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Never Is the Next New Thing

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This is how my hair looks naturally …

… and this is how I usually wear it.

I think straight hair better highlights the interesting details of my haircuts. On the topic of hair, yesterday’s New York Times style section ran an article called “Getting Bolder With Age” about women in their 40s, 50s and 60s getting rock ‘n’ roll ‘dos. That story made me think of this quote from Miuccia Prada:

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I totally agree.

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  2. I agree too. I am 50 with ombre hair and I love every minute of it. It is black and burgundy right now, and may be becoming black and candy pink soon. I was far far too chicken to do stuff to my hair when i was younger.

  5. You look great either way. I can’t see myself getting a purple streak anytime soon – I still can’t break myself out of wearing black. Miss Exciting, that’s me.

  6. Your hair looks great wild (as you call it). My hair is stupid and curly and ridiculously wild. I fucking hate it’s guts! I had it straightened last weekend with irons and omg I was loving myself sick for 1 night. Back to frizz the next day, sigh. Am seriously thinking of having it chemically straightened. Am I mad?

  8. I LOVE your regular hair! I wish mine looked like that! Of course, your straight hair is also gorgeous. That’s the thing about having gorgeous hair, it looks good no matter what you do with it 🙂

  9. Totally agree with you and Miuccia. I also liked that quote.

    I was on the subway the other day and two mature women with hair waaaaay past their shoulders and frizzy with split ends looked me up and down. (I am a woman with short hair. Therefore, I am an oddity in America.) One of them said, “You know, I see short hair and I wonder about it but I just can’t cut mine.” (This happens frequently. Obviously, short-haired people are considered to be hard of hearing.)

    I admit I instantly judged. I doubted either of them would ever ‘rock their dos’ as they got older!

    • I used to have hair as short as yours. I enjoyed those sorts of comments because I guess it make me feel all dangerous and wild. What I didn’t like was the question “When are you going to grow your hair?” from guys.

  10. Your hair looks fantastic wavy, but man, it straightens so beautifully. And geez, SHINY. Do you put stuff on it before you go to town with the flat iron? I’m looking for a good product, but so far the products I’ve used just make it kinda sticky.

    • Just got a keratin treatment! I do it a couple of times a year and in between I iron. I usually chemically straighten when I realize I’ve been overheating my hair with the irons. In the post with the dotty top, that’s my natural hair ironed. I don’t use any product to do it.

  11. i love your messy do! Last year I had a moment of panic when I was in an upper east side shop with a friend. I lost her, and all I could see was blond, highlighted, blown out hair (hers included). I finally sat and waited for her to find me as it was giving me quite a headache trying to figure out which one she was. How boring, a sea of the same shade and style of hair — and this was just in one shop! Ugh! XXX Suzanne

  12. My sister has rather naturally wavy hair. Sometimes she gets it straightened. Last time we were going to a party she did not have time to get it done. When I said I was kinda glad she didn’t, she made the mistake of asking why. I then told her that her hairdresser does a lousy job of cutting her hair and when it is straight you can see every single terrible thing she did wrong. I even offered to get her a haircut from a real hairdresser for Christmas or something. She wouldn’t take me up on it. Pity. She has beautiful hair and it should be treated better than that.

  13. My hair looks like your first picture most of the time. I rarely have time to straighten it. I wish I could bring out the wave more intentionally. You’ve got great hair wavy and straight!

  14. Your hair is lovely both ways shown here, and it was great to see some past variations, also way gorgeous!

    Thanks also for linking the NYT article – I love cultural perspectives on hair, and despite my unusual look, am privileged to often lose track of how much judgement remains with regard to short, grey, “edgy,” and any non-mainstream ‘do, particularly on women.

    Hooray for the freedom to rock ‘n’ roll it!

  17. Lady, your hair looks fab either way! I kind of miss having straight hair though, I permed it while I was in HK and it just doesn’t straighten out anymore…I guess I will have to wait until it grows out!