So I had been saying for a while that I LOVE short hair and that I wanted to cut off my hair. Here's a bit of the background:
When I moved up to Baltimore, hair at my chin, it was chillier than I was used to, I decided to try out long hair for a while. By New Years of 2009, I had hair to my shoulders {remember, I have a long neck, so this was a feat.} and I gave myself an ultimatum: I had to try it out for one year, go through a winter, spring, summer, and fall with it to see if I really liked having long hair. Well, there were some things I DID like about it. And there were things I didn't.
Liked:
My stand-by hair style turned into a chignon {either swept to the side or in the back} that I put up when I hair was wet, so by the end of the day or the next day when I took out the bobby-pins I had this beautiful curly mane.
Bangs. I sported those layered, straight across bangs like a pro.
Cool hairstyles. One thing I regret is not trying it out more, like braiding cool styles. I can hardly french braid never mind my own hair, so that was partially the problem.
Disliked:
Tangled easily
I have ALOT of hair, so it took forever to wash {refer above}
Got caught in things.
Stuck to my neck when I slept, was always itchy.
Was hard to manage with lots of layers
Limits your Halloween costume capabilites {I'm sorry, dressing up as Bonnie Parker is much cooler than Brigitte Bardot, which is who I sorta was}
Always in the way when I was sewing.
Etsy pictures didn't look good with my hair down. I think my long hair looked nice when I was in action, but not in portraits, it just looked very untamed.
Anyway, I'm loving my hair and so excited to try new things out with it!
Abbie
