Heh. I keep fantasizing about putting in a blue streak or getting my hair highlighted in a funky color. I have no career reasons not to. But I have to find a hairdresser who does wackass stuff, and I haven't even tried to look.
I will probably settle for getting it highlighted the ordinary way :).
It's not dramatically new, since longer hair doesn't happen overnight.
Heh. I keep fantasizing about putting in a blue streak or getting my hair highlighted in a funky color. I have no career reasons not to. But I have to find a hairdresser who does wackass stuff, and I haven't even tried to look.
Your in London for gods sake. Go find one on the internet and go for it.
You've been growing it out for several months now, haven't you? I don't recall when you first mentioned it. But the bangs are new.
It seems like these days shaved heads are a fashion statement for men. That's done good things for some male friends who were hit with male pattern baldness long before the average. But women can't really do that without looking like a cancer patient. I don't put a lot of personal value in specific aspects of my appearance, but I suspect that I'd still have a hard time if I was facing switching to a wig. Like many seemingly big life changes, it might well be an improvement once I made it, though.
That said, I get your point. I've actually spent so much of my life actively opposing appearance-driven self-image that I find that *my* next step in positive self-esteem may well be to take a more active interest in how I look and how I might look if I wanted to.
Very late to this, but this reminds me of a friend in Chicago who was in art school and from a very conservative "Hair is a woman's crowning glory" family. So she shaved off all her hair and kept a journal of people's reactions and her own thoughts until it grew back. She's on my FL now.
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I will probably settle for getting it highlighted the ordinary way :).
EDIT: I'm dying to see pics of the new look.
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EDIT: I'm dying to see pics of the new look.
It's not dramatically new, since longer hair doesn't happen overnight.
Heh. I keep fantasizing about putting in a blue streak or getting my hair highlighted in a funky color. I have no career reasons not to. But I have to find a hairdresser who does wackass stuff, and I haven't even tried to look.
Your in London for gods sake. Go find one on the internet and go for it.
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You've been growing it out for several months now, haven't you? I don't recall when you first mentioned it. But the bangs are new.
It seems like these days shaved heads are a fashion statement for men. That's done good things for some male friends who were hit with male pattern baldness long before the average. But women can't really do that without looking like a cancer patient. I don't put a lot of personal value in specific aspects of my appearance, but I suspect that I'd still have a hard time if I was facing switching to a wig. Like many seemingly big life changes, it might well be an improvement once I made it, though.
That said, I get your point. I've actually spent so much of my life actively opposing appearance-driven self-image that I find that *my* next step in positive self-esteem may well be to take a more active interest in how I look and how I might look if I wanted to.
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I never saw you then. Did you ever dye your hair interesting colors during grad school?
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