About 10 years ago I shaved my head for ‘shave for cure’ and I loved it! After that, I never style cut my hair again.
Don’t get me wrong during this time, I have busted out multiple ‘dos from a sweeping fringe, to a cut-n-curly, through to a mini afro, and then into pinned-up styled-up section world. But, I have a lot of hair. I mean unnaturally a lot, one bottle of shampoo to four conditioners a lot.
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When my hair was in full flight, after being washed and brushed, it resembled a lion’s mane. My nickname at school was “sheep’s bum” for the thick tight curls in the back. Every hairdresser I have ever met gives the (all too familiar) pleasant yet frightened face when the hair band is undone, the layers of crazed, dry curls frizzing and plopping out. (Post continues after gallery.)
Our curly-haired heroes
This is usually followed with, ‘Wow you have a lot of hair’ code for WTF are we going to do here in an hour? So I avoided anything more than a trim every two to three months. That way we were all happy.
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Working on children’s TV for seven years I began to realize that my hair although unruly, blow-dried easily (not by me… talented and strong make up artists/hairdressers). As my hair was so dry, donning a good shower cap meant I could pull off standard styling with minimal effort – for a week! This was my hair pattern for the last 10 years.
Until, my seven year cycle kicked in.
You know it. Call it a “Saturn return’, “seven year itch”, whatever – it’s a true cycle and it’s almost as if you need to reinvent your self, shift the ho hum of everyday life, do something to feel alive, shed a skin. I knew it was time to chop!
