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When it’s time for a haircut, sometimes it’s time for a serious haircut.
Here’s what I started with …
Me, with longish hair, May 2011.
Once my hair starts hanging in my face and wigging out with humidity, that’s when I’m ready to hack it off. I don’t usually go for a drastic cut, but this time I was tempted to shave it all off. Here’s what I ended up with instead …
My short haircut, June 2011.
Erin, my favorite hairstylist at Fantastic Sam’s, asked if I wanted any length by the ears. Nope! Cut it short! And she did exactly what I wanted. (My other favorite hairstylist is my sister-in-law, who was the first to cut my hair this short while Erik and I were young. I used a pic of the two of us, me with this haircut from Sister-in-Law, to show Erin my desired cut.)
I’ve been thinking about my no-nonsense attitude toward my hair. I want it easy to care for; shampoo, blow-dry and brush and that’s that. No fuss. While my hair is attached to me, I’m not particularly attached to it. Perhaps it’s because I have so much hair that I have no fear of going bald. Actually, it might be fun to see how I’d look bald, plus I’d get to watch my hair grow back in. I have a sense of adventure when it comes to my hair.
My mom, in contrast, is very attached to her hair, and to my hair and my sister’s hair. When we were growing up, she wanted us to have it perpetually long, with no bangs. When I got bangs while in middle school, she went ballistic. Nor was she happy when I got it cut to shoulder-length and permed in high school. Her attachment to hair may stem from the fact that she lost so much of it due to the drugs she was given for her many polio surgeries. She ended up with very thin hair, which never grew back in. Having two daughters with long hair was a way to live out her own hair fantasies. Unfortunately, she ended up with a daughter who periodically likes to be shorn.
I like no-nonsense hair, too — but in my case that means long hair that I can whip up in a twist. Your new look is fabulous!
Thanks, jozie9!
I liked shaving my head for a while, only when it grows back, it goes through this aggravating stage when it sticks up like Alfalfa’s. So now we have the same haircut, only yours looks better.
The pics are stellar though, looks great.
LK – Never thought about the Alfalfa possibility. Maybe I won’t ever get my hair shaved, unless I really have to for some reason … like getting a giant wad of gum stuck in it.
You look great!
Thanks, Martha!
Looks good, Mary. For me, I have natural curl in my hair. My mother kept my sisters and my hair cut short. We battled about up through high school, and my senior portraits, even though ironically, she was more sympathetic to my younger brothers who wanted to grow out their hair. The stylist at Great Clips cut my hair WAY TOO SHORT last Christmas. Even though people told me to keep it short, I told them that due to my natural curl, it will NEVER be short again, because I was never allowed to do much with it anyway. I have more control over it when it is longer, and I just shampoo it and let it air dry . It’s still a little uneven right now though.
Claudette – Do you think daughters naturally want to go against what their mothers want them to do? My mom wanted me to have long hair; I want it short. Your mom wanted you to have short hair; you want it long.
Perhaps that’s one way we eek out our own identities.