09.25.02
I know that if I let my hair grow about three more inches, it'll be so very easy to deal with on a daily basis. However, all I can think about is cutting at least three inches off my hair, because it isn't very easy to deal with on a daily basis.
I have been perusing those silly hair magazines that you see on newsracks, like Style Sophisticate and Short Cuts, because people keep bringing them into the salon and abandoning them there. All of them are filled with picture of celebrities with fabulous hair, and most of the pictures have captions that say, "Steal her style! Do this that and the other thing, and your hair will look just like this."
The ones that I was interested in all has sleek, smooth styles, and promised these results if I put a smoothing gel in my hair (check), blowdried my hair until it was about half-dry (check), sectioned off my hair (check) and then teensy section by teensy section, used a large flat paddle brush to make the hair smooth out as I dried it with the blowdryer (check).
After 45 minutes of wrangling it this morning, I ended up leaving the house with slightly wavy, moderately fuzzy, and extremely fluffy hair that occupied a lot more space around my head that I was comfortable sharing.
It wasn't until I got to work and used my new flat iron to smooth it all out, that it looked anything like the magazine photos. After all of the brushing and drying abuse (I usually let it air dry), I had to actually fry it with sizzling hot metal tongs to make it behave.
And then I notice that in all of these hair magazines, there are a lot of pictures of celebrities with shorter hair that is very cute -- Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Jessica Parker, etc.
But I resist.
Besides, Carol says that if I want my hair cut shorter, I'm going to have to go somewhere else to do it, and I'm too cheap to pay someone to do something that I could hypothetically do to myself for free.
What's in your head?