Longer, in fact, than it's been in thirteen years. Yep, thirteen years! It was the end of 1995, beginning of 1996 that I was in my first year of college, and my hair went from very close to what it is now (even a similar style, gasp!) to shoulder-length. By the time I started my second year of college
, my hair was completely chopped off (you know what I mean). It was liberating, to say the least, to be done with the hair! To not have to worry about dealing with the long, thick stuff was, at long last, a relief I didn't even know I needed. A weight had been lifted! I never really had a knack (or, know-how) for doing my hair, for taking advantage of its length and thickness, to do some really fun and interesting things with the help of product and accoutrements. Nor did I have a desire to learn.This time around (after having had short hair for so long, I finally made the growing out thing happen), I am having more fun with my hair. It's gotten to be quite wavy as I've gotten older, and it really doesn't take much effort to make it pretty. Especially on good days, which are few and far between, I am quite proud of how my hair looks when I leave the house. But, because it's heavy and thick, it's only really pretty for an hour or two. Then it falls flat and looks dull and uninspired. Everyone who "knows" my hair, say it's beautiful. One of my dearest friends even calls it "goddess hair". It's really not that nice! Pretty, sometimes, yes. But not spectacular.
When I had short hair, I was proud of it. I was proud to not be hiding behind my hair, and that I didn't need a full head of hair to be considered "pretty". With the short hair, I got more compliments on my eyes and my smile than I have in the 2 1/2 years I've been growing my hair out. I attribute that, of course, somewhat to the fact that I haven't really grown into my hair yet, and I just haven't found a style that accentuates my eyes, etc.
So, I'm setting out to find a haircut that keeps some of the length I've worked so hard to attain (by "working so hard", I mean not getting frustrated and chopping it off every other day for at least the first year and a half of growing it out), but gives me a style that is "me". I really feel, in my heart of hearts, that having short hair is the only time I've ever really felt like "me". But I'm willing to give this a try a little bit longer..the longer hair thing.
So, this is what I'm thinking:
Not really sure what's going on here in specific hair cutting terms, but I like the shape. It seems to take advantage of the thicker, fuller hair type, and I like the idea of the long in the front, at least at the sides. I'm not really wanting long, long bangs. They'll just irritate me. Which is why I like the next two...
This is really adorable. Just not sure I could pull it off. I love the asymmetry and the random, organic layers. It has a fun shape, and this girl obviously has natural wave like I do, so I'm sure my hair would take on similar movement.
This is probably my favorite, in the sense that it has all of the things I like: the wave, the asymmetry again, and it keeps some length (it could probably be adjusted to have even more length, especially on the longer side).I remember when I had short hair, the only reason I ever wanted to grow it out was so that I could try some fun hairstyles like these. Hairstyles that were a little longer. But I could never muster up the patience to grow it out long enough to do one of these types of styles. And, now that it's long, I'm afraid to cut too much.
Ah! It's so silly. It's just hair!
I'll be sure and post pictures of the new hair when it's done. I'm excited to see what we come up with!
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