Towards the end of kindergarten I have short hair...with my features I looked like a dishevled boy in a dress. In fact many an unkind girl would make a loud observation to that end.
Through the years I tried everything hair-wise to make me look girly. I was so excited when short hairstyles were in, remember Dorothy Hammil? But the problem was, and still is, that I have baby fine hair that refuses to curl for more that 10 minutes at a time. I am exagerating a bit of course. However I did go through an enormous amount of hairspray and gel every month that would make any "sniffer" delighted to be in my presence.
I hated the pink foam curlers...I can't tell you the depth of my dislike for them even to this day.
I tried pin curls...you ever seen a witch wake up in the morning?...yyyeah. That didn''t work so good. Far from the glamour poses which toted that technique.
Perms were the bane of my existence. Because of my afore mentioned hair condition, even perms would take strangely. As in "not at all on one side" and "take, but was totally frizzed and useless" within a month on the other.
There was one place where it took quite nicely, however. That would be my bangs. I remember one time when my mom had had it with my untamed hair and had it permed quite tightly on the smallest rollers available. The end result for the first month was that I had a beautiful afro. After a month or so it relaxed...except for my bangs and my ends. The resulting look reminded me of a poodle.
I'm happy to report that as of 2009 straight long hair is in and I look like a girl.
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