Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The new 'do
I have weird hair. It's kind of thin and straight. And it's gradually leaving my head. It's funny how I'm losing it, though. When I was younger, I had a widow's peak. In the span of about 2 years in my late 20's, the widow's peak just receded and thinned until I had sort of a straight hairline midway from my forehead to the crown of my head. Then it just stopped.
For about 10 years now my hairline has not moved one millimeter and I still have just a light tufting of turf where the widow's peak was. It looks horrible when it's long so I try to keep it short. After a while, I just got sick of spending $12 to have a professional spend 2 minutes to shear it off. I have clippers at home and figured I could do it just as easily myself. As it turns out, it's not that easy to do, particularly in the back. Still, it's something so simple a child could do it, so I had my daughter give it a try. She did a good job with it the first couple of times and I gave her a couple of bucks for the effort. After the novelty wore off, it got tougher to get her to drop whatever she was doing to cut her dad's hair.
I got an electric shaver for Christmas last year. It works great and makes short work of my daily face maintenance. One day, after trimming my sideburns, I had an epiphany. I took my shaver and ran it down the center of my head clear to the back. There was no going back now. I ran it all over my head until I couldn't hear any more cutting. I looked at myself in the 3-way mirror and saw that I missed nothing. Elapsed time: about 1 minute.
So now I'm sporting Mr. Clean.
For about 10 years now my hairline has not moved one millimeter and I still have just a light tufting of turf where the widow's peak was. It looks horrible when it's long so I try to keep it short. After a while, I just got sick of spending $12 to have a professional spend 2 minutes to shear it off. I have clippers at home and figured I could do it just as easily myself. As it turns out, it's not that easy to do, particularly in the back. Still, it's something so simple a child could do it, so I had my daughter give it a try. She did a good job with it the first couple of times and I gave her a couple of bucks for the effort. After the novelty wore off, it got tougher to get her to drop whatever she was doing to cut her dad's hair.
I got an electric shaver for Christmas last year. It works great and makes short work of my daily face maintenance. One day, after trimming my sideburns, I had an epiphany. I took my shaver and ran it down the center of my head clear to the back. There was no going back now. I ran it all over my head until I couldn't hear any more cutting. I looked at myself in the 3-way mirror and saw that I missed nothing. Elapsed time: about 1 minute.
So now I'm sporting Mr. Clean.
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