Today I Brought In a Photo

I usually do not bring in a photo when I get my hair cut. But today I felt like it. So I did. This is what I want my hair to look like. The hairdresser stares at it. We can do that. I won’t look like the model, of course, I say. The model is about twenty-one. I am seventy-one. And I want that pretty pop of color in my bangs, I tell her. That extra pop of color is called highlights. They took me two extra hours And I can barely see them. I kept staring at the twenty-year-old in the photo the entire time. Hoping I would look twenty-one in a few hours.