"What Price Beauty?

I know I've touched on this topic in other posts...how far we women go to look good.  The hair coloring, the clothes, the working out, the make up.  And I know I've joked on Facebook about how my Mom would cut my bangs, unbelievably short, the night before school pictures or how we all endured those smelly permanents, as kids.  All for the sake of "looking good"....

I had forgotten, until I was looking through some old photos, perhaps, the most ridiculous lengths we went to...and that was the use of hair rollers!  Whether they were the plastic ones or those mesh, bristly ones,  we counted on them to give us gorgeous curls or beautiful waves.  Sometimes they worked, sometimes...not so much.

I remember slathering on "Dippity-Do", a pink gelatinous product that was supposed to  increase the "hold"....and rolling my hair...almost nightly.  That's right!  We slept on those tortuous tubes, with "picks" poking into our scalps, didn't we? That may have been when my sleeping disorder got its start....and no wonder!  I remember, too, having rollers in my hair, during the daytime, and throwing on a scarf, before heading to the store.  Yeah, that scarf really made it all look better!

In looking at  old photos, I can honestly say that my hair never looked good enough to justify having endured the pain and inconvenience of hair rollers.

We all have it so easy now with nicer haircuts, better styling products, hair dryers, and curling irons these days....and never having to put up with those goofy looking curlers again.  I'm certain that today's young women wouldn't be caught dead outside in those things.  They have too much sense and class.   Oh, wait a minute...I just spotted a young lady, at the store,  in flannel sleep pants.    I stand corrected!