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Subject: Re: A Guy's Guide to a Girl's Hair
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Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 21:11:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 23 21:11:59 1986
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>Recently Mark Baker posted a summary of a Mademoiselle article of the
>subject title.  I am definitely a "hair man" as the article indelicately
>calls it.  My particular obsession is length, but shiny is right in
>there, too.  I'd like to hear from both guys and gals about their
>feelings associated with hair, its length, its styling, what it really
>says, etc.  I'm especially interested in discussions about VERY long
>hair, e.g. knee length.  I can't tell you why, it just fascinates me. 
>I noticed some postings a couple of months ago from "Lady Godiva" in
>Oregon--maybe we have a resident "long hair" on the net.
>
>
>Cheers--Jim Price, San Diego
>PRICE@NOSC.ARPA

I have always had what most people class as long hair.  (Since I have
had anything to say about it, the shortest it has been is just below my
sholders.  Which is what I tend to call short hair... its all a matter
of what you are use to ;^)  My hair is fairly traditionally chineese
by which I mean straight, black and virtually impossible to perm in this
country. ( I got a nice perm once in Hong Kong. ) I have always wanted
to have curly hair.  After I reached 20 I stopped trying for curly and
settled for long.  Long eventually meant waist length.  I finally cut
it when I started sitting on it and it became a royal pain.  So much for
my history.  Over the years as I agonized about to cut or not to cut, I
found that older woman (mother, aunts, grandmother, etc) all seem to want
me to cut my hair.  Woman my age had no comment or didn't want to express
one.  And lots (maybe even most) of the men liked long hair.  Maybe a 
more accurate description is that of those men who had any preference at
all about my hair prefered it long.  Several of them said the longer the
better.  The one thing I particularly like about long hair is when I get
board of it I can change it easily.  With short hair you have to let it
grow for 6 months or a year to alter it.  The big disadvantages to long
hair are: it takes forever to dry, is a pain to comb out when it gets
tangled, and while my SOs have enjoyed it while awake the concensus (of
all 3 of them) is that it gets in the way while trying to sleep together.
So why do I keep it?  I don't know.  I've often thought about cutting
it, and to regularly (to what I consider short - sholder length).  I guess
I'm just more comfortable with the way I look with long hair.

-Beth Eades