When we are little, the mirror image is fascinating. But then after we realize that is actually our own faces, we begin to compare it to those around us. It doesn't take us long to start to find flaws, either in ourselves, or in others. Standards of beauty develop. Usually, what we see in others becomes more desirable than what we have. I have always had pin straight hair...I guess it just goes with the German and the Swedish in me. Although if I grow it long enough, it does have a nice wave to it.From little on, my mother, grandmother ,and sister have tried to get my hair to take a long lasting curl, and it just doesn't happen. Any time a big event was coming up, the night before was the same story. Shampooing, and curling my hair. If they used the curling iron, it would be beautiful when I went to bed,and be sweat out in the morning. If they tried putting rollers in my hair, any kind, even the soft pink foam ones, when I woke up the next morning, the rollers would be all around me in the bed, and my hair would be hanging, weepily with just the barest hint of a curl. That set me up for a lifetime of trying to get that curly hair,and for the most part, failing miserably.
So yesterday, a pal,(She of the naturally curly hair variety) let me know that she had gone and had her hair straightened!I was appalled! Why would anyone pay good money (I hear the process is very expensive) to have straight hair?And then, it dawned on me. She must have thought many times, why would people go and pay good money to get their hair permed? I've tried it a few times, but was never really impressed with the results, because then no matter how it turns out, whether you like it or not, you're stuck with it until it grows out enough to be able to cut it off. Myself, personally, I like to leave my hair fairly long, and unprocessed,because even if it is a long drawn out ordeal to curl it, at least when I am done, if I don't like it, I can change it...(or just wait a day or two and it will change all by itself!) Also, it is more versatile this way. I have clips and scrunchies so I can get it up off my neck, or clear up on top of my head, or just brush it out and leave it hang.
Besides which, I have come to the conclusion that it is in the perverse nature of man to be discontented with what he has, and forever desiring of what he has not. People with curly hair want straight hair, and those of us with straight hair, want it curly. That is the whole premise of the billion dollar cosmetic industry!
So, there you go. Everybody seems to want what they don't have,simply because, they don't have it!
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