Monday apparently was 'insult Celia's hair day." My mother wants me to grow it out. Now, I am actually growing it out again--aiming for mid- to lower-back, probably, not as long as it was in college, but more than long enough for most things. But I don't think that 'Most people can't grow their hair that long" is an actual argument for me to grow my hair out. Nor is "You looked so much skinnier then" Yes. You're looking at photos of me from High school (where I didn't top 125 before graduation) and college (where I hit 140 before graduation), and not now, *cough* pounds later. If I weighed that much no, I'd look skinnier no matter what I did with my hair. The other thing is that because I currently have it layered a little (and plan to keep it so, as it's much prettier than the triangular hairstyle I get without layers--My class photo from junior year of HS has so much hair that the sides of the picture crop my hair off), I do need to get regular haircuts so the layers don't disappear or the snarls take over all my hair. And so I probably do need to start having *less* hair cut off, but I can't just stop going to the hairdresser or bad things will happen.

It wasn't just my mom--my brother had also gotten in on the discussion (possibly it was over wedding photos, since my sister-in-law was admiring my hair while the other two insulted it--guess who's getting the nicest Xmas presents?) by saying that my hair always looks the same. Yeah, well, so does his! And yes, it's been about the same length both times he's seen me in the past year, as it was Xmas right after a haircut and his wedding, also right after a haircut. This isn't surprising. his hair also looked exactly the same both times I saw him (radioactive peach fuzz). And when I'm at home, I usually just wear my hair in a ponytail. I'm not dressing up to sit around the house, so I'm sure as heck not trying to make my hair look fancy to sit around the house. The water there is also muy hard, so I don't even know if there is anything I can do to my hair there that will make a difference, and for whatever reason, my mom didn't offer to do anything fancy with my hair for Eli's wedding. (I didn't ask because I figured she was obsessed enough about everything being perfect that if she'd thought I'd look better with my hair a different way, she would have suggested it. Apparently I was wrong.)

Anyways, it's just one of those things because I do like my hair, even when it's a pain in the ass and fluffs all over the place. It's *my hair*. I like it. I have to wash it when it's straightened because it doesn't behave the way i expect it to. I was considering getting my hair relaxed, to see if that would make doing things with it easier, but as I'm growing it out, that's not likely. Also, because I'd be worried that it would make my hair *always* be not my hair, rather than just after a haircut.

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