What is it that drives perfectly attractive, perfectly sensible young women with naturally wavy hair to completely flatten it in the mistaken belief that this is a) more attractive and b) more fashionable?
Speaking as a young woman, my hair is very curly, and I don't straighten it because it makes it look very dull and thin, but for other women with thick hair that gets huge, or straightish hair that just has a kink in it and doesn't lie well, then straightening can give a neat style that keeps in order all day and doesn't look a mess. If the choice is straighten or else be unable to maintain a style that is neither elbow length now ear length, then straightening makes sense. I'd say that there is a difference between this kind of grooming and thoughtlessly adhering to a particular style whether it suits one or not, which happens both with straighteners and with perms.
The straight hair fashion is doing me favours though :) I agree, though, looks dodgy on most people. Add a bit of bleach and it's even dodgier. However, they like it like that so who I am to judge, my "hairdo" is nowt to write home about either.
I don't see the appeal of the bone-straight long stringy look so fashionable these days. But speaking as someone whose hair is wavy in the worst possible way - mostly flat but sticking out randomly and unflatteringly at the bottom inch or two, rather like an electrocuted cat dragged through a hedge - I can totally see the appeal of straighter hair. But getting sizzling hot irons that close to my ears.... no.
Ahh, but is the 'bone-straight long stringy look' that fashionable anyway? Admittedly my magazines of choice are PC Gamer and Edge rather than Vogue or Cosmo, but when I do see fashion spreads, it seems to me that at the moment, all the models have long wavy or curly hair. The long, stringy look belongs to wannabe WAGs and Big Brother contestants.
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What is it that drives perfectly attractive, perfectly sensible young women with naturally wavy hair to completely flatten it in the mistaken belief that this is a) more attractive and b) more fashionable?
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