Uncovering My Hair
So, I'm considering uncovering my hair. Here's a few reasons:
1. Buying a sheitel is like buying a used car.
Except worse. This past summer, I needed a new sheitel and went to a lady in my old community. She showed me all these lovely $1200 & $900 models and then convinced me to buy one for 500 + cut and style. A few months later, it wasn't working anymore. By not working, I mean that it looks like a barbie doll's hair who has been through the dryer a few times. So I sent it back there during winter break, hoping she could work on it. She let me know that she could certainly wash it for me, but she couldn't send it back or anything, because it was such a piece of crap and *she* would never sell anyone that brand name sheitel. And I must have her confused with some inferior sheitel macher lady. Uh, okay. Anybody here ever pay for a used car and then have the salesman insist that he's never met you in his life because the car you paid for was such a lemon? Where's my lemon sheitel law?
2. My hair is now officially ugly.
Okay, I never had beautiful, thick wavy tresses to begin with, but it was decent enough. But 13 years of being kept in a pony tail all day under my sheitel is just too much. It's thin, brittle, scary-looking. I think a hair salon lady would probably run away in fear. Or maybe she would secretly videotape me and post it on some website for People of Sheitels.
3. I go swimming in the summer. And sometimes in the winter. With no sheitel. Mixed pools. So why should I bother? If I'm uncovering my hair at the beach, why would I wear somebody else's hair on my head every day? What's the point?
4. This community I'm living in seems somewhat more accepting. Okay, I would officially not be considered chabad anymore, but I'm not crying in bed at night over that. Women here wear hats to shul and some don't cover their hair afterwards. On the other hand, it looks like we might be moving back to our hometown in a year or so. Where I will be the pariah again, whatever.
That's about it for my reasons.
Now as to why I shouldn't do this. Uh... my husband won't be a happy camper. But maybe he'll get over it. Maybe he'll be okay if I just wear a hat to shul or something. It's also sort of a big step here, I'm a bit worried about it. It's not like pants, where you can wear a skirt one day and pants the next. You can't really wear a sheitel to work/school one day and then not the next day. People are not going to understand that and so the decision is a permanent one, for the most part.
What else? Will the klippos come and get me? Will leprosy and poverty and illness descend on my home? Will Haiti start getting aftershocks again?
What say you, Live Journal? Why should I keep my hair covered if it just makes me annoyed and self-concious?