Sep10

‘i’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, i do it all by myself.’ – keith richards, rolling stones

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not me or my mom or my hair but similar situation

except for the smile

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’tis the season

 kids return to classrooms

 it’s school picture day

mom looks at your hair

finds the sewing scissors

‘let me just trim it up a bit’

or

‘i’ll just snip the uneven part off a little’

or

‘let’s just clean it up a touch’

your bangs

have finally grown

to be the perfect length

a little long

a little shaggy

just

below your eyebrows

 hint of a shadow

 brushing

just above the top

of your eyelashes

  clean-up/trim begins

when it’s ‘done’

your mom

smiles

looks at your hair

you

look so cute

beautiful

you take

a peek in the mirror

 long and fancy bangs

have disappeared

 ‘just a trim’

has returned

your bangs

close to the top

of your forehead

very near

their place of origin

they are

a straight line

that’s for sure

cleaned up

no doubt about that

there is always

next year

when you

will have grown

your bangs out

perfectly.

you hide the scissors…

—

 

*when he was asked if there was a name for his haircut, he replied ‘arthur.’

-george harrison, the beatles

* The name is said to have honored his school friend from Liverpool, Arthur Kelly,

who used to tease a young George about his thick, unruly hair by calling it a “turban.” 

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  1. OMG! I cut my own hair one morning on picture day. It was awful. I refused to go to school. My dad stopped what he was doing on the farm and took me into the city to get a proper cut. I returned after lunch and still got my picture taken!

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  2. I like going to men’s barbershop near home to get my own haircut. I shorten my hair when they reach just below my eyes. While I was at school, every time the school was about to start, I would go for a haircut.

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  9. My mom would give me a quarter for a haircut. I’d go to the barber and pull one hair from my head and ask him to snip it. He would. Then, I’d take the quarter and go to the deli for a candy bar. It worked for a while. My mom was smart enough to tell me to get “all” my hairs cut. I obeyed.

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    • So funny! Classic. when I was a teacher the three, four and five-year-olds were strengthening their fine motor skills and practicing using scissors. Every so often once they got the hang of using them one would cut someone else’s hair sitting next to them, just to try it out. It never went well with the kids or the parents.

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  13. I did that to myself.
    No tape, just a pair of scissors cutting. Cutting crooked. Cutting more. Still crooked. Cutting, cutting til just a 1/4 inch from the roots and there I couldn’t tell if they were crooked.
    Think I wore a bandana for awhile.

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  14. When I was a pre-teen, I bought a comb that also cuts hair! It was literally a black plastic comb with a razor blade embedded in it – tore out a massive chuck of hair on the first comb and I wore a baseball cap for two weeks.

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