That Hairstyle

I have a love-hate relationship with my hair. It used to be more acrimonious and I've grown to love my hair more as I've learned to respect my cranky hair.

It's fragile and gets fried easily, so I gave up on drying it or styling it with heated appliances decades ago. I can't remember the last time I did more than towel dry my hair, and it's mostly been quite short in the last fifteen years or so.

But it was still shoulder length in my twenties when I lived in Kansas and Kansas is the coldest place I've lived. We used to get ice on the inside of the south-facing sliding glass door in the master bedroom and it was in Kansas, not Germany, where my cold tolerant husband got frost nip and thereafter wore gloves in winter and house shoes at home because his hands and feet had trouble staying warm.[1]

Anyway, long wet hair and very cold weather don't mix well and it takes time for long hair to air dry, especially in cold weather. I was a homemaker, so I generally was able to stay home until late afternoon but if I had had a career, this would have been a problem.

I began wearing my hair up in a ponytail with multiple elastic bands to keep it neat while wet. This allowed me in winter to put on a hood and headband and leave the house during the day if necessary before it was dry.

When I removed the elastic bands late in the day, I had controlled waves without product of any kind, similar in principle to when my mother had me sleep in foam curlers as a child. My mother loved my curly blonde hair but felt my hair was too wild and was always trying to control it and I'm allergic to everything.

So I would like to have at least one model with long hair and photograph her in this hairstyle in office wear and then with her hair down in natural waves for the coordinating evening and weekend wear bits.

I don't really want to focus on faces. I want to focus on the clothes. But I also want to capture some opinions of mine about best practices or whatever you want to call it and this is one of them.

I think hair should be short or put up for the office and I found it very freeing when I had a corporate job to have a low maintenance haircut but ascribing to that ethos doesn't require one to be butch.

Footnote

[1]That's a polite way of saying he nearly died doing his job and saving the lives of his crew when their vehicle broke down and he walked to get help.