*sighs in ecstasy*

[constance]

Regarding the very important matter of My Hair:

I've been growing it out for a year or two now, and for the last six months or so I've been toying with the idea of cutting it all off. Not because it looked particularly bad (because it looked fine), and not because it was particularly hard to deal with (because it wasn't); I could never put my finger on why I wanted it short, exactly, never come up with a good reason for cutting it short. I mean, it's convenient to have hair long enough to get out of your way with rubber bands! It's satisfying to grab your hair and lift your arms up as far as you can and still be holding your hair (I do not know why this is so satisfying, but it really, really is)! And it turns out that when one takes care of one's cinnamon-colored hair, it stays cinnamon-colored, rather than bleaching out to an unflattering apricot color on the ends! And so it kept growing, and I kept looking in the mirror and thinking, I really should get it cut off, and I kept not getting it cut off.

And then this morning I got up and was running errands, and I drove past the place I get my hair cut, and thought, hey, I could use a trim, and went inside to see if my hairdresser was (1) there and (2) accepting walk-ins, and she (1) was and (2) was, and so I got my hair shampooed and then when she asked what I wanted, instead of saying that I wanted a trim, I heard myself saying that I wanted my old short bob back. And as soon as I said it, I knew that it was the right thing to do. And she chopped off enough to ship off to Locks of Love, and shaped it up, and when it was all blown out and styled and she let me put my glasses back on (I can never tell what I'm getting till it's over, because my eyesight's so terrible), I suddenly knew why I kept thinking for those months that I needed to get my hair chopped off. It was because it wasn't me, that person with hair down her back, it was someone else, someone whose hair was kind of nice and who could put it up to get it out of her way. As soon as I saw my familiar face with my familiar hair in the mirror, I went all shivery with delight and recognition. My hairdresser probably thought I was crazy, I was so happy with that haircut.

I'm glad to have me back. Can you tell?

Comments

[tilney.livejournal.com]

Can we has photos PLZ?

[tofty.livejournal.com]

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE ADORABLE.

And funnily enough, I felt the same way about growing my hair out really long! I do not know why. I've never had long hair in my life. And I had it pixie-cut short for like five or six years. But now I look at my long hair in the mirror and think, "Yeah, this is me." Isn't it weird how that happens?

Anyway. To repeat: ADORABLE.

[coco-palmolive.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe how long it has been since I saw you last because this is the hair I remember on you. When I got to the line about being able to hold on to your hair with your arms fully extended, I was flabbergasted. I'm sorry there isn't a BEFORE shot. Nonetheless, you are right, that's your haircut, and I am only a teensy bit jealous of the very deserving person who is going to end up wearing your red hair around.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD are you telling me that if I'd only hung in there longer I'd have eventually got used to it? *weeps tears of blud* I love you with long hair, though -- it's such pretty hair -- and even though I've never seen pictures of the pixie cut, I can't help but think you made the right choice there.

♥♥♥♥!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

It really has been a long time, man! The last time I had my signature hair was ... maybe two years ago? I HAVE MISSED IT SO GODDAMN MUCH. And I never realized how much until saw myself in the mirror this morning.

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? That is the PERFECT HAIRCUT for you and I don't want to hear another word about long hair adlkja;sadjf;adj >:O

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT! IT LOOKS AWESOME!

You look really nice and glowy-skinned! :D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

:X :X :X

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Y THNK U!!!!!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 !!

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

there you are! ♥

[tofty.livejournal.com]

:O Yes it was me all along can you believe it?? ♥

[jossish.livejournal.com]

You are so smily and purty! :D :D :D

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

i loved the pictures of your long hair over the last two years -- what, all two of them? was it even two? maybe it was just one! -- but you had the bob when i first started talking to you, and i loved it then, and i love it still. :>

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

I read this post with growing horror until I came to your mention of Locks of Love and then immediately felt a wave of relief rush over me. I am very glad there was donation involved, which is what I plan to do* when I have my hair (below-the-waist, blonde, wavy) hair cut. Whenever that might be.

* although I plan to donate to an organization that does wigs for adult women...when I find one, that is.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

You ARE adorable. You don't look anything like I was expecting - which was also adorable, in a different kind of way - but I could just climb into that photo and hug you and make you go get a chocolate doughnut with me.

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

YayaYAYAYaAyayAYAyYAY! :D Oh, a short cut just feels so good! I bet you look ever so smart. I haven't read the thread yet, so I'm sure I'm just echoing everyone else, but--PICS PLEASE.

BTW: TOTALLY unrelated note: You know how you kept meaning to get a haircut? Well, I have kept meaning to tell you how much I adored the Little Britain discs you burned for me. I watched all the episodes in two long sittings!

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

OH LOOK a picture! Never mind. :X

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! I guess you do look more like you with short hair, now that you come to mention it. I never thought about it that way, seeing you with the longer hair; but now it seems kind of obvious.

And you do, indeed, look so pretty. ♥ Long, sideswept bangs are one of my favorite hairstyles ever. They are just so flattering.

[thalia]

Very nice! That is a terrific cut on you. And your hair is still longer than mine. [g]

[emily-spinach.livejournal.com]

It is you!

That's a great cut, and you look wonderful. I know that revelation exactly. I got my hair cut today, in fact, and it wasn't nearly as drastic a change as yours -- from getting in my eyes and being shaggy and lumpy and impossible to neat and pixie -- but for the last four or five haircuts, I haven't been able to convince the various stylists that I really want it that short. And finally, this new one got it with no hassle, and suddenly there I was in the mirror and every single day for the next several weeks is going to be easier because of it, I just know it.

So, hooray! I'm glad you're happy with it.

[21stcenturysei.livejournal.com]

I'm in coco's mental space: I can't believe it's been so long since I've seen you that you had hair-forever-long and I didn't even know! But I'm glad to contribute to the "how cute and happy you look" lovefest. You look adorable and happy...and that makes me happy, so thanks!

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

Yay for haircut that is YOU! Because you is awesome and needs hair that reinforces you in feeling that way.

I'm fighting with mine to find my hairstyle. I think it's going to go wild and crazy if it gets much shorter, and I think I want it much shorter, just not if it requires effort to apply sanity.

I'm glad you have you back.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

That's excellent! I'm so glad you lost some hair and regained your own image. :)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Oh! I didn't realize there was a photo. I like it, you look adorable. But I probably would have liked it long, too.