A hair-raising post
Last week I thought I would attempt to make the momentous decision of whether my hair would look better parted in the middle rather than on the side. This momentous decision was prompted by some horrid-looking Christmas shots I saw of myself, taken from the side that the part is currently on (I thought it made my forehead look flat from that angle, and it also means that side of my hair curls differently against my face). Out of curiousity I googled hair parting, because who can make decisions these days without googling?
To my amazement there is a great plethora of links on hair parting out there. For your benefit and information, I give you just a few:
The first important step, I would have you know, is to determine what shape your face is. This site, assists you to that end, with some ensuing hair-parting directions. And this site was very helpful – especially on scrolling down past the flow chart to the descriptions.
And this site, fascinatingly, says that everyone's nose goes off to one side, and so, assuming you do side-parting, you should send your hair over to the other side. All these years I have been doing the wrong thing by my nose! And what's more, everyone has one eye that is prettier than the other, and you should accentuate that eye. Who knew. (I don't know what you do if the side of your pretty eye conflicts with the direction of your nose!) I’m all for a little working with your natural assets, but clearly there is a whole world of hair-parting secrets out there of which I was unaware.
As it turns out, I have quite the oval face, though a little short. If you’d ever asked me I would have said squarish, when it isn't square at all. How did I get to be this old and not know what shape my face is? (Scarcely ever darkening the doorway of a hair-dresser may have something to do with it.) And it turns out that parted in the middle is good, so I think I am going to give it a go. Just so you know.