Oh Sari, what fool thing have you done now? Why, I permed my hair on advice from my hairdresser...

The Whole Story:

Once upon a time, a Chinese man and an Australian woman of European-descent had a daughter. As a baby, the daughter had slightly Asian eyes. As she grew older, she resembled more and more her mother. In the tussle for control of physical features, Chinese genes battled Caucasian. In a less-then-well-planned move, the Chinese genes decided to launch their attack against the Caucasian genes at the base of the child's skull which was covered by her very, very curly hair. Unfortunately, the Chinese genes exhausted themselves battling against the Caucasian curly hair gene and the Chinese genes were not able to battle any further. Therefore, when the child grew up she looked completely Caucasian but for one lock of hair at the base of her skull that was dead straight.

Ok. Translation.

I have this one piece of hair that remains consistently straight and hangs beneath the rest of my hair which is (naturally) curly. It's almost as though the 50% of me that is Chinese tried to make my hair straight as a starting point for looking half Chinese but was so overwhelmed by the curls that it only managed one piece of hair and couldn't go on to make me look Asian anywhere else on my body =D

It is a source of frustration for me. I know it's there. I know it's hanging below and looks flat, or like I missed a spot when I was curling my hair etc. So, my hairdresser and I discussed it. We permed it to be much more in line with the rest of my curls.

Yay!