Beautiful enteries.ReplyCancel

Thanks for sharing your stories about not only the tough times but also the glimpses of sun shining through it all.ReplyCancel

Grew up in the 80s with a pageboy (oh yeah!). High school, typical shoulder-length hair. I chopped my hair right around when Gweneth did! Kept it in a spikey soccer mom bob in college – it was different from everyone. It evolved and tamed down and after having my first daughter, decided to try and grow it out. I run and wanted to see what a ponytail was like.

Enjoyed a ponytail, but with my oval face and thin hair, it just didn't work down. So After about four years I chopped it all off again very similar to the first photo in your post. It suits me very well, I feel a bit more polished. The downsides are the upkeep (cuts every 6-8 weeks) and you can't just "throw it up/back." I either wear a ballcap and lots of dry shampoo!

The Anthro model resembles you a bit! I thought you had Photoshopped your face onto a photograph! : DReplyCancel

You may not have to get a drastic cut to feel better about your hair—you may just want to change your stylist! I went to the same stylist for 15 years (since I was in middle school) and I got to a point where I wasn’t feeling my hair anymore.. I decided to break up with her (which wasn’t easy, she is a family friend) and I found someone new who kept my hair “me” but managed to transform it! It’s worth a try before chopping it all off (with the possibility of hating it) ReplyCancel

I have gone back and forth with medium-ish and short. I've had some BAD short haircuts. Oy! I just wanted to add that only at age 36 did I dye part of the my hair in the back. The first time ever. Of course it is a funky color! It's been about a year and I still love it and I love that it's kind of hidden-ish. That to me was a way bigger dealing than cutting it. (Also I have a TON of gray hair in the front and refuse to cover that up because I actually don't mind being gray & no one needs to tell me how I need to cover it up… hence in the back, doing a funky color was my kind of almost-40 let's do something fun "thing" to do.)ReplyCancel

I had short cuts as a kid and through high school. Straight brown hair ( think Velma from "Scooby Do") Desperate to grow it longer – finally got brave (and patient !) enough to grow it during college. My hair has never grown to midwaist (my dream!) but it goes to about my shoulder blades. I will never get it cut short – too many traumatic cuts in my youth. I also have a twin who has a pixie cut (and variations on it) so I know what I'd look like. Actually, it looks great on her but our faces are just a slightly different shape that she looks cute and I'd look like Steve from BLues clues. I should get something done to it but I had a bad trim last year where she added some layers – I still can't figure out how to get some pieces to behave. I won't color because that takes time and money to maintain correctly. Good luck with your decision!ReplyCancel

So I'm not at my computer and I am having a migraine so this isn't the best quality (I'd need some photos at a higher res) but here's a quick idea of how this will look on you.
http://imgur.com/eeQZGRK
I think it's cute.ReplyCancel

I've done a couple different drastic hair changes (or, at least, drastic in my mind). Three out of four of them I count as great decisions in my life. The one bad one was when I was entering middle school and had no idea what to do with my hair and wanted to cover up forehead acne, so I chopped off my hair and got a bob with bangs that I ended up hating for years. Looking back on the pictures still makes me cringe.
But then it grew back and sophomore year of high school I started learning more about childhood cancer and I decided I wanted to do something more tangible than sharing posts about it. So I chopped off my now-long hair and donated it. I did that again senior year of high school and both times ADORED what I did and felt really good about myself for doing it.
Then, the summer after senior year I wanted to do something crazy. So I signed up to shave my head with St. Baldrick's. I raised almost $2,000 to fund childhood cancer research and shaved my head a week after graduation. I donated that hair too.
I was fully prepared to hate it. I bought a ton of hats and bows and headbands to help hide my head shape and tried to learn more about makeup so I didn't "look like a boy". But I ended up LOVING it. I lucked out in the head shape department and felt pretty badass about myself all the way around because of what I did and why I did it. It ended up being a HUGE confidence booster.
It's been two years and my hair is now almost at my shoulders. I have plans to grow my hair out to my lower back and then shave it off again. And just keep doing it because I loved it so much.
There were stages of it growing back that I hated and stages that I loved. The pixie cut stage was super fun but the awkward almost-mullet was definitely not. I miss putting it up in a pony tail sometimes, but honestly I never did much with my hair in the first place so it wasn't a drastic difference for me.
I think if you feel like you want to do it, you should. But if not then don't. It's not a decision anyone else can make for you. There were so many people telling my not to shave my head but I did it because I wanted to and because I knew it would mean something in my life. And I definitely didn't regret it. ReplyCancel

What is there to lose!? A few awkward months maybe… OR maybe you fall in love with it and discover a whole new side of yourself. The new year is approaching and what better way to embrace change than changing something you once were so scared to change. Hair grows back! I really think you should try it. Not just because I think you as a person could rock whatever you chose to do, but because I've done things lately I was scared of and ended up totally loving it! I really encourage you to try new stuff, maybe this isn't it but try a new food, a new restaurant, a new Pandora station! Just go for it . Sincerely, a new mom reinventing herself ��ReplyCancel

I think it sets a good example for young girls, too, that a woman can be feminine and love herself with short hair. That hair is not what makes a person beautiful. It is no accident that men tend to like long hair on women much better than short hair. I have a few friends who say, I would LOVE to cut my hair short but _________ would kill me! He HATES short hair on women. That seems sad to me. My husband has told me several times that he likes my hair better when it's longer, but I love short hair so much I just can't sacrifice it for him. Incidentally, both my daughters have rocked a pixie in the last few years (and my younger one actually shaved her head to look like Eleven on Stranger Things–still not sure how I felt about that move). ReplyCancel

I have almost always had medium to long length hair and I don't think I ever want to cut it short. The model with the pixie has a long elegant neck and I do not, and I don't think a short haircut would look good on me. Also, I think short hair needs frequent trims to look good and I don't have time for that. I have experimented with various red shades in the past and I like them, but they fade fast and I am happy with having dark hair. Sometimes I use clip in bangs or even a wig for a different style when I don't have time to do my hair. ReplyCancel

My mom used to tell the stylist in secret NOT to listen to me when I said to take a half an inch or at most 3/4 of an inch off my hair. That's how I always ended up with drastic "trims," and it took me until I was in college to figure out that's what she did. I remember car rides home in tears saying, "did you see all that hair on the floor? That was like 5 or 6 inches!" and my mom calmly saying that it always looks like more on the floor because the pieces all stick together. Ummm, what?ReplyCancel