Where'd your haircut come from?

My current haircut is an in-betweener. I had my hair at about shoulder length this time last year, but I was getting frustrated with its lack of versatility, so I chopped it all off into a pixie cut in January. I kept it short for a while and gradually started growing it back out near the end of the summer.

Right now, the hair from the very top of my head falls to about my ears. When I wear it really straight, or if I put a hat on before it dries, I look very boyish. I don't really mind; androgyny is fun. I'm trying to keep it short and neat in the back around my neck so I don't get a mullet. Shawn actually cut my neckline two weeks ago (and he was very nervous, but it came out fine).

The most outrageous thing I've done with my hair is chop it short and dye it black. That was in 10th grade, right around my sixteenth birthday. It washed me out horribly. I'm pale enough already that black hair made me almost transparent. It also made my eyebrows pretty much disappear. Worse, I was really into heavy eyeliner and mascara at the time. I was a ghost. This picture shows it.


The worst thing was when it started growing out. I looked like I had a bald spot around the crown of my head because the red was so much lighter than the black. Wish I had a picture of that, it was pretty funny.

My original idea was to cut it short, dye it black, and grow it out so that I'd be all tigressy and have red hair with black tips. Wishful thinking. I ended up cutting all of the black out of it (REEALLY short) and just letting it grow out until senior year.

This is me with all the black cut out, after it had a a chance to grow a little.



This was taken the same time the following year. (I know because they were both homecoming photos, which explains the dress.)


When I was really young I had very long hair; when I leaned my head back, I could sit on it. In elementary school I had it cut shorter, shoulder-length. In junior high I grew out my bangs and wore a lot of headbands. By freshman year of high school, my hair was back down to my mid-back, right before the big chop (which actually happened in two stages...I had it chin-length for about two months before going pixie).

I'm never dying my hair again, by the way. The most I'll do is get lowlights or put henna in it (I'd really like to see how it looks, plus it's all-natural and washes out eventually). If I grow it out long enough I might get a perm; Shawn LOVES redheads with curly hair.

Sigh. There's cleaning to be done. I spend far too much time on this here computer.

A few more hair photos, for kicks...