What would I change, if I could change one thing about myself? I'm going shallow here, and surprisingly, it's not about my weight. While I would appreciate being a more healthy size, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as one other thing: body hair.
I have apparently inherited it from both sides of my family tree. Sure, the long, lush eyelashes are wonderful. I hardly need to wear makeup for them to be noticed (but I still do because I do like to flaunt what I have). But that same gene also seems to control the length (oh god help me) of my nose hair. Yes, I said it. I have long, luxurious nose hair in nostrils the size of caverns. I would love to be rid of this, or at the very least, have it stay politely inside its cave like well behaved nose hair does.
And that's not all. Whiskers on chin and lip. I have nanny goat hairs that, even with regular plucking, creep up and surprise me just when I think I'm looking sexy and might actually try to get that cute guy's attention. Of course, I have the usual hair, too. Legs, down there. You know. But then there's the hobbit foot hair on my toes and the tops of my feet. What is with that? I'm a girl.
If I could change one thing about myself, physically, it would be that I could control where and how all of this hair grows. I would take all this erroneous hair and shift its location and texture to my head, which thankfully is not thinning, but is also not terribly thick. It would be awesome to wake up today and say, I want my hair to be six feet long (might be inconvenient since I'm only 5'2", but I could make it braid itself, so no worries). Then tomorrow, I can shrink it back and keep a trim, off the collar look with lots of layers and contours. And it would naturally stay exactly where I tell it to be, and after being blown by an enticing breeze, would return exactly to its ideal location.
I would ensure that I have hair only on my head, eyelashes and eyebrows. Otherwise, I would be smooth as a baby's bottom.
I will say, however that there are two specific features of the hair on my head that I would leave exactly as they are: my "stripe", the one stripe of gray just to the right of the other feature - my widow's peak. Those can stay.
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