Straight Talking!

Straight hair is "in" at the moment. It's not so many years ago that the curly look was the one eschewed by the female population. Girls got away with straight hair if it was really straight, and hung like a fine curtain down their backs. As a child I remember going to bed with strips of cloth tied round the foot of my pigtails to make the ends curl. And then in adolescence and beyond, we girls had the horrors of trying to get a night's sleep with heads festooned with hard plastic rollers. Before my time there were hair crimpers and then later than the hard overnight plastic were the heated rollers. One of course could always go for the "Which Twin has the Toni" look and perm our hair and try to achieve a lovely head of curls. If it were a home assembly job, then in most cases it just served to give us the bad hair day look with tight curls clamped close to our skulls. It got slightly better as the curls grew out but then you had frizzy split ends. The older female generation compounded the issue with the blue rinse! Nowadays however, very few girls with naturally curly hair allow it to stay that way. They spend hours with heated hair straighteners achieving the look illustrated by these wigs in a local hairdresser's - not a curl in sight between them! Alas, I have always wanted natural curls but have been bequeathed the straight variety ( but not the straight as a dye hair) and only achieve a wayward bend if I've slept on it the wrong way. I suppose the positive side is I still have hair, maybe not as thick and luxurious as once, but it's still there. I should be grateful for small mercies!