tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817210109712823825.post7378332486762412903..comments2023-11-02T05:46:12.161-04:00Comments on Dreams Underfoot: a tangle of mysterious prejudicessusan said sohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427481695202748942noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817210109712823825.post-41710838332407480822010-12-20T00:31:32.362-05:002010-12-20T00:31:32.362-05:00There was a woman on the plane back to LR today wh...There was a woman on the plane back to LR today who had beautiful red hair....obviously out of a bottle, but yummy nonetheless. It set me to thinking again about my decision to go au natural. Maybe, just maybe a bit of red would be good...something like strawberry blonde. Any thoughts. (BTW, I recognized the red-haired beauty in front of the hostel.)Marshanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817210109712823825.post-45440081657680335662010-12-18T17:19:22.582-05:002010-12-18T17:19:22.582-05:00O.M.G! i think you have just ignited an amazing ki...O.M.G! i think you have just ignited an amazing kinda internal self identity mental battle. The "are we defined by our outsides ie; our hair- or not" !!!! personally i would go with yes for myself, im 39, & ive had long hair ALL my life (yes really!). obviously i had it short as a toddler as mom has control of the scissors, but around the age of 4 i remember requesting to grow my hair long -as thats what ballerinas did,& of course i was going to be one-I was learning at that time .when i went into high school at 12-13, i wanted to (gasp!!!) fit in so i went & got my hair cut from bum length to a sort of 80's layered pixi cut- (even bigger gasp!!)i cried for about 5 days!!!! i just wasnt me! i would have rathered lose an arm- & the weird thing was i chose to do this to me!!! so began the ordeal of growing it out. how excited do you get when you can pull a piece of hair out & down & go "look, it reaches my nose or my shoulers".I was also a rather 'late bloomer' my boobs didnt really arrive till 17 & so did another lot of hormones that made my hair go CURLY! yep!- curly & ive got rather already thick hair so it was wirey! I'd just gotten myself back & there i was changing again! so i decided to grow out the layered bangs & go for all one length- no fringe, do you know how long curly hair takes to grow? crap! its a long time!!! so all of late high school and early 20's (about 4 years!) i spent try to get my hair to how i wanted it-& i became know a "the girl with the long curly hair" it was another strange experience cause people really wana touch ur curly hair! - and they do! completely igoring how either comfortable or uncomfortable you are with it! they like to pull the curls out like a spring & let them go some even make the "boinggg" noise when they do it!??? so this went on all thru my 20's & 30's(AARRGGGHH) till one day at 38 i just woke one & went "im sick of this girl i see in the mirror" & out came the scissors- now i'm not a huge risk taker & just the hint of scissors anywhere near my hair makes my tummy funny so my hair went from being all one length to a few layers & i have bangs again- i was really happy with it at first - but my now more grown up -adult hair wasnt so curly just wavy ( my surge of hormones had died off)& heaps of the volume had gone the thing that was hard to get used to was the lack of attention from people- i didnt use it so much to fuel my ego as i took it as a form of acceptance! weird! and a bit sad! so im at the point of fighting with myself everyday not to trim my fringe as it hangs in my eyes- im trying to grow it out you know- im gona have my hair all one length!!!!! so i get what you mean ,if you have something a bit different- ie; red hair/ or curls you stand out & i think its a way of others identifying you- so then we/you do the same- i wonder how people would react to you if you were blonde & then how you would react to their reactions- its an amazing mind fuck!! in a good way! as for me my hair is definately a huge part of me & my identity & it will be long till the day i leave the planet, but the battle of my bangs continues, i guess taking the scisssors to it makes me feel like i still have some control over this thick wavy mind of its own mess- to cut or not to cut, that is the question! jodi.xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817210109712823825.post-49072577334854372072010-12-18T09:55:51.591-05:002010-12-18T09:55:51.591-05:00Just had what little hair I had cut off!!! I loved...Just had what little hair I had cut off!!! I loved long hair, it just does not look healthy when it gets that long. At least not since I have gotten older.<br />I was called the girl with the long red hair too!! AND FRECKLES!<br />Carrot-top!!!Angela Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871883285979948940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817210109712823825.post-60922741420105111862010-12-17T11:12:13.983-05:002010-12-17T11:12:13.983-05:00I do the same thing - in fact amongst my friends I...I do the same thing - in fact amongst my friends I am known as the one who never has her hair the same way for more than a month. Right now my hair is short. I mean SHORT. Think Jamie Lee Curtis short. It's been this short for about 4 or 5 months now and I love it. Never have to blow dry! BUT, sometimes I still think "I wish I had my long hair again...". But in my heart I know my hair looks nothing like any of the photos above (I wish...), and like you, when it's long I can't stand it in my face, so I always wear it up. So - I feel your pain, girl.life, in small chunkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406557354681766742noreply@blogger.com