Haircut!

I don’t get my hair cut very often. Typically, I’m “growing it out.” Except I’m not deliberately growing it out, I’m just not bothering to get it cut, and…it grows.

Why am I cutting it now? It’s mid-winter, and it’s cold. Every time I wash it (which is every single day, hello, I’m over 50, why do I still seem to need to wash my hair every day?) Anyway, every day I wash it and it’s all wet and cold. So I blow dry it, but I’m not a patient person, so I don’t stand there and blow dry it long enough, so it’s still damp a few hours later. It’s too much hair.

Here’s what it looked like this Monday before I got it cut. It’s been longer in the past, but still, it was a lot of hair.

Here’s the picture from 2006 that I texted to the hairdresser when she asked what I wanted done. It’s a picture of me holding Kai when he was a puppy in October of 2006.

Uh, wow, my hair was a lot redder back then! And Kai was such a cute puppy!

I told the hairdresser to just cut it, don’t bother with styling. So she cut it dry, which is unusual; usually they cut it wet. When I came out of the salon it looked totally chopped. (I can’t believe I’m willing to post this picture, but it makes a good story.)

I wasn’t too worried. I knew it would adjust and curl up as soon as it was washed. It looks particularly bad in that picture not because it was straight (I love straight hair). It looks bad because it is naturally wavy but the wave was mostly pulled out by the weight of the long hair pulling it down and it drying that way. That’s why it looks so awkward and chopped. It wasn’t naturally straight, it had dried while weighted down from the rest of the hair, before it was cut off.

Here it is while wet and I’m waiting to see what it will do. It’s already starting to curl up:

When I went home and washed it, it felt like there was nothing there! How short was it? It felt like I had bald patches in the back! I was washing nothing!

Just checking, ok, looks like there is hair back there…

Here it is that night:

I’m terrible at selfies, but the haircut is getting a good reception. Even John liked it! He said I look 10 years younger 🙂

For fun we tried to reenact the photo from the summer of 2006 that I took into the hairdresser as a guide for the haircut. Kai and I are both 13 years older and it shows! This is like the “before and after” advertisements, except “before” is better than “after”, lol.