A couple nights ago I was confronted with a huge ordeal. I had just gotten out of the shower when I realized I wasn’t sure what to do with my hair. My hair is a bitch. Everyone loves it but me, is it because I have to live with it? Probably. Every time I go to get my hair trimmed I ask to get it blow dried straight. It’s fun to transform into the girl with straight hair (until it gets washed, at least) instead of being the girl with the intensely curly hair, which everybody loves when it’s down. The grass is greener on the other side, I guess. Why don’t I wear it down more often, everybody asks? Well herein lays my ‘ordeal’.
If you’ve ever walked down the beauty aisle at any store than you know there are a lot of choices to make. What’s the difference between Gairner Fructis and Herbal Essences? Heck if I know. Do I want defined curls, loose wavy curls, or do I want a leave in conditioner? I for one don’t know. I just want something that will hold my curls without letting them get frizzy. What will accomplish what I think I want? I grab the Gairner Fructis and check-out. Well after I got out of the shower one day, I went to the bathroom closet only to find, choices. Great just what I needed, more choices. I, over the years have accumulated a vast variety of hair products which accomplish different things. I quickly put in the leave in conditioner and head to bed.
Do you remember the days when your parents thought for you? When if you didn’t want to do something they did it for you? I for one do, whenever I didn’t want to brush my hair, my mom did it. I was at an age where I was completely capable of brushing my own hair, the catch here was that my hair didn’t what to be brushed, nor was it capable of being brushed. We would sit down in front of the mirror and she would brush it until all the knots were gone and my tear ducts were dry. Back in the day I would simply get out of the bath and go to bed. No products, no different hair accessories, I was a pony tail girl or a headband girl.
My hair causes me big (well pretty arbitrary) problems. I never know what to do with it, or if I do how to do it. When you want to know why I don’t wear my curly hair down more, it’s because it’s a pain in the butt. I am always striving for that perfect curly look or obsess about how it really looks. Everyday we must make decisions, and those choices we confront differ in importance and subject. As life progresses we must make more challenging and different decisions. I know that no matter how long I live, with my curly hair, I will always be making a pretty unimportant one about my hair. No one knows what tomorrow holds in store for us, and neither do I of my hair.
Do all you straight hair people still want it curly instead?
---Krista---
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Krista, I really liked this essay. Especially the part when you talk about shopping for hair products. Even though I have straight hair, I know the problem. Sometimes its just hard being a girl. This essay also brought back memories because a lot of people told me they wanted my hair and wanted me to wear my hair down more too. However, one thing I think you should do was tie the story to the questioning part a little bit better. I didn't think the transition from hair to choices was very clear until the last paragraph. But overall I think this was a good personal essay.
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