What the hair

[Gabbin]

My hair was poofed up in back, today. People just looked at me and smiled. I had no idea till I saw my reflection. Does anyone else have hair issues? Tips? Geez.

[Gabbin]

FFH-May I call you that? Perhaps it will soon become Faaa (pronunciation of FFH). Anywho, I need a photo of you now with your bovine doo.

[Siren]

My hair is fine and thin and straight and hard to curl, just like my dear late granny's. One day, she and I were preparing to go to the store. As she ran a brush through her hair, looking in the mirror, she shook her head and said, "I have the worst hair," then turned to me and said, "And yours is just like it!" And she was right. And I can still feel her hand on my hair. *sighing and shaking head* She was wonderful! I still miss her, 11 years after her death.

I also have a cowlick, Maeve, in the front on the right. Inherited it from my other granny. And in the back, there's an area that's drier than the rest of my hair. That, I inherited from my dad. My folks both used to have thick, beautiful hair with just a bit of a wave, and lots of body. But of course, I inherited my granny's "worst" hair. Lol!

[Phalon]

Been meaning to get in hair. Just a hair late is all.

Cowlicks - I had one once; I liked it. Warm and wet; big and thick as I scratched behind its ears, and petted between those lovely huge eyes. I fed it sweet grass, and it sweetly licked me.

Argh to my hair. It's acting weird of late. The woman who cut my hair retired; years of standing and clip, clip, clipping was hell on her arthritis and she had to give it up. She cut my hair for seven years and knew every inch of it. The new girl - she didn't want to know so many inches. Went in for a trim, and when I stepped off the chair I was ankle deep in hair. Four inches! Four inches is not a trim. I don't trim my lawn when it grows four inches; I mow it.

And now the front does this flippidy, backwards curl thing, squiggly and out of place. Grrrr.

I need a cowlick. Right up there. Maybe a big, wet, slobbery tongue can smooth it back into place.

[ReneeisXena]

Hair issues you ask. Yeah I have issues. I would love to get my hair cut short, but my suppervisor at work tells me not to. She likes my long hair (it's down to the middle of my back). Even my husband tells me that while it's my hair and whatever I do is fine, he does love it long. Now tell me what would you do? Should I cut it or keep it? By the way, my hair grows very fast, between 1 to 2 inches a month and it's very thick and tangles easily.

[Phalon]

I'd do whatever pleases you, ReneeisXena. LMAO. I have long hair, (though grrr, it is now four inches shorter than it was a month ago), and though Hubs would love me to get it cut, I like it long. As my friend says, it is my flag. Her Hubs has the same complaints about her flag as mine does about mine.

They wear our flags. Strands of it are everywhere, (actually all three of us - me and our daughters), and they attach themselves to him....in his beard, on his clothing, between his toes when he walks barefoot across the carpet.

He's constantly picking long hair off him. Oh - and don't even get him started about cutting the mass off the rolly-thing on the underside of the vaccuum where it winds itself into a thick layer until the rolly-thing rolls no more.

Funny, that when I met him I had short, short hair. Grow it long he says; I like long hair. Grow a beard, I said; I like beards. Twenty years later, I've still got the long hair, and he still has the beard. Thankfully beard hairs do not shed much. His flag is gray.

[Phalon]

I have very colorful hair friends, I realize. Shhhh.... No, no - not talking about dying, but like my friend who calls our long hair our flags, I have a friend who wears her hair in peaks and horns style.

That is what she tells me anyway; I've never actually witnessed it. She calls this morning. How're you doing today, I asked. Lazing, she says, my hair is still in peaks and horns.

It's not just women who have issues, either. Yesterday, Hubs was talking to our former across the street neighbor who we hadn't seen since last fall, and who stopped by for a visit. Hubs pointed out that his hair glistened shiny silver in the setting sun. LMAO....hair teasing is a gray area. At least in this case. Former-across-the-street-neighbor - FATSN for short - went gray over the winter. Hubs, I think, was secretly pleased - FATSN is ten years younger, and much grayer than he. They are forming a club. T-shirts are being ordered. FATSN's wife and I rolled our eyes.

Hubs also pointed out that I have not a gray hair. I was pleased he noticed. I took back my eye-roll and patted his hand. (eye-roll)

[Gabbin]

I have a hair line to write about.

I just got back from Oregon where, I it rained and rained. I visited some waterfalls where it misted and misted. My hair had a great time in the softwaters. It floated and zipped and zinked itself all over. My hair had a great time in Oregon. It let its....hair down and went wild.

[Phalon]

Ya gotta love a good untamed, hair at the nape of your neck raising, softwater mistery. Sherlocks-of-hair Holmes or Agathair Christie.

[Gabbin]

Hair, hair, I second the motion. So many famous hair raisers. Oschair Wilde, for example. He was hair born to be wild.

I have never been a James Michair fan but I did read one of his way-too-long novels....Harwaii.

[Phalon]

I don't know if anyone here remembers how my girls got the names I use for them on this board. Maybe Siren - but I think it was even before she joined the Oxy board that Gabbin christened them BP and LX. "BP" stands for Baby Phalon; she was still in the crawling and teething stage when I first started posting. LX was in second grade, and Gabs named her Little Xena because of her tomboyish attitude...and hair. Almost black and always worn long she had "Xena hair" - without the bangs. She even dressed as Xena for Halloween back then.

As she grew older, LX had a "classic" goth look - long, might-as-well-be-black-it's-so-dark hair, and white skin; even tan, it's pale. "She looks like a little goth-rocker" was a reoccurring comment from some of my friends since when was about ten. She has Evanescence's front woman, Amy Lee's look. (Amy Lee was a costume of LX's one year too)

Now that she's a teenager, and of the age when "goth" might be considered by her as a mentality she'd consider adopting, apparently Goth is Dead....or at least split into fractions.

This is the breakdown, according to LX.

The Nerdy Goths...also known as Wanna-bees: Black-rimmed glasses, black hair, black clothing. They are on the outskirts of the Emo crowd, but can't quite break in. All of them will grow up to be children's librarians. (Hey, I was a children's librarian - maybe that's why Gabbin also christened my library, "The Liscary".

Emo: (Huge eye-roll from LX. "Who can possibly find everything that depressing all of the time?") Black hair, black clothing, piercings, self-cuttings, self-mutilation, general loathing of everything around them.

Scene: The look without the attitude. Scenes are most often defined by their hair. There are about a billion "How to Get Scene Hair" videos on YouTube. It's kind of funny actually - in trying to expressing their individuality, they all look the same.



LX's Look: Retro clothing, brightly colored and layered - sometimes as many as three or four shirts - a cami, tank, and v-neck, all of varying lengths, usually with the outer layer bunny-tailed: a wad tied up in the back with a rubber-band that makes it look like she's got a bunny tail at her waist. High-top sneakers in a rainbow assortment of colors. Lots of gaudy costume jewelry which she buys at the vintage junk shops downtown.

And now, Scene hair.

I took the girls to get their hair cut this week. BP's bangs had finally grown out enough since LX tried to cut them too short this winter. A cute long bob, BP's hair fits her personality to a tee.

Then it was LX's turn in the chair. She tried to describe to me before we went how she wanted it cut. Tell Angie, I said; she's the one cutting your hair, not me.

When Angie heard LX's description, she looked at me and said, "Are you sure?"

"It's only hair."

"Are you making this up as we go along?" Angie asked LX.

"Yes", LX smiled.

It was late in the afternoon - soon we were the only customers left, and all the stylists were gathered around, watching. I honestly haven't laughed this much in a while. What else could I do? It's only hair. Even the Emo-ish looking stylist guy, who did not have an idea what "Scene" is, was truly interested....and impressed with "The LX" as it came to be called before it was done.

In the front, from the eyes up, LX is back to looking like Xena - this time with the bangs. Heavy, straight-across bangs. The sides are long and tapered to frame her face - one side longer than the other. Long in the back, she kept the length, but it's layered in a shag. The back of her crown, is cut in "extreme layers", and spiked with "hair glue".

The over-all effect reminds me of a cross between Rod Stewart and the Bay City Rollers. Actually, it's kind of cute. Kind of.

Sigh. It's only hair.

[Siren]

Don't you DARE tell her it's cute, or she'll cut it again! I had to laugh at the image of all the other stylists gathering around to watch.

Good for LX, for being herself - one of a kind!

[Phalon]

Don't you DARE tell her it's cute, or she'll cut it again!

Shoot! I wish I would have heard this bit of advice before I told her I liked it! What the heck was I thinking?

[Mini Mia]

LX sounds like a load of fun. My dad would have shaved me bald if I came home like that. He liked to be in control of most everything. Although we overruled him sometimes. Not very often though.

BTW: It's nice seeing Gabbin's name listed among the threads. The old gang is still missed around here.

[Phalon]

LX sounds like a load of fun.

She really is......when she isn't busy irritating her parents. While I was busy rolling my eyes when she said she wanted Scene hair, she reminded me of a photo of me in high-school - with short, short pixie cut, and a wide bleached-white streak down one side. Oh, yeah - I'd forgotten about that, but I can imagine what Mom's reaction would have been when I came home with that one:

An exasperated smile and a shrug, accompanied by, "It's only hair."

Two generations of like mother, like daughter.

[Siren]

I agree, Mia. It's always good, thinking about Gaggie and the old gang.

It's true - it's only hair. But I have a lot less now. Had to clean up my shaggy-country-girl act, and get ready for the job interviews to come. A sensible, collar-length bob, with a few modifications. It feels much better. Looks better. But now my neck gets cold!