Long beautiful hair? Shining, gleaming, streaming,........Give me it down to there, HAIR, shoulder length or longer, here baby , there baby, everywhere....HAIR?

Bee hive, long and stringy, parted down the middle, Farrah Fawcett, Hamill wedge, bangs, teased, wigs!(my sister had one), shags, pigtails, ducktails...

Combs, brushes, picks, hair dryers in a little case with hoods, irons, pink curlers, bobby pins, sponge rollers, juice cans, spit curls...

Remember? How did you wear your hair, and what did I forget?

Okay ladies, fess up. HOw didyou wear you hair?

usually on my head...

what?

okay...okay...long, straight, and red.

Long straight and brown. Then around 16 - 17 I did a little layer thing in the front. Maybe taht was the Farah Fawcett era I don't remember.

When I was little in elementary school, I had a pixie. remeber those? I swear it was because my mother hated dealing with hair so she cut mine off.

Probably my worst hairdo was in eigth grade:

Perm
Bouffant flip with teased bangs
and of course, the de riguer little velvet bow that clipped on above the bangs. I had those stupid little bows in 20 colors, to match all my outfits. Aarggghhh!!

Because we lived way out in the country and I guess we were poor, my mom always gave my sister and I perms. Oh my lord was that ever a bad experience. She was always very concerned that the perms "Took good". She would curl our hair on hard plastic curlers and twist them so tight, our eyes would be pulled up til our eyes were slanted lie little Chinamen. She would make us sleep in those horrible curlers so the perm would "take good."

I wrote a short story about that and it was read at a small theater. It was funny.

I was at Moms and late one night a couple of years ago and got a crazy idea that I needed a perm. Mom who still gives herself perms had one and for some reason I let her give it to me. It killed my hair and it fell out in clumps. I had to cut my hair. It's just now growing out.

That's my hair story.

Dotsie, your post about hair sounds like a poem and might be lyrics for a country song.

smile

[ February 13, 2004, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: smilinize ]

Speaking of things you placed in your hair...

My sister had the little bumble bees that you stuck in your dos.

She tells a side splitting story about having those little buggers knocked right out by one of the nuns and watching them go buzzing to the floor.

A friend of Mom's was a hair dresser. She did my sister's hair up in a hive, sprayed the he.. out of it, plunked little bees in it and off sissie went to school.

When the nun was finished with her hair, she told her to go to the bathroom and get it straight.

Nice, huh?

I guess the nun wasn't as impressed as the kids.

We laugh hysterically when she tells the story, but when we stop to think about it, it's a terribly humiliating thing to do to a kid.

There are lots of other stories like that from going to Catholic school in the 60's and 70's. Those nuns wouldn't stand a chance treating kids like that these days.

I've always been blessed with tons of hair. I wore it in a pixie with VERY short bangs. It finally grew out, and then Twiggy came along. Mom made the mistake of letting me decide how I wanted my hair, and guess who had NO hair left? By the time I got to high school, it was long and flowing parted straight down the middle. After high school, I got the Farrah look (like everyone else!) Then I went on to the BIG hair like the women on Dynasty, I believe. Now? The more gray, the curlier it gets! LOL!

Donna

Speaking of pixie, I recall the year our family was going to Florida for a family vacation. I had my hair cut in a pixie for the trip. (Why?)

When I went to school with my new hair cut, the most popular, coolest, cutest boy in the class saw me and said, "Who's the new boy in our class?" Kids giggled, he maintained his coolness and I felt awful. He knew it was me, I had my uniform skirt on!

Funny how you rememeber stuff like that!