• Just a few comments on the importance of hair and power. Various religions have considered the growing of hair a sign of power sometimes for men sometimes for women. Samson and the scissors happy Delilah are a case in point. Sikh men never cut their hair, nor do Rastafarians if they can preserve those dreaded dreadlocks. In Hindu culture, it is believed that the base of the hair shaft contains certain hormones that stimulate the opposite sex. This, combined with the notion that the woman’s hair is the most attractive part of her body, was the reason behind tonsuring, (shaving) of a woman after her husband’s death, so that no person would be attracted to her and thereby secure her chastity. Shaving heads in death camps and head-shaving as a form of punishment- especially for women with long hair, have been used as a method of defiling people and robbing them of their status from way back in time. Anyone who has read Geisha probably noticed descriptions of different hair lengths, styles, colouring of hair ornamentations that distinguished between novices, addepts and every category in between.

• So yes, gaining control over a person by means of their hair length, fringing, style etc is old hat one might say, or old hairy tales if you like. Anthropological Volumes have been written on power and hair in South East Asia.

As to colour that is also a long (pony) tail. Since red seems to be the colour of the week (or even weak being the least common hair color; only around one percent of the U.S. population has red hair a lot more British people manifest it, but it is not so common in Scandinavia. It seems to be caused by a mutation of the Mc1r gene that is believed to be recessive). I felt like a motorbike runaround here but shall drop that.

Henna is of course one of the oldest known hair colourants, mentioned in ancient Egyptian medical records, Canaanite and Hebrew texts as in the Bible’s Song of Songs and Song of Solomon. But a note of caution Henna is the Arabic word for RED a colour that was thought to bring “emotional tenderness”.

I myself prefer the idea of this artist who sees red as a power statement.

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He he… takkar for tilliten men noko friends blank isse triks kjem vel til å utebli ei lita stund til.. med mindre håret dett av av seg sjølv då og det skal en vel ikkje sjå heilt vekk i frå…:-)

SS er Synnøve Solbakken… og har vore eit forhatt samtale emne mellom meg og Vegard i lenger tid.. sidan eg då faktisk synast langt glatt stritt hår egentlig er det finaste på jenter.. Skikkelig hippie/ Nemi hår

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Viser seg gong på gong at hår er noko som betyr mykje for folk. Nesten ingen kommentarer til no, uten om frå Thomas då sjølvsagt, og så kjem ein usaklig debatt om hår og då skriv folk lange avhandlinger.

Kva om me starta opp ein diskusjon om krig og fred?

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Hola eller bonjour:)

VEGARD hold no godt kjeeft med ss ellers skal du få smake saksen når du kommer hjem!!!!

Kjærlig hilsen meg;)

ps!JEG ELSKER ELSKER ELSKER PARIS og gleder meg som en unge til mai OG TIL Å SE DERE…vær snill med hverandre så lenge!

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