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Learning to embrace my natural hair

Written on November 13, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Postscript.

One of the most tumultuous relationships I’ve had in my life is the one I have with my hair. It might sound superficial, but my perception of my hair runs much deeper than a few bad hair days. When you grow up never seeing your type of hair represented in the media and very rarely amongst your...

Trichotillomania: hard to pronounce, harder to talk about

Written on November 4, 2016. Posted in Lifestyle.

When I was ten years old, my sister came home from school with head lice. As a precautionary move, my mom cut my long, glorious hair into a short bob. I hated it, so I grew it out long again and kept it that way, refusing to have it cut beyond a simple trim. I protected it as best I could afterwards,...

Barber in residence

Written on January 26, 2016. Posted in Lifestyle.

When I told my mom I was getting a haircut in a university residence, she was taken aback. Seated on a standard residence chair instead of a professional barber’s, I got my hair cut in a common room by a first-year student. All the barber had in hand was a lone razor and a variety of clipper attachments,...

One brunette’s blonde ambition

Written on September 25, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

About two weeks ago, I went from being a brunette of a mundane hair tone, to a blonde of the Paris Hilton-variety — in appearance only, I assure you. My reasons for becoming a blonde are difficult to articulate, mainly because beyond a vague feeling of stagnation and boredom, there wasn’t any particular...

Some kind of bun-derful

Written on October 9, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

It’s time to break the silence: what’s up with all the man buns? Don’t deny it, you’ve seen them too. This past September has been witness to record high numbers of man buns in the lecture halls and on the playing fields at Queen’s. They came back to campus with us when we returned from summer break...

Curly hairstyle care tips

Written on September 13, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

It’s taken me a long time to embrace my curly hair. In high school, I did everything short of actually straightening my hair to make it straighter. I brushed it out constantly, I slept with it in a ponytail — the only reason I didn’t turn to an actual straightener was pure laziness. It wasn’t until...

Hair gets personal

Written on February 8, 2013. Posted in Lifestyle.

There are a lot of emotions in the salon chair, Beata Faraklas tells me as she clears her desk of auburn wigs, and shifts her attention from the plethora of catalogues before her. For 20 years, Faraklas, hair specialist and owner of All Hair Alternatives, has been guiding people through the process...

A beard, a mustache and a bond

Written on November 2, 2012. Posted in Lifestyle.

There’s no secret beard society on campus, but there might as well be. Josh Wilson, who has been sporting some sort of facial hair since age 15, said he’ll often share a nod of recognition with other bearded men on campus. “You see another guy with a beard. There’s always a sort of connection,” Wilson,...

Tag: hair

Learning to embrace my natural hair

Trichotillomania: hard to pronounce, harder to talk about

Barber in residence

Some kind of bun-derful

Curly hairstyle care tips

Hair gets personal

A beard, a mustache and a bond

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