"your hair is like a flock of goats frisking down the slopes of Gilead." --Song of Songs 4:1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer may be responsible for popularizing "bad hair day"? or maybe it's a November 23, 1962 Peanuts strip: "Violet's Bad Hair Day."

Hair's there. Gotta deal with it.

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A seriously bad hair day:
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More horrible hair:
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More lace, less hair:
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More hair, but... imagine her as a Deadwood character
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Another hair disaster:
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And some hair just won't behave no matter what:
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...and some can be tamed:
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Not sure what to make of this, almost West African in its sensibilities:
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For some, the phrase "crowning glory" makes sense:
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This one bespeaks an independent mind and some modern portraiture conventions:
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In general, men care much less about hair. In this one, it's hard to say whether the beard is more or less regrettable than the hair:
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...and the absence is also a possibility:
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One can also opt for the poetical look:
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Steadman Young's hair had a mind of its own:
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Another style that will never catch on:
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Hard to say which is the more remarkable:
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