The truth about pixie crops
Friday, May 31, 2013
Fin and I recently watched House of Cards in an attempt to fill the West-Wing-shaped void in our lives. I spent a great deal of time admiring Claire Underwood's hair.
We also recently watched The Queen: A Passion for Horses. I don't know why, I don't even like horses, but we'd finished House of Cards and there was nothing else on. I spent a great deal of time admiring Clare Balding's professionalism, warmth and ability to make even the dullest subject seem fascinating (an HOUR-LONG documentary about the special royal-equine bond? Really, BBC?). I spent precisely no time admiring Clare's hair. Sorry, Clare.
What nobody warns you about pixie crops is that you can leave your house thinking you're at the Underwood end of the Claire Hair Spectrum, but one brisk walk to work later and you find yourself dangerously close to Balding territory. It's a fine, fine line my friends.
And that is the last time I will fret about my hair.
This month, anyway.
Images: Underwood / Balding
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One of the many reasons I have long hair! That and a formative experience, aged eight, when my mum (angling for reduced brushing time) and the hairdresser (angling for more practice) persuaded me to cut off my long hair in favour of an eighties short-back-and-sides, and everyone thought I was a boy. For a year. Including one woman who, when I was looking with unconcealed love at some patent dolly bar shoes (a poor relation of Clarks Magic Steps, I think), came over and barked at me in stern disapproval "The boys's shoes are over there!".
ReplyDeleteBah, gender biased ignorami. Still, the scar still twinges on a wet day.
Yikes. That sounds like child cruelty to me.
DeleteAlso, MAGIC STEPS! I don't know a girl my age who didn't lust after those. Do you remember the advert with the forest?
With the key in the bottom?? I loved them.
DeleteYES!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad it's not just me. I have started taking the lift at work, even though it's only 3 flights and the people on the top floor judge me, mostly as it gives me 30 seconds to frantically sort out my fringe using the mini tub of hair gunk and comb that now lives in my work bag.
This is also a problem for the bob haircut. I recently got a bob cut and when I can be bothered with it, it's quite nice, but most of the time I look like Mark Owen: http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Owen/+images/426534
ReplyDeleteHair! It's a minefield.
Ha! Brilliant. Exactly what I was thinking. I got a bob haircut last month and if it isn't one thing its another. Wind, frizz, humidity, uber straight, messy undercurl...I just want the thing to look poised like Anna Wintour. Nope. Not enough products and tamed weather in the world for that!
DeleteThis is the same reason I got rid of my blunt fringe. I looked less like Zooey and more like a Backstreet Boy. Also, Magic Steps were incredible. Although I remember being really disappointed that the key didn't actually open a porthole to a magical realm.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely understand. With my short curly hair, I work constantly to get it into a cute 20s bob, but more often than not I find 80s mom hair staring back at me in the mirror...
ReplyDeleteME TOO. Except it's also my mum's current hair....
DeleteThis made me laugh out loud. I've never had a pixie cut, so I'v never had to deal with the frustrations that come along with it. It was funny to hear about them!
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As odious as it might be to link my own blog, I'm gonna because everything I want to say in sympathy with this post I have already written: http://writingfrankie.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/hairdresser-on-fire
ReplyDeleteI still haven't gone back to HoC, as I really didn't dig the first episode (it wasn't helped by Spacey's ridiculous accent). I probably will after I've finished the paper I'm working on right now.
I think this is a minefield with any cut. But I really hate my long hair now so might just risk the weird bob gone wrong thing that happened a few times a month as at least it was more interesting than the hair in some kind of bun/ponytail thing I do pretty much every day for work now
ReplyDeleteO let me tell you, the hilarious things my pixie cut has done! If I wash my hair at night, I can expect my bangs to flip directly up in a cartoonish swoop, and possibly a mini-mowhawk that I cannot brush away.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, my library director was like O, I thought you made it that way on purpose to look cool! I can hope she meant it!
Man oh man do i feel ya! One stroll through the wind and i end up with approximately 5 different alfalfas! Its mental.
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Jia Jia recently got a pretty severe pixie crop. I think she'd agree with you.
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