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In reply to the discussion: Women with long hair approaching 60? A no-no? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Mom decided to give us all perms. Those harsh stinky perms. Hair eventually had to be cut (back to pixies). Then a combination of bangs with weird layering, bangs with chin length hair. Awful. My Mom had no taste in hair. Her own hair always looked terrible, IMO.
When I got into my teens, I was able to handle my hair myself, and from then on, more often than not, my hair has been my best asset.
I like natural, no fuss, not time consuming, shiny, healthy, thick looking, going with the natural way my hair is (unfortunately, that is straight and fine). Gone are the days of trying to become a wavy haired vixen. The perm only works for a few months, and then the frizz takes over.
But boy, what wouldn't I give to have been born with wavy hair.