Do You Care About the Back of Your Hair?

July 15, 2009

Does the back of your hair get neglected? For me, unless I'm going somewhere really special or getting ready for a fancy event, I just don't bother. In fact, I recall an extremely honest stylist once telling me that if she's short on time, she'll spend the majority of her focus cutting the front sections — aka the part her clients see first.

Often, I have straight strands in the front as a result of my efforts, but then wavy patterns in the back as a result of my "out of sight, out of mind" hairstyling mentality. What about you? Do you flat iron, curl, blow-dry, or even comb the back of your locks, or do you just let it be?

Hair Bella Poll

30 Comments

chequettex 3 years 7 weeks

I think I have a funny-shaped and small head, so I try to poof out the back a bit to make my head seem normal. I also hate to have a haircut where the back of my neck is showing, but somehow that's always what stylists end up doing to me. Grrr.

3 years 36 weeks

seriously, people see more of the sides and back of your hair than your front!

equestriennechic 3 years 44 weeks

Ew, why would you ignore the back of your head?!

robinlh912 3 years 44 weeks

It's a pet peeve of mine to see girls with stick straight hair in the front and then the back is wavy or even kinda nasty and tangled. It's not hard to hold up a mirror and check the back to see if it even looks decent.

GlowingMoon 3 years 44 weeks

Absolutely. I have straight, thick hair, but I am very conscious of the overall shape of my hairstyle (read: my hairstyle's architecture), and it's hemline. I consider my hairstyle as a 3-D sculpture. This is how my hairdresser taught me to consider my hair, and that's how he approaches my hair.

rach716 3 years 44 weeks

My hair's relatively easy -- it's super straight. So I don't have to worry about the back as much because it generally looks the same no matter what I do!

Jessiebanana 3 years 44 weeks

I have curly wavy hair, so that's not an option.

vicki17 3 years 44 weeks

Not paying attention to the back of your hair is like not brushing your back teeth.

glam sugar 3 years 44 weeks

I always make sure the back looks good.

risqueredhead 3 years 44 weeks

I don't really do my hair... I don't even comb it every day. I have straight fine hair. I wash it at night, let it air dry/dry over night, and in the morning it looks like it does in my avatar. I'm lucky. However, I was (and am) obsessive, I would NOT wear pony tails in my hair when I was younger because I could not get the hair to lie the way I wanted it.

kulikuli 3 years 44 weeks

YES! But like a lot of other people are saying, i have wavy hair as well, and you can't just straighten part of your hair, it wouldn't look right. Even when i curl my hair, but it's easy for me, i have really long hair, so i can just pull it around to the front when i use a curling iron. The only way i'd understand it would be if you had a choppy hair cut, that was one of those blowdry and go styles. But when i see others do it, i think it just looks sloppy, either don't do your hair and have a bum day, or take the time to do it right and have some pride in how you look.

kulikuli 3 years 44 weeks

bornthisway 3 years 44 weeks

YES! I hate seeing people with straightened hair who don't do much about the back.

bornthisway 3 years 44 weeks

YES!I hate seeing people with straightened hair who don't do much about the back.

KMattes 3 years 44 weeks

Haha, I thought I was the only one who neglected the back of my hair! I know others can see it, but I can't, so "out of sight, out of mind." That's not very logical, but oh well.

margokhal 3 years 44 weeks

Yeah, I have to. My hair never sits right in general, and if I don't take care of all sides, including the back, it actually pushes my hair into a lopsided mound. It's really humid where I live, so hair will puff in a minute. I hold down each part and brush the other sides so it doesn't move - back included! [Then when I get it where it at least isn't sticking up, I put on holding spray to get it to stay!]

margokhal 3 years 44 weeks

Talldiva45 3 years 44 weeks

Yes. I feel like ppl see the whole head and if the back isn't right it takes away from the front no matter how good it looks. It's about the whole "do" in my opinion.

Merlin713 3 years 44 weeks

In the summer, I don't care. I blow or air dry my hair and how it ends up is what happens. In the winter I blow dry it everyday and I run the curling iron through everything - quickly. It's not too difficult because I have fine hair. I just have a ton of it.

Merlin713 3 years 44 weeks

In the summer, I don't care. I blow or air dry my hair and how it ends up is what happens.In the winter I blow dry it everyday and I run the curling iron through everything - quickly. It's not too difficult because I have fine hair. I just have a ton of it.