It's not a forehead...it's an 8 head!

Listen. A girl has to know her imperfections. I certainly know mine - and there are plenty of them. But I try to hide them -- this is the magic of being a girl. It's something we're taught to do almost as soon as we're taught to talk, walk, and brush our own teeth.

One of them that was brought to my attention at a very young age, is the fact that I have a high forehead. No matter how much I wanted to be like my little girlfriends when I was young, with their bangs off their forehead in pretty little barrettes -- or pulled back into a pretty headband -- I could not pull it off. Oh, and I tried. Despite my mother's continual urging of me pushing my bangs back on to my face when I would pull them back, I was convinced that she was wrong, wrong, wrong - and that I did not look silly with my hair off my forehead. So, one year -- it was third grade actually, I thought "I'll show her". I snuck two yellow barrettes that would match the dress she painstakingly chose for me to wear on my picture day in school. And then, when they passed out those little black plastic combs for us to comb our hair with, I parted my bangs down the middle and snapped those little barrettes, one on each side. I felt proud, even jubilant when I walked away after the flash went off. I wore my hair that way for the remainder of the day, of course removing them before getting home so as not to let onto my "surprise".

Well, the joke was on me. About a month later when we received our class photos, I was crushed to see just how horrific -- yes, horrific -- I looked. I was devastated, and of course knew my Mother would not be happy when she saw it. And yes, she had quite the laugh over the picture when I got home. But she hung that picture up -- and gave them out to the rest of the family as if it was a gorgeous portrait -- and that photo is still to this day, a running joke in my family.

So here's what I don't understand. When I see a girl who clearly needs bangs and doesn't use them.
Let's use Giada DeLaurentis for an example. Look at her:













She's flipping gorgeous. Phenomenal figure, beautiful smile... soon to be a Mom!
But really, the girl needs some bangs!!

Or how about Elizabeth Reaser, who plays "Rebecca / Ava" on Grey's Anatomy:










I'm sorry, I get embracing the forehead....but cover it up!!!

Ladies...don't walk...run to your stylist.

And for god's sake -- get yourself some bangs!!!