I was ten when I was finally allowed to grow my hair long. Being the second youngest of six kids, my mother didn't have time to do our hair so we all had short hair until we were old enough to take care of it ourselves. I remember getting excited about having long hair and all the cute things I cold do with until I found out how much I hated having my hair down. I hated the feeling of it on the back of my neck and I especially hated having it in my eyes. So I just wore it in a ponytail through high school and into college.
I was a printing management major at WVU Tech, so I worked with and around printing presses and even a ponytail could get caught in a press roller. I then began my love affair with the topknot and ballerina bun (the difference is that a ballerina bun is on the back of the head and is very neat whereas topknots are best a tad messy).
I've worn my hair like that ever since 2004.
I was officially in a hair rut.
Now, I've cut my hair short off and on, but it was always just in a basic bob with no real style. It'd just grow back to how I had it originally and go back up into a topknot.
Earlier this year I started watching the Netflix series House of Cards and fell in love Robin Wright's character Claire Underwood's neutral chic style. For the first time in my life, I started buying black clothes. I also fell in love with her hair:
So I went and got this amazing cut. It looks amazing and I truly love it and wish I had done it years ago. I hate that I thought I had to hang on to my long hair to look cute.
The only problem? I'm not fully convinced this is the best cut for my hair type. Due to it always being long and too heavy, it was always straight so I assumed that was just my hair's texture. The first morning I let my hair air dry, I noticed it start to do something funny. The hell, I thought?
My hair was curling. My hair has never been able to hold a curl.
So now my cut looks like this:
I also apparently have the same nose as Louis Griffin.
So I now have this wavy/curly mess to deal with, and honestly, I'm okay with it. I can style it to get it to look like Claire Underwood's, but most mornings I'm hitting snooze and don't have time to give my hair a proper styling. If I want to keep the waves, I'm going to have to cut the front some more to take out a lot of bulk. However, I lose the original cut I love.
What I do know is that no matter what, I'm keeping my hair short. I love that it's not in my face or on the back of my neck. It's more fitting for my lifestyle, which now include 70 hour work weeks. Did I mention my hair isn't in my face anymore?
