Crystal Clear, Razor Sharp

Love for locks

Warning: This blog is all girl.

When I look in the mirror, I see hair. I think my hair is very pretty, one of my best features, and it defines me. I can go out without makeup and be fine, I can wear a baggy t-shirt and jeans, but I need to do my hair. It’s all I have. I don’t consider myself an unattractive person, but frankly there is little about my appearance that would make me stand out in a crowd. My hair is the one thing about me that keeps me from being lost in the sea of females that just want to be noticed.

I have worn my hair long, but right now for convenience sake I have it at a medium length, hanging just past my shoulders. I could never wear it too short because my high forehead and round moon face would look ridiculous.

I love and hate my style at the same time because it is very versatile. I love it because I can style it several ways, but I hate that I can never just LEAVE IT and it will look ok. It is to wavy to just be straight and too thick to just dry curly.

I have been known to give certain styles nicknames, which I will share with you now.

• Flipped hair: Ok, not a very original name for that one, but it gets better, I promise. The way I have my hair cut cut, with some layers around the face and some long bangs that hang in my eyes when I let them, I can flip the ends either under or out. I usually flip it under, just because that’s how it tends to dry naturally, but lately I have been experimenting with flipping it out, and I have been told it doesn’t look half bad.
• “Top Ramen” or “cocker spaniel” hair: At the beginning of this semester I actually had a guy in my psych class tell me I had Top Ramen hair on a day I had done my hair curly. I think he was trying to be cute, be he just sounded stupid. Another male classmate, upon hearing the comment, shook his head in disbelief and averted his eyes. After I got it cut, I said the curly hair made me look like a cocker spaniel, and a few friends have picked up on the name.
• Country music video hair: I guess I can just let my hair dry, if I put the right stuff in it and then fix it up a bit with my hair dryer. The result is a wavy mess, not as curly as when I dry it. It is usually accompanied by dark eyeliner and an angsty smile, which is why it received the name it did.
• Straight as sin hair: I am also known to straighten my hair and just let it hang in my face. This look is fun with a hat and also usually gets dark eyeliner for a kind of emo look.

Thanks to everyone who actually read that. I just wanted to talk about my hair.