At Least 2000 years old

"If the number of all acorns on all oak-trees,
If all the fauna of the Alps, if all the bees
On Hybla are beyond computation,
So are hair-styles -- every day there's a new creation.
Take the "careless look," which suits a lot of girls:
To judge by their wild curls
You'd think they'd been slept on all night, but they've just
This moment been carefully mussed!"

I swore I had a moment of insight when I discovered the "messy neat" look twenty years ago.  And if insights can be repeated independently, then it may remain so but if insights must be unique then alas, I am but a repeater - a stealer.  For Ovid named it two millennia ago.

He names much more, boldly calling out the games that people play - encouraging them even.  He doles out advice I thought again was mine alone, standing as he does on his rhyming poet's throne.  Yet these tidbits, these offers he gives - I'm not so sure he speaks as he lives.  One suspects from the tone and the wit - that he jests about the common endeavor of dating, calling bullshit.