Isn’t it typical of women to hate their own hair? We take the hair God gave us and trade it for something better. Cutting. Coloring. Damaging with heat (and getting yelled at by stylists for it). Girls with curls want the straight that straight girls are desperate to volumize. Girls with bangs are growing them out. Girls with no bangs are thinking about getting them. This is insanity.
I wish I could say that I were personally exempt from this trend of hair self-hatred, but I too wish for better locks. I’ve been growing mine out for awhile and now it’s just about as long as it’s ever been/ever will be, but I find there to be issues with zippers, buttons on the backs of blouses, tangles while brushing, and wind/lip gloss issues. Why can’t it just be effortlessly perfect?
When I try to curl it, it looks good for about twenty minutes, and then it falls flat. See photo below. Forty minutes on the iron and the result didn’t even last until I made it to my destination.
Plus, it’s too thin.
And there’s a gray one mixed in there now, too. What’s this, you say? A gray at 27? Yes. Either that or a very very very light blonde strand, which is what I’m kind of telling myself as a way to deal with the fact that this has happened to me before I have been able to find a husband. Pa-thet-ic.
Worst of all, when I told my mother about the gray, she told my brother Johnny. Johnny responded to this news by texting me that I could always be pretty as long as Clairol existed. Thanks, brother, ya jerk.
In other hair-related news, I’ve noticed that it’s falling out. A lot. It happens mostly when I comb through it while it’s wet. I estimate that maybe around 20-30 strands come out. I promptly remove them from the teeth of the comb and place them in the trash so that I don’t really think about it too much and freak myself out. Is this normal? I’m also wondering if maybe it was happening all along and I’m only really noticing it now because my hair is longer than it’s ever really been and therefore there’s simply more of it? I don’t know.
Maybe I should solve all these worries by shaving it all off and buying a wig. Too creepy?
Hey Jen I’ve been told that 50 to 100 strands is usually a normal event in the therory of one’s head full of hair! Men well not as lucky they lose from puberty age so by the time they are 30 they are receading and greying…..I think you are onto something simply wonderful……baldness how cool…..we could either go backwards or forwards in style and no one would care! love ya mom
This post cracked me up! You sound just like me here. I hate, hate, hate my hair. I always have. It’s ridiculously thick and makes me feel like an extra creature is living on my head. It’s very long too — down to my lower back — which, as you point out, creates lots of issues with tangles, hair stuck in lip gloss, and the overall feeling of trying to manage a beast. I wonder if there’s any happy medium?!
Point in case. I’ll take half your hair to supplement my own volume, and we can work on developing a hair-resistant brand of lip gloss.
On second thought that sounds pretty gross. All of it.
Haha, you’re too funny! Maybe WordPress should just voluntarily notice this discussion, purchase us personal beauty assistants, and they can follow us around all day – fixing and primping away any hair crises. I like that plan best!
I love that idea so hard.
It’s normal for an abundance of hair to fall out when wet. Hell, when I color my hair enough falls out afterwards that I could use it as a wig should I ever go Britney-crazy and shave my head. As for gray – consider yourself lucky. I recently spent 6 months hair-color free just out of curiosity, and I’m ENTIRELY gray. And white. And once in awhile one of my eyebrow hairs comes in white. Santa Claus white. I have ZERO color pigmentation left. And I’m only a couple of weeks older than you are! It’s funny about the curls though. Mine won’t hold a curl because it’s too thick/heavy, whereas yours won’t because it’s too thin. A girl just can’t win!
Let’s go bald and cause a stir.