I waited until the last hour of the last day. Everyone said I was surprisingly calm. I didn’t cry, I didn’t scream, I didn’t even have any wine. I just sat there, shrugged my shoulders, and said, “take it off.” I’ve been anticipating it since January and I was ready to have it over with already.
My cousin Kelly did the honors. She is a hair stylist and the only one I trust with my locks. She did a great job and I can honestly say I’m fine with it. In fact, I really like it. Sometimes I even love it.
When Waylon saw me, he stared for 30 seconds and then moved on. Austin did the same, with the obligatory, “It looks really great!”
It seems silly now that this is the month I was dreading the most. I made myself sick over how stupid or ugly or fatface I might look. Get a grip.
On the long night drive home from WVA, a few friends asked for a picture so I took one in the dark with the flash of my phone camera.
I looked like a drunk celebrity, which made me feel pretty rad (not the drunk part, the celebrity part) because it was like looking at a picture of someone else. Someone that might be a little cooler or a little hipper, someone who might not always wear yesterday’s laundry.
The point is it’s nice to feel different, to experience living in someone else’s body for a few minutes. My hair has been long for twenty seven years. TWENTY SEVEN. It was time.
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I love it!
See, I told you so.
That’s one hot celebrity!
I love the cut. It becomes you.
Yay! I love your work.
I like it most in the last picture when it’s wavy-tres cute!
I love it! I’m so happy and proud of you that you got over your fear and did it!
It looks really nice! Love the colour.
I cut mine this weekend. From a few inches below my bra line to my collar bone. Easiest diet EVER, I lost 2 lbs!
I was right, you look beautiful. :)
LOVE IT!
Looks great :) Especially how you’ve styled it in the last pic.
yes, the car pic looks like paparazzi. you’re beautiful.
Well look at that! Beautiful.
You rock the short hair! I’m one of those that gets bored with my hairstyle once a year so I alternate between short and long (and by long, I mean just below my shoulder blades :p )
In the last picture you look like Rachel McAdams! You look so hip!
it looks awesome. not obligatory, i really mean it dammit!
Well you didn’t let me down after all. I took it as a promise and then it wasn’t happening . . .
It’s winsome and pretty.