Living with your hairstyle

 

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After living with the cut a while, I would grow frustrated. With the above-mentioned bob, for example, I woke up at 5 a.m. each morning to wash and condition my hair, blow-dry, and say a prayer asking the weather gods for a perfectly dry day because even a touch of humidity would encourage my strands to return to their wavy ways. By the end of the day, my hair had begun creeping back to its natural position. If had a dinner date, I needed to run home and either wet my hair down and re-blow-dry, or plug in a straightening iron and spend 30 minutes removing kinks. My straight-haired friends literally woke up and ran a brush through their hair. That’s it. Their strands fell effortlessly into place, which meant they could go from college to a night out without going home first. Yet even this wasn’t enough to tell me I had chosen the wrong style.
At the time, I was a drama student. It took a comment from the drama department’s costume and make-up director to make me rethink my coif. “Your hairstyle makes your chin look weak,” she said. “You might want to try a softer style.” But the cut was such a sexy, late 80s, New Wave look! I loved it! “You like the haircut better than you like your face?” she asked. She had a point. I stopped blow-drying my strands straight and had a few softening layers added. The moral of this long-winded tale? A hairstyle should accentuate your total look-not be your look.  
Tweak your look to keep it modern and to ward off boredom, but don’t have a radical change simply for the sake of change. If you’re happy with a cut and it works for you, why give it up?

 
 

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