Okay. I admit I’d love to have hair like Britney Spears.
And I’m financially well off enough that I could buy a wig that looks just like her hair.
So what’s stopping me from looking just like Britney?
Well, see for yourself at the left.
Britney certainly doesn’t have my rugged good looks.
Perhaps in thirty years when she’s as old as I am she will.
In the meantime, she does have a couple of things I don’t.
(I can’t believe I just said that!)
All kidding aside, Britney has youth going for her and I don’t. Long straight hair just seems to work better on younger girls. A GG once told me that the older a woman gets the shorter her hair should get. I'm not ready to shave my head given that advice, but there’s the germ of wisdom in there.
I hope everyone got out their ruler and did some measuring. My measurements are on the left photo below. Naturally, I didn’t fall perfectly into any of the categories. My face is longer than it is wide, but shorter than the very desirable oval. My jaw is wider than I would prefer too. I'm really a rectangle. The final bummer is my neck. (Thank goodness we didn’t have to measure that!)
The advice about square faces works pretty well for me. Straight bangs look awful on me. The bottom center style gives me a higher forehead for length and loose waves softens my face somewhat. My "Britney" style, lower right, looks breathtakingly awful! By hugging my face my jaw and neck look ready for the Green Bay Packers. The upper right style is my attempt at Audrey Hepburn. It makes up for lack of volume by being higher and off my face.
What I’ve learned in all this research is that hair is great fun, but not easy to master. There are differences between the male and female face that make it difficult to simply grab the latest issue of Cosmopolitan and race to the beauty salon. You also can't simply scroll through the Paula Young's Wigs web site and be sure you will look just like the model when the wig arrives in the mail and you slip it on for the first time. That wig in the lower right cost me $90. It looks gorgeous on my wig stand but not on me... (yet.)
So, try lots of different styles, have fun, and find what works for you. Now you’ll know why.
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