LaughAtlantis

So, in the course of the last six months or so, my hair has decided that it wants to be curly. I've always had pretty much bone-straight hair, but about two years ago, a small section of my bangs decided it might be fun to just turn right, just curl off to the side for amusement's sake. Why not, you know?

This year, it's as if the rest of my hair looked at that one little hair and said, "Hmm. That's a fashion statement we had not previously considered!" and it all curled like mad.

I have been fighting this for some time now. I've blown my hair dry daily in a sad attempt to keep it straight, but the humidity hits it and my hair just mocks me. It frizzes the moment I open the door in the morning.

So this past Sunday, I just decided, screw it. I'm not going to try to tame my head anymore; I don't have the energy and it winds up looking like crap anyway. So I let it curl. And surprisingly, I like it. Other people like it. I've gotten compliments on it, which I rarely get on my hair (because it tends to look like crap, so no surprise there, really). And I found out that around the time that you're thirty, it's really common for the texture of your hair to change. So it's kinda cool to think that this is the way my hair's going to be from here on in, with any luck. Woohoo, curly girl.

But today, I had someone ask me, in an astonished and condescending voice, "Did you get a perm?" No. No, I didn't. But why the condescension? Why be rude about it? If I got a perm, I'd just admit to getting a perm, but seriously, why attack a person just because of a choice in hair care? And aren't we supposed to be adults? I mean, isn't it sort of a junior high thing to criticize something like that? And did I miss a memo or something here - for god's sake, what's the shame in having a perm???