Life This Week 20/8/2018: My Hairstyle History.


My hair in pictures (of things that mostly aren’t human hair).  All of which (the pictures) are courtesy of Google Images unless otherwise stated.

I have lots of hair and in its natural state, it has the texture and appearance of steel wool.

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Only it’s rarely ever as tidy as a new pad of steel wool because static is one of its major enemies.

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Battling the will of my hair has been an ongoing financial commitment of mine ever since I got my first pay cheque.
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Jennifer Aniston’s hair in her Rachel years was the look I aspired to as I endured hours in the hairdresser’s chair getting my tresses chemically straightened…
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In more recent years, I’ve embraced the power blow dry and have devoted an inordinate amount of time to YouTube video tutorials which make it look that much easier than it is to get volume at the roots and a bit of a soft ‘kick out’ at the ends using nothing more than a vent brush, a standard blow dryer and your own pair of arms.
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If only I’d been around when this contraption was all the go….
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The other Roaring Forties in my life.  One of my favourite blue cheeses in the whole world.
As I hit my stride in this fun decade of life I like to call my Roaring Forties, my hair and I have forged an alliance based on acceptance and the fact that I have so many more things to do with the hours of my day besides devoting them to my hair.

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I’ve ditched the straighteners, curling wands and heated rollers of my past and now air dry my hair as much as possible.  If I’m feeling fancy and my hair has been cut short enough, I run this Rusk heated, rolling brush through it.  A lovely reader of this blog suggested it to me many years ago and I haven’t looked back.
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How can I put this? I’d say my hair hasn’t seen its natural colour (and greyness come to think of it) since my late twenties.  As my budget and life pressures have fluctuated over the years, I’ve gone from a bit of DIY at home with home colour, to full on salon productions with a bit of root touch up spray at home to just full on salon productions with keratin thrown in for good measure.  
This year, my superhero hairdresser finally convinced me to give balayage a go.  Looking back, the jet black I favoured was getting a bit ageing.
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Victoria Beckham has forever been one of my style icons and I love what her hair team do with her brunette hair these days in terms of both the cut and the colour.  My hairdresser has been known to have me leaving the salon with hair looking this good….
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As we head into Sydney’s famed springsummer (a word I’m this close to trademarking it so perfectly describes those golden months in Sydney), I’m throwing a few ideas around regarding what I’d like to do with my hair for the duration. I reckon adding a bit of length but keeping the balayage is going to be the plan.

Does your hair have history?  Have you been evolutionary or revolutionary with it?

Do tell.


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