Some people might call the phenomenon that is happening to my hair right now as frizz. I however, am choosing to think of it as fluff, and since the weather reports indicate that the dampness will not be leaving us soon...I am embracing my fluff wholeheartedly. I am calling it my "bohemian chic" summer look. It is really rather liberating.
Not too long ago, I would have fought tooth and nail with a multitude of brushes and my hair dryer to beat my fluff into submission. Quite honestly, that statement could be said about more than just my hair. Anything that seemed to be "fluff" (in other words, not perfect or good enough or whatever) about myself I would have tried to beat into submission. One of the perks of getting ,ever so slightly older, is the wisdom to recognize that it is my "fluff" that makes me, me...and I am becoming more and more o.k. with that everyday.
P.S. Thank you for all the supportive and loving comments to my last post. I am much richer for having all of you in my life!
i have NEVER had wavy/frizzy hair...and for SOME reason, it has now decided to wave (i.e. NOT follow the styling to try to make it submit to) AND frizz! oh yeah, and the gray hairs are really coming in now...i've had to stop pulling them because i now have little white anttenae sticking up on top of my head!!! clairol here i come!
Posted by: libby @ ninesandquines | May 27, 2009 at 07:01 PM
That really IS one of the advantages of getting "a little" older -- you become (or at least I did)more comfortable with who you are. :)
Posted by: Sandra | May 27, 2009 at 07:57 PM
I have the opposite humididty problem - I have to deal with my inner limpness. Sheesh.
Posted by: Fannie | May 28, 2009 at 09:13 AM
I have the opposite problem with humidity - dealing with my inner limpness. Sheesh.
Posted by: Fannie | May 28, 2009 at 09:15 AM
I'm with Fannie. This weather, I can't even get a curl to hold. I have your attidude, oh well!
Posted by: The Eastsider | May 28, 2009 at 04:33 PM
I am much richer for having you in my life. As for hair, I'm grateful that at my age I have so much of it.
Posted by: UG | May 28, 2009 at 08:42 PM
Oh my gosh, is that a photo of me at the top of your blog? Hello summer! Right there with ya!
Posted by: kat | May 29, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Just came across your blog and I can totally relate. Not so much with fluffy hair - but with the fact that as I, too, am becoming less concerned about my appearance with age. Don't get me wrong - I still take care of myself, but it is liberating to realize that NO ONE FREAKIN CARES that you are 3 weeks late in getting your eyebrows waxed, or whatever!
Glad to know that you are sticking around (since I just found your site via momontherun)
:-)
Posted by: Stephanie | June 01, 2009 at 08:31 AM
I'm jealous of your fluff/frizz!!! I would kill for it!! Much better than flat and straight! You always want what you don't have...
Posted by: Helen Wright | June 01, 2009 at 03:46 PM