Hair Don't?
You see, I planned this post to be about the fact that I've stopped straightening my hair, but that no-one has commented on it, making me think it actually looks a mess and no-one wants to tell me. But when I started looking for pictures to illustrate my former very-curly-hairedness, I got a bit carried away. So think of this as therapy, if you like.
I was quite old before my hair came through. See.
On this picture, I look like the missing link between my dad and Harry, which I suppose I am.
But when my hair did come through it was curly (check out the collars!).
Very curly. David calls this "the Garfunkel years".
It didn't get much better as I got older (there's that cerise blouse again, Beki)
Then it got briefly, shockingly, worse:
Around this time, I tried straightening it. It took about two hours and the minute I stepped outside it reinflated like an automatic airbed.
Then I moved to London and eventually (after about six years, I think), had it cropped.
I loved it like this. I couldn't believe my hair could be so easy to look after and look so good! But then I got pregnant and my hair lost its mind and the crop just didn't work anymore. But by then straighteners had advanced and become fabulous and they became my best friends. They changed my life. I loved them so. But suddenly - whether the straighteners are past their best or whether my hair has just said "Enough!" - my hair wouldn't straighten. I could get it sort of wavy, with some fluffy bent bits for texture, but it wouldn't straighten. So I decided, why not try and work with my hair instead of against it?
I have tried this before and it hasn't worked, but this time, it did. Well, at least, in my opinion (remember the original point of this post?):
Yes, I know there's no top to my head, but I took about twenty pics and this was the only one I liked. I'm very vain, you know. (Er .. damn.)
I was hoping for something like this:
Or even, on a good day (remember, we're only talking hair) this:
But David claims I actually look more like this ...
... but without the enormous rack. Oh, wait.
(Sorry, but I crack myself up. Looking at the photos above, isn't it good that I can still laugh?)
You DO NOT look like Hugh F-W! Slap David for me... ;)
You look great with or without straightening IMO- from the crop onwards it was all good. x
Posted by: DIANE SHIPLEY | 24 July 2006 at 01:55 PM
Ha, ha, I've got dead straight hair and used to perm it when I was younger (god knows why, it looked awful), we should have just swapped hairstyles!
Posted by: nikki | 24 July 2006 at 07:22 PM
me too Nikki! my perm looked like Barry from Brookside! :O
Posted by: DIANE SHIPLEY | 24 July 2006 at 07:59 PM
You definately look more Drew than Hugh...you've got the same grin too!
Posted by: Kate | 24 July 2006 at 08:11 PM
If I were you I'd quit worrying about your hair. With a smile that cute you can't lose, whatever your hair looks like :)
Posted by: Angie | 25 July 2006 at 01:05 AM
Straightening hair is evil. It's true. It's like squashing down a bit of your personality. I stopped messing with mine a few years back and I've never been happier.
Posted by: Yankunian | 25 July 2006 at 09:58 AM
You look great with curly hair, soooo much more Drew than Hugh!
Posted by: Zoe | 25 July 2006 at 10:35 AM
that can be your new tagline! ;D
Posted by: DIANE SHIPLEY | 25 July 2006 at 11:35 AM
1st picture: It's Harry with a dress on!!
2nd pic: Shirley Temple! So cute!!
And that blue pic would make me buy your book if I see it on the back of the cover!! :o)
Posted by: severine | 25 July 2006 at 11:18 PM
oh god yes, you look so like Harry, it's spooky! x
Posted by: diane | 28 July 2006 at 11:54 AM
I think the cerise blouse needs its own blog...
(off to find evidence of my cerise years, oh happy days!)
Posted by: Beki | 30 July 2006 at 09:02 PM