ABSTRACT
If clothes make the man,” declaims Holly Millea in the December 2001 issue of Elle USA, “Hair makes the woman. You can have a lot not going for you, but if you’ve got great hair, you’re forgiven the extra ten pounds, crooked teeth, phone acne on your chin. . . .” Hair makes or breaks a woman. On good hair days, it makes her sexy, seductive, intelligent, sophisticated, luminous, and conspicuous. On bad hair days, it can reduce her to tears and self-loathing. “I hated my hair. . . . I wept, and my eyes swelled shut and my nose turned red.” “What did you do to your hair?” is no woman’s idea of a compliment.
