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So, for about ten years now (maybe six or seven), I’ve been wanting to cut my hair short.
How short? Really short.
But there were a few things holding me back. First off, there was my fifth grade haircut. Second off, there was my college haircut. Both were short-short cuts that continue to haunt me, even to this day. In fifth grade, people constantly called me a boy. I vividly remember being at the grocery store in a SKIRT (well, okay, one of those skirt-and-bicycle-pants combos) and an old guy calling me “son.”
In college, I had that very 90s look–clipped in the back, longer in the front, ridiculous all around. I have a photo of myself from a formal event, and my hair is all puffed up like a gigantic helmet. So weird. So, so weird.
So for years, I’ve been just doing “stuff” with my hair–cutting it, growing it, blonding it, re-brunetting it, ponytailing every single day, layering it, cutting bangs, wearing it tidy, wearing it messy, ponytailing it even when it was really too short to ponytail…
So finally, as my last cut started to grow out and it became obvious that something would have to be done, I decided to go for it. Apparently this cut is sort of “in” right now, thanks to people like Katie Holmes and Posh Spice (Lord help me!), and that probably seeped into my subconscious and made me braver. But whatever the reason, Tuesday afternoon, I went for it!
And I’m very happy. Everybody claims to like it, even the husb (who, it turns out, did not like the old haircut and was happy with any change at all… which proved to me I can do whatever I want and he won’t complain. Good man!).
The weirdest thing is that without hair hanging down away from my head, it feels like I have an updo (that would be some kind of hairdo where all of your hair is piled onto your head, as in a bun or many wedding and prom hairstyles, for Tom and Jason). There’s just a static weight sort of glommed onto my skull.
But that’s a small price to pay for hair that only takes thirty seconds to blow dry!
So without further ado (updo?)… (Forgive the goofy photo!)
Happy Friday!
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It looks adorable! It really suits the shape of your face.
I tried to grow my hair long, and did the same thing you described: ponytails when it was too short for ponytails, bobby pins everywhere… One day I realized I was just trying to make it short without actually cutting it. So off it all went again, and I’m much happier with it!
Really nice ‘do Katie! I admit, I was a tad worried about what your style choice was going to be, but you done good kid.
And I am so sorry to hear that you were one of those poor girls in elementary that had a “boy” cut. Why is it always, throughout the history of school, that there’s always one girl in your class that gets that “boy” cut. Always – without fail. I vividly remember at least one girl from grade 4 up to 6 or 7 that had experimented with one of those cuts. I have to confess that I was always at the center of the teasing barrage that would inevitably follow. Poor girls… my repentance begins.
Nice cut. Can be fun and formal all in one.
It looks terrific! I had a hard time picturing you with hair that short before I saw the pic, but it looks very modern and sophisticated.
Katie, you brave, brave thing. Wow! It looks great.
I?ve had longish hair for about eight years. The ?ish? is key, as I?ve gradually been cutting it shorter and shorter. It?s about shoulder length right now, so if I go much further…
Yes, you can do this cut! it is absolutely fab on you.
Looks very nice! Your stylist did a real good job:0)
if you and the hubster are happy, who am i to complain? :O lol
Super cute!
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Jason, yes, that was me. And really, that boy cut was just the beginning of a series of horrible hairstyles–which can be summed up as “junior high”.
Meredith, Cherie, Mary, Tom, Amber–thank you! I’m lobing it.
Laughingwolf–fair enough!
I LOVE it! It looks fabulous on you.
Thanks, Angie!
I meant to write earlier on this, but I love the new hair. LOVE IT! I had short hair for a while and really enjoyed it, but it didn’t really suit me like it does you.
The trick, of course, is to make sure that your hairdresser understands “girl short,” which is not the same as boy short. I had a stylist who didn’t know the difference, and led to a friend of mine crying with relief when I complained about my hair. “Oh thank *god* it’s just bad hair,” he said. “I thought you had CANCER.”
So…I don’t know where I’m going with that, but your hair looks cute!
Hell, If I could look that cute, with my hair that short, I’d do it in a heart beat!
Ain’t gonna happen!!!
DAMN! You rock that cut. It looks wonderful. See if I did that I would be all nose. Not a good thing.
That looks really great, and good for you for being so brave!
The only thing that keeps me from going out and getting shorn is all MY awful high school photographs and the fact that the last time I did this, my husband, who had been badgering me to cut my hair, took one look at me and told me I should have spent more money and gotten a really good cut. (I’d spent plenty.)
And I was consistently called ’son’ as a teenager, right up to the age of 16, when things suddenly started happening. I’m working on getting at least the waist part of my boyish figure back…