Friday, December 12, 2008

Long Straight Hair - Glamorous?

I caught myself unaware yesterday. I was at my uncle's house and my eldest niece S1 was around. She has jet black, thick wavy hair. And it is shoulder length. Last evening I noticed she had straightened it. I immediately said "You straightened your hair. It looks nice". Little did I realize...
On the long drive back home I got to thinking how I have fallen into the trap of long straight hair being left open as the standard for glamorous hair! My hair has grown almost till my waist now and I feel it looks better straightened. So that's what I have been doing every Sunday for the last couple of weeks. I do not like that I have fallen into this trap and not only that I am passing on the wrong message to a young impressionable girl that hair looks good straightened. That is so so wrong! Will I build up the courage to come to work with wavy hair that looks unmade? I do not know. But I do know that with my maturity if I can fall into the trap how easy it will be for a young teenager like that? The thought is scary...Here I am at 30 with so much more potential to 'grow up'! :-)