Hair: A Phase we're going Through

Because I don't play videogames, and don't read manga, I think belonging to Deviant Art is my only insight into youth culture.  And what I'm seeing is: fussy, elaborate hairdos for girls.  The whole idea seems to be to divide the hair up into multiple strands, each strand done up a different way: some strands braided, others curled, some hanging forward, other tired into a sort of knot, one of these knots on top of the head, two knots on either side ...

Girls who have a lot of hair are lucky: the rest have to make do with hair extensions and other ways of showing more hair than they naturally have.

I can only hope that this is a passing phase.  In my opinion, hair has to be styled with taste.  If it is to be permed, it should be done with moderation.  Colored; beribboned, curled, twisted into a knot: all with moderation.  Sometimes a girl getting ready for her wedding is put in the hands of a beautician who is eager to show what she can do, so she (or maybe he, who knows) pulls out all the stops, and the friends of the bride look upon the finished product and shudder: what happened to our beautiful girl?  To my mind, the one requirement for a beautician is a sense of proportion.  (Of course, her restraint can be overridden by an overenthusiastic mother of the bride.  I'm sure some girls just don't get married, to avoid the anticipated excesses of their mothers.)

Because of the trends of the present day encourage hair-styling excesses, we're going to see crazy hair for a decade.  Often, a girl's hair is truly her crowning glory, so it is a tragedy to see it styled into a chaotic mess.

Kay