my hair

[low_delta]

Damn, I'm cold.

People have asked me how long it's been since it's been this short. The short answer is never. Even when I was a kid, I always had bangs. Not having bangs has something to do with not having a hairline near my forehead, but still... The hair on top is not long enough to comb down. And I never had it buzzed, like it is in back.

I had a couple of people tell me that if I'd shaved the beard, people probably wouldn't have recognized me. I think that would have been a more radical change to my look. I really don't want to shave my beard, though. It wouldn't grow back fast enough, either.

So far, I only heard one compliment that really sounded like, "wow that looks so much better than your old style!" I had to laugh - she said how much more professional I look. I look like I could be an engineer or a teacher or something. Um, thanks, I guess.

My boss kept saying, "wow!" over and over. He had to take a picture to send to his wife. My boss's boss had to stop and catch his breath. I wonder if he remembers the first time he saw me, when it wasn't styled at all, but shaggy. I used to only brush it once a week.

I had the long hair for what seems like forever, but it was really only half my life. So now I'm going through the past, wondering who knew me before my hair was long. Just family, and my friends from high school. I work with a guy whom I first met in tech school, just after high school. That was before I grew my beard, but after I started growing my hair long.

I can't wait until the back grows out again.

Comments

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I think if I cut my hair everyone who knows me IRL would have a heart attack.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I believe it!

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

i think you look great both ways.

i also think you should take this time to shave your beard. might as well go for it! aren't you curious what you'd look like w/out it? it'll grow back faster than you think :)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not really curious. Other people would be, I suppose. I wonder how I'd look with that scruffy, half-grown beard look?

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

my husband grows a beard in 1.5 days :p
i'm bugging *cough*nagging*cough* him to cut it off for family pictures (he changes his hair/beard continuously.)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Ken *could* shave his beard off for pictures, and it would grow back in a week. Me, on the other hand... I get no five o'clock shadow.

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

he certainly could!
he gets 12pm shadow :P

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

Hum... Short on top, long in back. Do I smell a mullet coming on?

ar ar ar

Billy Ray Cyrus is back in Wisconsin!

:-)

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

HELL no.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

The back won't ever get long enough again to keep you warm in this weather.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Anything will help.

[(Anonymous)]

lol.. I remember when I did the shave/buzz thing, it was cold! I could feel the direction of the wind on my face for *days* after that shave!