The correct answer is a lot, but right now a haircut…
My hair doesn’t look like it’s been styled for a long time. The sad thing it’s only seven weeks ago I had it cut. With a flat iron I can manage the bangs, but the rest… The top of my ears is hiding behind the hair that creeps down over them. The back of my neck should have a line that says STOP, and it doesn’t so the neckline is fast approaching my shoulders. Ok, it has a few weeks before that happens, but not that many. The rest of my hair feels like a thick hat, and I am unhappy.
In these times you think that a haircut is the least of your worries. Apparently not! I read in a Swedish newspaper yesterday that the wealthy women in Europe are traveling to Sweden for haircuts. This due to Sweden’s different approach to the Covid-19. Social distancing but still keeping businesses open. So haircuts is a big deal not just for me. Seriously though, I would not fly to another country, or in my case state, to get a haircut. Even if it’s tempting.
I have had short hair for 15 plus years. The real only reason is I don’t like hair hanging over the back of my neck. Ok, maybe also because it’s easy, and looks best on me, but that’s only the vain part of me. It hasn’t been any problem having this short haircut so far. Maybe just to decide how how many weeks between cuts. If I could choose I would get it cut every three weeks, but it’s not very practical, as it’s time consuming, and add up $$$ in the end. I decided once a month works for me. Why so often you wonder, when you probably heard it’s more like every six weeks for a short cut. Probably is in most cases, but when I have hair that grows like the dandelion weed on the patio, six weeks is the time for me to figure out if I should change for a longer hairstyle. So right now that’s where I am. We have a shelter in place order for at least four more weeks. That means I have another month or more before I can book an appointment. Hurray, yippee! I have more time to figure out what to do about the style I will get next I enter the hair salon. The only thing I know is that my hairdresser needs to go to a garden store to purchase hedge shears to be able to start working the mess on my head.
The other thing I have read about hair during this pandemic, is that hair dye is selling like crazy. We all have our distressing things to deal with, mine is a haircut, and others is keeping up with the hair color. I did dyed my hair a long time ago. I remembered when those grey hairs started to show up in my late 20s. I panicked in the beginning, and did what I think most of us have done. I ripped them out, and colored the heck out of my hair. Then I started to wonder if I wanted to do this every 3-4 weeks for the rest of my life. I decided the answer was no. It went pretty slow with the gray strands until I turned 35. The gray hair was speeding up like Carl Lewis, and by 40 I had some kind of grey highlights in different thickness covering my scalp. By now you have to look for the brown strands. Oh well, I have been lucky when it comes to how the grey hair have came in. It’s kind of even, and I still get people asking if I have highlights. I would love to answer with: ‘You must need glasses”. I usually reply with, it’s all grey because of my three kids, but thank you. I earned the grey, and I actually have come to like it.
Still not totally sure how this will turn out in the end. I will not use a pair of scissors when that could be something I would regret. Might need a supervisor and handcuffs to keep me away from temptations. Maybe put up pictures of kids and grownups with bad haircuts on my bathroom mirror. Everything that works to stay away from doing something catastrophic to my hair.
So I assume I am not totally alone here, but what I have learned during my 52 years on this earth is that we all have our obsessions. I think after contemplating my hair for a while now, haircuts might be mine. Who am I kidding. I have more obsessions but you have to wait for those until another time…
Keep safe out there.