Friday, August 12, 2011
Unprecedented hair
On the bus this morning, sat behind a petite older lady of indefinite South Asian ancestry. Her choice of colors was classical Hindoo saffron and violet, but she didn't really look Hindoo, didn't have the big head that Hindoos normally require to house their wastly superiorrrr intellectnesses and arrrrrogancy. Maybe she's Thai or Burmese; I'm not familiar enough with those types to say for sure.
She had the most unprecedented hairstyle I've ever seen.
The hair was sectioned around the crown; center area was pulled up into a short tail well off-center. Upper part of one side was gathered into a second tail, which was drawn over in a triangle shape and fastened to the top tail with a jeweled ring and velvet bow. Lower part of the back was gathered into a third tail, more like a conventional 'queue', gathered first with a bright red scrunchy and farther down with a black scrunchy. Around all this, she wore a bright brown visor thingie. Flanking the bottom pigtail, two pink bow-shaped plastic barrettes serving no obvious purpose. She was also wearing delicate rimless glasses surrounded by plastic sunglasses.
Despite all that, she seemed thoroughly sane, competent and composed. She radiated so much quietude and orderliness that I ended up thinking her weird disorganized hair was just the way hair should be done! ¶ 9:19 AM
She had the most unprecedented hairstyle I've ever seen.
The hair was sectioned around the crown; center area was pulled up into a short tail well off-center. Upper part of one side was gathered into a second tail, which was drawn over in a triangle shape and fastened to the top tail with a jeweled ring and velvet bow. Lower part of the back was gathered into a third tail, more like a conventional 'queue', gathered first with a bright red scrunchy and farther down with a black scrunchy. Around all this, she wore a bright brown visor thingie. Flanking the bottom pigtail, two pink bow-shaped plastic barrettes serving no obvious purpose. She was also wearing delicate rimless glasses surrounded by plastic sunglasses.
Despite all that, she seemed thoroughly sane, competent and composed. She radiated so much quietude and orderliness that I ended up thinking her weird disorganized hair was just the way hair should be done! ¶ 9:19 AM
