I’m a Freak
I dunno what you call it but i have this bad fixation/obsessive behaviour/crazy thing where i pull on my hair. i run my fingers through my hair and any non uniformed/non compliant hair is forcibly removed. I used to yank it out from the root but, for fear of going bald, i started using scissors and just snipped off the unruly bit.
recently however i’ve abandoned the scissors and found great satisfaction at a strand of hair breaking off in a snap. quite simple since unruly hair is generally weakened and frayed to begin with. by running my nails over the strand, i can get it to break off.
the weird thing is, somehow i often end up pricking myself with my hair. like, i’ve drawn blood. anyone have experience with pricking themselves with their hair? i’ll hear the hair break off with a snap and feel a pinch and when i bring my hands down, there’s a hair sticking into the pad of my forefinger.
i’ve also gotten i guess what you’d call, hair splinters. a small piece of hair, stuck in my finger that i have to coax out.
anyway, i’m gonna buy some conditioner, or maybe get some prescribed medication or something.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
that’s gross.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
i was not expecting that happy face to appear next to my comment. i’m not saying, “that’s gross, and i love it!” i put : and P like, a face with a tongue sticking out, as if to say, “that’s gross. blech!”
…. i just wanted to clear that up.
March 8th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Sometimes, for kicks, I smooth the hair on my head so that all the strands on top are aligned in parallel. It makes my head feel smooth, but it looks completely absurd.
My hair (at the level of the individual strand) is quite thick, and when I get it cut it often jams hair clippers. Also, because it’s wiry, when it is cut it tends to fly into the air like a coiled spring, ending up in the barber’s (or stylist’s) eyes and nostrils. In these situations, my hair acts like a projectile weapon, and can embed itself in skin. After every hair cut, I make sure to take a shower; otherwise I would wake up with hair clippings embedded in my skin like porcupine quills.
March 8th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
On the subject of hair, I once threw a fit when a cowlick, radiating from the whorl at the back of my head, wouldn’t settle into place. I used water to wet it down, I put tons of Brylcreem on it, but it stubbornly refused to concede.
I cut that cowlick off with a pair of scissors, and would have gotten away with it too, if my pesky parents hadn’t interfered.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:00 am
i am thinning; confirmed by my doctor. better get married before i lose my looks…oops, too late.