Survey For Hair Enthusiasts
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Printed Date: June 01 2025 at 3:42pm
Topic: Survey For Hair Enthusiasts
Posted By: Kuroneko
Subject: Survey For Hair Enthusiasts
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 4:27am
I'm the kind of person who likes to know how and why people are the way they are, and people in other threads don't seem to like it when I ask them -_-; , so I made this poll. This is just for my own curiosity, so none of this will be used for marketing or anything lame like that. Any and all replies will be appreciated.
1) What sort of enthusiast are you? (i.e. long, short, blonde, dark, straight, curly, just hair in general)
2) What is it about this hair that interests you?
3) When did this interest develop?
4) Were there any special circumstances that influenced you to this interest? (i.e. a friend/relative/girl- or boyfriend had hair you liked, or you were made to/forbidden from doing certain things with your hair as a child)
5) If there were special circumstances, do you think your preference might've turned out differently had that not happened?
6) Are you open about your preference?
7) Have you ever felt persecuted for having that preference?
8) Do you only find people attractive who have a certain type or style of hair?
9) If you were dating someone and he/she made a hair change you didn't like, would you ask him/her to change it?
Okay, I think that's all. If anything else comes to mind, I'll add it later. Hopefully no-one thinks I'm too big a freak for making this poll ^_^; . . . but people here already think I'm a freak, so I guess it's okay. . .
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Posted By: Kuroneko
Date Posted: February 17 2005 at 4:57am
Trying to set a good example by filling out my own strange Qs. . .
 Kuroneko wrote:
1) What sort of enthusiast are you? (i.e. long, short, blonde, dark, straight, curly, just hair in general)
Short, and everything about the process of getting there, even just looking through hair sites for inspiration, which is way fun :-) .
2) What is it about this hair that interests you?
Everything, really. . . how confident it makes a woman seem, how it frames the face, how it feels (both tactile and emotional), the fact it breaks traditional stereotypes of feminine beauty. . . those are just a few of the things that spring to mind.
3) When did this interest develop?
As a young child, pretty much from the time I first knew women could have short hair.
4) Were there any special circumstances that influenced you to this interest? (i.e. a friend/relative/girl- or boyfriend had hair you liked, or you were made to/forbidden from doing certain things with your hair as a child)
I had very conservative/super old-fashioned parents :-( . They taught me to identify gender by hair length, constantly berated anyone who didn't fit into that system, wouldn't let me cut my hair. . . pretty much screwed me up for life :-( . *hates them for that*
Probably also influenced by my first celebrity crush, Annie Lennox, and my first classmate crush, who was a tomboy all the way.
5) If there were special circumstances, do you think your preference might've turned out differently had that not happened?
I don't think I would've felt the resentment I do for gender roles and societal expectations, if my parents hadn't been so weird. I probably would've still been into short hair, though, as I've always been into a lot of typically "boyish" things.
6) Are you open about your preference?
Internet-wise, sometimes. . . mostly in hair-related forums, though I don't always admit quite how into it I am. IRL, I just try not to talk about it, as I worry about freaking people out.
7) Have you ever felt persecuted for having that preference?
Frequently :-( .
8) Do you only find people attractive who have a certain type or style of hair?
Well, my main standards for attractiveness are nice hair and eyes, so it depends on how nice and in what combination someone has those features. If someone is beautiful enough otherwise, I can overlook bad hair. But I'd very much rather have someone with hair I liked, and who understood (or, dare I dream, maybe even agreed with?) my preferences.
9) If you were dating someone and he/she made a hair change you didn't like, would you ask him/her to change it?
I doubt it. I'd probably just try to subtly hint and hope she got it ^_^; . And I'd probably be going shorter with my own hair around that time to compensate, because my own hair choices are the only ones I can control.
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