My Love-Hate Relationship with My Hair
I want to start this post saying that I am very thankful for having the hair I have; it's healthy, plentiful, and I even have a good hairline, which seems to be a rare thing nowadays.
I wanted to get that out of the way. I don't wanna go through some awful phase where I struggle with hair loss and I learn my lesson about how lucky I was to have the hair I had... like in children's stories, you know?
Now, the explanation:
I have the pretty average straight hair of a Western man; the issue I have with it is that it's so healthy and strong that I struggle with keeping it looking neat for formal occasions.
It grows really fast, at least for my standards. Back during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it was finally confirmed that most of us would end up spending at least a whole year inside our houses, I decided to shave my head, thinking it would be a great time to finally listen to the voices in my head begging me to just shave the huge ball of hair on top of my head.
Turns out it wasn't too much of an adventure, because 1 month after shaving, it was already starting to look decent, and by the end of the 3rd month it was already back to normal.
Normal is not even that short, at least for me; we're talking... anywhere from 8 to 12 centimeters, depending on the area.
I feel like that's pretty fast, maybe I'm just exaggerating, I really don't know a lot about hair.
So you can imagine how obnoxious it is to keep it short and with nice shape during the normal work calendar.
Another thing is that it's so healthy and strong, that it's crazy difficult to comb into a nice office-friendly shape, and then keep that shape during the whole day, especially if I have a meeting in a different part of the city and I have to walk. Winter wind? Summer sweat? They're gonna get my hair and give it a beating.
Once again, keep in mind that it's your average Western straight hair, I don't have curly hair or the Asian style of super thick hair.
A funny thing is that, even when it's so difficult to give it shape, hats still beat it. My hair is always gonna take that hat style and keep it until it gets wet. It's so bad that when it's a "hat day" during summer, I have to prepare mentally to know that I'm gonna keep that hat on ALL DAY.
That's pretty much it for today, a little rant about my hair that I love with all my heart, but wow it can be a pain to deal with!!