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I did something today I've never done.
Got my hair cut -- short.
Shorter than it's ever been.
It's never been above my shoulders.
Until now.
I think I made the stylist's day, though. He said he had a lot of fun with me. OK, NERD ALERT! I had been tooling around this afternoon on the Web, looking at hairstyles I might like. I Photoshopped a short, layered bob I liked onto a picture of myself and saved the finished product to my desktop. I stuffed the laptop in my backpack and brought it with me to the salon. When I sat down in the chair, I asked him, "You think you might be able to recreate something if I showed you a picture?" So I pulled out the laptop, opened it up and showed him the Photoshopped me. He pondered for a sec. "No problem. At least you picked a hairstyle that matches your hair type," he said. "Sometimes I get requests for things from people who don't even have enough hair to make it with." I said I was nervous. "Take a deep breath," he said, and before I could finish it, he had suddenly snipped the length off right to the shoulders. "Got it quick!" he said. "No turning back now!"
And plop went my look of the past 15 years to the floor, to be swept into a nice neat pile and into the trash.
I sweat the whole time. The backs of my legs were sliding on the vinyl seat. Can I take off this bib? I was nervous but excited. An anxious nervous. I asked him if he needed to see the picture again.
"Nope!" he said confidently. "It's all right here," he said as he tapped his temple. "Don't worry! You look younger! It looks better already."
And later:
"Don't ever cut your own bangs again. Please let me do it."
He gave me a big hug when it was all over.
I've never had a real hairstyle before, and I've always been afraid to change it. What if I looked more manly than I already do? What if it starts thinning? What if that bald spot on the back of my head shows? My paranoia about my appearance -- more specifically, drawing attention to myself -- is just one of the many ways my lack of self-confidence and general self-loathing manifest themselves. But I was feeling adventurous today (also read "moody" for the 52% of you with two X chromosomes), and if I was going to take a chance on myself, I thought I'd better do it now before I got cold feet again. If I didn't like it, my hair grows so fast, it'll be back in no time, right? RIGHT?
The finished product is somewhat like the Photoshopped version I created (I told the stylist to ignore the color), but not as big and foofy, and straighter.
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Replies: 8 shoutouts
awesome! I can't wait to see it in person. I wish I could have seen the looks on everyone's faces.
Posted by tiff @ 05/14/2004 01:24 PM EST
OMG, Friday's work day was a wash, since that was the first day people saw me with the new 'do. And for days, people have been gasping and doing double-takes! It's been fun, tho.
Posted by Huffstuff @ 05/10/2004 03:24 PM EST
Wow! Fun!!!
How many times in the office did you hear "Happy haircut! Yuck yuck!" ? Gawsh, that corny phrase could drive a person up the wall.
Congrats! U go, Huff.
Posted by ufscoops @ 05/10/2004 10:36 AM EST
So... was the nerd playing Quake on her laptop while getting her hair cut?
Posted by ~ @ 05/08/2004 05:12 PM EST
You could always grow a mustache if you want to look more butch. And your pit hair too.
Posted by Huff2 @ 05/07/2004 09:45 PM EST
Thanks! Uh, er, I guess I should have mentioned that I don't have a printer (that works)...
Posted by Huffy @ 05/07/2004 05:19 PM EST
um, like, wow!
kickass!
Posted by Rukan @ 05/07/2004 04:23 PM EST
TWO THUMBS UP! from us in Toronto. Glad to see the stylist ignored the green and purple JPEG artifacts when re-creating your design.
And, uh, couldn't the nerd have just PRINTED the photo instead of lugging the laptop along? :-)
Posted by ~ @ 05/07/2004 07:59 AM EST