Category Archives: hair

Sep18

‘ wonder what it’s like to be able to put your hair in a low ponytail and not look like a founding father..’ author unknown

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founding fathers working on yet another rewrite

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relaxing into having my hair cut

on a busy, bright morning

sudden burst of excitement behind me

founding father hair!

founding father hair!

founding father hair!

a stylist and her client 

 up and laughing

looking in the mirrors

taking pictures

happy and excited

after having

her very full head of hair 

put into

many many rollers

taking them all out

 it had 

 morphed into

 roll after roll of hair

an unusual style 

i’ve seen 

somewhere before

 have to admit

her hair

reminded me of

some of our early countrymen

great way to start the day

happy nod to our forefathers

some of the original influencers.

—

‘“i have heard, indeed, that my predecessor (President Adams)

sometimes decided things against his council by dashing and trampling his wig on the floor.”

-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (in a letter to William Short, 1807)

 

 

 

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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…

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*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.” 

May24

hair show.

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when i sit in my stylist’s chair

she asks me what i’d like to have done

i’m pretty casual and relaxed about my hair

 looking to my right

I say

well, actually the exact opposite

of whatever is going on

with the woman’s head in the mirror next to us

and i’ll be happy, thanks.

—

‘happiness is meeting the right hairstylist.’

-author unknown

 

Aug30

hair-apy.

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(not me, or my hair stylist, but similar to our interaction)

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while getting my hair cut

i  had a great conversation

with my stylist

who is 20 something-ish

 while i am at least 20 x 3-ish

we shared our stories

she has not had an easy life

one of four children

raised by a single mother

who always worked hard to provide for them

my stylist also worked hard

got her social work degree

wants to go to grad school

before she practices her craft

lives with her loving and supportive boyfriend

yet understands

because of how she grew up

that you always need

to be able to provide for yourself

no matter what

 she learned to do hair as a back-up skill

to use as needed

but her real gift

was her kindness and the way she interacted

as a listener, without judgment

 in telling her own story

with understanding and honesty

obvious compassion

life wisdom beyond her age

lots of laughter, a few tears, and happy smiles later

i had the benefit of a great haircut and therapy at the same time

she will be brilliant in what she does after grad school

and may not realize that she is already a full practitioner.

 

—

“the kindest people do not just exist —

they choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them,

they choose to believe in goodness,

because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary.”

– bianc sparacino

 

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Dec22

a piece of work.

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getting ready for the holidays

takes a bit of time

but always worth it .

i hope no one else has this same style.

 

—
“one should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
― oscar wilde
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photo credit: google vintage
Jul31

strawberry shampoo does not taste as good as it smells.

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i had asked my daughter

to pick out a nice shampoo and conditioner for me

 was excited to get these

loved reading the labels

here are just some of the words/phrases on the packaging:

Resurrection 

For weak, brittle hair that needs an intervention!

Damage Level – 3

Micro shields boost strength and stamina

Great results may cause your hair’s ego to inflate to astronomical proportions.

what?! ‘damage level -3’?!

i love the descriptors

who could resist even one of these?

and also there is so much little writing on the label

 the shampoo and conditioner bottles look exactly the same

 once i’m in the shower i have no idea which is which

and i always forget to look before i get in

and i’m not getting out to get my glasses on

so i have a 50/50 chance of getting it right, a roll of the dice

and sometimes i lose

this is what i call an ‘x-treme’ hair care experience.

—

“sorry I can’t hear you over the volume of my hair.”

-author unknown