Off The Top Of My Head
Aug. 9th, 2015 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteThose of you who've known me for any length of time have known that I've had the same haircut for, well.... for a long time.
I was a victim of the 80's. I had a bad shag perm in 8th grade (my mother was convinced that it would make me more popular. It didn't.), and I hated it with a fiery passion. I vowed at that point, in 1988, that I would never cut my hair again, and never suffer through an atrocious short cut like that again. And I've kept that vow.
I spent most of high school growing my hair out, and most of college growing out my bangs. My hair is naturally ramrod-straight, so I've had long, straight hair for my entire adult life. Somewhere around my second year of vet school a friend persuaded me to dye my hair red, and since then I haven't really made any serious changes.
That means my hairstyle is nearly old enough to vote.
I've set foot in a salon precisely twice since then. Once in vet school, at a place that specialized in long hair, to get a miniscule trim, and once about two years ago, when my hair was falling apart, to get it shaped and tinted with a temporary color that didn't really take. Other than that, I've looked about the same. And over the past few months or so, I've been fighting a back-of-my-brain urge to Change Something.
Since I use henna, I can't really color my hair with anything else. But temporary dye could work.... though that didn't seem quite right. And just change for the sake of change didn't seem right either. Still, I wanted *something* different. So when GISHWHES came up, I promised myself that if there was an item on the scavenger hunt list that involved doing something weird to your hair, I'd consider it an omen and throw myself on that grenade.
And there it was. Item #166 - cut at least 10" of your hair off and donate it to a wig charity.
So.
It's taking some getting used to, but.... I kind of love it. And it's a hell of a lot better than the shag perm of my childhood.....
I was a victim of the 80's. I had a bad shag perm in 8th grade (my mother was convinced that it would make me more popular. It didn't.), and I hated it with a fiery passion. I vowed at that point, in 1988, that I would never cut my hair again, and never suffer through an atrocious short cut like that again. And I've kept that vow.
I spent most of high school growing my hair out, and most of college growing out my bangs. My hair is naturally ramrod-straight, so I've had long, straight hair for my entire adult life. Somewhere around my second year of vet school a friend persuaded me to dye my hair red, and since then I haven't really made any serious changes.
That means my hairstyle is nearly old enough to vote.
I've set foot in a salon precisely twice since then. Once in vet school, at a place that specialized in long hair, to get a miniscule trim, and once about two years ago, when my hair was falling apart, to get it shaped and tinted with a temporary color that didn't really take. Other than that, I've looked about the same. And over the past few months or so, I've been fighting a back-of-my-brain urge to Change Something.
Since I use henna, I can't really color my hair with anything else. But temporary dye could work.... though that didn't seem quite right. And just change for the sake of change didn't seem right either. Still, I wanted *something* different. So when GISHWHES came up, I promised myself that if there was an item on the scavenger hunt list that involved doing something weird to your hair, I'd consider it an omen and throw myself on that grenade.
And there it was. Item #166 - cut at least 10" of your hair off and donate it to a wig charity.
So.
It's taking some getting used to, but.... I kind of love it. And it's a hell of a lot better than the shag perm of my childhood.....
