HAIR UPDATE
I know how you like to know what is happening with my hair, and so just to let you know I have had it cut very very short. And I've stopped dying it for the first time since I was thirteen years old. Turns out my natural hair colour is a light brown with shades of mahogany.
I feel oddly vulnerable leaving my hair its natural colour. Like I'm doing something wrong and inviting ridicule upon myself. And yet having it so short feels right, like it's how it was always meant to be. Like I'm returning to my natural state. But I haven't had my hair this short since I was about six months old, so it's not like I have ever been used to it.
Length of hair is very symbolic, is it not? It's pretty much the embodiment of feminism in a woman and hippy-slackerishness in a man. Yet, I don't feel less feminine at all with short hair and I haven't noticed anyone relating to me any differently. But then, not many people ever related to me as a woman much before, if you know what I mean. People generally interact with me for my usefulness or entertainment value. But maybe that's more to do with the fact that I'm an old married woman. Or ugly. Or maybe I smell and no one has ever told me.
Anyway, short natural hair it is for a while.
7 comments:
I hope you stay away from the hair dye, I'm very suspicious of those chemical concoctions, remember the docs told Elizabeth Taylor to not use it anymore after her brain tumour?
Isn't it amazing how much a different hair style can alter a person?
Michael Bolton springs to mind.
Women have an odd relationship with chemicals. I'm careful about what passes my lips (I keep as fresh and organic as time and money allow), but I'll shovel any amount of scary sounding stuff on my face or on my hair if the product promises youth and beauty.
Thing is, the skin is an organ, it absorbs what is put on it, think nicotine patches etc. You need to be as careful with that as with what you eat and drink. Not to be a scaremonger, but if you've been dying your hair since thirteen did you say, could that have a bearing on your illness? [Forget what it's called now, the chronic fatigue syndrome thingy.]
Ligneus, I am trying to think of one woman that I know who does not dye her hair, and truly at the moment I can't think of one (even if it's just highlights). If hair dye was that lethal then all the women of Great Britain would be flailing around by now and no use to anyone.
Also chuck, I'm not ill, and haven't been for about 3 years now! Yes, I know, time flies doesn't it!
I've now thought of two women I know who don't dye their hair. I'll keep an eye out to see if they live longer than me.
Friend of ours had a terrible reaction 2 years ago and now only uses henna style veg. products. She isn't grey, which is her stated worry.
SP
I didn't know are not ill now, you were though weren't you? I remember you writing about it and about the illness itself, how the medical profession wasn't taking it seriously, so I'm delighted to hear you're over it. I was probably a bit over the top with the 'scary hair dye' stuff but at the same time it's something to bear in mind.
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