Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker
We want it to look good, be clean, color it, curl it, straighten it, cut it, brush it, shave it or we can just “Put a hat on it.”
What is it? It is or can be one of our most attractive features. Yes it’s hair and trust me, styles and colors can change every year.
As for me, I think I have tried every color and every hair style that I thought made me look better. Well some styles were good and others were not for me.
Going back to my grandma’s decade, my grandma had long hair down her back. Through the week she would pull it back on both sides and braid it and let her long braid rest in the middle of her back.
On Sundays, she would wave her hair in front, pull it back and up into a knot on top of her head. It would always take the biggest part of a day for grandma to wash and dry her hair. Especially when we had no running water.
Now my Mama was a different story. Her hair wasn’t really long, but she had this long, round, furry thing called “a rat.” Mom would roll her hair around the rat, bobby pinning it tight so it wouldn’t fall out.
In the late 1950’s or early 60’s, the bouffant hair-do became popular. Gals learned to tease their hair and make it stand sky high using tons of hair spray. I loved The Bouffant because it made me look taller and everyone else had one. After that we embraced The Page Boy, this was a cut around the shoulders. straight and then went under.
Then remember The Shag? It was cut shorter on the sides and longer in the back. Yep I had a shag then and I hear shags are coming back.
In the 70’s the curly hair style called Afro was popular. I remember I got one and each time I looked someone else had one.
Any hair style that makes me look better or taller is fine with me.
Now remember the sideburns, the pompadours. ducktails and the hair grease guys had in the 50’s. I loved this style on a guy.
Then with boy hippies came long hair and pony tails. My brother sported long hair and his hair was longer than mine.
Men worry about baldness and there are all kinds of salves, sprays, dyes and pills to help grow hair back in. I don’t know if they work, but if a man loses his hair, shaving the head is trendy now and looks good. Lots of movie stars do it.
Black hair is the most common color of hair globally followed by brown. It’s much less common to have blonde hair, and even less so to be a redhead. I had 2 redheaded children, a beautiful daughter and a handsome son.
Did you know that red heads only make up about 2 % of the population?
Well May 26 is World Red Head day and May 31 is National blonde day, so celebrate.
National Bald Beautiful Day is celebrated on September 13 each year to honor bald heads and to remind people that everyone is beautiful, regardless of whether they have hair.
Do black haired and brown haired people have special days? There is no indication they do, but according to old sayings, “brown hair means stability and black hair means you have strength and power. These are just sayings and never been proved.
Do you like different hair styles? What was the earliest hair do you remember having ? If you are blonde, red or bald headed are you going to celebrate your special day?
Let me know and this bottled blonde will give you a Penny For Your Thoughts.
