I've got to get something off my chest.
I don't understand why most
women are so attached to their hair. Crying when three inches are
trimmed off, hissy fits when the tone doesn't come out "right",
needing it long to feel like a "woman". I'm not one to understand
this phenomenon. I've
never been attached to my hair. It grows out of
my head. I cut it off and more grows in its place. I bleach it until it falls
out (well, I used to do that - my stylist has, thankfully, taken over the
bleaching), perfect a shade of blonde and then have red put over it, spend
months growing out my bangs and then get them again, get bored and put purple
in it... It's just hair!
And yeah, I've had a couple experiences where I panicked about my drastic
hair change. Once right after high school when I got my first pixie/faux hawk
and I got a lot of rude comments about it, and more recently when I bleached my
whole head and people could
not let it go. But now I see that the only
reason I freaked was because all the negative (and sometimes even positive)
attention was making me self conscious. I love change. Change makes me happy.
Every time I feel like my life is boring or out of control, I change my hair.
It helps! I am in control of it! And, quite frankly, I
rock a
lot of hair colors and styles.
“A woman who cuts her hair, is about to
change her life.” - from the movie Coco Before Chanel
In honor of this venting and realization, I went through Facebook and made a
collage of a bunch of hair styles I've had over the past few years. It's odd to
see them all together like this. Unfortunately, I was late to the
Facebook/photograph yourself all the time train and don't have any pictures of
my high school Manic Panic days, but I think you get the idea.
What's your favorite hair style you've ever had? Have you ever craved a drastic change?
