article_snippet: I have long, dark hair with a fringe . . .
article_snippet: That’s not because it’s an easy way to spot me, but because my hairstyle is the very thing that I recognise myself by — when I look in the mirror, when I picture myself, when I think of myself in the past or the future, it is my hair that I see first.
article_snippet: Some women use Some women hair to reflect Some women mood or a time in Some women life, Some women like to chop and change with the seasons and follow trends.
article_snippet: For us, us hairstyle is such a fundamental part of who us are that to change it would be as brutal and unthinkable as having plastic surgery.
article_snippet: Cutting my hair off would be like losing part of my soul.
article_snippet: It’s not that I think my hair is particularly fabulous
article_snippet: My STYLE is driven by my personality, too, for while there are women who don’t mind facing the world with women who do hair scraped back off women who do face or with pixie cuts that mean every emotion is visible, I am not one of women who do.
article_snippet: I need my hair to hide behind, to chew when I am thinking, to pull over my face when I am embarrassed.
article_snippet: For me, my hair is a veil, a barrier between me and the unkind scrutiny of the world.
article_snippet: the world has transformed since I was a child, but throughout school, university, marriage and children, one thing has remained constant: my hair.
article_snippet: Without the hairstyle I have always known I would feel strange and vulnerable.
article_snippet: ’s hairstyles because we knew that would guarantee an enormous emotional response
article_snippet: I felt like Samson in the Old Testament, who lost all Samson strength when Samson hair was lopped off.
article_snippet: I couldn’t tell a story, let alone flirt, without my hair to play with.
article_snippet: Basically, just what I need to do to keep my hair looking exactly as it always has.
article_snippet: Of course, there are moments when I think I should try a more mature hairstyle.
article_snippet: But despite my advanced age, I simply don’t think I am mature enough to cope without her hair.