Almost a year ago I posted the above picture on my instagram with the caption 'One day.' early in the week. I got an over whelming response from friends and family telling me not to do because my hair is so pretty and long, and not to cut my curls off. I mean my hair was pretty long and beautiful. I have naturally wavey/curly hair and it use to be down to my waist, but after experiments with bleach and color (later post) it suffered from a lot of damage and was a little below my shoulders and fried and just all around unhealthy, at this point. So after staring at the picture all week, I asked one of my teachers if she would so kindly cut all my hair off. This may seem a little weird but at the time I was going to cosmetology school, so my teacher knew what she was doing.
With a herd of people (literally) standing around watching, I got 7 inches of my hair cut off. In the collage below you can see the before (top right) the amount of hair cut off (bottom right) and the end result (left).
As someone who has always had long hair her whole life, let me just tell you, it was the most liberating thing I have ever done. I felt free. Now I understand why Anne Hathaway and Emma Watson said that if it wasn't for movie rolls they would always keep their hair short. It gives you an automatic confidence boost. I had random women coming up and telling me they love my hair and they wish they could do it. Its a great feeling. But, for me, after a while the feeling of being free wore off, and I started to miss being able to bun my hair and curl it and braid it and do all sorts of fun things with it, that I use to be able to do all the time. At the same time however, I adore how hassle free and easy my hair is.
I have been growing my hair out since December and I almost have a 'Bob', and I am debating cutting it short again, or letting it grow out to where it was. It is a daily debate in my head, going back and forth. I really do miss the long.....These are the thoughts that keep me up at night...so exciting!
