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ON THE WAGON TO
HAIR SOBRIETY I
f you’re like many women, you have a deep dark secret that may have come out during the long months of the pandemic. No, it’s not allowing your 14-yearold to play video games until his eyes are crossed or ordering clothes online that you tell your spouse you got for “such a deal” but actually paid the full price. What’s the big secret? The cost of a good professional “cut and color” as many women describe their six-week
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pilgrimage to haircut and color nirvana. I told my spouse at one time what I actually paid for a good cut and highlights. That was the last time I divulged what he described as “a ridiculous extravagance.” Never mind what he spends on his weekly golf game and the side bets that go along with his round. I worked hard during my career to afford my cut and color. Now, I’m retired and have to watch my budget more diligently.
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Then the pandemic hit, and I had failed to get my hair cut or highlighted prior to the unsettling news of “shelter in place.” Until the pandemic, I never gave my hair color addiction much thought until I heard the words “COVID-19,” “Possible Recession.” Then the television shows started telling me how to save money by giving up my favorite mocha cappuccino at the corner coffee shop and hair salon highlights. I calculated the cost of my coffee ritual and my cut
and color and decided, since a grey streak had appeared, I would go on the wagon to hair sobriety. Like many women my age (sixty plus), I haven’t seen my natural hair color since I was 14 when I used “Sun In” and other home coloring products to look like Joni Mitchell. At 25, I started on the hard stuff – frosting kits that came with a white cap with holes in it that resembled a colander wrapped around my head. A friend would come over to insert a metal hook to poke
