4 comments on “A Few Words About Hair”

  1. Some of us "WHITE BOYS" had our own hair problems. In the day of flat tops and "New Yorkers", my hair line was 3/4" from my eyebrows. If you do the math, that makes the front hair line 2"+ to the flat top. Not cool! Good news is all the cool cut guys are now bald! Every dog has his (good hair) day! Go Matt! It may be gray, but we've got it all, eh!?

  2. I love it! Matt is blessed with a lot of hair! He won't go bald that's for sure and as for the gray I think when he's ready he'll let it go but for now he embraces the Just For Men medium brown with a zeal only a 33 year-old prematurely gray man can;)

  3. Kate-I love this post! As you well know I have been known to have many a bad hair day (or year) myself. I can remember us freaking out about having the right converters for the outlets in Europe so as not to have to leave our hot rollers at home for a week! I love that Simone can do so much with her hair- even though she screams as I make my sometimes feable attempt at making it look like I know what I'm doing with "black hair". Teaching her to accept herself and embrace her beauty-kinky hair, round little booty and all-is already so important to me! Thanks for this post-I can so relate to many of the feelings that you experienced then and now! And I have always loved the rauncy, funny, out spoken, and definitely beautiful person that you are! ps-this thing needs a spell checker-don't judge...

  4. You go sister-cuz! Our culture is overly-focused on appearance. With images of perfect beauty bombarding us from every visual medium it is almost impossible to escape the conclusion that one does not measure up, is "less than."

    And with the ton of beauty products on the market that fix or hide every flaw it is inescapably one's own fault. All you have to do is buy and use the right products and you could look just like that woman on the magazine cover. (The same one that needed four hours of PhotoShop retouching.)

    I am not sure I would label it jealousy, perhaps insecurity, a feeling of not measuring up.

    I agree with your reaction to Chris Rock's movie. The definition of "good hair" is hair that does what you want it to.

    Happy to have you blogging again. I love your writing.

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