by Henrique

Created on: April 08, 2009   Last Updated: April 09, 2009

Our hair has always been, in a way, associated to our personality, to what we are.

Independently of colour and length, our hair bears a "message" that is passively assimilated by those who have the perception of one given individual.

The hairs cover our body and reflect our energies. They present us to society, reveal emotions and communicate secrets, wishes and behaviours.

Young women express his femininity through their hair. A feminine, vain girl, would be commonly connoted with long hairs and hair embellishments; whilst a girl with short hair would surely be looked at as a "boyish girl".

On the other side, young men tend to use short hair. If they opt for long hair, they risk being called "girly".

But in both cases, there is a period in which hair is also an affirmation of inner physical and psychological changes: puberty. Armpits, chest, legs and the pubic area are transformed in a new channel of communication. Hairs that announce the arrival of puberty transmit, in both sexes, codes connected with the sexuality. For this motive, they are a fountain of complexes and pain whenever hormones don't "distribute" them correctly.

Also, when we are showing our emotions, we also do not dispense hairs. The word "goosebumps" is a good example of this.

Goosebumps are a visual effect that is derived from the fact of our hairs becoming erected, in an involuntary act that results from external stimulations, whether being the pleasure of the touch, low temperatures, or even when we are frightened or get emotional about something.

Hairs are also a reflex of our health and, in this field, they are very important for us! Whether by ageing or by disease, the loss of hair is, in many cases, a traumatic reality, and these people often look for ways to minimize the impact of hair loss, resorting to products and services, from capillary treatments to the wig industry!

The industry of the wigs is, in his most associated to the patients. The persons who lose the hair for disease it has extreme necessity of hiding this reality to be felt better

Hairs have also been connoted with an individual's "expiry date".

Our society in not keen on being affective towards the elder people, therefore, nobody wants to be an "old man ".

Unfortunately, this image still transmits the idea of incompetence and liability. But, should the society value the elder, recognizing them as for their wisdom and experience, it would be probable becoming fashionable the idea of dyeing your hair white.

But, for the time being, even hair fall resulting of healthy aging is something one always tends to camouflage. Receding hair is, in these cases, something that is not well accepted and compensatory justifications are often used as a counter to this biological process, such as: "women have a crush on bald men" or "my gray hair is charming and a result of many years of experience."

These behaviours are intrinsic to a man, independently of his cultural background.

Summing up, we think immensely about our hairs.

Men shave their facial every day, or let them grow for aesthetically pleasing moustaches; women's make up involves taking care of their eyebrows and eyelashes. We invest time and money in our hair, combing it and using countless different products.

This reflection alludes to the necessity we have for felling the approval of our own image by others and even by ourselves.

So, it is of great importance to look after ourselves. But, while having this concern, it is of extreme importance to keep our integrity, to be ourselves.

Whichever the image what we want to transmit, it is imperial to be coherent with who we really are, otherwise exposing ourselves to the embarrassment of being unmasked by those who surround us.

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