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Two Hours To Beautiful
TweetI remember back in seventh grade, I’d ask girls, “How long does it take to do your hair?” and they’d reply, “I get up at 5am to do it, so like two hours.” Two hours?! Are you kidding me?! I could see 20 minutes to make sure your hair was combed out nicely but two [...]
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The politics of a good haircut
TweetAfter a lovely few weeks off to visit family, I called my favoured hair salon in Ottawa where I go to school to set up an appointment with my only trusted stylist. You see, I had been through a few tragic hair disasters until a year ago when I finally found someone who cut it [...]
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Vajazzling and the disgrace of hairy women.
Tweet Julie Bindel wrote an article on one of my favourite news sites this weekend entitled “Women: embrace your facial hair!” She doesn’t just talk about facial hair, but points out that about 40% of women naturally have some facial hair and she wishes that women could “free themselves from this prejudice”. Basically I think [...]
Also tagged body hair, pubes, pubic hair, shaving, Uncategorized, vajazzling, waxing 4 Comments
Feminist Dialoge Starts with “You Can Touch My Hair”