Give me a head of hair, long beautiful hair…..

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I woke up this morning and someone had taken my real hair and replaced it with something that doesn’t work at all. Yesterday, my hair curled the way it should. It shined and was happy. Today, I am not sure whose hair is squatting on the top of my head. Some of the color must have been unhappy because it took off for places unknown.

When I wake up with goofy hair, I want an appointment NOW, preferably before breakfast! Fortunately, I don’t know a hairdresser that would oblige which is a good thing. Kneejerk haircuts are never good. I know this from experience.

I am not a disciplined hair person. I don’t have a standing appointment every few weeks. In fact I can drive a hairdresser crazy. For one appointment, I am growing my hair and just when it gets some length, I want a pixie cut. I have not yet thrown in the towel and had my hair cut in the typical short cut that most sane, logical women do after age 60.

I am an avid reader of all things hair – styling, products, what’s new, what’s out. You would never know it because my hair always looks the same. Sometimes it’s a little shorter and sometimes a little longer but not really different. I have a curl to my hair along with oddly placed cowlicks. The curl isn’t strong enough to give me truly curly hair but just enough to make it impossible for me to wear my hair straight or anything resembling Victoria Beckham. The real truth about curls is that they have a mind of their own and you can’t coax them into a specific direction.

The best hair advice I ever received was from a twenty-something in a clothing store (hey, I want the hair of a 20-year-old!). She had the same hair that I do (only a younger version) so  I asked her how she styled her hair. She had that really nice tousled look just like my idol Meg Ryan. Bouncy and perky – oh yes, she was also very attractive. (Note to self – get her plastic surgeon’s name too.)

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She told me not to comb my hair. Ever! I should run my fingers through it in the shower after the conditioner but when I get out of the shower, i shouldn’t comb it out. I could blow it dry with a diffuser or let it dry naturally. Ok, I can do that. It doesn’t straighten the weak curl and there is a lot of body, probably from all the tangles underneath.

Now what do I do with the twenty bottles of hair products that are guaranteed to make my hair look like a Breck girl (remember her from the 60’s?)
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  5. I have curly grey hair that is usually –messy. But I like it that way. I don’t like it when it is all smooth and neat. What I don’t like is the thinning thing. I never knew my scalp was so pink!

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  8. I was truly commiserating with you … there was a time that I actually LIKED my hair once or twice, but it’s been so long, I’m not sure I can recall the specifics. Now I make do with hair the color of dried mud, without a specific length or cut, that sort of just frizzes up every now and then just to remind me that it is humid outside. Other than that, it just lays there, looking dull and boring. But trying to end on a positive note … I do, at least, like the touches of grey.

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