The Texture Guru

I just went to a salon to get the first haircut that was not done at home after more than a year. She did a good job, to be honest. Not exactly what I wanted (I wanted a shag, she gave me some sort of mullet), but at least it was done by a professional. It was refreshing. I've been making do with some scissors and a clipper for way too long and I was literally fixated on a modified mohawk. My girls are amazing but hairdressers they are not. I don't have facial hair, so for me, a haircut is essential if I want to give my features some shape. The haircut does make the man in this case.

I'm lucky because I'm able to keep my hair under control easily. It's not too straight to stick out if it's badly cut and it's not curly enough to just look like a 'fro if it gets too long. I usually keep it cut mid-length (when I don't go short-short because I bleached it) and I use a pomade and some maneuvering to give it shape and call it a day. I try to keep the process short and sweet because I don't like to spend too much time on it in the morning. The haircut I got also did away with most of the bleached hair, so now I have dark hair again. It was kind of weird, after having had hair in so many colors for several years, to go back to black (thanks, Amy!).

Few men think too much about their hair: they go to the barber/salon, they sit, they have it cut and repeat  the process four or five weeks after that. Especially men with curly hair. I have friends who just buzz it all off. But I love men with natural curly hair. And as the men in the video show, curly (and even tightly curly) hair can look fantastic. It's funny, how beauty standards make us think that there's only 'one' kind of hair worth keeping long. Have you ever thought that your haircut is 'too ethnic'? No? Well, then you're lucky. Did you know there's such thing as hair grooming discrimination? Well, now you do. It may sound crazy, but it exists. 

I think I'm going to let my hair grow out for a little while. I may even keep it dark. Managing it during the pandemic gave me something to do, and changing my hair color and cutting it at home was fun and gave people watching me in video conferences something to talk about (oh you should have seen their faces when it went from light blue to silver over a weekend!), but winter is coming and it may be good to have longer hair. It gives me a (possibly fake) sense of warmth but it's easy to manage when wearing hats.

XOXO