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A few people have called my hair frizzy to my face. So I imagine that others have called it frizzy when I’m not around. As any woman knows, frizzy is not a a compliment, because frizziness has meant not-smooth, not-polished. Definitely not glamorous. And, obviously, wrong. In other words, frizzy hair has been an embarrassment.
So, imagine my delighted surprise when I saw super-frizzy hair in the September Vogue and Bazaar (both of them American editions). The Prada ads feature sleekly dressed and styled models with long, ethereally fuzzy hair! Sort of angelic when the light shines through it. A big, soft froth of hair also adorns models in two more ads in the Vogue, and in a spread on coats that covers 10 editorial pages, a dark-haired woman with reddish-purple lips sports a captivatingly outrageous do–it looks like a hat sometimes–that sticks out like cotton candy wings on either side of her head. Wigs or whatever, I don’t care! Upon first seeing all of this amazing divergence from the doctrinal convention of straight-and-smooth (with maybe a little waviness), I wanted to make a T-shirt that displays one or two of the images and wear it around wherever I went.
All that frizzy means is tufts or tight curls. Interesting that on my computer the dictionary’s use of “frizzy” in a sentence is this: “her hair was frizzed up in a style that seemed matronly.” Which suggests that frizz and looking youthful or fashionable don’t go together.
A boyfriend of mine–in a recent and relatively short-lived relationship–thought that I wanted hair that’s glossy. Glossy was his word. He didn’t tell me that my hair was frizzy, but he did think that because it didn’t usually display the shine of smooth, contained styles, my hair was dry and unhealthy. My hairstylist would have told him otherwise! And . . . my hair sparkles in the sunlight.
lacking any body at all in my hair I have never understood why frizzy hair is a problem. It has always looked to me so beautiful — a definite improvement over straight and stringy
This is ironic to me, because I also tend to have the frizz quality and have long thought of your waves as the ideal texture. Also, interesting is that I doubt I would have come up with that as an ideal if you had not written/spoken about your own pleasure of your hair.