Hair, hair, hair...my story.

wow njm89 I understand your pain- I'm obsessed with straightening my hair (weirdly, I'm less concerned with my giant nose and weird, fleshy ears) - I use straightening irons- and spend hours blow drying, straightening then "messing it up" with products in order to get the requisite effect. I find that I can't leave the house at all without first spending hours on my hair- if a stray gust of wind should mess it up or make it wavy again (my hair is a horrible and impossible mix of weird spiraling ringlets and puffy curls- half Rapunzel, half mop) I get incredibly frustrated and anxious and have to head home again- my friends think I'm completely insane- but I genuinely can't get past this obsession with having straight hair- as you mentioned everyone else always seems to have perfect hair- either straight or plain curly- why is mine so incredibly weird? anyway, I digress, ranting incomprehensibly as usual- this is your post we're meant to be discussing after all- I guess what I'm trying to say in some weird, long-winded way is that other people feel as you do- and we will get better
thats a promise x

i can relate to this so much it is untrue however, it's more for me about the fact i have very very fine hair.
all i can think about
slowly ruining my life, i understand where you are comming from

Wow I can't even begin to describe how astounded to hear there are other guys out there just like me. I'm a 19 year old guy, just like the topic starter and I feel like my hair has stolen years of my life. As opposed to others in this thread my hair is poker straight and while this may sound great don't get the wrong idea in your head. My hair is very coarse and grows perpendicular to my head, when its a couple of inches long it looks like a helmet and won't lay flat so it sort of floats, bobbing up and down. I don't know where this could have come from as neither of my parents have it but its extremely depressing. Some days I spend hours staring at my hair in the mirror and thinking how my entire life would change if my hair could be decent. When I go out I'm constantly noticing other people's hair, even watching t.v. makes me depressed because all I see is hair. Ideally I wish my hair would lay flat against my head and then I would simply comb it to the side or something. I fantasize a lot about having nice hair and living a carefree life. I feel so hopeless and I often wish I had never born, or that my parents had done it at a slightly different time and maybe my hair genetics would have turned out differently. I'm not very confident due to my hair and being around other guys with nice hair makes me feel inadequate. I think people with nice hair underestimate how crucial hair is in the way others perceive you.