Hair Today

As I was watching the old Karate Kid movie yesterday with 7 other people in one crowded room - call it vacation with children - I realized how much I miss the days when girls and young women had a little volume in in their hair, not like today when they all wear it slicked back like Louisa May Alcott.  And to think the kids look at our high school pictures and laugh. Wait another 20 years and see how they feel about their old hairstyles!)I mean seriously, here’s how the author of Little Women looked.It's just a tad severe, right? Even Jennifer Lopez looks bad, like a bunny with its ears cut off, without more hair around the face.I like hair like Elizabeth Shue had as Ali when she was offering Daniel-San the inspiration he needed (above.)Look at Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza:And OK maybe Demi Moore went a little too far when she was just starting outBut seriously: who doesn’t think Nicole Ritchie here doesn’t look a whole lot better than Jaime King?

Just sayin'!

OK it's another beautiful day on this my very last of vacation and little feet are thundering around on the other side of the wall. Time to dress in my Camp Director suit, fry up some bacon and kick everyone outdoors!

OK DON'T Cut Me!

Jeeze, never have a facelift. Remember how Demi Moore used to look? Even in the over-40 years she was lovely but not lovely enough it seems.

Never MIND that she now has as set of giant fake chompers, she also must've wanted the plumper cheeks of youth back or something because it looks to me like she had the skin on her face picked up and filled with foam or something. Plus she’s had her nose carved down so it looks like the nose of a witchy old lady and I mean come ON: Mother Nature does this for us so why would anyone ASK medicine to do it?

I’ve always marveled at the change in the face of Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda in the all-too-short years of her public life before mental troubles landed in her in the 'home' where she burned to death, leaving a single ballet behind.(Ballet became her obsession in her late 20s, though she was years too old to take it up.) She once had that same plump look. Then all of a sudden she looked well, hatched-faced.

This all began occurring to me when I was talking here about Linda Evans and saying how for years I had a hair-style like hers. (You can see it by clicking here. I call it Dave and His Cheeseball Wife.)

But here’s how Linda once looked.

Darling, right? Natural, approachable - basically gorgeous, right?

Well here’s how she looks now with her old rival Joan Collins:

Goin' for that rounder young face, see. Goin' for God-knows-what in the lips department. She looks like she put her mouth on the exhaust pipe of a Harley after a long hot ride.

Now I'll admit it: I used to look in the mirror and think Man, if I could just find the money to have those docs hike up THIS old face! Just untack the carpeting, give it a good stretch, nail it down again and boom, there I’d be again, little Terry Sheehy just as she looked singin’ in the Special Chorus at Lowell High School.

Instead I look like Zelda myself these days and now after that incident at Christmas my family has taken away all my matchbooks. (click here for that one.)

But what are you gonna do hey? We've lived through what we've lived through and our faces just mark the journey.