the time? Or if you suffer for it, do you suffer well? Can you suffer with style? With drama? With feeling?

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ENTERING THE REALM OF S/M

If your're intrigued by this, continue here: Taking Your Hair Into the Realm of S/M

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