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gigi
Unregistered User
(12/27/05 10:39 pm)
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Hair!
Hey!
I just in a fit of i-dont-know- what cut off my rapunzel-esque hair into even something shorter than a pixie. If anyone has a short hair story, I would appreciate it as I am in mourning my lost locks.
I was impatient and Chop Chop There it is . Voila and OmG I look like a gymnast from the 1980s!
My mother said to me.... if you didn't have apretty face this would have ruined you.(I think she was more emotional than i was)
if you can tell from this descriptive narrative i would appreciate it if anyone can recommend SHORT hair stories for a despairing heroine.
gigi
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(12/27/05 10:47 pm)
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Re: Hair!
Hmm...never thought of this before...I'd look in the set of tales about young women who dress up as young men and become pages or knights or what have you--"The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"? Is that the name of the ballad? The story is told within Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer anyway.
You'll be fine. You'll get used to the look, and/or it'll grow back.
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/27/05 11:03 pm)
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Re: Hair!
I bobbed my waist length hair halfway through college and haven't looked back. While it fluctuates between chin and shoulder length, I don't miss having it down to my waist at all. My husband occasionally waxes poetic about it--we weren't even dating at the time, just friends--but he likes the bob.
It's not folklore, but try:
BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then there's also Jo's hair chopping in Alcott's Little Women, of course.
Hair cutting (or in times past, putting up the hair) often comes with coming of age or entering adulthood for women. Rapunzel certainly grows up around the time her hair is cut!
For now, enjoy feeling the breeze on your neck without the weight of a mound of hair hanging from a pony tail or bun or whatever. And you'll find you need a lot less shampoo!
Heidi
Edited by: Heidi Anne Heiner at: 12/27/05 11:07 pm
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(12/27/05 11:59 pm)
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keep it?
You might have it made into a crown of braids or something, like Princess Leia's in STAR WARS, to wear on special occasions after your own hair grows out long enough to blend with it. Anyway that would remind you how heavy it was. :)
The girl in "The Gift of the Magi" sold her long hair, and Sherlock Holmes' wife in THE GAME cut hers to disguise herself as a man to rescue her husband, iirc.
There ought to be some hair-cutting in stories like "Many-Fur" where a princess runs away in disguise, or in stories where someone is abused like Cinderella, but I can't think of any.....
(I'll never cut mine again, I love it long.)
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cammykitty
Registered User
(12/29/05 9:28 am)
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Re: a ballad for you
If you like Celtic music Anne Briggs (they have her CDs on Amazon) did a version of "Martinmas Time" where a sexy young maid promises a bunch of soldiers to show up at their quarters.
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gigi
Unregistered User
(12/29/05 2:54 pm)
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hair!
Thank you so much for the stories. I am heading to the library today...
Anyway... The reactions to my coiffure change.
My mother and my Aunt Mary were shocked and stunned. My father was quite supportive. He said I looked beautiful like always. ( I love my daddy. he didn't say anything at first... not until I asked what he thought of it.):D
My Auntie Carol (my neighbor whom I have adopted because she always makes me food) helped me fix the oddly chopped haircut into a style. I can say it now looks like a French pixie haircut from the 1940's .... she says it looks mod.
Yet the thing is that having hair is oddly liberating. I look so much older. Not older per se but mature.
My brother said he likes it. Which is a great compliment from the guy as he hardly ever shows affection. He said it is a good change and it was time.
And I suppose that is what it was. When I first posted I was still distraught... Although I hardly ever was. I was just tired of having long hair. I couldn't do much with. It was just too long. It was at the point of not having enough room on my head to pin it up.
Yet not feeling long silken strands on my shoulders was oddly terrifying and thrilling. Yet being able to wash and wear is beautiful
I plan on giving the tresses to locks of love which is an organization that makes wigs for cancer children.
I am sure they will love it. 12 inches on one side and 11 on the other. .... i am so dumb when I cut i did it in pigtails....(LOL) no wonder why it was so uneven!
I suppose I am grown up now. I cut my hair and I feel free with out having to style it everyday and people think I am older and i just love it.... Although I plan on growing it back out.
I think I next want the style Eva Longoria has now. She's the actress from Desperate Housewives. that will not take too long. My hair grows like a weed.
Gigi
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Chris Peltier
Registered User
(12/29/05 4:43 pm)
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Re: hair!
I cut my hair this summer and donated it to Locks For Love.
With my shorn head I felt daring like E. Nesbit (Enchanted Castle, Five Children and It, etc.), who, at the turn of the last century, smoked cigarettes, cut her hair short, and wore trousers!
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Nin Harris
Registered User
(1/2/06 8:16 am)
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Re: hair!
Hmm, the only hair story I can remember right now, apart from Rapunzel - is Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, when Jo sold her hair to help the family. As for me, I've never been able to keep my hair long and coincidentally enough, just had a haircut today. I look better with short hair, and one benefit of an elfin haircut is that combing your hair becomes optional ;)
ps: I'm not new (used to be Niniane Sunyata).
edit: Oooh, I have just remembered another Jo with short hair - in the Chalet School books.
Edited by: Nin Harris at: 1/2/06 8:22 am
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Helen J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(1/2/06 1:15 pm)
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Re: hair!
This isn't at all fairy tale, but the coincidence of your user-name and that of the character's is too great to pass up ... Judith Krantz, author of many a modern romance, has a character called Gigi who bobs her hair and undergoes the Best Makeover Ever in (I think) Scruples II. Happy reading!
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Nin Harris
Registered User
(1/3/06 1:59 am)
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Re: hair!
Just remembered a couple more. They are not particularly cheerful though.
1) The sisters of the Little Mermaid cutting off their hair in order to get the witch to help her.
2) I keep forgetting the title of this story (and I know I've talked about it before on this forum)! It's Irish/Celtic and a mother strings a harp with her own golden hair in order to win back her child from the faeries.
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darklingthrush
Registered User
(1/5/06 1:58 pm)
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Re: hair!
Besides the quite obvious Rapunzel, I'm drawing a blank on tress tales. I can; however, tell you that my grandmother loved to tell me how she had long, long dark hair but hated it. When she was a young girl it was the 1920's after all. Her father was a Methodist circuit preacher and refused to let any of his girls cut their hair. So my grandmother, being the same woman who used to sneak a pack of cigarettes in her lingerie drawer, snuck out and had it bobbed.
She was sorely punished for her rebellious behavior, promised to never cut it again. She would finish the story admitting (gleefully) that it has never been long since.
So love your hair and think about all those young girls slipping out of bedroom windows to get hair like yours. And my favorite part of getting my hair cut (even when I hate the cut), is trying then to figure out while it's growing what interesting ways I can fix it. Thus the drawer full of sparkly hair pins and hair wax.
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FiowynTheMagnificent
Registered User
(1/9/06 8:20 am)
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Re: hair!
Charles de Lint starts off his "Jack the Giant-Killer", which is also aka "Jack of Kinrowan" with the main character cutting off her waist-length hair in a fit of depression. I love that book. They have it on Amazon, and usually at the library too. . . you must read it. It's a short novel, and one of the best I've ever read. And yes, she does angst about her hair enough to make you feel better. :)
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AlisonPegg
Registered User
(1/9/06 12:15 pm)
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Re: Hair!
I remember a story I read a very long time ago, so I don't know its origins. It's about a king who can't decide which of his daughters should become queen after him, and so he decides to opt for the one with the longest hair ! The princesses then become absorbed with constantly washing and combing and measuring their hair. However their mother cuts off her youngest daughter's hair, so that it is as short as a boy's. She realised that by cutting her hair she would free her from the burden of responsibility. I thought this was a dreadful story when I first read it ! I couldn't understand the mother's reasoning at all.
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