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Short hair on girls
I wish i was a better writer so i'd be able to get out all my thoughts on this subject, but i know a lot of you are so maybe you can help me
Last year i cut my hair short, pretty short, maybe two inches long? And i loved it. I loved the way it looked, how easy it was to take care of, and how it made me feel. I felt more confident, more myself. I cut my hair short for ME, not for my parents, not for my boyfriend, not for anyone else in my life. It was my hair, and i like it.
Afterwards i got a lot of positive comments from strangers, men and women, saying they loved the short hair, and (women) said they wished they could get up the nerve to cut off their locks. But from the people i knew (mostly at work and my parents), i got mostly just negative feedback. All the guys would always say things like "you looked so much better with longer hair" or "why don't you grow it out? girls are prettier with long hair" or my personal favorite "you are woman! women have long hair". And the women i work with would just question why i would cut off my hair and remind me that men liked women with long hair. And i didn't care at all at first, but after months and months of this, it did start to really wear on me. I just wanted everyone to stop reminding me how i had this potential prettiness that i was just cutting off.
I started growing out my hair again, mostly because i'm cheap and lazy, but also partly because i was hoping if everyone i worked with saw i was growing it out, they'd shut up about my hair. Of course that didn't happen. Everyday i come in and someone makes a comment congratualating me (really) on growing my hair out, or how cute it is now that i can put it in a tiny ponytail. And everyday i just get more and more angry so tomorrow i'm cutting it off again.
(this was written over a year ago. but i'm posting it to remind myself of this time in my life! it was saved from a draft for almost two years! My boyfriend is now my husband, and i'm growing my hair out again simply because i'm still too cheap to get it cut. I trim it myself sometimes. I do miss my short hair tho.)
I wish i was a better writer so i'd be able to get out all my thoughts on this subject, but i know a lot of you are so maybe you can help me
Last year i cut my hair short, pretty short, maybe two inches long? And i loved it. I loved the way it looked, how easy it was to take care of, and how it made me feel. I felt more confident, more myself. I cut my hair short for ME, not for my parents, not for my boyfriend, not for anyone else in my life. It was my hair, and i like it.
Afterwards i got a lot of positive comments from strangers, men and women, saying they loved the short hair, and (women) said they wished they could get up the nerve to cut off their locks. But from the people i knew (mostly at work and my parents), i got mostly just negative feedback. All the guys would always say things like "you looked so much better with longer hair" or "why don't you grow it out? girls are prettier with long hair" or my personal favorite "you are woman! women have long hair". And the women i work with would just question why i would cut off my hair and remind me that men liked women with long hair. And i didn't care at all at first, but after months and months of this, it did start to really wear on me. I just wanted everyone to stop reminding me how i had this potential prettiness that i was just cutting off.
I started growing out my hair again, mostly because i'm cheap and lazy, but also partly because i was hoping if everyone i worked with saw i was growing it out, they'd shut up about my hair. Of course that didn't happen. Everyday i come in and someone makes a comment congratualating me (really) on growing my hair out, or how cute it is now that i can put it in a tiny ponytail. And everyday i just get more and more angry so tomorrow i'm cutting it off again.
(this was written over a year ago. but i'm posting it to remind myself of this time in my life! it was saved from a draft for almost two years! My boyfriend is now my husband, and i'm growing my hair out again simply because i'm still too cheap to get it cut. I trim it myself sometimes. I do miss my short hair tho.)