It stops by itself!

[constance]

My hair's longer right now than it has been for the past sixteen years or so, years I've spent alternating between pixie haircuts and short bobs, usually (because I'm well-organized this way) the short-short haircuts in winter and the longer cuts in summer. Today, for the first time in who-knows-how-long, I was able to scrape all of it back into a ponytail! No little tufts too short to be pulled all the way back! Granted, the ponytail is only two inches long, but hey, whatta ya want from me? It's a very exciting time for me, the era of the growing of the hair.

So of course all I can think of is cutting it short. Mmm, spiky little pixie cut! For once, during the summer months when the practical people get their hair cut off! The idea is so tempting I can hardly stand it. But! At the same time! Longer hair! And it doesn't even look as terrible as my growing-out hair has in the past!

So what do you think? Cut it all off, or let it keep growing?

Comments

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

I almost always wear my hair long, but especially in the summer because I like the ability to pull it all completely off my face and neck, which you can never acheive with short hair unless you whack it off with absolutely no mercy. I honestly think long hair is less trouble, because you don't have to spend much time styling it, and I love the way it feels.

Of course, for my big event tomorrow I am simply smooshing a fancy hat on top of it, but I love any excuse to wear a fancy hat anyway. Then who's thinking about my limp hair underneath anyway?

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Well, since you've gone and gotten it long enough for a ponytail, why not grow it out some more and see what you think of it, just for kicks, especially since it's behaving itself thus far?

I totally understand the siren's call of the spiky pixie cut- it's all I had, except for a couple of ill-fated grow-out attempts, from college till about 4 years ago. It's longish now, and I have frequent and powerful yearnings to cut it all off so that I don't have to feel it moving around and getting in my way and just being a heavy presence on my head. But then it'll get itself into a docile, comely mood, or it'll be one of those 4 minutes a day I'm unclothed enough for it to do that nice-feeling tickle between my shoulder blades, and I'll be glad I let it grow. But man, if I couldn't skin it back into a ponytail or a hideous granny bun, there'd be no way I'd have survived this long.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I have long hair because my mother forced me to pixie-cut until I was in high school. But I sort of secretly long for short hair...except I look terrible with it.

Grow it out! You can always cut it later!

[submarine.livejournal.com]

I vote for growing it out too!!! You can join me on my quest to have shoulder-length (AND PAST?!?) hair for the first time since I was thirteen!

[submarine.livejournal.com]

and by that I mean it will no longer be my quest but OUR QUEST!!!

OT, but...

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! Hope it was wonderful. Have a great year. :-)