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A review by sjj169
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-Seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict
3.0
Hair....
Most women fight it. Some love it. Some even just embrace it's many moods. We all have hair stories though.
This book is some of those stories.
And it's actually quite good.
Because I tell you, you take a person with fluffy, wiry hair like mine and you put her in a convertible with the top down, the person gets out of the car looking like Buckwheat. Or Don King. It helps in one way to wear a hat, but when you take it off you have terrible hat hair-It looks like a cartoon mouse has been driving a little steamroller around your head.
(This story is not in the book but it's one that immediately came to mind for me.)
I remember when actress Keri Russell cut her hair..she went from this..
to this...
and people totally flipped out. Her show that she was on at the time even suffered in the ratings because of it.
There is some serious stories to this book as dealing with "chemo hair" and the fact that black women feel like they have to spend a fortune on their hair.
Then there is one story in particular that talks about the "other hair" that women deal with.
A friend told her about this..
"Women should vajazzle their vajayjays." It made her feel better, she said, after a nasty break-up.
A brief aside on what vajazzling entails: someone strips all the hair off your vulva, labia, and anus and then glues crystals or pearls in some sort of decorative motif in place of the hair.
First of all: Don't google this (Or the phrase "Willie Nelson vagina tattoo.") You can't unsee it.
You guys have no idea how bad I wanted to include that Willie Nelson vagina tattoo in this review. Because you know I looked. Just like I know you are gonna look.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
None of my friends have read this book yet..but reviewers should still be superstars. So I'm including this review.
Most women fight it. Some love it. Some even just embrace it's many moods. We all have hair stories though.
This book is some of those stories.
And it's actually quite good.
Because I tell you, you take a person with fluffy, wiry hair like mine and you put her in a convertible with the top down, the person gets out of the car looking like Buckwheat. Or Don King. It helps in one way to wear a hat, but when you take it off you have terrible hat hair-It looks like a cartoon mouse has been driving a little steamroller around your head.
(This story is not in the book but it's one that immediately came to mind for me.)
I remember when actress Keri Russell cut her hair..she went from this..
to this...
and people totally flipped out. Her show that she was on at the time even suffered in the ratings because of it.
There is some serious stories to this book as dealing with "chemo hair" and the fact that black women feel like they have to spend a fortune on their hair.
Then there is one story in particular that talks about the "other hair" that women deal with.
A friend told her about this..
"Women should vajazzle their vajayjays." It made her feel better, she said, after a nasty break-up.
A brief aside on what vajazzling entails: someone strips all the hair off your vulva, labia, and anus and then glues crystals or pearls in some sort of decorative motif in place of the hair.
First of all: Don't google this (Or the phrase "Willie Nelson vagina tattoo.") You can't unsee it.
You guys have no idea how bad I wanted to include that Willie Nelson vagina tattoo in this review. Because you know I looked. Just like I know you are gonna look.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
None of my friends have read this book yet..but reviewers should still be superstars. So I'm including this review.