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Big King Sanctaphrax
11-27-2006, 19:51
For the past 3 years I've been growing my hair, and it's now almost waist length. Although it has been fun, and I don't regret doing it, I am starting to tire of it now, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have it cut. I thought I would solicit advice from the patrons here about what I should have done.

I've been considering a classic men's haircut with a side parting, as sported by Errol Flynn in this picture-

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/flynngalry.jpg

Alternatively, I could keep it slightly longer. I was watching The Princess Bride yesterday, and was quite taken with Cary Elwes' haircut-

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/CaryElwes.jpg

Or I could go for a central parting instead, again with the hair left slightly longer-

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/jv_9s.jpg

What do you think?

MSB
11-27-2006, 19:57
Before I decide: could I have a picture of you so I can see which hair style would suit you the best.

Otherwise I would recommend the last one or a buzz cut :laugh4:.

LeftEyeNine
11-27-2006, 19:59
#3 will suit very well if you have such a cornered face.

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-27-2006, 20:19
Woops, silly of me to forget. Here's a couple of reference pictures-

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/RobGreyscale.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/Robshave.jpg

Conqueror
11-27-2006, 20:21
Who needs hair? :inquisitive:

Just lose it all :yes:

MSB
11-27-2006, 20:23
Definitely #3 and dye it lighter at the same time.

Kralizec
11-27-2006, 20:25
I'd go for #3 as well.

Gregoshi
11-27-2006, 21:36
I think #3 suites you best too.

Beirut
11-27-2006, 21:52
If you get a mullet I'm taking away all your Floyd.

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-27-2006, 21:58
and dye it lighter at the same time.

What's wrong with my hair colour?!

Number 3 is definitely the younger man's cut. However, I do really like those classic 50s hairstyles. It's tricky.

Beirut
11-27-2006, 22:02
My woman thinks you're Teh Bomb! I'll ask her opinion when she gets home.

She'll let you know.

yesdachi
11-27-2006, 22:22
Just a thought, #1 & 2 will probably require more hair goo of some kind.



When I cut my long hair I gave it to “locks for love”. :bow:

drone
11-27-2006, 22:52
If you go for either #1 or #2, don't forget to grow the stylish moustache that Errol and Cary are sporting! Any other hairstyles from Robin Hood actors that you are considering?

GoreBag
11-27-2006, 23:02
You're all wimps! BKS, keep the hair, grow a beard.

Beirut
11-27-2006, 23:54
Alright BKS,

Mrs. Beirut says:

First off, you don't have to cut it that short.

Second, your hair is too straight to pull of the Errol Flynn wave.

Third, if you cut it that short your hair will have no body.

Fourth, of the three shots, go with the third style


My ten year-old says "Ugh!" in reference to Errol Flynn. She's ten, whadaya expect.

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-28-2006, 00:08
Heh, thanks Beirut. Tell your family thanks as well.

Csargo
11-28-2006, 00:35
I'de go with #3. With your straight hair. God do I wish I had straight hair.

ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
11-28-2006, 00:45
Hey,

I got a thought, but I'm just going to keep it to myself :laugh4:

I say get your Hair Cut Short, and I mean Short lol. Short Hair looks good IMO..

Mithrandir
11-28-2006, 00:50
http://www.britkid.org/images/illu/44.jpg

Nuff said.

InsaneApache
11-28-2006, 01:28
You look like a girl. :laugh4:

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-28-2006, 01:30
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/Drag.jpg

No, now I look like a girl. ~;)

Csargo
11-28-2006, 01:38
http://www.nndb.com/people/110/000103798/tom-delonge-1.jpg

There you go:beam: :laugh4:

Beirut
11-28-2006, 02:19
God do I wish I had straight hair.

Really? I just wish I had enough to cover my head.

CountArach
11-28-2006, 04:51
Really? I just wish I had enough to cover my head.

And on the seventh day, God invented the Combover... :wink:

Personally, I like my really short hair... I mean really short, basically crewcut...

Crazed Rabbit
11-28-2006, 06:25
I'd say #1 or #2 - but #3 would look good too.

Crazed Rabbit

Sasaki Kojiro
11-28-2006, 06:50
Giant mohawk.

IrishArmenian
11-28-2006, 07:45
I go with Sasaki on this! Mohawk it! I suggest the Psychobilly Mohawk: Bigger in the front than it is in the back, and other than that, it is a mohawk.
I actually did sport this cut^ for a long time, the wife says she like my hair so I grew it out.
Csar, why wish for straight hair? I have a lot of curly hair and the wife loves it.

Fragony
11-28-2006, 10:16
Russian army style baby. Nah, saw your pic, long hair looks good on you. Keep it.

Stig
11-28-2006, 13:42
bleh, long haired hippy
shorten it and grow a beard I'd say

The Wizard
11-28-2006, 14:39
#2 for your face. Maybe 3#, depends.

/me puts on the GQ hat

P.S. Oh, and uh, Mrs. Beirut is right about the Flynn 'cut. ~;)

Andres
11-28-2006, 15:10
Get a decent haircut (read: no longer then 2 cm) and a decent job, you lazy hippy :whip:

:laugh4: I think the third one will suit you best, but combine it with a stubbly beard, the ladies will love it (and you don't have to shave everyday~;) ).

doc_bean
11-28-2006, 15:20
Get a beard first, then decide what goes best with the beard !

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-28-2006, 15:31
Can't grow a beard. I didn't really do well in the genetics stakes where body hair is concerned.

KukriKhan
11-28-2006, 15:38
From the 3 samples you presented, it looks like you're considering a "medium" (i.e. collar-length) style. I agree, I think that's best because it gives you more flexibility than long (which is just, well, long... unless you braid it or something decorative), or short, which limits your choices to "part or no-part?", and "left or right?", and colour.

You have an oval-shaped face that is growing into a square shape. 10 years from now, people will describe your face as "chisled" (a good thing). Your currently long hair is so heavy that it can be nothing but straight. It'll be interesting to see if it develops more "body" when you cut it back to collar-length. If not, there's always "product" to give it more life.

I've always been a fan of the 'pulled back, off the face, windswept' look, similar to this guy (http://mensfashion.about.com/od/goominghair/ss/MediumHair2.htm). My women have also. Low maintenance, run your fingers through it in the morning; supports facial hair, or not; puts your face out there in the world, unafraid.

Forget the "part", that's for followers; you're a leader. You have sensitive eyes; people see that right away, no need to reinforce your sensitivity with a 'sensitive' hairstyle. Windswept, outdoors guy, busy man making important decisions... that's the ticket.

Wow, I kinda got swept away there :laugh4: I don't usually give hairstyles and looks more than a passing thought. Thanks for the chance to explore that side. :) :bow:

Reverend Joe
11-28-2006, 16:12
Just leave it. You look like David Gilmour; the hippie chicks will love it.

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-28-2006, 16:27
Wow, Kukri. A new career beckons there, I think-those Queer Eye guys won't know what hit them.

Zorba-it's not actually as good at attracting women as you might think. They tend to be impressed and/or jealous, but that's about it.

King Henry V
11-28-2006, 18:43
Since you're studying medicine, won't you have to cut it anyway?
I like no 2 and 3 best, but that's just me.

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-28-2006, 19:03
I probably would have had to a few years ago, but if they tried to make me do it now I'd just be able to slap a big sexual discrimination suit on them. My local trust's rules just say I have to tie it back.

I'm definitely going to have cut it by the time I start seeing patients, though. People do make assumptions about you based on something like that.

Moros
11-28-2006, 22:27
Dreadlocks all the way...

dacdac
11-28-2006, 23:03
sideways mohawk. One going from ear to ear. I have never seen anyone with it before and am curious to see someone with it. But don't make a normal mohawk with it to make a cross or something or birds will think it is a target and poop on you. Wouldn't want that now would we?

Reenk Roink
11-28-2006, 23:26
Forget the "part", that's for followers; you're a leader. You have sensitive eyes; people see that right away, no need to reinforce your sensitivity with a 'sensitive' hairstyle. Windswept, outdoors guy, busy man making important decisions... that's the ticket.

Sigged. :laugh4: :2thumbsup:

The Wizard
11-28-2006, 23:47
Forget the "part", that's for followers; you're a leader.

O RLY?

Hey, lay off the parted hair. My hair does that naturally, and I ain't no cattle son of a gun ~;)

KukriKhan
11-29-2006, 03:39
Wow, Kukri. A new career beckons there, I think-those Queer Eye guys won't know what hit them.

Those guys on that show are so conventional - they decorate and accessorize, that's about it, IMO. Their clients are asking them to remake them into different men, because what they have, and what they've been doing, hasn't worked so far - at least that's the premise of the show. I think the queer-eye guys mostly fail in that mission.


Reenk Roink: Sigged.

I feel so honoured - or is it cursed? :laugh4: MammaKukri always said: "Don' say nuttin' wot ya don' wanna read in tomorrow's headlines."

So, Honorable Big King Sanctaphrax, you thinking of making this huge change with the new year? Then you could always blame it on: "I was soooo drunk...", if things went badly.

p.s. Baba Ga'on: no offense intended :bow:; my hair parted for 30 years, and still defaults to that position immediately after sleep.

Del Arroyo
11-29-2006, 05:05
High and tight.

GoreBag
11-29-2006, 08:10
High and tight.

This is about his hair.

Big King Sanctaphrax
11-29-2006, 13:17
So, Honorable Big King Sanctaphrax, you thinking of making this huge change with the new year? Then you could always blame it on: "I was soooo drunk...", if things went badly.

Well, some girls from the Vidal Sassoon hairdressing school stopped me in Oxford street a few weeks ago and asked me if I'd do some modelling for a project they're doing. They were pretty hot, so of course I said yes. I figure I'll do that for them, and then ask them to recompense me for my time in trade.

The Wizard
11-29-2006, 14:17
This is about his hair.

:laugh4:

caravel
11-29-2006, 14:22
Think carefully before you cut off your hair. I cut mine off when I was about 19 (I'd had long hair since I was 16) and regretted it ever since. You can have short crew cuts for the rest of your life, but you can only carry off the long hair thing while you've still got your youth (and your hair). I couldn't go back to long hair again now. Growing it is the worst part. Your hair has to go through about a year and a half of looking horrible. You get all the stupid comments, and it can be a pain to wash every morning. Once it's off there's no going back, at least not for a long time.

Craterus
11-29-2006, 21:14
Well, some girls from the Vidal Sassoon hairdressing school stopped me in Oxford street a few weeks ago and asked me if I'd do some modelling for a project they're doing. They were pretty hot, so of course I said yes. I figure I'll do that for them, and then ask them to recompense me for my time in trade.

I'd say no.3 but maybe you should ask those girls for their opinion? ~D

Samurai Waki
11-30-2006, 03:06
Heres a Good Suggestion:

https://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e177/Wakizashi1985/mullet.jpg

Business in the front, Play in the Back.:laugh4:

dacdac
11-30-2006, 04:10
^ Kentucky Waterfall right there bow. Lookin' smooth. I'm sure he's picking up loads of chickies. Ohh Yeahh!!!!

Del Arroyo
11-30-2006, 04:23
This is about his hair.

and..?

Csargo
11-30-2006, 06:01
Heres a Good Suggestion:

https://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e177/Wakizashi1985/mullet.jpg

Business in the front, Play in the Back.:laugh4:

I wonder what would possess someone to cut there hair like that. I bet his mommy cut his hair.:beam:

Mithrandir
12-01-2006, 00:28
Reminds me of 'my little pony'.

So no shocking new pictures yet BKS ?

Alexander the Pretty Good
12-01-2006, 05:36
No, Wakizashi provided that. :inquisitive: :no:

Proletariat
12-01-2006, 05:46
1 or 2, 3 will having you look like a Nirvana fanboy from my highschool era (bout 10 years ago).

doc_bean
12-02-2006, 11:40
1 or 2, 3 will having you look like a Nirvana fanboy from my highschool era (bout 10 years ago).

He isn't blonde, so that should help. Besides, do the kids even remember who Nirvana were these days ?

Andres
12-02-2006, 17:22
Besides, do the kids even remember who Nirvana were these days ?

They don't :inquisitive: ?

Damn, I'm getting old.

Big King Sanctaphrax
12-02-2006, 17:25
He isn't blonde, so that should help. Besides, do the kids even remember who Nirvana were these days ?

I also intend to, you know, wash my hair. That should de-grunge it up a bit.

Csargo
12-02-2006, 17:25
He isn't blonde, so that should help. Besides, do the kids even remember who Nirvana were these days ?

Yes I know who Nirvana is.

Geezer57
12-02-2006, 17:33
Hair??? Who has hair?!!? No hair here.... :embarassed:

doc_bean
12-03-2006, 13:51
They don't :inquisitive: ?

Damn, I'm getting old.

How many bands that released their last album over ten years ago did you like in HS ?

(the early years, not when you actually develop taste, but then you shouldn't turn into a fanboy anymore either)

Andres
12-03-2006, 15:38
How many bands that released their last album over ten years ago did you like in HS ?

(the early years, not when you actually develop taste, but then you shouldn't turn into a fanboy anymore either)

Difficult one...

- Red Hot Chili Peppers (I was in my 1st or 2nd year in secondary school when they released "Blood Sugar Sex Magic")
- Rage Against The Machine (in 3the or 4th when they released their first one)
- Metallica (3th of secondary school I think when they released their black album)
- The Prodigy

Can't think of any more right now. Curse my memory! I'm really getting old... :shame:

Craterus
12-03-2006, 16:08
How many bands that released their last album over ten years ago did you like in HS ?

(the early years, not when you actually develop taste, but then you shouldn't turn into a fanboy anymore either)

I'm in high school right now.

The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Beatles, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Elvis, The Who. I could go on...

Incongruous
12-04-2006, 11:26
Dude, seriuosly leave behind the nineties and grow a beared and get ur hair cut at like a five then just mess it up, buy a waistcoat and pretend you are Brandon Flowers.

doc_bean
12-04-2006, 11:43
Difficult one...

- Red Hot Chili Peppers (I was in my 1st or 2nd year in secondary school when they released "Blood Sugar Sex Magic")
- Rage Against The Machine (in 3the or 4th when they released their first one)
- Metallica (3th of secondary school I think when they released their black album)
- The Prodigy

Can't think of any more right now. Curse my memory! I'm really getting old... :shame:

Sorry, I meant 10 years before you went to HS. So that would have been bands from the early eighties for you...

(and their LAST album, the ones you mention are still around, except for Rage)

Samurai Waki
12-04-2006, 18:33
Nonsense, I graduated from HS in '03 and I'm very familiar with all of those bands.

GoreBag
12-04-2006, 21:19
How many bands that released their last album over ten years ago did you like in HS?

Black Sabbath, Rigor Mortis, Judas Priest hadn't reformed yet, Angel Witch, Death's first two albums...

Ahem, keep the hair.

doc_bean
12-05-2006, 09:51
Meh, your highschools weren't as hip as mine :afro:

naut
12-05-2006, 13:28
I'm confused how did this progress from hair to music?

doc_bean
12-05-2006, 14:04
People who identify with a certain musical style oftne have a certain hairstyle.

long greasy=metal
bald=metal, or gabberhouse, or some other niche genre (usually)
middle long clean=rock
middle long greasy=grunge

etc....


Not always true, and might depend on the area, but hairstyle syays a lot about your musical taste if you're still in your teens. At least it did so when I was young(er).

Andres
12-05-2006, 14:10
Hairpiece: classic music :juggle:

Fragony
12-05-2006, 14:49
Brainless: rap

naut
12-05-2006, 14:58
:laugh4:

Oh ok.

KukriKhan
12-10-2006, 15:44
So: 2 weeks of discussion; has a decision been made? Is our esteemed BKS a crew-cut guy now, or a dashing rapscallion? Or did he chicken out?

And how about an update on those models?

The Wizard
12-10-2006, 16:11
Brainless: rap

Ignorant: white boys

~;)

Scurvy
12-10-2006, 17:47
So: 2 weeks of discussion; has a decision been made? Is our esteemed BKS a crew-cut guy now, or a dashing rapscallion? Or did he chicken out?


probably too embarassed to show us :2thumbsup:

Big King Sanctaphrax
12-10-2006, 23:37
So: 2 weeks of discussion; has a decision been made? Is our esteemed BKS a crew-cut guy now, or a dashing rapscallion? Or did he chicken out?

And how about an update on those models?

They're shooting the photos on the 22nd-after that, it's shearing time.

I'm leaning towards the style you posted, Kukri.

Beirut
12-11-2006, 01:53
This is going to be bigger than Christmas. :san_cool:

Fragony
12-11-2006, 17:14
Ignorant: white boys

~;)

Oh common, you are just one of these elve-loathing jews ~;)

Caius
12-12-2006, 19:14
Why you dont cut your hair more often and end of the question.

GoreBag
12-13-2006, 20:33
So: 2 weeks of discussion; has a decision been made? Is our esteemed BKS a crew-cut guy now, or a dashing rapscallion? Or did he chicken out?

And how about an update on those models?

Of course, by, "chicken out", you must mean, "come to his senses".

Dude, seriously, it's a bad idea.

Big King Sanctaphrax
07-04-2007, 16:25
Ok, after several months, I finally plucked up the courage to have my hair cut properly, so I ressurrected this thread.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/enervatedband/robkp7.jpg

I'm very pleased.

Fragony
07-04-2007, 17:00
Hmmm, before and after shouldn't be like this, if you want my opinion, you looked better with long hear, you are one of those people that have the face for it. You also look much younger, or maybe that is just wishful thinking.

Warmaster Horus
07-04-2007, 17:02
Agree. The third picture of the first post looked nice in my opinion.

Marshal Murat
07-04-2007, 17:51
Now you look younger, which in itself isn't that bad.

I just figured you'd get a mullet..

:shrug:

Hosakawa Tito
07-04-2007, 18:27
Looking good BKS!:2thumbsup:

Beirut
07-04-2007, 18:43
...and the women of England weep at the tomb of BKS's previous folicular mass.


I'll ask Mrs. Beirut what she thinks.

(But I'm sure she'd still let you have your way with her if you get her that front loading washer/dryer combo.)

Stig
07-04-2007, 18:46
Right, I'm just back from the hospital as I had a heartattack, thanks BKS ~D

Anyway be glad you still have hair, I'm already slowly losing mine

Gregoshi
07-04-2007, 20:04
Not bad BKS. You look to be a fine, young gentleman with a proper haircut now. I think I have slight preference for the longer hair look on you, but that you are happy with it matters the most though.

How much weight did you lose and what happened to all the hair?

Caius
07-04-2007, 20:09
How much weight did you lose and what happened to all the hair?
I think he donated the hair.

Oh well, I was joking.Yeah, I dont have a sense of humour

Big King Sanctaphrax
07-04-2007, 20:09
100g. I'm donating the hair to a charity which uses it to make wigs for children who've had chemo or radiotherapy.

The Spartan (Returns)
07-04-2007, 21:14
100g. I'm donating the hair to a charity which uses it to make wigs for children who've had chemo or radiotherapy.Good man. :saint:

Beirut
07-04-2007, 21:31
Good man. :saint:

Ma man! ~:smoking:

Andres
07-04-2007, 21:42
Now that the hippy period is over, when are you going to get a decent job?

~;p

I like your new haircut, it looks great on you :2thumbsup:

Gregoshi
07-04-2007, 22:07
100g. I'm donating the hair to a charity which uses it to make wigs for children who've had chemo or radiotherapy.
You are the best. :bow:

KukriKhan
07-05-2007, 01:22
A young Sean Connery, if ever I saw one. And for a fine cause.

Around here, you'd have to carry a stick, when walking about.

Togakure
07-05-2007, 01:54
... Around here, you'd have to carry a stick, when walking about.
:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

Now, now don't scare the poor guy--it hasn't gotten that bad, has it?

[Still laughing ....]

***

The cut looks good, BKS. My question is: how are the ladies taking it? I wore my hair very long from 1990 - 1998, ala Robert Plant. I finally got tired of folks not knowing my name and referring to me as "the guy with the hair," and cut it short. For several months I had unknown women asking "why? Why?!"

I've since thought about growing it back, but I don't relish the thought of taking 15 minutes to give it a proper washing, of having to find an expensive stylist to keep it looking cool, and tying it back like Steven Segal much of the time, as suits and shaggie hair aren't so fashionable these days.

I donated my shorn locks to a similar cause at the recommendation of my hairstylist. He handled it for me.

Seamus Fermanagh
09-10-2018, 02:36
This thread? This thread was your choice to premier in? :inquisitive:

Seamus Fermanagh
09-10-2018, 17:10
How could one even think to argue with that...

drone
09-10-2018, 18:45
BKS did have some nice hair though. I had forgotten about that pic of him in drag.

Seamus Fermanagh
09-10-2018, 19:03
BKS, Andre...

I have seen too many of the .org's leaders in drag

I wonder what that says about us...

edyzmedieval
09-10-2018, 22:33
11 year old thread... wow.

11 year old haircuts?

JoLife
12-11-2018, 16:35
Nice haircut! Now you have an opportunity to make such a hairstyle as you posted on the first three pictures, you just need a good hair gel for it. Applying it on hair allows forming locks and holding it together just make sure that the product can be combined with your hair type. Here is the manual (https://mystraightener.com/best-hair-gel-for-men-how-to-get-the-strongest-hold-and-ultimate-shine/) on how to choose the right hair gel, hope it will come in handy.

FilthyWV
04-23-2019, 13:06
baldness is my choice :)

Jenny
06-28-2019, 19:30
There is no doubt about it, that hairstyle means a lot for women.

That's why I prefer to change it as often as I can.