tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016599399573595826.post6502936168204162462..comments2023-03-28T15:03:52.205+00:00Comments on Passionate about Plus Size: Hair Salon for Curvy ClientsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14228696199853027045noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016599399573595826.post-2368525789209083902011-10-07T17:47:36.370+00:002011-10-07T17:47:36.370+00:00I feel uncomfortable in salons for the reasons Bro...I feel uncomfortable in salons for the reasons Brown puts forward. I wish I didn't but I do. Maybe it's because I feel outnumbered, maybe it's because I'm afraid I'll break their chairs, maybe it's because I'm staring at myself in the mirror for an hour under awful lights with wet hair, or hair pinned in crazy ways while the colour is going in. <br />Maybe it's because I'm forced to confront my appearance in this way. <br />I'm uncomfortable to the point where I only go to the salon 2 or 3 times a year, at the most.<br /><br />In saying that, although going to a salon exclusively for curvy girls would make the whole salon experience so much better for me, I don't think it helps the more abstract, longer term goals of having society accept fat people as normal if we segregate ourselves this way. <br /><br />For me, being visible is a form if activism: and that can mean anything from having crazy hair, wearing loud clothes, wearing fashionable clothes, eating in public. Mainly just existing and not hiding because I'm fat. And so my presence in a salon has two purposes: for me to get my hair done, but it's also an act of activism, putting myself out there, existing as a fat person in a thin-centric world/salon, and trying in some small way to normalise the fat body. So the choice between going to a plus-size only salon and regular salon is the choice between what I need for myself and what I need for society, and ultimately myself again, but in a more abstract way. <br /><br /><br />Still, I wish I didn't have to confront all those negative thoughts and uncomfortable feelings I get in a salon. But maybe that change has to come within me: creating a new type of salon won't make the problem of having a 'bad body-image day" go away.GGhttp://fatchorus.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9016599399573595826.post-20294278231482782422011-10-07T15:41:02.790+00:002011-10-07T15:41:02.790+00:00I agree with your take on it. I've never felt...I agree with your take on it. I've never felt uncomfortable in the salon or worried about the chair sizes, etc..until now! Are the thin women staring at me? Oh well if they are...I love going to the salon and have never felt uncomfortable or unwelcome. I want to know what salon these women are going to where they are being stared at!<br />Great article!The Curvy Blondehttp://www.thecurvyblonde.comnoreply@blogger.com