A new look for a new leaf

Jul 09, 2008 23:00

Stephen rolled his eyes when I made him take these photos. He said, "None of your friends are going to notice that you cut your hair. Not even if you post the photos and say 'HEY GUYS! I CUT MY HAIR!!!!!' They're all going to be like, uh ... sure you did. It was really long before and it's still really long. Looks the same."

But I told him I have more faith in you guys than that. Especially those that know me in person. You remember how I had my hair layered back in Decemeber? It was cut really short in the front (by reall short I mean about shoulder length) and still quite long in the back (significantly past my bra strap) in a multitude of layers.

Anyway, it drove me bananas to have it layered so much, especially because the longest hair was also the straightest hair. So when I became a curly girl, it was ridiculous looking the way the longest, straightest, darkest hair would just hang underneath the curls like it was fake. As if I had someone else's extensions put in.

Since it's been bugging me for months, and I knew that we were moving an hour away from the only hairstylist I've ever been able to trust, I went in today and had her even it up.

No, I wasn't brave enough to have it all cut to just below my shoulders, but the layers are mostly gone. There's probably now only a 1 to 2 inch difference between the shortest and longest hairs, instead of the 6-7 inch difference that I had before.

It feels incredibly short to me. But I've come to accept that to the rest of the world, long hair is long hair. You can cut 18 inches off and as long as it's still below your shoulders, no one will notice, as your hair is still "long." I think I'd have to get it up above my chin before anyone would do a double take ... who knows. Maybe some day I'll flip out and get it pixie cut or something. ;-)




Stephen had to take these photos like 28 times because first he had the camera setting wrong and then the light was bad, and then I moved and it was blurry. So by the time we got this shot, he was not interested in the fact that a) I look dumb and b) you can see my mom's insane collection of shower cleaner in the background.




Here's the back. There's about 7 inches gone from where it was longest. I think it looks a ton better now that it goes straight across my back instead of hanging in a point ... previously it was below the next lowest white stripe on my husband's comfy shirt that I comendeered due to it being clean and hanging up nicely in the bathroom when I got out of my shower.

PS: Yes, that is my jade necklace. Nothing from the peanut gallery please ;-)

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