possibly I need a haircut

[flea]

Unfortunately my person moved to Florida. Which has its benefits - she was getting expensive - but means inertia in finding a new person!



Now that it's insanely humid (when the above was taken it was actually misting) I am missing the very short hair that I just spent the last year growing out because it was too severe and manly-looking. But damn was it easy. Never a bad hair day. Unlike now.

(This was my short hair, actually on the longer side. I am so tempted to go back right now.)

Comments

[veejane]

I will note that the longer your hair is, the blonder it appears to get.

However, I'm also a fan of the short cut. If you're worried about looking too mannish, you can always ask for a slightly longer length in back (just enough to curl at the nape, e.g.) or what I have -- an asymmetrical cut that's long enough to tuck behind my ear only on one side. I can go as brutally short in back as I want, because it's balanced out by that one long section in the front.

I don't know how you'd do with asymmetry -- probably it would look a little too like your jr. year in highschool. But it's worth fiddling around with "short with frills" rather than just going straight to the short.

[flea]

I HATE hair on the nape of my neck, so that's out. And the problem with keeping a long piece in front is that, given my cowlick, there's only one possible piece to keep long, and that is in fact the piece that is frizzy and insane and gray (i.e. over my left eye in the photo at top).

I think, alas, that it's not that a short haircut's too severe - it's that I don't have an especially pretty or even very feminine face, which fact is highlighted when I have almost no hair. There's not really any getting over that.

[veejane]

Then I think it's MULLET TIME, girly.

Oh wait, mullets involve hair on your nape.

[veejane]

In all seriousness, I look at the shorter cut and I think you could bear a little more length on the poofy side. A clever haircutter can shear it close up at the cowlick, and then ease out into longer layers on the side -- maybe not so long as to tuck behind the ear, but still a little bit longer, a little bit wider around your face.

(I also tend to agree with Meara, that product might be very helpful for maintaining a longer style. I personally cannot stand product, so I am very happy that I do not have your hair.)

(Also: that's a lot more gray than you had last time, I think! I'll introduce you to Clairol yet.)

The issue is not really that your features aren't feminine; it's that your face is very long, and most haircuts on women are designed for round faces. Look at Sarah Jessica Parker, who is also long-faced -- she often has hair oopses that make her head look weird.