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What can I do with my hair?

March 15th, 2008

A frivolous topic, I know.  Can you tell I’m laying around in post-drome, not quite well enough to be up and doing but well enough to be bored?  This is dangerously close to a self-indulgent pop culture style mag question, but please indulge me!  When you’re a red head you spend your whole life with people commenting on your hair, so I guess it becomes an obsession.  What is the right hair length for a migraineur?  Is there such a thing?

The photo I most often use professionally and for an avatar online is about 4 years old.  I’m going to have to change it soon for a more recent one.  But lots of my online friends know me looking like this:

Now it’s not that I don’t look like this, but I grew my hair out over the past 3 years and now it’s quite long, almost as long as when I was a hippy-dippy teenager!  I also stopped coloring my hair, at least for now, I’ve got white wings on the red at the sides.  Hey if it’s good enough for Bonnie Raitt, it’s good enough for me!  The problem is, my hair weighs a ton!  And it’s hot on my neck.  I like to wear it up, or braided, or back, in hot weather.  But if I have a migraine, or I’m in post-drome, my scalp is tender and I can’t stand the pressure of putting it up.  Even the weight of it pulling on my scalp when it’s down makes me nuts.

So now I look like this (a not very great picture of me last spring break) but my hair has gotten even longer.  I hate to chop it all off again after spending 3 years growing it back.  I’m also pushing 50 here and I’m not sure the face holds up to a short haircut any more!

So, what’s a migraineur to do?  I don’t want this disease to dictate anything else in my life!  But days Iike today I sure want to chop it all off.  It hurts to even think about washing it.

Please leave a comment and let me know how you deal with your hair!

Megan Oltman

Migraineur Fashion Central?

By the way, Mom says I should cut it!

Tags: hairstyle, Migraine triggers, scalp sensitivity
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