陈卓思灵: a haircut

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

a haircut

heard from someone or somewhere that when something good or bad, usually bad, happens, a girl will go cut and change the style of her hair.
i enjoy cutting hair so much, i dont think it's accurate for me, but well...u people can observe those girls around you..yup.

cutting hair makes me feel good, that is if the hair cut is good. if it's bad, i swear that i will make a din in the salon. and even cry.really. but if it's good, WOW. the whole feel is different. just feel fresh and happy. it's call hair therapy. and i tell u. it's even better than retail therapy. trust me. *laughs

anway,
found this article online...

According to sociologist Rose Weitz, author of the recent book "Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24). When it comes to hair, she says, "we decide what image we want to present to the world. And the world responds in kind, deciding how to treat us based in part on what our hair looks like." We asked Weitz to straighten out our current hair psychology:

Our No. 1 critic. Ourselves -- 68% of women have cut their own hair because of "a bad hair day," a recent survey found. Women aren't the only ones obsessed with their follicles. Men's home hair color is the fastest-growing segment of the hair color market, and hair restoration is a $900 million-a-year biz.

The metrosexual backlash. "Overdone" hair is over, Weitz says. That may explain why more men are shaving their heads. "It's become a macho statement. It suggests you don't care."
i think that quite brave for those guys to shave heads, but pls do so only if you have a nice head shape. and especially if there's isnt much left to begin with. *oOps.

then there's this other article:
(picked some parts out from there)

Yale study ponders psychology of bad hair days
By Diane Scarponi, Associated Press, 01/25/00

Bad hair days affect not just what's on your head, but what's in it.

A Yale University study of the psychology of bad hair days found that people's self-esteem goes awry when their hair is out of place.

The results themselves are not surprising: Bad hair days make people feel, well, bad.

But it's the way those days mess with people's lives - making them feel less smart, less capable, more embarrassed and less sociable - that surprised researchers.

"If bad hair has negative effects over and above thinking about other things, then we've got something that's real - something that's important,'' said Marianne LaFrance, the Yale professor who did the study as part of her research into body language and gender differences.

Contrary to popular notions, men's self-esteem may take a greater licking than women's when their hair just won't behave. Men were especially more likely to feel less smart and less capable when their hair stuck out, was badly cut or otherwise mussed, the study found.

"The cultural truism is (that) men are not affected by their appearance,'' LaFrance said. "This is not just the domain of women.''

Janet Hyde, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who conducts studies of body image and self-esteem, said personal appearance can have an enormous impact on people, especially adolescents.

But Hyde, who had not seen LaFrance's study, said she was surprised to hear that bad hair had a stronger effect on men than on women in some cases.

"Traditionally we think of women being more concerned with appearance than men. Although men certainly have some concerns, women are more socialized to think these things are important,'' Hyde said.

For the study, researchers in December questioned 60 men and 60 women ages 17 to 30, most of them Yale students. About half the students were white, 9 percent were black, 21 percent were Asian, 3 percent were Hispanic and the rest were other races or did not answer.

The people were divided into three groups. One group was questioned about times in their lives when they have had bad hair and what bad hair means to them.

The second group went through the same questions, but were instead told to think about bad packaging, as a way to get them in a negative mindset.

The third group was not asked to think about anything negative.

All three groups then were asked to respond to basic psychological tests on self-esteem and self-judgment.

The people who pondered their bad hair days showed lower self-esteem than the people who thought about something else.

ok.shall not talk about women's hair loss. *laughs. just pretend that only the guys have it all. *oOps

well well.who doesnt hate bad hair days?and who doesnt have bad hair days? i hate it when i wake up and see horrible hair.luckily, there's the invention called the hair dryer.

dictated by the Queen at 12:03 PM