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Date Posted: 01/11/04 1:04pm
In reply to:
Piper Butler
's message, "Donate your Hair, It is a good cause!" on 11/ 4/03 7:57am
>My daughter at the first part of 2003 decided she
>wanted her hair cut. We had heard about Locks of
>Love, and we decided to go fined a hair salon that
>donated hair to Locks of Love. My daughter had her
>very thick head of hair cut off and bobbed up to her
>chin. He grandmother tells her all the time that her
>hair reminds her of gold nuggets. My daughter has
>decided that she is going to see how many times she
>can grow her hair out and donate it to Locks of Love.
>This August her other grandmother was diagnosed with
>Breast Cancer and has recently lost all of her hair.
>So now Locks of Love is very personal to our family.
>No my daughter's hair has not benefited her
>grandmother, but it will help some child that probably
>does not even understand why they have cancer. Ca
>>>avant-garde, asymmetrical hairdo that made her head
>>>look like a modernist collage. The very next morning,
>>>the Mod mop had morphed into two great clumps on
>>>either side of her ears that looked like mating
>>>hedgehogs.
>>>
>>>To solve the problem, my dad gave her a crew cut. In
>>>spiky despair, she declared war on all hairdressers
>>>and developed a manifesto: "Hair is not bonsai; it
>>>cannot be trained into submission. No matter what
>THEY
>>>(hair dressers are always named THEY to Mom) attempt
>>>to do to you avoid any style that involves more than
>>>five minutes of blow-drying. ANY STYLE!" (hair
>>>lazyness)
>>>
>>>Your own tolerance for styling and stylists may be
>>>greater, but getting a great haircut a still requires
>>>a strategy. Here are seven rules to guide you.
>>>
>>>Follow your face
>>>The shape of your face dictates the shape of your
>hair
>>>and the rules are fairly simple.
>>>
>>>Heart-shaped faces with low hairlines suit wavy 40s
>>>styles: curls, side parts, center parts and bobs.
>>>
>>>Long faces with high cheekbones look better with hair
>>>that doesn't smother the face or hang in miserable
>>>hanks either side of the ears. Try a bedroom hair bob
>>>like Meg Ryan's, go for fuller hair at the crown and
>>>see if bangs help proportion your features.
>>>
>>>Pixie-chinned girls with large or wide set eyes look
>>>best with really short hair. The prettier the face
>the
>>>shorter hair can go. The same rule applies to older
>>>faces with strong features and to those with silver
>>>locks. Grey hair looks marvelous cropped short. If
>you
>>>look great with your hair up, chances are you look
>>>great with it short.
>>>
>>>TIP: The best short hair leaves you something to play
>>>with, some wispy bangs, some layers.
>>>
>>>Silence your stylist:
>>>Only you really KNOW your hair. You know if it falls
>>>flat on the crown, curls up in a big cow lick or
>>>refuses to form prefect Marsha Brady flicks, so let
>>>your stylist know. Hair miracles usually involve lots
>>>of time and product. If you lack both, going with the
>>>natural fall, weight, wave and kink of your hair
>makes
>>>sense. The first step to getting a better haircut is
>>>to slow the whole process down. Take time to choose a
>>>salon whose employees reflect your own style, take
>>>clippings of your favorite looks with you and, above
>>>all, don't be intimidated by bright light, pounding
>>>music and big mirrors.
>>>
>>>Too often the session before the haircut is a brief
>>>rejection of all that went before. Whoever cut your
>>>hair last was a MONSTER, and whatever you have now is
>>>deemed OLD HAT. Stop right there. Sit up straight and
>>>tell the stylist what you LOVE about your hair and
>>>what you want to encourage. Demand a cut that suits
>>>the "grain" of your real hair and flatters your face.
>>>Demand a cut that can withstand wind and rain. And
>God
>>>bless the stylist who will actually listen.
>>>
>>>Learn from the stars
>>>Long, short, flicked or fluffy Michelle Pfeiffer's
>>>hair has sported a center part since 1975 -- a simple
>>>little trick that enhances her doll-like features
>with
>>>symmetry. Drew Barrymore usually flatters her moon
>>>face with shorter hair. Gwyneth matches her hair to
>>>her body: long and straight. Are these women trying
>to
>>>tell you something? Yes. Why demolish when you can
>>>renovate? Find the length and shape you love and work
>>>around it. Occasional tweaking and even a radical
>>>change of color needn't alter the style you love.
>>>
>>>Hair is not a collector’s item:
>>>Don't hang onto long hair just because you took two
>>>decades to grow it. This morbid Victorian habit might
>>>be holding you back from a style that really suits
>>>you. To imagine your hair shorter, visit a high
>>>quality wig shop or simply wear your hair up for a
>>>week. Count the compliments and then act. Keep the
>>>hair you 'sacrifice' in a long braid tied with a
>>>ribbon for your grandchildren or sell it and buy a
>red
>>>dress. (Better yet do something unselfish and donate
>>>it to a sick childrens wig charity such as
>>>www.lockoflove.org or www.wigforkids.org !)
>>>
>>>Experiment in summer:
>>>If you want to try layers, feathered bangs, shorter
>>>hair or a perm, do it in the summer months. This is
>>>the time when hair grows fastest and sporty
>>>shake-it-and-run styles suit high humidity and
>>>constant showering. Low maintenance hairstyles are
>>>also rejuvenating. Lock your blow drier away until
>>>October and your hair will thank you for it.
>>>
>>>Look before you lop:
>>>Some say cut your hair on the new moon. That's very
>>>poetic but forget it if you have PMS. Timing is
>>>everything with matters of beauty. If you have broken
>>>up with your boyfriend, gotten pregnant or just been
>>>fired, wait a week before you do something weird and
>>>reactive to your hair. The urge to henna after a bad
>>>breakup is predictable. Red is the color of anger and
>>>revenge. The urge to go ultra-short for looming
>>>motherhood is equally predictable: babies love to tug
>>>long hair. But hold your horses. A major life change
>>>AND bad hair can lead to psychic overload.
>>>
>>>Don’t try this at home:
>>>Occasional Vincent van Gogh moments may result in
>>>"artistic" urges involving a Daisy shaver and your
>>>bangs. I completely understand this. Whenever I see
>>>Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday" I reach for my nail
>>>scissors and start hacking. A few stray locks trimmed
>>>at home is OK. But cut off more than a few inches and
>>>you are going to need outside help.
>>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>!my name is regina from kansas city,missouri.i have about 15 inches of thick black hair ready to chop off and donate. never been colored or treated.. where can i have it done?thank you very much ..email me as soon as possiple pls. so i can have it done...thank you again..regina
>>!
>>>!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>Anna Johnson is the author of Three Black Skirts: All
>>>You Need to Survive and has written for Elle, Vanity
>>>Fair, Vogue UK and other magazines.
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