Christina at Too Pretty For This posed a question to her readers and then to me individually:
What stories have shaped you?
I recommend reading her story first because it'll make more sense and, well, it's a good story.
Here's mine:
I was blessed/cursed with very thick, straight hair, and a butt-load of it. So, naturally I wished for curly hair.
When I was about 10, I started asking my mom to let me get a perm.
My poor mother (bless her heart) tried very hard to explain to me that if I got a perm, my hair wouldn't look like the other girls' due to the sheer mass of it. But, I would have none of it.
I begged, whined and pleaded (which rarely went over well in my family). I believe my mother decided that I just needed to learn this one for myself. So, she let me do it.
Oh, the humanity.
I'd love to tell you that, similar to Ron Burgundy, I immediately regretted that decision. I did not.
In fact, after it grew out and a few more years passed, I DID IT AGAIN.
This horrific tale depicts a few of my characteristics better than any other-
- You can't tell me. I have to do it myself.
- I don't always learn the first time. In fact, I often have to hose myself several times before I get it.
- If you tell me not to do something, not only will I do it, but I'll do it with a smile on my face and a song in my heart... even if it means looking like this...
...TWICE.
18 comments:
prove it. i need to see childhood pictures.
hahahaaa!!! i'm with carrie. pics pronto woman....and no, i won't let it go....i'll harass you everyday until you post them.
LOL!
I did the opposite - I already have a 'kink' in my hair so when I permed mine I looked like a poodle!!
Oh the humanity of the permanent wave, which (thank GOD) is NOT permanent! I have suffered too many of them in my early life to even fathom the thought!
Thanks for sharing.
I will not even comment on this because then I would have to bring out pictures of the atrocities that were once upon my head.
Hahaha... what a great story, Sara! I'm so glad you shared it, and I hope other people tell their stories, too.
Thanks for the kind words about and link to my post. I'm so glad I found your blog, and am looking forward to reading more!
You did NOT do that to yourself twice!!! I'd love to know what your mom said!
Carrie and other interested parties-
I promise that when I go home for Thanksgiving (if someone reminds me), I will dig up some of these infamous pictures. They exist... in bulk.
Sara! I neeed help choosing a blog topic.
1.) Fried Chicken
2.) OBAMS-and how everyone needs to pull their heads out of their asses (and listen for the pop to make sure)
3.) how Don't Ask Don't Tell is ruining my life. (not as emo as it sounds, actually kinda funny)
Haha!
I had a similar experience.
This made me laugh so much.
ahhhh!! brilliant!!
I'm a hairdresser and I just do what my tween clients want. Theres no talking them out of it. What's middle school without bad hair?
ahhh yes, i am so #1 also
Okay... that's just funny... I got a "spiral" perm when I was 12... and they even PERMED MY BANGS! MAN! I looked like ... an angry poodle... who needed a hair cut! LOL! funny that you did it twice though! It took years for that to grow out on me... and at the end I finally cut a severe A line to get the rest off!
There is an award for you over at my blog, come take a look!!
Shaking my head from side to side...because (one) I just KNEW this story wasn't going to end well after you described what kind of hair you have and two, because that mans hair in the picture actually makes me jealous (oh the volume!)
;o)
My best, Lynn
We all have to learn out own lessons. I have black curly hair and I of course always wanted straight hair. My mother is a hairdresser. I asked her to cut it in a particular style and she told me it would not look good with curly hair, but did I listen? Nope. It looked awful and I pretended to like it when I wasn't crying about it.
I had to enlarge your photo in order to see if you, in fact, have fatter hair than I do. We're neck 'n' neck, baby! If my black hair is cut just so, I look like I'm wearing Darth Vader's helmet.
I also went the perm route at one point in my adolescence. It aged me at least 40 years. And then I went back for more when I was a sophomore in college. The second time around made me wish female baldness was en vogue.
Aren't we just utterly unteachable?
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