I am my own mirror image
September 8, 2008
I shot a web commercial on Friday, and the hairstylists decided my hair should be parted on the right, not the left. ”It gives you a more younger look,” said one stylist. ”With a sort of twist.”
I know no one but me (and possibly my mother) would ever notice that my hair is parted on the wrong side, but it feels profoundly weird to me. Also, my bangs are so trained to go their usual way that I spent all day cocking my head to the left to keep them on their new trajectory. My neck hurts.
Comments
5 Responses to “I am my own mirror image”
Got something to say?
- Announcing…Thursdays with Jen! - We are launching a new GRE workshop called Thursdays with Jen and we would like to invite you to attend. Every other Thursday, join MGRE instructor Jennifer Dziura for an hour and a half study session. Regular readers of the blog will probably recognize Jen as the contributor of many of our blog articles. In [...]
- The Math Beast Challenge Problem of the Week – February 6th, 2012 - Each week, we post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for two free Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides. x, y, and z are three consecutive multiples of 3 such that x < y < z. Quantity A Quantity [...]
- Decision Fatigue on the GRE - A few months back, the New York Times published this fascinating article on the subject of “decision fatigue”. The article became a big topic of conversation here in the Manhattan GRE office. If you don’t have time to read the full article, I will give a quick summary: the more decisions a human makes in [...]
Search
Recently Written
- Bullish: The Resume Wall Street Is Laughing At, And What We Can Learn From It
- Bullish: How To Make A Career Out Of The 10,000 Things You Want To Do
- Bullish Life: What To Do When You’re Surrounded By Lazy Idiots (and Sweet, Fragile Simpletons)
- Bullish: Fund Your New Business (Or Get Started Investing in Startups), Part II
- Monday, February 6th: The Williamsburg Spelling Bee
- Bullish Life: How to Hold a Ladies’ Working Brunch (For The Ambitious Yet Leisurely!)
- Bullish: Fund Your Business Or Get Started Investing In Startups, Part I
- “Someone Like You”: Bitch, Back Off My Man
- Bullish: How To Nail The First Day At A New Job
- The New Bullish Logo on Shirts from ooShirts
Blogroll
"Bullish Life" on TheGloss
Williamsburg Spelling Blog
What Philosophy Majors Do After College
Bring a Spelling Bee to Your Event
Jen's Tutoring Company
Ladybits Comedy
You are confident that the hairstylist isn’t just lording her power over you?
I think in her position some people would. Why not have your fun with the world?
From the photograph, it appears she may be right. But what I wonder is, after you get used to it and stop having to compensate for the odd feeling, will it still have that look? Does the “younger look” come mostly from the style, or from the difference in the way you hold your head?
Not that it matters — you look great either way. Still, I’m curious.
Michael! Nice to hear from you. Do young people cock their heads at particular angles? This deserves further study, and federal funding.
Young people clearly haven’t been bent and twisted by years of disappointment and stress. They must walk about with their jolly little heads stuck up in the air, walking into things and getting in the way of old people who they cannot even see.
If your hair still feels “wrong” I suggest wearing a tiara to hold it in place.
I’m not sure how young people cock their heads. I think it’s probably just a subtle overtone of posture — I can’t claim to really have any evidence other than intuition for it.
It would certainly be more worthy of federal funding than many of the things which currently receive such funds. I say you should apply.