It always happens with me, that diva-like feel of freshly cut and blow dried hair only lasts till the next shampoo and later some (on really disastrous days most) of the locks refuse to stay put and start going haywire....its like a very disturbing version of flash mob cropping up in different parts of a city. Why o why? What is it with these keratin extensions that can make or break anyone's day??
You see, I didn't care much about my hair initially. I used to see different hair styles on TV and think well they get paid to look that good. But after moving to this part of the world I saw those styles coming out of the TV sets and walking on streets, boarding a bus, doing grocery shopping....Rachel and Rapunzel were not fictional characters they were walking among us...no wait I, with my humble pony tail, was walking among them!
I remember watching one of those ruthless style check shows on TV once where this woman who supposedly knew all about the style (according to the producers of the show or was she the producer??) said that even if you are dressed in rags, if your hair looks like a million bucks you don't have to bother. That quote stayed in my mind and has come back to bite my behind when my scalp is witnessing its own version of Spring uprising.
Few years back when people would ask me did you just get a hair cut, I'd wear my "i-don't-care-much-about-my-hair" smile and reply "no i just shampooed", would do my secret victory dance and thank my genes! But that was then, now people's puzzled looks almost always get the reply "its the hormones! Having baby does that to you" (Ah the blessed hormones! From PMS ones to pregnancy ones, you can get away with almost everything by throwing them) This reply is brilliant!! Women who have had babies will empathize with you and women who haven't will sympathize. I have intentionally kept all the men out because they are incapable of noticing (keeping obviously S as reference) and if there are men who do notice I'll just pretend that I don't know them.
But is it really about hormones?? A carefully tucked-away and conveniently ignored part of me says that it has something to do with the "nature vs nurture" debate. It tells me that my hair are not weeds, they need a lot of TLC which has been missing in their lives from quite sometime. All those people with lovely manes give a lot of time to their hair (and those who say that they don't, are lying). TIME, that ever-elusive rascal, will I ever get it?? Probably not so moral of the story is Time is not only money its lovely hair, make-up, ummm a good movie, nice read, looooong bath, window shopping....and the list goes on :)
You see, I didn't care much about my hair initially. I used to see different hair styles on TV and think well they get paid to look that good. But after moving to this part of the world I saw those styles coming out of the TV sets and walking on streets, boarding a bus, doing grocery shopping....Rachel and Rapunzel were not fictional characters they were walking among us...no wait I, with my humble pony tail, was walking among them!
I remember watching one of those ruthless style check shows on TV once where this woman who supposedly knew all about the style (according to the producers of the show or was she the producer??) said that even if you are dressed in rags, if your hair looks like a million bucks you don't have to bother. That quote stayed in my mind and has come back to bite my behind when my scalp is witnessing its own version of Spring uprising.
Few years back when people would ask me did you just get a hair cut, I'd wear my "i-don't-care-much-about-my-hair" smile and reply "no i just shampooed", would do my secret victory dance and thank my genes! But that was then, now people's puzzled looks almost always get the reply "its the hormones! Having baby does that to you" (Ah the blessed hormones! From PMS ones to pregnancy ones, you can get away with almost everything by throwing them) This reply is brilliant!! Women who have had babies will empathize with you and women who haven't will sympathize. I have intentionally kept all the men out because they are incapable of noticing (keeping obviously S as reference) and if there are men who do notice I'll just pretend that I don't know them.
But is it really about hormones?? A carefully tucked-away and conveniently ignored part of me says that it has something to do with the "nature vs nurture" debate. It tells me that my hair are not weeds, they need a lot of TLC which has been missing in their lives from quite sometime. All those people with lovely manes give a lot of time to their hair (and those who say that they don't, are lying). TIME, that ever-elusive rascal, will I ever get it?? Probably not so moral of the story is Time is not only money its lovely hair, make-up, ummm a good movie, nice read, looooong bath, window shopping....and the list goes on :)
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