Really, Really Short!!!

I wish you luck, Ingrid. I would never have the courage you have to cut my hair that short(wouldn`t look good on me anyway!).

How long was it before?

Hi Inga

I hope you enjoy your edgy cut.
Did you keep your dark hair colour?
I saw a girl the other day with v.short hair and she had the most beautifully decorated ears. Each ear pierced about six times, all the way up from her lobes - and she was wearing a tiny earring in each hole. Without that crop-cut, nobody would have been able to appreciate her ears!!!
Are you going to change your personal style (in terms of clothes) to better suit the hairstyle?
Sometimes a transformative hairstyle triggers a new way of looking and relating to yourself.
Have fun and please don`t freak out.
Every change brings greater knowledge and growth.

Take care

Hey everybody! Thanks so much for your support & encouragement :) I`m still not sure if I like it yet... on the good side, it is really easy. It takes less than five minutes to wash & condition it, and altho I`m still working with styling it, it`s pretty easy to make it look alright. On the bad side, I`m still unsure about it- I got sort of a mixed reaction from people I know. Several girls at school said stuff like "It`s adorable!" and "I wish I had the guts to do that!", which is kinda flattering but I wonder if it means that they really hated it and couldn`t find anything else to say... there was a lot of squeals and exclamations of God`s name, and for soem reason a bunch of them felt the need of touch my hair, which made me nervous. I got lots of funny looks from guys. It seemed to make them nervous which isn`t neccessarily a bad thing.
In answer to some of your questions; before I got it cut it was still short, but more like a very layered short bob, angled in the front and about chin-length in the back...I saw on another web site that they used to call it an `Italian Boy` cut in the `50s. Now its much shorter- about 2 1/2 inches on the top (OK I measured it) but still curly, so it looks shorter. On the sides & back its less than an inch & kinda tapered, with little wispy strands in front of my ears (I guess thats that sideburn area ?) and in the very back (the nape I guess). Its not clippered or anything but I guess you can get the same length with clippers. She did use a clipper to `clean up` my neck area, which tickled and made me jerk around in the chair. Right now I`ve been using John Frieda Dream Curls to get the top wavy & full and parting it on the side & clipping up the bangs with a barette. I`m trying to figure out some other things to do with it. Last night I threw out a bunch of my scrunchies and bigger clips and stuff cuz I guess I won`t need those for a long time...
I`m still keeping it black- I dyed it again last night cuz the new cut really showed off my roots in a terrible way. I think it looks better black- I`ve heard that really short hair looks better with a bold color. Fortunately, I was already a jewelry and makeup junkie- I have three holes in my left ear and four in the right, and I`ve been wearing earrings in all of them since I did this, and even more makeup than usual, cuz I feel kinda boyish with this hair and maybe I`m overcompensating.
I found myself wearing more `girlie` kinda clothes too- I actually wore a dress to school on Friday, which I don`t think I`ve done since I was in grade school. On the bright side, I`ve always worn chokers, and I think they look really good now since my skinny `lil neck is sticking out so much. :)
Anway, thanks again for your support everybody and for reading my nervous rambling here. I`ll let you know how this all goes....

Lotsa Love,

Ingrid (or Inga, if you like)

hehehehe...thanks for the compliment Ingrid. I really *don`t* have the guts to chop it short although I`d love to. I literally have dozens of photos on my computer of short cuts that I will someday experiment with (probably when I have kids who like to pull my long hair.) I think the real reason behind my short-haired fear stems from my middle school days. I was a very homely little girl with acne, braces, furry eyebrows, no chest, the whole nine yards. Worst of all was my hair: chin length, puffy and with BIG short bangs. Awful. Every since then I`ve worn it sleek and long. But I do hope one day to take the plunge and go short. Congrats to you Ingrid for having the courage---it must be nice! :-)

good job ingrid! i bet it looks great!
=)
***jewls***

Ingrid,

After I broke up with my boyfriend a little over a year ago, I went into a depression, and out of frustration and because I was angry and depressed I went to a beauty salon and had my waist length brunette hair cut off into a short bob, and a week later I went back and got it cut even shorter into a very short pixie, not much longer than a crewcut.
I really missed my long hair and I cried alot, I wondered what I had done, I thought I was a little crazy! I was very depressed and upset.
However, things have worked out well. Now my depression is gone, things have gone much better in recent months.

I actually got some compliments on my short pixie(you look cute, your new "do" is adorable, those sorts of comments), and I gradually adapted to having a very short haircut. It helped that many of my girlfriends and female co-workers also have short hairstyles so I wasn`t alone with short hair.
Two months after I got my hair cut short I met a great guy, a handsome, loving man who I fell in love with. We are now engaged and getting married this coming May.
So things do work out for the best, I am convinced of that!
I go once a month to have my hair trimmed so it looks neat and not shaggy, I really like my hairstyle now, I have completely adjusted to it. I also think it is important, as you mentioned, to make the most of a short hairstyle by being and dressing very feminine. I wear two earrings in each ear and always wear nice earrings and I also wear a nosestud in my left nostril. I went shopping after I got my haircut and bought some nice skirts, blouses and dresses. I always wear makeup, jewelry and dress feminine. I actually feel more feminine now than I did before !
So things have worked out well for me and I hope things go well for you.
It takes guts to try something different but to me it has been worth it, I have adjusted to it.

Best wishes and a happy New Year Ingrid!

Congrats!

Hi Ingrid

I have been thinking about going short and I need your opinion about ever since you got your hair cut really, really short how do you like your hair now compared to before you went short? because my hair is just past chin length and I might go short like a pixie cut or similar to your hair cut which sounds awesome or a bob with a buzzed nape but I haven`t decided on what to do with my hair yet and thats why I`m asking for advise on the Teen Hair message board and also your advise about your new hair cut.....


Britney

A couple of things Ingrid:
There are , of course, different types of short or very short styles of hair. The key is to find the short style that looks best on you!
I wear a very short pixie style, I think it looks good on me. If I was to wear a short curly style or something like that, I think it would look less good on me. But that is just me, you have to decide what is right FOR YOU!

Also, you are still a teenager, and there is still some pressure for teenage girls to have somewhat longer hair, but believe me once you get out of high school the pressure is off about that. Adult women wear their hair in a variety of styles including short and very short.
My guess is the more mature boys in your school won`t judge you by your short hair and may even like it! And that could work to your advantage, you might meet a better, more well rounded, type of guy.
Best wishes Ingrid!