Many of us have probably already watched Katy Perry’s music video, “Part of Me.” In that one particular scene after confronting her cheating boyfriend, she went into a public restroom and started chopping off all her hair in a fit of tearful rage. After that, she signed on for a tour with the marines in Iraq and began a grueling training to become one of the meanest fighting machines the world has ever produced.
Although most women do not necessarily join the marines after going through a major life-changing experience, it is generally a truth that the desire to control that which seems to be uncontrollable becomes so great that we try to control that which seems to be feasibly controllable – our hair. Of course, other women have enough vanity in them to not actually try to raze their own hair so they solicit the help of a professional hairdresser. However, something more drastic than just a trim is bound to happen like coloring it from black to blonde or getting a perm or having it chopped off from waist to ear level. Others who are less adventurous would just stick to cutting their own bangs just to feel like, “At least that didn’t turn out to be such a disaster.” If the purpose is merely to show off and not to change something in her psyche, then a woman would generally not do something so immensely drastic to her hair. It was after all Coco Chanel herself who said, “a woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” The bottom line: women have a very special relationship with the hair on their heads.
I was asking my brothers if they felt the same way about their hair and, of course, they did not. My younger brother does apply some blonde streaks to his black hair from time to time but it is more of a show-off thing rather than a control thing. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the socially accepted concept of feminine beauty appears to be directly related to none other than a woman’s hair. I heard a group of guys talk about how pretty one of my female classmates’ hair was and one of them said in a loud, obnoxious voice, “Well, that’s what she uses to flirt and play around.” Not cool, bro, not cool.
A male friend was once put on the spot by a group of girls who were asking him questions about which girls he found more attractive – the long-haired ones or the pixie-haired ones. He told them that he found long-haired girls to be more feminine because the long hair showed him how different the girl was from him – a guy who preferred to keep his hair close to his scalp. On the other hand, he also said that what he liked most about pixie-haired girls was that he could see their pretty faces without them hiding behind long hair. That last one, I’m not sure if it’s complete bullshit but, at that time, it sounded so freaking good to female ears. His point though? To each his own; whatever floats his woman’s boat. This is one guy who knows better than to come between a woman… and her hair.
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