Wigging Out

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It sounds silly, but we all wonder: Would changing my hair change my life? After a lifetime of playing it safe at the salon, Molly Young spins the color wheel—and discovers a spectrum of alter egos.
The problem with my hair begins with my face. My face, I am sorry to report, clashes with any hairstyle other than a medium-length and nonlayered one, which is less a style than a state of nature. I discovered this a few years ago, when a makeup artist stepped back from my face midbronzing, squinched her eyes, and said, "You know, I thought you had a square face, but it’s actually sort of a pyramid." A pyramid? Yes, she said, a pyramid. She was right about my face—it’s widest at the jawline, like Luke Wilson’s—and I’ve never quite forgiven her for it.