Hair Anonymous!

Okay, my name is Erinlynn and I have a problem with hair.

I think I have gone nuts...more so than ever. I cant stop looking at long hair (on women more than men) and being jealous. Not that I dont have my own long hair but its like I want everyone elses as well as my own. I want the classic lenght naturaly soft and wavy blond hair of the girl on the street. i want the sleek black knee lenght hair of the Native American woman i saw at the park. I want the brilliant natural red straight waist lenght hair of the girl i saw at the doctors (hers i would trade forif i could!). i want the thick rich brown mane of the girl at Disney. I want the luxurious warm brown tailbone lenght curls of the woman I saw dancing. I want the just below bra strap lenght straight honey blond hair of the woman at the musuem. AND i want my own reddish golden brown straight hair.

Its like im jealous of everyone, no matter the shade as long as the hair is long and nice and full.
It doesnt matter that I love my own hair, I still want everyone elses. Im at the point where if there is a long haired gal around i cant take my eyes off her. Ive got a hair addiction and its almost unhealthy =)

It doenst matter that I love my own hair. I wish i could take on the hair of others at whim...sigh.

Maybe i need a hair anonymous group to get me to stop being so silly!!!

Or maybe i need someone to walk around with my hair so that I get jealous of myself then realize that that is me and Ive got really nice long hair and i like the color and how it falls and flows and brushes against my back.

Then maybe I would just be happy =)

After all we dont get to see our own hair as well as others can. We dont veiw it from the back excpet in mirrors and thats not the same.

I never realize quite how long my hair is untill someone shows me a picture. Even then it still never feels as long as it is, no matter what the lenght i guess i think its shorter and less pretty.

I don't think that it's weird at all; nice hair (of any length) on another person always gets my attention for at least a split second. I agree about how we never notice just how pretty our own hair is. I look in the mirror and tend to zero in on where it's frizzing. It never occurs to me that overall, it's probably pretty nice. Of course, this problem is not unique to my hair. I'm sure that there's a difference between the way that I see my body in the mirror and the way that others see it. But that's an issue for another board.

Then I suppose your best option would be wigs.

Erinlynn, can I move to your neighborhood so you can introduce me to all of the women you've seen? It doesn't sound like a problem at all to me.

By the way, how long is your hair these days?

oh, and I was also about 20 pounds heavier in the snow pictures.

oh, lol, you know what, im in Florida...so perhaps i see more long hair because winter is really like a subdued spring and spring is almost summer. BTW I HATE SPRING!

blech.

Viktoria wrote: OK, this is totally besides the point: what does the abbreviation lol mean? I can figure most things out, but that one has eluded me.

LOL = Laughing out loud. Not to be confused with LMAO, which means laughing my a@@ off.

Grace, I agree with what you wrote; I think we are all our own worst critics. Whenever other people say nice things about my hair, I feel like saying (but don't), "what, are you crazy? It's got this problem and that problem and..."

And Erinlynn, I agree that we don't see our hair in motion, all we see is when we look in the mirror and it's static. The motion of our own hair (that other see) sort of "brings it to life."

I always admire the well-cared-for long hair of others. In part because I know what it takes to get such beautiful hair -- lots of patience and loving care.

I've been seeing more long hair lately too. I sense that you're in the central Florida area. So am I. The pollen this year was terrible but the weather we've had lately has been superb (how could you not love this spring?)

Anyway, I think you're fine, no worries, you just have a tremendous sense of admiration. Nothing wrong with that, IMO.

Ah yes, springtime pollens... I've lived in the northern U.S. most of my life so I suffered many a spring up north. Florida's usually much better, but this year was bad. Funny about your car... about a month ago I saw one similarly covered, I swear the stuff was at least a half-inch thick all over the top surfaces of the car. Well, anyway... happy car washing.