Katie Holmes, whose change from long to short hair made women everywhere want to chop their locks and was the sound of shears heard round the world, has done it again. She’s gone to instant long hair. And it is looking real good — as good as when she cut it short. Of course, it’s hard not to look good when you are as pretty as she is. Didn’t you love her part in the movie Mad Money! You can see an article and a picture about ithere.
Katie Holmes is to this time frame what Farah Fawcett and Jennifer Anniston were for theirs. Each of them is credited with hair trend setting.
What did it cost?
What the article doesn’t tell you is how much money it set her back. I imagine it cost a pretty penny. Care to hazard a guess?
How is it connected to your hair?
What they also don’t tell you is how they connect the hair to your hair. There are several ways, and they are all similar to the ways they can add hair to a man who is going bald. It’s a long, tedious process, involving knots and glue. So there is the expense of the hair and the expense of the stylist.
But you can’t run your fingers through your hair in the same way, and the knots do grow out into the hair as your own hair grows out. The hair extensions need to be removed and put in again (new ones) further up the hair shaft by the roots, maybe not so much if it is done underneath the hair. And I don’t think it’s the best thing for your natural hair. It puts some stress on it at the points of the glue.
Recently my hair stylist put some in her hair and took them out shortly thereafter for the very reasons I just detailed. She said she’d never do it again.
Source of the hair
And they don’t tell you the source of the hair, which is a temple in India where the women offer their hair to the temple’s god. Hair that they haven’t cut for a lifetime. Hair that is to their waists and longer.
I recently read an article in Allure Magazine about this. Tons of hair is shaved and sold there every year. Imagine! It is swept up, cleaned, sorted, batched, sold, sold again, and made into wigs and pieces. Then sold to the wholesalers who sell to the stylist who sells to us.
The women do not know that. Even if they are taken aback, by how it looks and feels after they shave it, maybe more than a few tears, they feel and are honored for having done it. There is a camaraderie between women as they leave with shorn heads.
And when they are told what happens with their hair, after an initial hurtful surprise, they recover to say that they had given it to the god in gratitude.
While in one sense this both hurt and repulsed me, having traveled in other countries, but not India, I do respect the customs of other places and try to look at it from their eyes. It’s hard to leave my sense of liberating women behind. Too bad they aren’t paid for their hair. One of the remarks at the end of the article came from the author who said something like this: if they don’t care what happens with their hair, should we? That is a tough one.
For the rest of us who know going to short hair is more permanent, we have to think about it. My hair is easy for me to style when it is long, but it would only look great short, if it were styled.
I had great short hair at one point, but I don’t think I’ll ever do it again. I even had it asymmetrical, which was way cool at the time, and I felt really chic. I was! I was also as young as Katie is now.
And once I had it cut to a mid length, and it instantly added 10 years to my age. Ouch! My stylist agreed, and a couple of days later, she cut it again, and I looked young again. Which I actually was at that time. Interestingly, when it grew out, it never went through that stage where I felt I looked old, I’m not sure why! Perhaps it was the actual cut as it grew out. But I don’t want to chance it now!
OTOH, a few years back I saw an older woman who looked like a caricature of herself. I asked my stylist to make sure I never did that to myself. But who knows, I might!
Other ways to go long in an instant
Other ways to go from short to long is to buy a fall or hair pieces or pony tail extensions. There is a mall kiosk, usually staffed with Asian women, in many places. It has beautiful pieces, as well as jewelry-like clips of all sorts to style it or your natural hair with.
I’ve had a multitude of pieces and falls at one time, and I wore them all. I still have some interesting pieces to wrap around pony tails (you can find these in drug stores at times) but I’m more into simplicity at the moment. (That’s funny, if you know me, because I’m not a minimalist in much of my life! I do try to keep things simple, though.) At one time my oldest daughter had these pony tail accessories with streaks of purple or blue, and she wore them all the time. She could wear these to school around her pony tail, whereas they didn’t allow the kids’ hair to be dyed.
Fresco Phyrra has talked about getting pieces of long ‘hair’ in bright colors at Sallys, but I haven’t looked at Sallys lately. I might enjoy having a couple of them.
A woman I know has blond hair like me, and about a year or so ago, she dyed the back of her hair black. Her stylist had tried to do blue, but it didn’t take. Blue would have been remarkable. Black was not her best look.
How to make your long hair look instantly short
It is also possible to fold your long hair under so that it appears to be short. That’s a way to see if you’d really like it or not before taking shears to your locks.
One thing about hair, it grows, so nothing is permanent. It will change.
What look do you like best for yourself?
do you have pieces or falls?
Karin
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