Look out world, I'm back on the road.
Yesterday I picked up a rental car and got myself back behind the wheel. And peeps? Let me tell you, I WAS PETRIFIED THE ENTIRE DRIVE INTO WORK. I was so alert that, when I finally arrived at my destination, I had a raging headache and my hands were permanently stuck in a claw-like position from gripping the steering wheel. Now that I've experienced SUPER ALERT, I realize how insanely UNalert I normally am when I drive. I need to find a level of alertness in the middle before I crash into something else or burst a blood vessel in my brain.
Apart from that, I'm so tapped out creatively that I have had nothing to blog about. You may have noticed. For this I blame the emotional roller coaster that was The Great Crash of '08. When self-inflicted problems of a $5K magnitude come my way, I dive into a vortex of self-loathing and worry that zaps me of all energy. But on the up side? I've decided to redo my hair.
Yeah, I know. One has nothing to do with the other. Just deal with it.
A little about my hair: it's straight. It's super straight. I long with my entire soul to have curly Hobbit-like hair, but my hair? Not curly. Straight. This isn't a bad thing except that I have a roundish chipmunky face. Thus, stylists like to cut my hair so that the layers fall against my non-existent cheekbones, to try and flatter my roundish chipmunky face. But you see, I have this small, wee problem... I HATE HAVING MY HAIR IN MY FACE. So I end up pulling it back into a million little clips. It's a compulsion that makes me look 1) messy, and 2) like I'm five years-old. I've tried to come to terms with my hair and the clip problem, but I have no self-control and can't stop pulling it back. The only solution to the clip compulsion is to cut my hair in such a way that it's not falling into my eyes or touching my cheeks. Basically, I think I should shave my head. Or get bangs.
This is what I'm thinking:
The thing here is that one can never really tell from a photograph whether a certain cut would look good on them. If I looked like this woman, then I'd know. But I don't look like her. For one, I'm not naked. For another, I don't have fake buttons down my bare back. Also, she doesn't appear to have any boobs, and I, well... do. So the question is, if I chop my hair to look like this, will it look good? Or it will I look my toddler niece the time my sister-in-law attacked her coif with a pair of safety scissors?So I'm soliciting you, the Internets, for help. Here is a very large, poorly cropped picture of my head. Take a gander and let me know what to do with The Hair but BE NICE. I'm a fragile flower that could crack at any moment. Don't make me cry lest I hunt you down and pummel your ass. Don't say I didn't warn you
8 comments:
I'm without words... and this is probably a good thing because my hair cuts go something like this:
"Hey..."
"... Yeah, just trim it up with a number 4. I have a date this weekend..."
It NEVER looks the same. So... I don't recommend any kind of cut involving the number 4.
Oh, you look just like Sarah McLachlan in that pic. Do you resemble her in real life? You could look for pics of her hair online and see what styles you like on her.
ooooh. i heart it. and i think you could pull it off. like charlotteharris up there said, you DO resemble sarah mcl. and she totally did the short hairs and it was awesome.
so, finally, here it is: proof we are different. your hair is all straighty-straight, but mine? is not. though it is not hobbity, i do have what i so delicately refer to as... head pubes. just these random little wiry weirdos that mess everything up and suggest with their texture and curliness that they MEANT to grow somewhere else. but got confused or wrong directions and then sprouted ON MY HEAD. ew.
and that naked girl? i secretly always wish i could pull off the supreme confidence and accompanying attitude required to have button tattoos and short hairs (or something along those there lines). but i possess the confidence of, say, a misshapen paper clip.
I say, GO FOR IT! I like the hair cut and it just might work. If not, eh, it's hair, it'll grow.
Just, no buttons down your back please. Or down your front. Or your arm. Or your leg. Like, um, nowhere! Yeah, that's where, nowhere!
congrats on getting back on the road.
*waves* long time lurker here
I say don't go for that button woman hair cut... it looks like something I used to do to my barbies.
I don't know how long your hair is right now... but I bet you would look awesome with a sleek bob cut that just came below your ears... it's super easy to keep looking good... and straight hair always looks awesome like that.... just promise... no more layers
I think that haircut will totally depend on the thickness of your hair. It looks like it would work for wispy thin-haired people like myself, but if you have bountiful thick hair? No way will that work. Have you been to some hair cutting websites where you put your face in? FUN TIMES!
Plus I think you're really pretty, even though I'm not a lesbian.
I have a bit of a thing for straight hair. Given that I'm entirely bald, maybe I have a thing for hair.
I think if you come out looking like that picture you're on a fine track.
And actually, your hair seems lovely as it is. I think a person's hair is never better than however it grows out of the skull.
[f]oxymoron - Perhaps there is no number 4, so your stylist just picks any number he/she wants... It's a hair-cutting conspiracy, I tell ya.
charlotteharris - Thanks! I've been told a couple of times that I have a McLachlan-esque quality. I think I look more like her when I'm thinner, but I'll take it :-)
modernartifact - Oh girly! Head pubes? *laughing* Maybe we can get you some relaxer or something. And I, too, have the confidence of a misshapen paperclip :)
brianalt - No buttons! :)
sweetly single - Welcome, long time lurker! *waves back* You make a good point about the Barbies... It DOES resemble what my cousin used to call "Bootcamp Barbie." She'd hack off their hair and enlist them in the military.
kate - Thanks! I think you're freakin' adorable. If I swang (swung?) that way, I'd totally date you.
wunelle - I have straight hair and I have a thing for bald men! You and me? We're opposites!
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