I was looking back at my blog archives for a certain link, and I was reminded that I had once declared July 15th to be Big Hair Day. Since we're only a day away and we're in the midst of some impressive humidity (prime conditions for big hair), I thought I would celebrate once again:
July 15th: Big Hair Day
Since I grew up in Texas in the 80's, I am partial to big hair. I'm not talking about Marge Simpson hair, or Dolly Parton Hair, but I have a place in my heart for the type of hair that a lot of Texas women have that's just a bigger version of everyone else's hair. I was in Dallas over the weekend and I was reminded of the difference between Texas women and the rest of the country: it's all in the hair. The combination of 95% humidity and lots of hairspray can do amazing things to a woman.
Since I've moved back from the big-hair stifling land of the northwest, where they brainwashed me into thinking that a woman doesn't have to fix her hair or wear lipstick or carry a purse, I've re-embraced my Texas roots. While I don't consider my current hair "big" (of course, I have my big-hair days), and I hardly ever use hairspray, I certainly have more of a Texas hairstyle than an Idaho hairstyle, and man, is it refreshing.
*Someone* wrote on my calendar that July 15th is "Big Hair Day". Southern girls, don't be embarrassed when the humidity makes your hair defy gravity. Embrace it! Enjoy it! If only for one day, pretend you're a Texan. It's more fun than you might think.**
**If you find yourself tempted to bleach your hair, you've taken the Texan thing too far.
Great topic. However, I long for the day that I can call my hair anything other then flat and straight! A big hair day for me would be one in a million.
Posted by: Lacey at July 15, 2006 04:20 PMI would gladly give you one of my big hair days. Preferably all of 1995, in fact.
Posted by: emily at July 16, 2006 05:47 PMReading this reminds me of my Jr High mullet days. I am quite sure that I have tracked down all those pictures and disposed of them.
Posted by: Mike Aman at July 16, 2006 09:21 PMThough I've certainly had more than one bad perm in my day, at least I can say I've never had a mullet! And I'm sure even in my bad perm days, my hair could have never competed with yours, Emily, at least in "bigness". Lacey, I've often wished I had nice perfectly straight hair like yours, but I guess I'll try to be happy with what I've got, even though when I let it go, I sometimes look like Rosanne Rosanna-Danna on a bad hair day!
Posted by: Christin at July 18, 2006 08:43 AMChristin, I am somehow comforted that you didn't have a mullet. And yes, a little embarassed that I did.
Posted by: Mike Aman at July 18, 2006 10:56 PMNo Fe-mullet for Aunt Christin? I'm shocked!
Posted by: UJ at July 20, 2006 08:30 AM