Feeling shorn

[redbird]

I feel as though everything I've done with my hair lately was a mistake.

Before I went up to Montreal, rysmiel had offered to trim my hair for me. I liked this idea, because I'd rather trust a long-haired friend to take off no more than necessary. Unfortunately, by the time the removal of split ends was done, there wasn't enough left to braid properly. I feel as though I've lost about a year of growth, and am hoping to have it long enough to braid by summer. papersky says that hers grows about 2 cm in the two weeks after a trim, which would be nice if it happened for me as well. In the meantime, it'll have to go back in a stupid little ponytail while I'm exercising.

Also, the purple seems to be almost gone. While I was in Montreal, I was enjoying that my relatively subtle purple highlights were calm and modest by local standards, because we saw lots of people with really impressive not-found-in-nature color jobs. But one more shampoo, this morning, plus the haircut, seems to have left me almost purple-less. But with the damage from the bleaching.

I think I'm going to go buy a can of the spray-on purple.

And I'm going to try not to be too disturbed and distracted by this, because it really is trivial. But the significantly shorter hair feels different, when I brush it or reach back to run my hand through it, which I do quite a bit when it's loose.

Comments

[liv]

I can really relate to this. It's only in the last few weeks that my hair has grown back enough to make me feel comfortable in my body after getting it cut a year ago. It was a really, really nice haircut, but it was way too short. (Even now that it's waist-length again I miss those extra couple of inches.) And the professionally done and very expensive dye didn't last nearly as long as I would have hoped.

The one time I dyed my hair purple (really more magenta), I did it myself using what was supposed to be a semi-permanent dye. It was absolutely stunning for approximately 6 hours. Then I had two weeks when I got pink dye over every garment I owned while my actual hair faded to this weird pink-ish tint which just looked odd with my colouring. Of course, the pink was much more indelible on the clothes than on my hair! Then I had a few months with faint reddish tinges under certain lights, but basically you couldn't tell I'd done anything. Given it took me about 5 hours to do in the first place, I never repeated it.

So yeah, if I try to do anything to my hair, I end up regretting it. Either because it's too short, or because the style I was aiming for works but lasts too little time to justify the cost and effort of achieving it. And then I feel guilty for that much emotional reaction to something as trivial as my hairstyle.