chap 09Do you even know what your hair is anymore?

After decades of blow-drying and pulling and stretching and coloring and perming  . . . how could anyone know?

Years ago I had a long talk with my hair.  I made a very strong case, but it simply refused to listen. The battle lines were drawn.  My hair wanted to be curly, and me?  Nope.  It was 1969 — a year full of rebellions — and I had to look like a Mamma from the Mammas and the Pappas– straight hair, parted down the middle.

Hello, orange juice cans and Dippity Do.

Until the 1970s when I discovered the Farrah Fawcett look and the blow-dryer, all in the same year.

Hello, damaged hair.

Then came the 80s .  .  . well, let’s just forget about the 80s.

In the 90s, my hair was not only blow-dried, but ironed straight and sleek, too, by the latest hot stylist.  Rain?  I stayed in.  Humidity?  Baseball cap.

Well, I won the war, but lost the battle. As I entered my 50s, I no longer had hair.

I had road kill.

After alot of digging, I finally found the solution – letting my hair be what it was meant to be.  No more blow-drying (unless I’m in a terrible rush and it’s 32 degrees or colder), MUCH more conditioner, and a lot LESS shampoo.

Result?

Well . . . take a look at this short video. And you tell me.

And remember this: We can’t control getting older . . . but . . . we can control how we do it!

For more tips on living your best life after 50 (or 60, or 70…) check out The Best of Everything After 50: The Experts’ Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More and www.bestofeverythingafter50.com. Keep me posted on how you’re doing by subscribing to me on Facebook and “tweeting” me on Twitter at @BGrufferman. Check out my video series-The Best of Everything-on the AARP YouTube Channel.

 

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Hair. The bane of my existence. Ask anyone who’s ever known me. I have the 3 plagues …fine, thinnish, dishwater hair and live in hot, HUMID HoustonTX.
I have searched for the perfect combo of cut/color/stylist/ products for as long as I can remember. I now go weeks…months,even.. betw cuts and color. It’s much less stressful. My dad used to tell me (knowing my obsessive hatred of my hair,) that the less I did to it, the better I looked. I have begun to see his point…and I don’t have the emotional energy for all that hair-related agony. (I wasn’t called “the salon slut,” for nothing!!!) but my au naturel hair, alas, does not look like yours..;>

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