Why do people color their hair

 

Average brown hair her mother wouldn’t let her have highlighted.

 Just wait until she hit eighteen and could do

 whatever she wanted with her own hair.

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Alex Sheldon slavewire, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Some people stick with the same hairstyle and hair color for years, while others seem to reinvent themselves every few months.

Economic Times

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There she'd be, this gorgeous woman—looked like a queen. Never

knew what color her hair would be from one week to the next.”

“She's a brunette today,” Megan said, and made him laugh.

Megan’s Mate

The Creation of a Bronze Sculpture

Simone inspected every inch of the investment casting over the wax mold. 

She’d done the wax chasing, using delicate tools for minute scraping, 

hot tools for filling in imperfections. She studied it now, and deemed it ready. 

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And the pour—that moment of truth—always enthralled her. Those quick movements of workers moving in unison, the fluid flow of deep, glowing gold like melted sunlight. 

Inside the shell, her work, her art, her vision filled with that melted sunlight. 

The negative became positive, and the symbol and study of the man she’d come to love would be born.

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Our brains need silence to make sense of things

“I upset her,” Reed began as Simone walked away.

“No.” Mi laid a hand on his arm, watched her friend. “No, you really didn’t. Upset, she’d have been frigid or molten. She’s thinking, and she’s looking at something she’s refused to look at for a long time.”

Mi turned back to him, positively beamed. “I don’t know what you said or did, but I’m even happier to meet you.” 

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By Museumderstille - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45667210

The mind works hard in the moments between the noise.

mother nature network

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“I upset you the night of the party. Your friend said I didn’t, but—”

“Mi’s right, as usual. You didn’t. I was thinking about something, and you made me think harder. I was abrupt, but that’s because I was inside my own head.”

“The SBZ?”

Her lips curved as she shrugged. “Maybe just inside the border.”

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