I wanted short hair again, as I've had for most of my life anyway, and short is what I got:
(Maybe one or two centimeters more will have to go so that the fringe is not over my specs all the time. But I'm still getting used to it, and have not yet started to "do" anything with my hair, other than wash and brush it.)
As a little girl, I nearly always had short hair. It was just that much easier to take care of, and my hair has never been good for wearing it long; it is too thin, there is not enough of it, and it's as straight as a bunch of chives. Therefore, my Mum usually made sure it was cut before it could reach any considerable length. A few times, we experimented with me having it grow a bit longer, and I was immensely pleased with myself when it was long enough to wear a little ribbon or barette in them, but then I always played with whatever hair accessory my Mum had given me, until I lost said accessory, which usually ensured my haircut was back to short.
I was a rather wild kid, too; I suppose what you'd call a tomboy. But I HATED it when people thought I was a boy, and spoke to me accordingly. I so wanted to be a beautiful girl with long curly hair, a princess! But it wasn't to be, and I guess I wouldn't have half as much fun as I did have back then if I had been the princess-type of girl I so admired.
Nowadays, I am so completely at home in myself, my hair doesn't matter that much anymore. In 2 years and 2 months, when I'll be 50, I'll try and stop having it dyed. If I like what I look like with grey hair (which first started for me before I was 30), I'll keep it. Watch this space :-D
I like your short hair! You have the right kind of face shape to look good with it.
ReplyDeleteI always wanted curly hair, too. I think we always want what we don't have. And the truth is, I can't be bothered to spend a lot of time fussing over my hair, so I suppose it's for the best that I don't have high maintenance curls. As for grey hair, I'm planning to just let it happen. I didn't see my first grey hair until I was 36, and I only have a scattered few right now. It's not really noticeable yet so I may change my mind, but the upkeep would probably be too much work for me! I don't like spending too much time grooming.
By the way, you look very much like a casual friend of mine who shops in my bookstore. You could easily pass for sisters. She's just back from a long holiday in Oz, where she's from. You don't have any close Aussie relations, do you? :)
No Aussie relations, "only" friends there :-)
DeleteI don't want high maintenance hair, either. It has to be "fuss-free" - just shower and let it dry (which is usually done within 10-15 minutes).
For a long time, I wasn't bothered about my grey hair. But then, within one week, three people whose opinion I valued (my husband, my sister and a close colleague) independantly of each other commented on how much better it would suit me if I had my original hair colour back fully, and that's when I started the whole colouring business...
Your hair looks great and a shorter style is always easier to look after. I always wanted long hair too but it never happened. I did colour my hair myself for years, then had it done professionally for many years. However, two years ago I decided to let it go grey as the front bit was quite light. So I'm very happy I made that decision.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Maggie!
DeleteFor years, I coloured it myself, too. But it was always difficult (I can't see well without specs, and I can't dye my hair properly with specs on, either...), so I often relied on the help of my sister; even RJ did it for me a few times.
Now that I can finally afford to have it done properly on a regular base, I do just that! My hairdresser has become something like a friend, too (we live just across the garden from each other), and so my visits at her salon are as much to catch up with each other as to have my hair done :-)
I love your haircut, it looks so good on you!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dorothy! And that was totally without fuss, just a very quick spur-of-the-moment picture after coming out of the shower.
DeleteNice haircut, it suits your face. I wore my hair short for many years, then sort of medium. My husband likes it long, but I have thin fine hair. Recently I cut 2 inches off of it and it's better.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteMy hair just doesn't look good longer than, say, chin-length.
The best haircut is the one that feels right. This one looks really good - suits you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, and you are so right about the best haircut!
DeleteI quite agree that this short "do" is right for you. All those of us who have thin, fine hair eventually give up on the long hair styles and realize that short is us.
ReplyDeleteThat's true, Jill, and thank you!
DeleteYes I think you suit your hair short too. I just wish I had some hair!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Graham. Well, I didn't have any hair until I was about 2 years old, and then it was so light it was almost white. Only later did it turn brown.
DeleteI like your short hair, it suits you and besides, that will be easier for you when you go on your runs, right?
ReplyDeleteGood luck on letting your hair go gray at 50. I said the same thing, but now, I am waiting until I am 60! :-)
My hairdresser-friend says "we'll see" every time I mention my plan for when I'll be 50 :-)
DeleteYes, short hair is always easier for sports. Have not been running for weeks now, it's been either too wet or too cold (or both), but this week looks good so far.
This style looks good for you! Personally, I have had short hair for most of the last 30 years because I also have fine hair and am not someone who wants to spend lots of time fussing with my hair! I will never dye my hair, either, but I'm 71 years old and still have almost no gray hair. Everyone is different....I like that you know your hairdresser and she is a neighbor.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kristi!
DeleteMy hairdresser lives so close that I can almost look into the windows of her ground-floor flat (if it weren't for the trees in her garden).
I've actually been thinking of writing a post about her for a long time.
The hairstyle suits you but I get what you mean about the fringe... A long fringe may look cool but it can be very irritating! For me it's always my fringe that tells me it's time to get my hair cut again... ;) My hair does not really grow long any more but I've never liked it really short (when I've tried that in the past). I try to still keep it chin-length around my face, but a bit shorter at the back nowadays. But my face is a different shape from yours.
ReplyDeleteI like my hair much better today than yesterday, when I took the picture, but I didn't have time this morning to take another one - also, it would have been a little strange if I had posted yet another picture of my "new" hair one day after the first :-)
DeleteYour hairstyle suits you, too, Monica!
Love it! I have always worn my hair long and still do even at this age. My sister always wore her hair very, very short and she still does. I am thinking about not highlighting any more but I think that would be so difficult and look so bad unless I cut my hair short in the meantime. Which I am wont to do.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteIt's the other way round with my sister and I - she nearly always wears hers long(ish), being blessed with rich, wavy hair, the total opposite of mine.
I like it! I've never colored my hair. Got my first white one at 26 - the year after my mother died. Though I like the way your bangs look on you, they would drive me crazy. :<) One of the reasons I keep my hair sort of long is so I can put it back in a ponytail.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nan!
DeleteI discovered the first few white hairs on my head at around 26, too; it runs in the family to be white or grey early.
If you could see me today, the bangs are not so much across my specs anymore (because that drove me sort of crazy as well).
When my hair is long enough to be put back in a ponytail, I know it's too long!
Your hair looks good. I always had long hair when I was a child, and through most of my adult life. A couple of times I had it short...and it relatively short nowadays; sitting just above my shoulders.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand hair over my eyes or face, though...I guess from wearing it in plaits when I was a child; and I always wore it up in one style or the other as an adult, back off my face. I never wore it out loose. I guess it's what one gets used to.
I've allowed my hair to go grey...it is what it is; it is who I am...and, I like it grey, anyway. Too lazy to bother about dyeing i could be a clue, too! :)
Thank you, Lee!
DeleteOne day mine will be all grey, too, and I think I'll like it then - just can't imagine myself being completely grey now, not just yet :-)
You're still a spring chicken, Ms L (you've got a few years to go yet to catch up to where I presently sit! lol)...and it is your right to colour your hair until whenever you choose to or not to. I always said I would never do so...but I did for a couple of years in the early stages of the "Naughties", but I gave up doing so about 10 years ago, I guess...thereabouts. But I just coloured it myself. I never had it done at a hairdressers...I don't go to hairdressers. I cut my own hair, and have done so since about the time I stopped putting a colour through it. I went into my bathroom one day to trim the ends of it. My hair was down to my waist at the time...and I just kept cutting...and it ended up at the length it is today! Strange as it seems to the few who know I do my own hair styling..I find cutting my own hair very easy to do! lol
ReplyDeleteCutting my own hair is something I've never attempted, as I have very bad eyesight ;-)
DeleteGoing to my hairdresser's is always nice - we chat while she's busy with my hair, and while the colour does its magic, she serves other customers and I read (NOT the magazines at the salon - they don't interest me in the least). When she washes the chemicals out later, she always combines that with a very nice massage of my head and neck. It's the socializing as well as feeling pampered that I like about going there.
People always want hair they don't have, don't they? I remember being so envious of a girl with thick curly hair and turned out she was envious of my fine straight hair! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's true, Jenny! I have come to terms with mine over the years, but when I see someone with particularly beautiful hair, I still get a tiny little bit envious - not in the negative (jealous) sense, but I do admire their hair.
DeleteI thought you were around 40, you look much younger than your age. The short hair suits you. I used to have long hair but once I cut it short I prefer it short.
ReplyDeleteGrazie, Francesca :-)
DeleteMy hair is just not good for being worn long. I am really glad now that I have it cut again. To me, it looks better now than on the picture - I'm afraid I will have to post another one soon.
I recently cut my hair. My texture is more on the coily, kinky side (very tight curls). The last time I had short hair was 4 or 5 years ago. It's taking some time to get used to.
ReplyDeleteHello Unashamed Beauty, and welcome to my blog!
DeleteI've just been to your profile to have a better look at your hair. It's great, and suits you very well! I am sure it needs a lot less time to look after now than when it was long :-)