Do you find yourself in Hairy situations?

We all have it at one time or another. Some like it, others don't. It comes in many colors, textures, lengths, and styles.  Some get rid of it completely, others spend a great deal of time and effort getting it just right. Some have way an abundance everywhere, others not enough where it counts.

Hair! It can be a love/hate relationship. It can make or break first impressions. We can't escape it. It's all over our body and think of all the effort we go through on a daily basis to control it.  We comb it, brush it, cut it, style it, pull it, shave it, wax it, curl it, straighten it, braid it, spike it, twist it, tie it up, color it, bleach it, add extensions to it, hide it under hats, under wigs or under scarves.  We don't control our hair, it controls us.

You may think you are in control of your hair but you're not.  It makes a statement about you whether you have a full head of it or if you have none, even if you don't have any by no choice of your own.  Hair requires maintenance, even if it's minimal. It can't be ignored or it could have devastating effects on you and everyone else for that matter! Just think for a moment of the man who gets into the hot tub and you can see more hair oh his body than skin!

For those that don't have hair and want hair, they go to great lengths to get it or appear to have more. They try hair plugs, sprays, wigs,  'rugs' or the infamous 'comb-over'. What is our obsession with hair?  We find it sexy, annoying, overwhelming, emotional, insignificant, too important or even cumbersome.

It clogs our drains, gets in our food, sticks in our eyes and nose.  We can even gets bugs and eggs in it!  Our pets puke up hairballs and pet hair causes us to vacuum our floors and furniture relentlessly.  We have several tools to control both wanted and unwanted hair whether it's our own or not.  Grooming tools which include brushes, tweezers, hot wax, razors, nose trimmers, etc.  These tools are only for us. Think about all the effort which goes into controlling others hair - hair nets, lint rollers, blankets on furniture to prevent pet hair, specialty de-shedding combs or special shedding shampoos. Do you still think hair doesn't control you?  Hairdressers make a living controlling our hair.

You may shave it because it's easier or because you have a receding hairline.  You may not have it due to treatment for cancer. You may wear a wig because you don't have enough of it.  Does lack of hair make us feel vulnerable or naked? Do some feel more powerful without hair? What is it about hair?

We split hairs, get hairline fractures or miss it by a hair.  We get so mad we could pull our hair out and the little pig said not by the "hair of my chinny, chin, chin."  Hair does cause us all great anguish even if we don't have any of our own!


Rachel