Children influence you in unexpected ways. For example, Rosie encouraged me to try a new haircut.
Not only was I admiring Rosie’s short, soft locks, but I was also experiencing a great deal of pain every time Rosie wound her strong, saliva-moistened hands into my hair. No kind of ponytail or up-do would restrain her from grabbing the curls right at my scalp and yanking. And, of course, removing her little monkey hand was like trying to get a burr out of my unwieldy mane. I had had enough.
So, inspired by Rosie, and a character’s impromptu haircut in my “latest read”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553583387/octothorppres-20, plus my “good friend”:http://www.xanga.com/tomaid who cropped hers, I decided to take the plunge. I scheduled an appointment and got to work, obsessively googling “short curly hair” to try to find some visuals of the look I wanted.
I have chopped off my hair a couple of times in my adult life, with mixed results. It is often hard to know what the curly hair will end up looking like — it sometimes just springs up with a life of its own, without any regard to my wishes. But, I’m really pleased with how my hair turned out. For the first time in my life, I have been getting my haircut regularly (if twice a year can be “regular”) from the same person. “Danielle”:http://celebritysalon.biz/ takes plenty of time, listens really well to learn what I want, and knows just how to cut my hair — plus, she’s loads of fun! This time, I showed her “some”:http://girlhairstyles.blogspot.com/2007/12/short-curly-hair.html “photos”:http://www.just-hairstyles.com/curly/c60.htm of the look I was going for, and she decided to cut my hair dry, so the curls wouldn’t give us surprises later — a stroke of genius.
Lucy still recognized me the next morning, and I am so glad to not have to wrestle Rosie’s hand out of my hair during middle-of-the-night feedings anymore. I’m sure I’ll grow my hair out again, but short is certainly convenient for this stage of my life!
I love it! Having always known you with ultra-long lovely locks, it’s so strange to see you cropped, but it works! I totally understand why you did it…Ella is entranced by my curls and used to always grab for them while nursing. Not always a fun thing!
Ann, the new look is fabulous! I was once again doing the hair dance. It had grown pretty long over the summer and I think I would like to give it to Locks of Love a few more times…but I just was not read to mess with the stages of growing it out. I got it cut, much to Charles’s dismay. He really likes it long.
Where do your children get those red highlights by the way?
You look adorable! What a fun look. Glad it is making life less painful too.
Beautiful!
The red hair runs in my family — my grandpa had it, and my brother has it. Doesn’t it look great on Rosie?
It is beautiful! Well you both are but I am always partial to red.
Oh fun! Is it really red? It’s hard to tell in pictures when there is so little. I feel an instant connection to her if it is. You know, only 2% of the world has red hair. My little Evangeline has BRIGHT red hair! : )
I LOVE it! You look great!