Hair (Oh say can you see my eyes? If you can...)
Mm, sleep, you taste so good.
In other news, I have achieved the goal I semi-unofficially started out with years ago when I started to grow out my hair: it is now long enough to sit on. Just barely, I'll grant you, but still. It's about three feet long measured from the crown of my head.
So now the question is, what do I do with it? I'm going to cut it off at some point, of course. Probably donate it, though I've been toying with the idea of finding out how much human hair actually sells for. I've heard it's a lot. However, another idea I've been contemplating is making two donations. They each have to be at least ten inches long, but I should have enough hair for that, even granting that I'll have to measure from the nape of my neck instead of from my crown. Or I could donate all of it in one shebang. I mean, how often do places get two feet of hair all at once? (Especially hair like mine, which is still super-healthy and thick despite its length. Not to brag.)
So yeah. These are my options. I want to keep at least some of the length for the wedding, so I can do cool things with it. I should probably talk to the person who's doing my hair and find out how much hair would be easiest to deal with, or how much would be necessary to do what I want with. That might be important to know. ^_^
I'm also debating what to do with what's still attached to my head after I cut it. I mean, I could try to actually style it for the first time in, um, most of a decade. Like, keep it medium-length and get layers, or something, instead of pixie-ing it. The problem is, that idea doesn't appeal to me much. One, I like to be unusual in the small ways that I can, which includes having hair of unusual lengths (for my age, anyway). Two, I feel like I'm knuckling under to the beauty ideal, and I'm shackled to that in so many ways already (some of which I have no control over at all, like my body type and my skin color) that I don't want to voluntarily get any closer to it. On the other hand, it'd be interesting to do something different (for me at least), and I suppose I could always cut it off further if I wanted to. I'm just curious, I guess. I've rarely had medium-length hair, and when I have, I haven't done anything with it. Of course, I'm also not really one for doing my hair. *grin.
But yeah. The entertaining part of this post is: my hair is long enough to sit on!
In other news, I have achieved the goal I semi-unofficially started out with years ago when I started to grow out my hair: it is now long enough to sit on. Just barely, I'll grant you, but still. It's about three feet long measured from the crown of my head.
So now the question is, what do I do with it? I'm going to cut it off at some point, of course. Probably donate it, though I've been toying with the idea of finding out how much human hair actually sells for. I've heard it's a lot. However, another idea I've been contemplating is making two donations. They each have to be at least ten inches long, but I should have enough hair for that, even granting that I'll have to measure from the nape of my neck instead of from my crown. Or I could donate all of it in one shebang. I mean, how often do places get two feet of hair all at once? (Especially hair like mine, which is still super-healthy and thick despite its length. Not to brag.)
So yeah. These are my options. I want to keep at least some of the length for the wedding, so I can do cool things with it. I should probably talk to the person who's doing my hair and find out how much hair would be easiest to deal with, or how much would be necessary to do what I want with. That might be important to know. ^_^
I'm also debating what to do with what's still attached to my head after I cut it. I mean, I could try to actually style it for the first time in, um, most of a decade. Like, keep it medium-length and get layers, or something, instead of pixie-ing it. The problem is, that idea doesn't appeal to me much. One, I like to be unusual in the small ways that I can, which includes having hair of unusual lengths (for my age, anyway). Two, I feel like I'm knuckling under to the beauty ideal, and I'm shackled to that in so many ways already (some of which I have no control over at all, like my body type and my skin color) that I don't want to voluntarily get any closer to it. On the other hand, it'd be interesting to do something different (for me at least), and I suppose I could always cut it off further if I wanted to. I'm just curious, I guess. I've rarely had medium-length hair, and when I have, I haven't done anything with it. Of course, I'm also not really one for doing my hair. *grin.
But yeah. The entertaining part of this post is: my hair is long enough to sit on!