Vanity of Age: The Small Indignities: Hair

 

"Salad Oil Style" by Jan Toorop, 1894. Source: Public Domain Review. 

Hair: Supply shortage

Although some of us womenfolk are blessed with luxuriously thick hair on unto death, others of us struggle with thinning hair that looks like a clearing in a forest of skinny aspens. 

What to do? 

1. Always wear a hat, cap, or beret? 
2. Pretend that because we can't see the scarcity at the back of our heads, then no one else can, either? 
3. Resign ourselves to a daily dose of a Rogaine or Rogaine-like ointment? 
4. Wash our hair less? 
5. Cut our hair super short like a fresh-shorn lamb - so it looks kind of jauntily OK? 
6. Let our hair grow long enough we can put it in a high ponytail? 
7. Wear a wig? A hairpiece?

At the moment, my hair is just long enough for option #6. I'm leaning hard toward a shearing. A pixie. Or go all Sinead O'Connor? 

Woman with cloth cap. Source: British Library public domain images.

Woman with wig. Source: British Library public domain images

Hair: Illegal border crossings

To paraphrase something Samantha once said about an unwanted hair: "You pluck it out and five more come to its funeral." 

I'm referring to facial hair, whereas Samantha referred to a different corporeal neighborhood.