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I have a hair fixation.
About a month ago I had most of my hair cruelly hacked off by a crazed Taiwanese hairstylist, leaving me with a really irritating chin-length bob that is just long enough to hang constantly in my face but too short to pull back, that by design only looks good when meticulously blow-dried, crimped, and curled, and that has an inexplicable wisp of hair at the back about six inches longer than the rest of it. My Taiwanese friends delight in telling me how terrible it looks compared to how it looked before. My Thai friends comfort me by telling me that I look so much younger now, like a high school student practically!
I have taken to just braiding the longer piece. So now I look like a J-RPG character. Perhaps a Nomura design. Just what I always wanted.
Desperate to escape this aesthetic hell, or so I imagine, my hair has started to grow with extreme enthusiasm. OBSERVE.
A FEW WEEKS LATER
I am glad it is growing but that is slightly extreme I feel. It is also impossible to style and I have to suddenly spend a lot of time of the day with pins and clips and ties and headbands and ALL SORTS OF THINGS to get it to not look like that second picture as I go about my day. I am only moderately successful, it really really wants to look like that second picture. It is its natural state.
Two English hairstyle-related phrases I can't get my friends to stop saying: "bob" for any hairstyle shorter than the shoulders, and "skinhead" instead of bald. The first one is just grating with the repetition, and uh the second one is obviously a bit more of a problematic error, though it actually makes sense (they know the words for skin and head already, whereas bald is a whole new word). I tried to explain why it was something to not say to one of my teachers, who repeated my explanation as best as she understood it to the rest of the class, who all understood me to mean that "skinhead" was a derogatory word for black people. No.
I barely studied for my German exam today but I AM CONFIDENT sort of. If disaster befalls me I can take comfort in the fact that none of this actually matters.
Edit: GEEEERMAAAAAAAAAN. /dramatic fist shake
I have taken to just braiding the longer piece. So now I look like a J-RPG character. Perhaps a Nomura design. Just what I always wanted.
Desperate to escape this aesthetic hell, or so I imagine, my hair has started to grow with extreme enthusiasm. OBSERVE.
A FEW WEEKS LATER
I am glad it is growing but that is slightly extreme I feel. It is also impossible to style and I have to suddenly spend a lot of time of the day with pins and clips and ties and headbands and ALL SORTS OF THINGS to get it to not look like that second picture as I go about my day. I am only moderately successful, it really really wants to look like that second picture. It is its natural state.
Two English hairstyle-related phrases I can't get my friends to stop saying: "bob" for any hairstyle shorter than the shoulders, and "skinhead" instead of bald. The first one is just grating with the repetition, and uh the second one is obviously a bit more of a problematic error, though it actually makes sense (they know the words for skin and head already, whereas bald is a whole new word). I tried to explain why it was something to not say to one of my teachers, who repeated my explanation as best as she understood it to the rest of the class, who all understood me to mean that "skinhead" was a derogatory word for black people. No.
I barely studied for my German exam today but I AM CONFIDENT sort of. If disaster befalls me I can take comfort in the fact that none of this actually matters.
Edit: GEEEERMAAAAAAAAAN. /dramatic fist shake