lesmisloony | les jolis boucles que voilà

Hello there. So about a week ago I cut off all my hair.

Went from:

To:

And the really weird thing about it is, I just don't care. Like, I'm not all WAHHH MY LOOKS (because frankly I'm not 100% impressed with what the girl at the place did)... even while she was cutting it, I just felt totally removed from the situation.

I made the decision like four days before I did it. Basically stress, using cheap dye for two years, and aggressive cheap shampoo had resulted in my hair just giving up and jumping ship. The bathroom floor was covered in long red hairs and I woke up every morning with what felt like handfuls of it stuck down the back of my pyjama shirt and coming out in my brush. It was terrifying. Plus, the hair itself was all frazzled and split and pitiful from me forgoing regular trims for so long.

Everyone says things like "wow, were you nervous?" or "is it weird to make such a big change?" The only weird thing was sitting in the barber chair and watching her unceremoniously hack off all that hair and remembering the time in high school when I cut my long hair down to shoulder-length. I remember how panicked and weirded out I was. This time... I'm just like meh, there it went.

Also, PSA, having short hair is amazing. Showers are pretty much just ten-minute head massages. Rubbing my hand across the shaved part feels really cool. The back of my neck almost never gets sweaty. My hair never gets caught in my purse strap. Yeah.

Even better, I have yet to get ONE catcall since I got the haircut. Might be from moving to a slightly better neighborhood, but either way I'm content.

I mean I know I had a shoulder-length bob for like five years, but the new haircut is way shorter, obviously.

I don't really want to go back to long hair (might buy a wig or two someday). This cut isn't really my favorite, but I'm gonna grow it into more of a pixie cut that's randomly long on top.

Okay carry on.