I don’t know why I’m so drawn to corny puns in titles, but…I am. My apologies.
But before we get to the subject of my titular corniness…
You are the winner of our Jamberry goodies from last week’s giveaway! I’m not gonna lie. I got really excited when I saw her name pop up as the winner. Leigh Anne is one of my most faithful reader-friends since almost the very beginning of this here little blog, a mama to four littles, and SUCH a sweetheart. We live in the same state but still about 10 hours apart (sigh…Texas), but she has family near me, and I am determined that we get together for a coffee (hot chocolate for me) date the next time she comes for a visit. (You hear that, Leigh Anne??). Anyhoo, she totally deserves a pampering treat, so I’m glad she won!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program.
About a week and 1/2 ago, I got my first haircut in, oh, 5 months. When my hair was long, I would often go 8-10 months without even a trim, but since whacking it off about 18 months ago, 2-3 months is the longest I’d made it between cuts. But with holiday craziness and Theo’s birth, I just hadn’t made it back for quite a while, and things were getting a bit, um, hairy (oy, with the bad jokes, already, Abbie!).
Here was the situation before my trim.
Scraggly ends. Poofy on top because it hadn’t been thinned out in forever. Grown-out, limp bangs.
Definitely in need of a tune-up.
I’ve decided to grow out my hair, and with the help the It Works Hair Skin and Nails I’ve been taking, it’s coming along, so I didn’t want to take any length off. Just some weight.
Then again, I did feel like a change.
So, after a fair bit of trimming and a liberal use of thinning shears, there was a nice little mountain of fuzzies on the ground.
It’s hard to have the right perspective just from the photo, but that is a LOT of hair. Which is kind of nuts considering that I lost almost no length.
So, what was this change that I wanted?
BANGS!
This picture makes me laugh. I kept joking with my friend/hairstylist, Hollie, that I needed to caption this one: “I asked her to do this to me.”
I mean, seriously, that right there is the perfect combo of poodle + “Working Girl” hair.
At-trac-tive.
But less than 24 hours later, after a good wash and a bit of tweaking, it had calmed down a fair bit.
And then, after yet a few more days for it to completely come of out shock and the first time I actually styled it like I normally would (plus bangs-straightening, of course…follow that link to see all of the products I use), we had this.
Because I know you were dying to see not one but four of my goofy expressions. But Ezra was my photographer, and he was really proud of his work (which I promised I would show off adequately here).
Of course, those are mildly blurry phone shots, but he did manage this crystal-clear “real camera” shot too.
This one too. I look ridiculously smug. But it does show you a bit of the side-view.
ANYhoo, you may now consider yourself fully updated on my most recent follicular adventures.
I honestly miss my super-easy, funky, short hair, but at least I have the bangs to satisfy my urge for something different every once in a while. Who knows? Maybe next time I get the itch, I’ll go blonde!
Anybody else changed up their hair recently? I wanna see!
What’s the most drastic thing you’ve ever done to your hair? Mine would probably have to be that time I cut mine down to 2 inches or less all over my head (not Shaun’s favorite). (Although…that bowl-cut when I was 8, while not “drastic,” was definitely “dreadful”).
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