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strange how much of beauty is attested to long lustrous shiny hair. From the long black as coal Snow White tresses to Denise Richard’s ‘It’s complicated’ flowing curls across sultry pouty lips and cascading down to the bosom. women with long beautiful hair are always hailed more beautiful than the pixie/shaggy/lego hair cuts. And when they move, the hair dances. Tommy denounced mine as Jiang Qing inspired. (what taste can you assign a man who gets his cuts at those $10 for 10 mins exposed public places? Tsk tsk!!!)

(Jiang Qing, Mao’s second wife, one of the ruthless member of the party of four, propagator of the cultural revolution, allegedly and not very fashionable in the short hair with short fringe and communist grey garb put together. Damn. )

For the longest time i dig long hair, curls or no curls. Straight like the elf princess Liv Tyler in the Lord of the Ring. Ethereal, with a halo effect. Beauty. Or curls like those babes on sticks in  lingeries carrying lollipops and wearing big fairy wings strutting down Victoria Secrets cat walk show that always airs and reruns on TV. I salivate.

My hair, short.

It’s not that I have never had long hair but given my non existent tai tai life of mere high tea at shang or facials/spas/shopping trips in Milan existence, my long hair of yesteryears were scrunched up in ponytails, when let down with the unattractive rubber band mark. Then I tried hair bands and that gave me migrains. In desperation, i chopped them off in the second year of uni.

Time and time again i tried to regrow my hair to an attractive length but they defy all logic and laws of gravity by curling outwards on one side, inwards on another. I tried hair products, straighteners, straighteners before washing, no conditioners and finally gave up. I felt the dark clouds over my eyes dissipating as Maggie my new best friend hairdresser chops away the extra weight pressing on my scalp and dangling off, dancing wildly in the slightest breeze. I was elated, thou a little disappointed that I am further and further away from some deep seeded female fantasy that runs along the line of media brain-washing. If you have more attributes and factors resembling who you want to look like, you may actually be.

Deluded, but honest.