New hairdo helps evict winter blahs
By Mark Baldridge
Staff Reporter
During the winter months many
Nebraskans are overcome with the
urge to escape.
We want to escape from the
miserable weather, the indoors, the
tedium of jobs or classes and, most
of all, our wretched, winter-worn
selves.
In a way, it amounts to the same
thing: the Winter Crazies.
A haircut or tint offers the illu
sion of having escaped. When you
look in the mirror and someone
new and interesting looks out, you
may feel like you’ve left a heavy,
dead self behind.
“If you look different, you feel
different,” said Angie Alexander,
stylist coordinator forThe Hair Care
Place at 101 N. 14th St.
“January is the doldrums,” she
said, and added that people be
come depressed for a long time
after Thanksgiving and Christmas.
According to Tom Ficke of Mr.
Tom’s Lincoln Hair at 1417 O St., a
lot of people get their hair cut
around the New Year.
Alexander said Christmas and
mid-February brought big business,
with more hair colorings and fewer
cuts.
A haircut or style change is
healthy, Alexander said. She said
she remembered reading several
years ago that people with high
blood pressure were recommended
to get their hair cut more often.
"It relaxes you,” she said.
A young man, who wishes to
remain anonymous, told me while
sharing beers that he’s getting his
hair cut before his court date. His
long hair, once a personal trade
mark, will be “sacrificed to the
system," he said.
Asked if winter depression played
any role in his choice, he replied
that the offense he’s facing oc
curred while he was intoxicated.
“I got drunk to get rid of the
deep-winter blues,” he said. Now
he says he has other things to
worry about.
Gary Longsine, former colum
nist for the Daily Nebraskan, re
cently shaved the sides of his head,
just around the ears — a self-in
flicted haircut that he has reason to
regret.
' Interestingly, he, too, connects
his hairstyle change to alcohol,
claiming to have been “drunk and
depressed” at the time.
Women interviewed seemed
unwilling to reveal they’d had hair
coloring done. It seems that a reve
lation ruins the effect of sudden
“auburness.”
In an alternative vein is- the
experience of Thomas Irvin, assis
tant manager of Sir Speedy, a copy
shop at 101 N. 14th St. He says he’s
had long hair for five or six years
and intends to keep it that way.
Asked what would induce him
to cut it, he said, “I’ve wondered
about what kind of monetary value
I’d place on that. I guess it would
have to be a few thousand dollars.”
Those who, like Irvin, want to
keep their hair may be forced to
opt for other tactics to fight the
winter blues.
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