My hair is unruly at best. It’s doesn’t do what I want it to do. Most of the time, I’m too lazy to straighten it, I see no point in curling it, and I refuse to dye it. Many of us, guys and girls alike, feel the need to make our hair look “good.” Well, sometimes, I don’t want to make my hair look good. I just want it to cooperate.
When it doesn’t cooperate, I throw a chunk of it up in a bobby pin and call it quits. Maybe tomorrow it will work out. Maybe not.
My cousin, Hannah, has this really long, really straight hair. It’s gorgeous. So, I asked her about hair. She gave me a simple three-word answer: people and colors.
Simple. People have hair in different colors. I get it. What about the hair on our arms? That’s hair too, but I bet few people think of those hairs when asked.
So, why do we have arm hair? Or leg hair?
Well, here’s the deal: body hair retains your unique chemical signature, which allows people to sense and respond to you. One of the most important forms of human-to-human communication is through scent. Weird, huh?
According to Dr. Bruce Perry, your body releases chemicals called pheromones that create a unique scent to you. Babies are known to recognize their mother’s scent on a blouse and pick it out of a group of blouses based on scent alone. Cool, hey?
When we’re afraid or aroused, our pheromones change. Dogs can “smell” fear and it’s very likely that humans can too. So there, hair is not simply for looking good or being stylish. It serves a real purpose. More than one purpose, too.
The hair in our armpits, for instance, reduces skin-to-skin friction and I’m pretty positive that hair tends to keep our heads warm, too.
So, while I’m waiting for hairstyles to change to the awkwardly wavy trend, I guess I’ll just breathe in the pheromones.
Go ahead, let your hair down!
Great read in here Mevia. I think this is the advantage of pheromones.
ReplyDeleteI really let my hair down because I love it too :)
pheromone advantage