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WHAT Your HAIR Says ABOUT YOU
We all know that it’s what’s on the inside that really defines a person. But in the real world, your external appearance, including your hair, can do a lot to affect your success in life. Hair care and styling can be a factor that may affect your ability to get a job, get a promotion or a raise, or succeed in the dating world and other personal relationships.
“We have many decades of research that physical attractiveness — including hair — does affect how others perceive you, and the opportunities that are created,” says Carla Lundblade, MS, a clinical therapist in Beverly Hills and a sports and celebrity counselor. “For example, studies have shown that attractive men earn an average of 5% more than unattractive men. And attractive women are also presented with a wider range of opportunities in their careers and personal lives.”
So what kind of message are you sending to the world with the appearance and style of your hair? While a stylish haircut and color may not be what gets you that job or that raise, it may be true that the opposite — an unkempt or uncared-for look — could make a recruiter think twice about hiring you. And in today’s economy, you don’t want to let any negatives drag you down, so your hair is important!
“Hair and appearance are part of a total package for anyone looking to move forward in their career or in life, and should be considered as something you’d improve just like your resume,” says Lundblade. “This doesn’t mean looking like somebody else — it means looking like the best ‘you’ you can be.”
Finding your best you
So how do you find that best you and bring it out with your hairstyle? Rowena Yeager, who owns Salon Wish in Streetsboro, Ohio, and serves on the Salon and Spa Council of the Professional Beauty Association, says it’s about finding something about you that’s striking and beautiful, and then using your hairstyle to highlight it.
“Some people focus on hiding flaws, but to me, it’s more important to find where the beauty is than to look for flaws to correct or conceal,” she says.
Do you have high, strong cheekbones? A great smile? Large, captivating eyes? “Your stylist should try to enhance your best feature through your color and haircut,” Yeager says. For example, if your cheekbones are your best feature, consider styling your hair so that layers brush gently in toward the face at cheekbone level.
Maintain to gain
No matter what style your hair is, make sure that it’s well kept and cared for. “If you have color, make sure that you don’t have a regrowth line, for example,” says Yeager. “If you have dramatic, straight, Bette Page-style bangs, you need to take particular care of your eyebrows, since they’ll draw attention there. You want to project that you care about yourself and care about the position you’re applying for, or the people that you’re meeting.”
webmd.com
Posted by
Munalian
February 1, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Dear editor,
What does the “study” you quoted advise to bald people?? Should they just come out at the dark??
Phebby Chiwama SA
February 1, 2012 at 4:08 pm
I’m lazy to read this loads of sh*t
mkn
February 1, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Real men are BALD headed the rest are females. Yes, basic biology tells that the male ‘something’ produces some ‘hormones’ that affect hair growth. So bald men cheer up! and for those who are not bald… bad lack enhance the ‘male hormones’ with some ‘mutototo’ from the east. In other ways just believe in yourself and you will make it in life.
baron
February 1, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Rubbish article.
BembaCharm
February 1, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I haven’t understood a single shit. Tumfweko try as much to re-edit what you post on your site and let us just have a straight forward point.
Segula GigO!!!!
February 1, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Long ass Boring article,I could not go past the third sentence,summary please!!!
smoochie
February 1, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I wonder what I’m having for dinner tonight – Since we’re talking about irrelevant things ka? Naposapo naine. Hmmmh!
Kenneth Kaunda mbewa
February 1, 2012 at 5:05 pm
success and promotion has nothing to do with hair style please imwe! you need to have the right papers, you must have the right attitude towards things, be positive in all the things that you do and tell yourself that you can do it. go to the right places and meet with the right people, then my brother my sister you are on the right truck! the problem is that most of these modern researchers, would only base their findings on very little data. have you seen most of the successful e.g. footballers, businessmen, musicians etc. is it the hair that came first or it was them being somewhere that’s when they started all these hair styles? mind you not everything that glitters is gold! take it or leave it!
munzi kubotu
February 1, 2012 at 5:42 pm
@pheby chiwama u ar so lucky what i earlier wrote abt u did not go through bcoz tumfweko could not stand the insults.It was meant to teach u that u ar not the only one capable of insulting. Hence refrain from using vulgar language.anyway my hair tells me that iam loaded with insults
nomba ninshi
February 1, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Mukule, ifikuti, menshi, who cares if u v th goods thts o tht counts
bad boy 4lyf
February 1, 2012 at 8:00 pm
What abt men?
GUN
February 1, 2012 at 8:50 pm
No one is ugly in the eyes of the Lord,but to be realistic some are ugly some are beautiful.Ugly pipo have to sweat in life when beautiful ones find it easey especialy women.
Barca 10
February 1, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Te boom……
philip
February 2, 2012 at 6:12 am
inspired!
Teti chibefyo
February 2, 2012 at 7:32 am
Fyabufi!!!
God has
plans for
al and
not the
air style
imwe. Its Very
important
to trust
God and
not your
hair style.
Wheather
ugly or
beautful
God stil
has a
plan
for you.
Cheer
up God
is for you.
Daniel
February 2, 2012 at 9:22 am
Really? Hair and outward appearance should be about self expression. Not about how others judge you or the discrimination within corporations. This article has the makings of self loathing. Love yourself for how you want to be not by how others want you to be.
VIRGIN
February 2, 2012 at 10:55 am
True man boring Ass long article i dnt dare chusha my eyes on such crap,y shud it b abt whites al da time.