goodbye long hair
goodbye long hair. hello short, funky, chocolate-brown & red-violet streaked hair. i think i love you.
i have noticed that women tend to chop off their hair and make drastic changes to their appearance when their lives have gone through drastic changes or really tough times. now here i am, realizing i did the same thing impulsively and understanding it all now.
why did i do it people are asking. why did i cut my hair off when my long, thick, beautiful hair was one of the physical characteristics i got the most compliments on? my answer is i truthfully can’t give you any one reason. there are many reasons, and i suppose the main reason is that there are so many things going on in my life that i can’t control and my hair is one thing i can. i am a changed person inside, and i want to show that on the outside as well. i want my hair to show my personality instead of keeping it long because i thought everyone else liked it that way. i am alive, i am a survivor, i am spunky and different and i want my look to say that.
i like it so much i am thinking of making it even funkier next time, with more drastic color difference… i dont know. i am even wishing i still had my nose pierced, because though my family hated it, i loved it. life is so short and i just want to be myself. it has been empowering. it was just what i needed. i feel lighter, younger, hotter, and happier than i did before.
I totally get what you are saying. When I cut mine, I wanted to do something totally different. I guess mine was more of a way to escape the feeling that I am losing the “me” part to the rest of my life. I may be a wife and mom but I’m still me. The fact that I hadn’t cut my hair in so long was just proved that I had forgotten to take care of me. I love your spunky new hair, in fact it makes me want to get mine colored again.
i know hat you mean totally and i guess that is another part of it i didnt even realize!