Personal Narrative: How My Hair Changed My Life

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My parents just moved to California from Ohio because my dad got a job offering. I was mad because she had to leave all of her friends behind. It was my junior year in high school. I was not nervous about moving at all since she was popular back in Ohio and thought it would be the same way in California. It took a full day of driving to get there. Once they got there, she got little nervous because she was going to go to a school where she knew no one. Today is the day where I get to go to a new school and became popular again, I thought. I arrived at Valley High School to what I thought would be easy and become popular again, but I was wrong. No one wanted to be her friend and they all made fun of my hair. She ran to the bathroom and started to cry, …show more content…

We go home and I get ready for bed. “I’m feeling pretty confident about this one, but I doubt that anyone at Valley will like it”I thought. She wakes up and gets ready for school, I wonder how many people aren’t gonna like my hair this time I say. I arrive at school and people are still laughing at my hair. I honestly don’t know what is so wrong with my hair. I actually liked this hairstyle but I got to go back to the hair salon. I get through the day, and I tell my mom that I need to go back to the hair salon one last time. If they don’t like it I don’t care, because I don’t need to keep changing my hair for people I don’t even know. Being popular isn’t worth changing my hair three times.
The bus drops me off at my house, I tell my mom that we need to go back to the hair salon.
“This is the last time I’m taking you to the hair salon,” said Mom. “If the kids at school don’t like my hair this time, then I’m done trying to impress them. It’s my hair not theirs so what do they care?” I said. We arrive at the hair salon, I picked out the hairstyle that was pink and straight. After the hairdresser did my hair, I fell in love with

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