I Cut Off My Hair

My Life

I cut my hair.

And I love it. Don’t you love it? Yay!

In the few days since, almost everyone who has seen me asks me why I did it. “Why? Why? WHY?”

Um. It was too long?

I’m not emotionally attached to my hair, it’s not symbolic of anything for me. I wasn’t recently dumped, I didn’t come to a profound decision about the direction my life is taking and decide to do something radical. The truth is, my hair grows fast, and I don’t get to the salon enough, so it seemed like a good idea to go short in the likely event that I don’t cut it again for another year.

Huge thanks to Casie Norris from the Lunatic Fringe Salon in Salt Lake City, she translated the photo I brought in of St. Vincent perfectly. And thanks to Jordan for the rec.

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75 thoughts on “I Cut Off My Hair”

  10. Looks awesome! There’s nothing better than a haircut! I hate the mentality of WHY did you cut it?! Eh, it’s hair. It grows back, people!

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  11. Looks great!

    I’m also a lazy salon goer, so I tend to go short when I do get it cut precisely so I don’t have to go back for a while if I don’t want to.

    I’m about damn tired of the long hair hangup this culture’s had for the last decade or two. I blame all the Princesses.

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  18. Hooray for you! I love it, and the stylist NAILED it. High five, fellow curly girl. High effing five.

    (This new style also makes me realize that a friend of mine looks an awful lot like you. I didn’t see it before, but now? Wow.) (This is a compliment on both sides, as you are both lovely.)

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  23. All those “why” askers are nuts — it’s fabulous!!! Love love love. I tend to wait forever between haircuts, too, and my favorite side effect of that laziness is the weightless feeling when all that heavy hair is gone. So light and freeeee!

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  26. I was just thinking how St. Vincent it looked, and bam! there you were at the end, bringing your reference picture to the salon. Congrats on a cut well chosen.

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  29. It looks great! Please say you donated the cut off length – it looks like it was more than long enough! (I admit to a little bit of bias since I grew mine out for donation – about a year ago got it cut and sent it to Pantene because they use donated hair to make wigs for people with cancer.)

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  33. Oh it looks fantastic!! I have been growing a mess of curly wild hair on my head and you have inspired me to chop it like I was thinking of, thanks!!

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  35. I love it! And the thing that’s great about hair is that it grows – so I am a firm believer in cutting your hair for no reason other than you want to. Way to go!

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  37. I normally prefer long hair, and love your hair in particular, but I must say that this cut really suits you. You look great!

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  38. LOVE IT!! I am a big fan of impromptu haircuts – bold ones. I feel just the same way you do – my hair is not a symbol of who I am so I cannot be reduced to tears by a bad hair cut. It grows back 🙂

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  43. Very cute, and it’s not that short anyway!

    And I agree with the above poster who asked about the frames. I want them too….

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  48. YESSS!! Looks utterly fantastic! When I cut my hair off last summer, it was glorious. I had forgotten, though, how COLD the neck gets in winter! Plenty of excuses to wear cute scarves.

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  49. Way better. Now, time to dump those huge, ugly glasses. Sorry to be blunt, but they age you by like 15 years. Get lighter frames!

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