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"It&amp;#039;s a good thing I can laugh at myself because that&amp;#039;s exactly what I did this morning in the bathroom mirror. I got my hair cut a few days ago, and it&amp;#039;s probably the best haircut I&amp;#039;ve ever had. I have curly hair, but all too often it ends up flat on the top and curly on the bottom. Back in college I preferred a hippier look, with a middle part and Jesus-like hair. But that phase has been over for years. Now, I want the exact opposite: more height on top so I can avoid that hippie look. I&amp;#039;ve tried using clips, gels, barrettes, elastic bands, hairspray -- you name it, all in the quest for hair with more height. But it&amp;#039;s never quite worked.... until now! My hairstylist finally gave me the hair I&amp;#039;ve wanted my whole life by adding more layers on top. Yay!! Well, as they say, be careful what you wish for. This morning I was doing my newly cut hair in the bathroom mirror, and I did it just the way my hairdresser instructed me. And it worked. But suddenly, I found myself craving even more height. It was like I was in a trance -- bigger hair\u2026.must\u2026. have\u2026 bigger\u2026.hair! I had gotten a taste of big hair, and now I wanted more. I ended up teasing higher and higher\u2026 and higher.  When my husband poked his head into the bathroom to see what was taking me so long, he gasped. He said I looked like I stuck my finger in an electrical socket. Although it was hard to hear, he was right. Clearly I had gone too far with this quest for more height. But it made think: Why do I want more height so badly? Is it because I&amp;#039;m &amp;quot;vertically challenged&amp;quot; at only 5 feet? If I&amp;#039;m being honest, I will say nope, that&amp;#039;s not it.  It&amp;#039;s because I think my face looks thinner when my hair is fuller. And I believe that having bigger hair draws the eye up to my hair rather than down to my body. I&amp;#039;ve read all these articles about dressing slimmer and such, but I swear the trick is in the hair. Try it -- tease your hair, make it bigger, and tell me if you think you look thinner! I&amp;#039;d love to know. How I was good today: Egg white omelet for breakfast; fruit and yogurt lunch. How I was bad today: Had way too many glasses of wine at dinner.  What I avoided today: One of the reasons I don&amp;#039;t drink wine often is because it makes me crave all types of &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; foods - especially French fries, bread and all white carbs. This time, though, I refrained!! It was tough. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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