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Stripped
Tales of the naked city, from a Las Vegas dancer.
September 15, 2009 · 11:31 PM
Hue’s on first: The graying is ceaseless, as is the analysis
By Justice
Taking a closer look in the mirror, I’ve been examining my gray hair lately. It’s whiter, really. It’s white and defiantly thick like cat whiskers. I’ve grown stray white hairs since I was about 17 years old. Over the past year, I’ve been getting my hair professionally dyed various hues of light colors that are unnatural to me and that look especially unnatural next to my racially ambiguous features. It is fun and expensive to buy a new look.
It’s really too expensive in a recession. I, however, felt like it was more costly to not be blond in an increasingly competitive market. Whether gentlemen actually prefer blondes or not, I imagine that they prefer them in strip clubs and believing something works is often all it takes for it to actually work. At least I believe that’s how these things work in the bizarre world of stripping. It probably has something to do with confidence. Either way, I was blond.
A few months ago, I went back to my natural and vulgarly common color. With a few inches of my natural color grown in, I noticed that over the past year while I’ve been dying my hair, the growth of my grays increased exponentially. Clusters where there had been only strays. The occurrence of grays spread like a crop virus seizing my youth. I don’t mind the hairs so much. I’m just surprised. It might be genetic or it might be stress.
Either way, I’m bored and I’m going to pay a visit to my colorist soon. She told me that with the recession, many of her customers are going back to their natural colors. Could this mean an increase in brunettes? Are blondes endangered species in the stripping ecosystem?
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4 Comments So Far
What Recession ? The fed chairman just said it has ended !
Yeah right !
I dont know why blondes are such a big deals, i think when a woman is pretty she is pretty whatever her skin colour, hair colour is... My take anyways...
I hoep the competition is ok for you... I guess its during harder tiems that you see who is reliable in your life and who is not, that is alos during those times that u see really agressive behaviour...
LEss money and more girls working for it is definitely NOT great but at the end of the day you probably still make more money than a lot of ppl on weekends...
I read on bloomberg an article about a dancer at Rick's cabaret saying her earnings (in septemebr 08 compared to septemebr 07) had gone from 8K (before tipout) to 6K (before tipout) so i guess if she worked like 4days a week its not this bad... It is a difficult job for sure and working more to get the same thing is not fun !
But u hang in there and u will prevail :)
seb
Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 9/16/09 at 3:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, for us geezers it would be a thrill to see a youthful, sexily enhanced body dancing in a cheerleader's pony tail and silver hair. Don't worry about the silver threads among the gold...they will aid you in gravitas at your first book signing, when you have overtaken Lily Burana as our foremost stripping satirist.
Posted by: rrbill on 9/17/09 at 8:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Happiness is <--> a good haircut every two weeks, than watching your neighbor fall off his roof.
Ancient Chinese Proverbs
Posted by: cypher on 9/20/09 at 11:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sweet Justice:
After 25 years of frequenting strip clubs, I can assure you that your hair is not what we're looking at.
Posted by: Awol737 on 9/23/09 at 5:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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