Monday, September 17, 2012

The Hair Affair

     How many of my readers out there have luscious long hair?  How many of you have short hair?  How many of you have a haircut that you aren't sure about but you keep because you are afraid to do anything else with?   It's amazing how attached to our hair we can get.  Depending on what we can make it do and how we feel with it, we can feel everything from feeling like a Victoria's Secret model to the cute girl next door and everything in between.  Some of us find a hair cut that we are comfortable with and absolutely love, others spend a while changing styles and lengths looking for that perfect cut that makes us feel fabulous.  Then there are those few who have had long hair all their lives and are afraid to cut it because that's how they identify themselves.  This used to be me.
     OK, let me be honest, I didn't realize that I was identifying myself with my long hair.  I had really long hair when I was in high school.  Long, being that the ends of my hair brushed my belt line of my pants that were low riders to begin with.  When I decided to become a runner and do track and cross country I cut it to the middle of my back to make it more manageable.  A short time later I came to the realization that it was still to heavy to run with and cut it to my shoulders.  I liked the cut, it was a cut little bob, the ends curled under on their own without any styling and I could still pull it back into a pony tail for sports.  Feeling confident, I would go about my regular day until one day I was mistaken for someone else on a couple different occasions because I wasn't recognized because I cut my hair and looked like everyone else.  This got to me.  I was always been known for the long hair that I had, until that point, for the previous 10 years.  I hated the idea of being mistaken for someone else instead of being recognized for me.  I decided to start letting my hair grow back out determined to get it long again.  I did this for a few years then I would cut it convinced that I liked it better short, then I would run into someone I knew and they would gush over how cute my hair looks but how gorgeous it was when I let it grow long.  I went back and forth like this for years.  A couple of months ago I looked at my husband and asked him what I should do with my hair because the maintenance and the random lost strands were getting ridiculous.  My hair was just past the mid of my back at this point.  He told me to shave my head and laughed.  I told him no way, to which he replied that he always thought I looked cute with short hair.  I decided to go for it, I figured that if my hubs thought I was cute with short hair then I could do it.  I went and got it cut to my shoulders and layered.  It looked good and received rave reviews from the hubby who was relieved that he wouldn't be pulling 2 foot long hairs out of his shirts anymore.  I liked it and I felt good about it.  It was easy to style and I could still get it to pull up into a wimpy pony.  Last week however, I noticed how much it had grown in the last couple of months and wanted to get it cut again.  Once again, I asked the hubby for his opinion and he told me that it was my hair and to do what I want.  I showed him a picture of a cute isometric cut that was on Pinterest.  He told me to go for it.  So I did...... I LOVE IT!!!!!   After I got it cut, I sent him a picture with my phone.  He said he liked it and that i have always looked good with short hair.  He also said that I have always identified myself with my long hair, to which I replied that the long hair always made me feel like a Victoria's Secret model.  You want to knw what he said to me?  My wonderful husband said to me that I was a Victoria Secret model, just one that didn't have time to fuck with her hair.  I love him.  But it was the comment he made about me identifying myself that stuck with me.  I always felt that to feel like me and to feel pretty I had to have long hair and I realize I don't.  I know I'm not the only person out there that has felt this way either. (Hairdressers wouldn't make the money they do if I was.)  So I sit here with my cute and fab hair cut feeling sexxy telling all the other beautiful women out there that feel that same way I did to take a chance and try a new hair cut if you think it will make you feel amazing.  If you have had long hair all your life and you want to try a short style, do it, hair grows back.  If you don't like the new cut grow it out.  Try everything.......We constantly change our nail color, our clothes, hair color evey thing....why not try a new hairstyle?
     So I leave you all with this.....Do as you will with your head, throw caution to the wind and try that drastic new cut, because you just might like it.  If you don't, the great thing about hair is that it always grows back for you to try something new with it again.  make yourself look as beautiful as you feel. Until next time........