hair

HAIR

Hair is one of our most powerful symbols of individual and group identity-powerful first because it is physical and therefore extremely personal, and second because although personal it is also public, rather than private. Furthermore, hair symbolism is usually voluntary rather than imposed or given. Finally, hair is malleable, in various ways, and therefore singularly apt to symbolize both differentiation between, and change in, individual and group identities.

People do so many things to their hair nowadays, and meanings are so varied, that it would seem to be impossible to see any social order in the range and variation. All is individual. Punks and Skins, Rastafarians, balding sixties Hippies and young nineties Yuppies, wet looks, braids, dreadlocks, crew cuts, dyed blondes, beards, ponytails, men with toupees, women with wigs.

Hair grows all over the body, in terms of body symbolism there are only three zones of social significance: head hair (the scalp); facial hair (beards, moustaches, eyebrows, eyelashes, sideburns); and body hair (chest hair, arm-pit or axillary hair, leg, arm, back and pubic hair). Each of these zones has both gender and ideological significance.The hair same as the face. It is also made up, put on and subject to fashion. It is public, but also intensely private and intimate. How about your hair?

the face

The Face

What is the face ? the face, as unique, physical, malleable and public, is the prime symbol of the self. It is unique, for no two faces are identical, and it is in the face that we recognize each other, and identify ourselves. Our faces are pictured in our passports and identification papers.

The face is physical, and therefore personal, yet it is also made up, put on and subject to fashion. It is public, but also intensely private and intimate.

Furthermore, the face indicates the age, gender and race of the self with varying degrees of accuracy, also our health and socio-character and personality. The face is the location both of four of our five senses-sight, taste, smell, and hearing-and for our intakes of food, drink and air. It is also the source of verbal communication, and an important source for non-verbal communication.

“We didn’t need dialogue, we had faces”

The face is also identify of beauty. Every human need their face are beautiful. The power of beauty in society very important for woman and for men. One indication of this is cosmetic surgery. So how much you need to beauty for your face ?

“if you beauty, therefore you are”. ........Aren’t you?