Hair Products

I never fully appreciated why people's hair stays put. When I lived in Korea, I experimented with a product called hair glue which could probably hold a mohawk with 4 inch spikes no problem. But, apparently, ordinary hair cuts also require hair products just to make hair look normal. When I had my hair cut friday, the hairdresser straightened it with a flat iron and added 3 different hair products. There was even a pop quiz at the end. When I woke up the next morning, my hair looked exactly the same. It was incredibly freaky.

So, for the last couple of days, I've been sort of obsessed with the hair product thing. It's like I have a secret password and now that I know about these things I can tell who uses and who doesn't. Walking around San Francisco, I think that most people are users. Actually the weirdest thing is working out at the gym because although until yesterday I didn't realize that most people's hair doesn't move even though they are moving. Which makes me wonder what else I don't notice about the world. And it also makes me think that we really are living in some redux of the 1950s. It's just that we don't call it hair spray in more. It's hair products.