Friday, 30 March 2012

The magical (or deadly) locks?? THE CHOICE IS OURS.

Water+Melanin+lipid+traces of minerals (no no u can’t mine there, it’s not uranium ) =the human hair. We all know it is just a dead cell and ironically wanted to keep it lively, healthy, shiny and bouncing, with all the vital signs of life.

We have bid goodbyes to good old grandma’s daily oiling ceremony and those long ribboned plaited hairs are safe  in the school albums far from the reach of desperate eyes. Now we have no time for that oiling process and believe things are easy at a  hair spas, for oil, steam and protein treatments. We bond and rebond with the lovely locks, we straighten, smoothen, curl, perm, iron and blow dry, Ufh!!

We can’t just plait them because they are cropped, bobbed, fringed, layered, streaked, textured,coloured...encyclopaedia on human hair, here I come. Chop chop of the barber shops were replaced by the pancaked beauty parlours, then the cool unisex saloons and now the exclusively serious and caring trichology centres. The so called dead tissue is given a life by various treatments- laser, phyto, thermal and cryo treatments to name a few. Yes they are treated in the cellular- molecular levels for everyone has a custom  made hair, yes very special and unique like your fingerprint swears a hair stylist.
No more sticky lemon, yogurt, egg , mehendi, amla , shikai packs for the Sunday mid morning, pre brunch long matinee showers, the latest secret hair treatments are done  in the laboratory or can be got done a complete therapy pack from the drug stores after a online counselling with your trichologist based on your individual hair density test.

The parachute oil and meera shiakai, the natives of Doordharsan aren’t the only products on the shelves these days. The hair care section (rather floor) of our hyper markets is flooded with rows of shampoos, conditioners, leave on, serums, hair setting gels, hair sprays etc. The hair accessory in a girl’s handbag is no more just a comb and a few clips and a scarf for those bad hair days but hair brush, sheers, barrettes, snap, claw, alligator, banana hair clips, hair pins and may be a swaroski studded tiara, isn’t very girl a star today?? Finally the answer for that human size tote bag very girl carries...Ha ha ha.

It is high time that exclusive courses for hair science are introduced at the higher secondary level in the country. Think twice, do you really want your little girl to make a doc or an engineer or a lawyer...please move aside that fringe that is covering a major part of your eyesight and read between the lines.

PS: For all those unlucky ones whose are blessed with a receeding hair line like me and hair that carpet a better area of your room than your dumb head, stops all those grandma recipes, they aren’t going to work anymore. Nor are the keratinlogy e book  or the trichology centre.
We are destined for a better livelihood without the mane matters because over 1000 tonnes of human hair that lakhs of devotees offer at the richest temple in our country is generating unimaginable revenue. So either sport the new all clear look (be a trend setter) or trade place with a barber...millionaires’ go chop chop!!






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