Hair

I don't know anyone that is truly happy with their hair. I know people that have come to accept their hair. Or change what they can about their hair. Have you given much thought to your hair other than the color and style?

I have very fine hair. Baby fine. I used to think it was thin but a hair stylist corrected me and said I had a lot of it, but it was so fine it didn't look like it. From High School through 1999 I had it permed, hoping to get more body. But it mostly frizzed and I felt the obligation of spending quite a bit of time each day using heat rollers or a curling iron to help it, just to have it friz out again at the first sign of humidity. I got it cut short just before I moved to Germany and after a short period of not knowing what to do with it, I came to love it! It is so easy now. All I do is dry it with a round brush. I don't like it that it is becoming so dark as I age, that I have no other choice than to lighten it (or look so "old"). I like highlights or sun-in best. On occasion I have tried the rinses that come out after a few washes. I even dreamed of dying it, but I am too much of a chicken for that. In college I once used henna (right around this time of the year) and it turned ORANGE. I remember joking with people about my contribution to the fall colors! I have several cowlicks in the front of my hair (bangs) and one actually helps the hair style. Since having Niki the front of my hair is actually getting curly! I wish the rest of the head would follow, but no such luck. I have cute little curls framing my face and straight hair on the rest of the head.

Günter has not-the-greatest hair. I call it broomstick hair. It has this place on the right crown that will stick out no matter what is put on it or done to it. I have had to cut all kinds of bargains (or even threats) to let me cut the stray strands away so it doesn't look ridiculous. He now has a growing bald spot on the top of his crown. Every day more hairs are found on the pillow case or in the shower drain. Poor guy. We both hoped any child we had wouldn't get either of our hair.

Niklas's hair was very slow to grow in, so we were curious what it would end up being like. At birth he had curly hair. Then very fine hair SLOWLY came in. In a lot of pictures he looked bald. We kept waiting for the verdict.

Finally his hair is growing enough to tell some things:

He seems to have auburn hair. I can only guess there was a red gene from my side of the family since my father had red in his mustache (before it turned grey). He also has some curl to it, but most noticably is the strange hair pattern.

Here is a picture of my paternal grandfather (from Sweden). I think he may look like him. What do you think?

Posted by Krista at October 22, 2006 08:44 PM