March 21st, 2022

ok so this is me, this morning. In fact, just about 5 minutes ago.  Do you see the weird thing my hair is doing?  Ok, maybe it's not weird, but it's different.  It's sort of flipping up on the ends.  Sort of.  It doesn't appear to be a full commitment to the hair flip, just a nod at it.  My hair has been turning out this way for a little more than a week now.   This little flippity thing.

And that's all fine and good.  It's one of the many ways that people intentionally style their hair.   It's just not the way that my hair normally looks.  And the oddest thing is that I did the exact same thing to my hair this morning that I do every single doggone morning.  I was going to say that I "style" my hair the same way every day, but we all already know that I have no style and I am never comfortable with an untruth.

It's how I dry my hair every day, I guess that is truth enough.  I do not have the talent, the patience or the interest in putting a lot of effort into the way I look every day.  I don't honestly "style" my hair,  I just dry it and move along.  

I do not mean to suggest that I'm slovenly. I am not. I'm showered, my clothes are clean, ironed and are appropriate for the occasion.    But I dry my hair the exact same way every single day.  In whatever room it ends up happening in (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen...I don't care) I stand, blow dryer in hand and bend over at the waist so that, essentially, I'm hanging upside down.   With one hand I aim a hot blower dryer, full bore, at my poor, unsuspecting, innocent hair and with my other hand I fluff.   Eventually  my hair is dry, or dry enough, and I stand upright and my hair falls into whatever place it chooses.  

What this used to mean is that most of my hair turned under on the ends.  The style, so I have learned, is called a bob.  Not sure which bob it's named after but there it is.  I've been wearing my hair in some version of a "bob" for at least five years.   Generally it looks like this:

See how MOST of my hair turns under? Ok to be fair, there was always that one rebellious piece on the right side that, regardless of what I do, how many barrel brushes I employed or efforts I put in, turned up instead of under. But MOST of my hair turned under.  

Now after all these years, now, suddenly it ALL decides to flip up?  That's kind of crazy.  Why would my hair now, suddenly on it's own, decide  to do something different?  I swear I am "styling" my hair exactly the same way I have done it lo these many years.

Why didn't my hair feel like flipping up back when I was in middle high school  when it was all the rage?    All the girls I knew slept on rollers (some of them VERY uncomfortable) and employed many cans of hair spray, dippity do and various kinds of combs, "ratted" and tortured their hair into compliance so that they could wear the perfect, Sandra Dee, hair flip.

Most of the girls I knew back in those days had hair something like this:

Not me.  My hair never looked like that. Never once. Not ever.  And even now, while my hair has suddenly taken the notion to flip up on the ends all the way around instead of under, it's far from perfect.  Also,  I'm not sporting that volume at the crown that the girl in this photo (and most of my middle and high school year peers) did. 

It's not that I mind, really. It's just different.  A person becomes accustomed to certain things.  It's like, when I make biscuits.  As long as I put all the right ingredients together, they always turn out the exact same way.   I don't even think about it anymore.  I just know that my biscuits will come the exact way that they always do.   In the same sort of fashion,  since I "style" my hair the same way every day without really thinking about it,  the assumption is that my hair will turn out the exact same way.  And lately, it does not.

Just some thing new, different and absolutely unintended. Another in along line of surprises.  No big deal, I'll roll with it.  It's what I do.  

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