So far... nothing's crossed off...

So yesterday, a conversation between myself and Barbie struck a nerve to get my hair cut. Not just trimmed cut, but CUT CUT.

A little over a year ago, I had shopped my hair off to donate to lock of love. For the two years leading up to my wedding, I had been growing my hair out to have enough to do something fancy with. Once the wedding was over, I could not wait to get it cut off.

Well, I got it so short then that I was able to donate it and I had hopes of doing it again. As per my list of 101 things to do, I was supposed to cut it off and donate it again and I thought "why not now". Of course my hair wasn't as long as it was last time, so I knew it'd be a dramatic change this time around.

I did a little research online and determined that the style of hair I was going for is commonly called the "pixie hair cut". This morning I called and made an appointment and showed up at 12:00 ready for a fresh new look.

After sitting down in the chair I was sad to find out that there just wasn't enough hair for me to donate. I could then just get a trim or leave with all my hair in tact. The hair stylist put a little chunk of my hair into a pony tail and chopped (just to see if it'd be ten inches - it wasn't). Well at that point,t here was no turning back.

I would not classify my current look as "pixie" at all (perhaps he didn't see the full vision - which is maybe why he didn't think we could get my 10 inches) instead I'd regretfully say it fits more into the "mom" category.

Either way, I don't hate it. there are certain aspects I love and certain thinks I think I would have done differently. In the end, what's done is done, and it's just hair - it's bound to grow back.

Some more shots:

OH! and since I had this vision of SUPER short boy hair, it was supposed to inspire me to put make up on every morning (to look more fem.). We'll see how that goes.

Hair

I had been warned, but it’s still a surprise. This past week or so I have been losing my hair. Not just little bits here and there, but globs of it at a time!

Apparently this is common for most women after pregnancy. During pregnancy you lose less hair – your hair is staying in it’s “resting” phase longer than normal (so typically your hair will feel thicker during pregnancy) due to hormones and all that good stuff. Usually about 12 weeks post partum all those resting hairs start to fall out. I read that on average you loose 100-150 hairs per day (when your NOT pregnant and hormonal). However, during the post pregnancy hair loss when your hormones start to readjust, you can lose up to 500 hairs a day!! A considerable difference!

I’m confident I won’t be going bald any time soon, but poor Ryan has some extra drain cleaning to do.

Like Obama

I thought it was time for change.

I have been growing my hair out for the past 2 years in an effort to have lots of hair to play with on my wedding day. The growing and styling was a huge success (I'm a bit biased but I thought my hair was amazing and I loved it more than anything).

Now that the wedding it almost a month behind me I thought it was time to do something with all that hair I'd been carrying around. So, I decided to chop it all off and donate it to Locks of Love.

On my way to the hair salon, I was on the phone with Barbie and she came along for the fun. The minimum length for the donation was 10 inches. I knew I would be close to that. When he showed me where the 10 inches would put me I was a little taken back - I knew it'd be short, but 10 inches was a little shorter then I had expected. But I went for it anyway. We took the length of the hair up to about my jaw line. I had about 4-5 bundles of hair instead of just one large pony tail to avoid the pieces in the front being cut short (from the pulling back, etc.).

All in all, I'm very pleased with the outcome. It's so weird to wash and brush - my hands keep wanting to go the extra 10-12 inches to the end.

I'll post some pictures when I get them from Barbie.