Confused about the world of hair

[CurlyOne]

Okay, so I was looking around on MSN and stumbled across Oprah's Great American Haricut (or OhGAH for short ). Now I started thinking about the thread by Eadwine, words that make you go eek! And then I came across 10 hair don'ts (trust me I have a point here )

The OhGAH was cutting long hair and putting extensions on short hair and changing absolutely everything. Then on the "10 hair don'ts" it said this:

Don’t fight it, go with the flow! Fighting with your hair leaves you and your hair looking tired! Celebrate the fact that your hair is unique.

Am I the only one who thinks this is counter productive? So I am supposed to love my hair but to be happy I have to have a massive change? I am so lost!

The it says that age shouldn't hold back your hair style and then on the homepage there is a link to an article about picking the right hairstyle for your age! all I am getting out of this is, we have to tell you to like who you are but since you are insecure about that here is how you can look better. Apparently anyone in their 20's can have whatever they want, any other age group better have short hair, and women in their 50's "no longer have anything to prove, especially to anyone else"

I just don't get it, rant over.

[Lady Godiva]

I don't think it makes sense, either. Logic seems to be escaping them. It's a great age that we live in where the media promotes tolerance left and right, but in practice, few truly act on it. Sexism, ageism and super conformity still abound, and physical appearance remains all-important. Beauty promotions such as you describe say one thing, but really push another thing. It's hard to make money when people truly are comfortable with everything about themselves, so it's fine to talk the talk, but walking the walk too often would push away potential customers. It's quite a conundrum. When happiness comes from within, no one else can write up an invoice for it.

[Lamb]

all I am getting out of this is,

... that apparently certain people on TV have incurable verbal incontinence. I don't even try to get the point, there isn't any.

[mommy101405]

First off I despise Oprah, thats really beside the point, yes it is a total contradiction to have "makeover show" and chop one persons hair and put extensions on the next. I have always hated when they straighten curly hair. I have always wanted curls myself and it breaks my heart when all those beautiful ringlets are subjected to chemicals. Its a hair injustice

[Marianne]

First off I despise Oprah, thats really beside the point, yes it is a total contradiction to have "makeover show" and chop one persons hair and put extensions on the next. I have always hated when they straighten curly hair. I have always wanted curls myself and it breaks my heart when all those beautiful ringlets are subjected to chemicals. Its a hair injustice

It annoys me how often they do this with curly hair, and how it is seen as something that needs "fixing".

[Philomela]

My peetpeeve regards that deliberate downgrading of long-haired people at whom they hurl that expression about "hiding behind her/his hair." Most (if not all) makeovers have that caption attached to them that's in the format of something like "X came to us hiding behind her hair, [but now...]." Anyway, the trouble is that this whole rhetoric about "hiding" points to some moral characteristics of the targeted long-haired person (who's implicitly socially inadequate and morally blamable for the alleged "hiding").

[purplebubba]

Think of it this way.
They are trying to come up with ways to rationalize their arguements and trying to sound like they know what they are talking about. And to many people they do.

But all I see is they are beating a dead horse and each time they change what they say it's just them switching the object to swing. But it doesn't change the fact that I know that horse is dead already. They will keep beating that horse as long as people are watching.

[embee]

The goal is to sell hair service and hair products. Follow the money. You'll see. It has *nothing* to do with the individual customer, it's all advertising.

Gahhhh, I sound bitter! So tired of hearing what we "should" do to be acceptable.

[Unofficial_Rose]

Sounds to me as though there are so many contradictory statements you can adopt a "Pick 'n mix" approach!

In which case I'll take "Don't fight it, go with the flow" and the one about age not holding back your hairstyle. Perfect!

[Elenna]

Anyone read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World?" This is where the mass media totally controls humans. It is about advertising versus great literature like Shakespeare's "The Tempest."