Elesean Fields

Advice:  Always read the care tag in your clothes before you go merrily tossing them into the dryer, else your perfectly fitted trousers might end up not so perfectly fitted.

I am in the growing out stages of an unfortunate hair incident that happened over a year ago now.  In January of last year, I got a notion that I needed a perm.  Don't ask me why.  I don't know.  I just did.  I do know.  I was looking at this woman at work, who has mounds and mounds of curly hair and I thought, "That is exactly what I wish my head looked like."  So I tried to have the look chemically reproduced.

Alas, I ended up with chemically induced alopecia instead.  At least, that was the doctor's diagnosis.  In lay terms, I had a good quarter of my hair burned off, and had chemical burns on my scalp.  You can imagine what my remaining hair looked like.  It looked like cotton candy.

I had to wait until March to cut it because of the bald spots.  Hair had to grow back in enough to cover my scalp before I could have myself scalped down into a pixie.  Then I had to grow it and cut it, grow it and cut it, until all the perm was gone and the hair was healthy again.  It was about August before that happened.

Now it is growing out time again, and I am really, really hating this part.  This is the part where the longest length ends right above my earlobe, so tucking it behind the ear gives a weird poof (and depending on what my bangs are doing, I resemble 80s David Bowie), and bringing it forward means I look like a little Dutch boy.  Either way, not optimal.

Can we bring back the hat as office wear?  Please?