Hair practice

My mother has short hair, which she had my entire life. Which means that beside the time whne I was a kid that she put toilet paper in my hair at night to curl my hair for the next day (which I hated, believe it or not), she did not teach me a thing about hair (or make up, or skin care, but those are different topics).

In France, none of my girlfriends did their hair either. We were all following the hippy trend in high school, not having any kind of school celebration, such as graduation, leave alone prom. Then I moved to the US, and started realizing when moving from Michigan to Massachusetts that beautiful hair did not come naturally but was the product of a woman's knowledge. What a concept!

I always wished that hair salons offered classes on how to make one's own hair, until I worked everyday with a young woman my age who had great different hair every day. As I asked her if she could teach me, she mentioned the self hair tutorials of youtube, and there started one of my new obsessions. I watched as many as I could, most of the ones I learned coming from pursebuzz.com. As I discovered the joys of hair curlers, straighteners, anti frizz gel and such, I also came to realize that it all took time, which I didn't have.

Come a few months later and here I am, doing a rock'n roll show about Buddy Holly which plays 7 times a week, where I have an hour call before each show, and nothing else to do then than doing my hair, really. So I set myself a new goal, to do a different hairdo for each day of the show. We are a month in and I have learned much I am sure, altough I will be fully certain of it once I get back to school and have only a regular amount of time to do my hair every morning.

I have realized that hair is as much an accessory as jewelry, and that I can turn any bad hair day into a good hair day. Hair as mainly allowed me to feel more like a woman, not afraid to be beautiful.

I think that it is an uneasy balance to go between learning to be feminine and find oneself beautiful, and looking for acceptance through other people's agreeing on one's looks.

Any woman can spend time on beautiful hair and carry a meanigful conversation.