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A curly hair hair cut story by Leah McLaren.This hair cut story is about a straight haired woman who always wanted a curly hair hair cut. And there was one style in particular that she really, desperately wanted! I'm Tired of Being StraightBy LEAH McLARENSaturday, November 6, 2004 The Globe and Mail, Canada Now that the U.S. election is over, we can get back to thinking about other pressing matters - such as our hair. Take mine. I have dead-straight, superfine, dirty-blond hair. My mother calls it WASPy, I call it my-ancestors-exploited-the-Indians hair. Either way, there's not a whole lot of it, and curves, while familiar to my flesh, are foreign to my head. My mane's got as much body as Paris Hilton after six months in a Thai jail cell. There is only one hard and fast rule when it comes to women and hair: Whatever we have, we long for the opposite. Thick-hair girls spend their lives trying to thin themselves out, curly hair girls use flat irons, thin-hair girls get chunky extensions, brunettes get highlights, blondes get lowlights and redheads just get hysterical. I've spent my life longing for curls. When I was a kid, my mother used to bend my seventies bowl cut under with a curling iron, making me look like a little monk in overalls. Later, I had babysitters who would put my hair in French braids. The braiding pulled and hurt, but it was worth it for the wicked kinks it created when I let them down the next day. And then there was the perm craze, which unfortunately coincided with my awkward-adolescent phase. I wanted mine to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun -- a gentle cascade of waves parted on the side to fall fetchingly over one eye. The result was more like a self-conscious pubescent female version of Sideshow Bob. Throughout the nineties, I still longed for curls, but took comfort in the fact that my straight, lifeless locks were in style. Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow typified the moment with their long flat hair and long flat bodies. Every curly haired girl I knew used a straightening iron, and some were even taking a page from their grandmother's book and going to the salon for twice-a-week blowouts. I was one of the lucky ones. Then, some time in the past two or three years, the tide turned. Maybe it was Sarah Jessica Parker, maybe it was Christina Aguilera or maybe it was just the fact that after one thing has been in style for a long time, it must eventually be deposed in favour of something totally different. Whatever the reason, big hair was back. Not officially, of course. We had to read about it in fashion magazines before evidence of the New Curly Look made its way on to the street. But it eventually did. Outlandish girls in nightclubs paraded their afros and even conservative types discarded their irons in favour of mousse and morning hand-scrunches. My adolescent yearning for hair I could toss around like a windswept Charlie's Angel began to mount again. I had to have it. But no amount of scrunching and moussing was going to work on my flat head. I needed professional help. I found it in the form of Buster Berkeley, owner and proprietor of Amorphous Salon on Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto. A man who has worked in film and television and on countless magazine shoots, Buster is not only on top of the trends, he's creating them. And as a native of the Caribbean, he understands curly hair in all its forms. Buster agreed to come to my apartment and do my hair before a splashy party thrown by Flare magazine. Bryan Adams was to be honoured, and a series of his photographs featuring various Canadian women, including myself, was to be shown. I wanted to look different than I did in my picture, so I borrowed a stylist friend's dress and Buster put a gentle wave in my hair. The weird thing was, he used a flattening iron to do it. All I know is, people said it looked nice. "As nice as Kelly McGillis in Top Gun?" I asked. To which I received blank stares and vacant, "Sure, whatever," nods. The following week, I decided to up the ante. I wanted to go beyond the wave into the territory of true bigness. I wanted a head of swirling tendrils so chaotic and out of control my private turmoil would be expressed from my follicles, resulting in a kind of public hair catharsis. I told Buster this on the phone and he told me I would have to go into the salon. Ironically, when I got there, the salon was full of black girls getting their curly hair relaxed. Buster worked his magic with foam-covered rods and a hair dryer. By the time he was finished, I looked like a worldly Shirley Temple and felt like I was ready to find my Maverick. I arrived at my girlfriend's house and everybody freaked out, telling me over and over again how different I looked. "Like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun?"> I asked. "No," they said. "More like you, except with curly hair." Not precisely the reception I was hoping for, but it's a step up from Sideshow Bob. End of Leah Mclaren's curly hair hair cut story. See the Kelly McGillis Curly Hair Hair Cut below ... If you enjoyed this story of a straight-haired woman seeking a curly hair hair cut, have a look at this one about a curly-haired woman seeking anything BUT a curly hair hair cut. Do you know of another great curly hair hair cut story out there? Let us know about it. Here it is! The very same curly hair hair cut that inspired Leah's quest.
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