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The one opinion everyone's head is legally required to have.
means The way hair is cut, shaped, or arranged — the self-chosen or stylist-assisted architecture sitting on top of your skull.
from A straightforward compound: 'hair' (Old English hær, shared among Germanic languages) plus 'style,' which traces back through French 'stile' to Latin 'stilus,' the pointed writing tool scribes used — a word that drifted from 'how you write' to 'how you do anything with flair.' Put them together and you get a 19th-century-ish English coinage for 'how hair is done,' no deeper mystery than that — the romance is all borrowed from 'style,' not invented fresh for hair.
- statistical truth
- most people wear the same one for decades
- first impression
- judged before your actual face registers
- bad haircut math
- two weeks to fix, two days to ruin
- power move
- changing it signals a life change, real or imagined