Hair Styles and Length (WAS Hair, personality and gender)

[cindysphynx]

Elkins wrote:

> > (I let it all grow back.  I've had long hair my entire 
> life, and I...well, I just couldn't adapt to the short-hair thing, 
> I'm afraid.  I'm far too set in my ways.) <

Tabouli speculated:

> Ah!  For some reason, I've *always* pictured you (Elkins) with 
>long hair!  Is it brown and somewhat wavy as well?

Funny.  I got a pretty strong brown vibe on Elkins as well.   I'm 
not getting the curly/wavy vibe, though, because short wavy hair has 
been known to drive people crazy by getting all poofy at the wrong 
time.  I don't think Elkins would have risked it.  

Elkins?

As for me, I'm kinda stuck in a rather sad 1970's hair time warp.  
Same basic hair style for 20 straight years.  Oh, sure, I'd vary the 
length by a few inches now and then to be saucy and daring.  That's 
pretty much it, though.  To my credit, I stopped the Big Hair thing 
years ago.

There was the dreaded short hair experiment a few years 
back.  ::shudder::  Short hair looks so good on . . . actresses and 
supermodels.  I also figured a woman of my advanced age shouldn't 
have shoulder-length hair.  So one day I just took it all off, 
particularly in back.  I had maybe 2 inches of hair in back.

I learned something about short hair.  It looked good sitting in the 
hairdresser's chair, but that was the last day it looked good.  I 
also felt *enormous* pressure to wear lipstick, foundation and 
earrings all the time, and I spent much more time making sure each 
strand was in place because there were so few strands.  It took 2 
years to grow back, which was no fun at all.

Cindy (in a major hair rut but not going back to short hair)