My hair doesn't want to grow up

Dec 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM
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Mad-Tante has given me anxiety today, with her post about adult hair-do's.

I don't want one. Please, just give mine to somebody else. Like Madonna. Can't she grow up now that she's fifty?

My hair...not so much. It's wild hair. Fuck me hair. It has it's own ideas about how to live. I don't want to fence it in, but all around me I see the signs.

When my mother turned 55, she cut off all her hair and got the Standard Middle-Aged Woman Helmet Hair. It depressed me. My sister, who will be 43 soon, she recently got a haircut that is edging suspiciously closer to the SMAWHH. Here I am, 37, and I don't want to get smawhh'd. I want my hair to keep getting its freak on. I want to be that old lady with wacked-out Robert Plant Houses of the Holy hair that makes you smile when you walk by.

So, if it's okay, I'll keep my crazy young hair. I promise, as I get older, I'll comb it more often. Deal?

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*sigh* I love your hair.

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Oh you have to keep your crazy young hair. And I think I will be one of those wacky old ladies that thinks she's Liz Taylor with the blue-black hair till age 70. Deal?

I like thinking about your hair having "It has it's own ideas about how to live." That's a great picture, Redz.
I've never seen a picture of you or your hair. Bet you're both gorgeous though.
Let that hair be it's own person, woman! Stand your ground. No cutty-cutty.

You know you're not going to comb it more often.

I actually used to get depressed about this when I was younger... I guess there was nothing else to worry about. I used to see my mom's long glossy hair in pictures from her college days, and now (then) she had dull short permed hair. And so did all her friends. Except one friend. Her hair was still long and young-looking. She gave me hope.

I say leave it long and wild. I just turned 43 and my hair is longish. It's just fine that way......I will be 90 with hair down to my butt!!! It will be fun.

Relish that hair. It's the one area in which Sexism can work in your favor. As guys age, most of them are forced into adult hair, because trying to hang on to youthful long hair styles makes 'em look like Ben Franklin, and trying to go completely bald makes 'em look more like Michael Berryman than Bruce Willis.

Women can still have cool hair well into their 70's, but guys? The cut off (note the pun) appears to be some time in the mid foties.

you know, thoughts about these I have been avoiding for almost 6 years (I turned 50 last september)

I have a lot (of hair), and I hated it when I was little because my mum would cut it *boy short*, so I rebeled and always have worn mine very long )and wild)....

I started cutting it in 2004, when we went to Brazil for 6 months and the heat was unbearable.... but I have been cutting it, that official old woman s helmet (that s brilliant, btw)

maybe I should fight it?

the urge to become uniformed?

you really got me thinking about this now....

I don't know... The weird thing is that I loved it when I had a crewcut, and I suspect that were I not married to a man who loves long hair, I might still have a crewcut. But in between...I don't really like it.

"I want to be that old lady with wacked-out Robert Plant Houses of the Holy hair that makes you smile when you walk by."

Well, then you know what you gotta do.... keep that damn SMAWHH away from your fuck-me hair. AT ALL COSTS. :o)

My hair doesn't want to grow up

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