EDITORIAL Laura On Life Hair Today & Yesterday I was looking through some old photo- – not Twiggy. graphs the other day. The one thing I Well, heck. Now you have to cut your noticed, other than the fact that I used to be hair in layers and learn how to use a curling cuter… and thinner… was that the hairstyles iron. If you look closely, in your high school that were “in” when I was “in” are so… year book, you are bound to see at least one “out” now. girl who had to get her picture taken with a In fact, the more pictures I looked at, the curling iron burn on the side of her face. you were sure you’d grow to adore, but more I realized that nearly every woman my Maybe it was you. when you arrived home, your husband age has gone through the same phases of After they started filling emergency invariably looked at you as if a Muppet had hairstyles that I did. rooms with embarrassing curling iron inci- emerged from your scalp. It was every As a baby, you had those wispy little curls dents, celebrities, in a rare moment of soli- woman for herself. of hair that your daughter had: Those sweet darity, decided to ditch the curling iron and You experimented with past styles. You little ringlets of hair that you never wanted embrace the curly perm. When the curly let the hairdresser talk you out of a body to cut. perm grew out, the shag hairstyle was born. wave and turn your head into a Brillo pad in However, at some point your brother got The shag only lasted until the layers grew an effort to show you that, with her expen- hold of a pair of scissors and played barber- out in the back and what was left was the sive products, you can look like you have a shop with your hair. That’s how you ended infamous hairstyle called the mullet. Short body wave without actually getting one. up with the bangs you always despised. on top, long in the back, no curls, no main- You cut it short. You grow it long. You From about 4th or 5th grade you decided tenance. The mullet tried to incorporate try a rainbow of different shades of hair not to put up with those bangs any longer. every hairstyle to date and failed miserably. color. You gel it, spike it, tease it, and toss They made you look childish. No matter It really only looked good on Billy Ray it. that you were, in fact, still a child. By the Cyrus. Of course, Billy Ray Cyrus would Finally, you realize that it doesn’t matter time those bangs grew out you wouldn’t be have looked good bald. Who was looking at what you do with your hair, you are never a child any longer, you thought. his hair, anyway? going to look like a super model because the So middle school was a hair nightmare of At some point, shortly after the mullet rest of your body is not cooperating. barrettes, head bands, scrunchies and styles became popular, someone - some influential Then you do what many older women that would hide how hideous you looked someone - actually looked at themselves in a have done: You tell the hairdresser to cut it because you were trying to grow out those mirror, from the side, and said, “Oh…no.” all off so you don’t have to mess with it any- bangs. You knew, though, that once they And the mullet was dead. more. This will make it abundantly clear to grew out, your braces came off, and you Here’s where everything gets a little fuzzy. anyone who cares to question your decision, sprouted some breasts, you’d look like a This is perhaps the time when women of my that you are not trying to look like a super super model. age decided to find a hairstyle that looked model, you are merely being practical. Except that, by that time, the styles good on them individually. There was a lot ■ by Laura Snyder would change again and you were supposed of guesswork. A lot of walking out of a hair You can reach Laura at [email protected] to look like Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Tiegs salon having paid a good tip for a style that or visit her website www.lauraonlife.com for more columns and info about her new book.

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