Hair styles, What makes a god Hairstyle

There was a time when I had just one criterion for a hair style - sex appeal. It did not matter that my thick wavy hair would never sit still in a 1920s Louise Brooks bob, or that I would need a blow-dryer and a straightening iron to create a long, waiflike finish. If the look was hot, I wanted it.

During this period, I encountered a few hairdressers who refused to give me the exact look 1 wanted. "But your hair doesn't want to go forward", one would say. "With your busy schedule, when are you going to find time to blow-dry your hair straight?" another asked. "This look doesn't work with vour face; wh y don't we alter it a bit to suit your features?" asked another. But I was persistent; if one stylist wouldn't give me the precise look I wanted, I searched until I found one who would.

Living with your Hair Style

After living with the cut a while, I would grow frustrated. With the above mentioned bob, for example, I woke up at 5 a.m. each morning to wash and condition my hair, blow-dry, and say a prayer asking the weather gods for a perfectly dry day because even a touch of humidity would encourage my strands to return to their wavy ways. By the end of the day, my hair had b egun creeping back to its natural position. I f I had a dinner date, I needed to run home and either wet my hair down and re-blow-dry, or plug in a straightening iron and spend 30 minutes removing kinks. My straight-haired friends literally woke up and ran a brush through their hair. That's it. Their strands fell effortlessly into place, which meant they could go from college to a night out without going home first. Yet even this wasn't enough to tell me I had chosen the - wrong Hair style .

At the time, I was a drama student. It took a comment from the drama department's costume and make-up director to make me rethink my coif. "Your hairstyle makes your chin look weak," she said. "You might want to try a softer style." But the cut was such a sexy, late 80s, New Wave look! I loved it! "You like the haircut better than you like your face?" she asked. She had a point. I stopped blow-drying my strands straight and had a few softening layers added. The moral of this long-winded tale? A hairstyle should accentuate your total look - not be your look.