Today we're celebrating the release of Theresa Paolo's (NEVER) AGAIN, a contemporary young adult romance. Check out Theresa's blog and find (NEVER) AGAIN on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
In honor of (NEVER) AGAIN, I'm going to talk about what I've sworn never to do again, only to break the promise to myself. What is it? Straighten my hair.
I have hair that I like to call the Bellatrix Lestrange look: it's curly and crazy, just like hers, and if I dare to brush out the curls, I get a lion's mane of a mess. So I frequently attempt to tame it with a straightener. However, every single time I do it, I tell myself that it's the last time. Why?
Several reasons. For one, it's not good for my hair. I have problematic hair to begin with--thin, frizzy, fragile. Then there's the fact that my hair just does't look all that good when I straighten it. Sometimes it does--if someone else does it. But when I do it, I'm impatient, and usually, it just looks stringy, almost matted, and it loses its luster. But I keep doing it anyway. I get frustrated with the curls and, as though to punish my hair for misbehavior, I press it between two burning plates till it's so hot I can't touch it. Yeah, not good.
I've done it to punish my curls. I've also done it for boys who've said they prefer my hair straight. (The wo Now, looking back, I shouldn't have cared what they thought. I prefer my hair curly, and that's what matters. So, never again will I straighten my hair.
Yeah, right.
I have hair that I like to call the Bellatrix Lestrange look: it's curly and crazy, just like hers, and if I dare to brush out the curls, I get a lion's mane of a mess. So I frequently attempt to tame it with a straightener. However, every single time I do it, I tell myself that it's the last time. Why?
Several reasons. For one, it's not good for my hair. I have problematic hair to begin with--thin, frizzy, fragile. Then there's the fact that my hair just does't look all that good when I straighten it. Sometimes it does--if someone else does it. But when I do it, I'm impatient, and usually, it just looks stringy, almost matted, and it loses its luster. But I keep doing it anyway. I get frustrated with the curls and, as though to punish my hair for misbehavior, I press it between two burning plates till it's so hot I can't touch it. Yeah, not good.
I've done it to punish my curls. I've also done it for boys who've said they prefer my hair straight. (The wo Now, looking back, I shouldn't have cared what they thought. I prefer my hair curly, and that's what matters. So, never again will I straighten my hair.
Yeah, right.
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| Me and my curly hair! |
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