Friday Five #25: Getting Hairy

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Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short?

My hair is generally pretty straight and dark brown. Right now it’s skullcap short.
 

How has your hair changed over your lifetime?

I had it reasonably short until my wife and I separated in 1991, when I began growing it out. I had it about waist-length and usually bleached and dyed a single streak of blue. However, when I started getting coarse silver hairs, I decided the long hair had to go. In 2000, I bleached the whole thing and went blonde for about six months as the last step before I chopped it all off. The infamous hair transition photo can be seen here.
 

How do your normally wear your hair?

For the past two and a half years I’ve kept it at a centimeter or less, although I do an odd balancing act. Just before I shave my head, I grow a short goatee, because otherwise I look hideous; when my hair starts to fill in, I shave the goatee off, because I absolutely hate facial hair. It’s like following the Law of Conservation of Hair: Hair cannot be increased or decreased, only moved from area to area. The silver has now spread and is definitely getting toward that salt-and-pepper thing.
 

If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like?

I’d probably go back to the hair I had just before I began growing it out, what was called an “inverted wedge. Very 80s; very John Linnell.
 

Ever had a hair disaster? What happened?

Never really had any major hair disasters. Well, unless you count my blonde phase! Although my one and only trip to Judy Jetson’s was a complete farce. I posted about it here.