Big hair
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11/04/03
My niece, Lisa, the beautician was positively
gushing with excitement: according to the trendy magazines, big hair is coming
back in style, and she could not be happier.
“You don’t understand,” she exclaimed. “Big hair, well, lets just say,
the bigger my hair, the more powerful that I feel!” The young man she was dating could not have
known this when he said words that were music to her ear… “. Your hair is just
amazing.” Fortunately for her, her
morals are kept in tact, as she would never spend a night with a man, as God
forbid they wake up in the middle of the night and see “bed head”. This is the only girl I know who actually
bought a bigger car in order to accommodate the increasing size of her current
“doo”.
When
Lisa was in Beauty School, I became her experimental subject. It was fun to be treated to all of the new
styles and colors. I forgot to check out
some of the more teased looks before going out, though. I had a little public talk that I needed to
present at an area college and as I was running late I didn’t check my
appearance out too closely as Lisa had done me up that morning. Maybe, I should have done so however due to
the comment of my friend, “Bubba” author Kim Taylor, who said, “something about
your hair makes me think you might be a politicians’ wife, and gives me an urge
to kiss you on the cheek.” The event
went nicely, though I did feel a little self conscious having grown 6 inches
due to heightened hair. Still, later, I
asked my husband James what he thought of my hair, and he said, “Well, it looks
like it would hold up good in the wind.”
Thanks, James.
You
know, as self-conscious as I felt in some ways, I did find myself walking a
little taller and speaking a little more confidently. I think Lisa is right, the bigger the hair,
the more powerful you do feel. There
might be something to this new trend after all.
