cutting hair for a million dollars?

I agree with you Jennifer. It sounds like she just wanted short hair now, and that the reasons offered were simply to appease the public's interest in her haircut.

What struck me as odd was a seeming indifference to giving her fans what they might want. Perhaps the contract was written such that she was going to make a ton of money no matter what. The Dateline NBC report did say that the show was booked solid for several months. She must have a lot of die-hard fans.

Well, IMO it's a terribly unflattering look but it is her prerogative how she wears her own hair, after all... why should she care what I think?

Yes, I hate reading things about Babys and work and stuff. It's your hair! You will regret it if you cut it against your will.

I hate it when people ask "would you shave your head for charity?" And they act like oh you don't care about the children or whatever. Well, I think that's its them who don't they just want to see somone loosing an important part of themselves and becoming another drone.
If everyone cut their hair for charity there'd be no long hair! There is a million other better things you can do for charity than shave your head.

Messy as it is, I'm never having my hair any short that it is now. I wouldn't mind if I could enjoy it below chin length, but it's too damn messy and it needs to grow to be weighed down.

I think that it is silly cutting your hair for a baby, I mean do you think the baby cares if you spent a few extra minutes doing something you enjoy your own way? You're not going to be tending to the child every single minute of the day, and I expect she'll always get the same time getting "styled up" before her concerts anyway.
Hair should be considered just a past time in many ways. You shouldn't let babies, and ESPECIALLY not work get in the way. Why do people spend so long tending to babies when they're really going to need it when they're teenagers, which is when they get ignored? I'm not saying you should be cruel to a child, but nonetheless having long hair isn't going to get in it's way, and having even just a quarter of an hour to quickly fix up hair isn't going to bother the child, especially if there's another parent to take care of it.

It sounds like a petty excuse, she probably was offered $1million, she just wanted the money.

I never thought about the hair extensions thing! Short hair on a guy is way too short to put extensions on though.

DaveDecker wrote: Another reason she gave was that she has a baby and wanted to focus as much attention as possible on her baby, and didn't want to have stylists fuss over her hair for hours before shows.

i'm getting tired of that excuse with babies. depending on what type of hair you have short hair can be just as time comsuming. also when women complain they cut their hair because the baby pulls their hair. a baby is going to pull short or long hair. if your hair is long hanging down it's easier for the baby to pull. if you are playing and handling a baby, the baby pulls on top long or short.

A pixie? Isn't she real thin? I haven't seen her, but I have a feeling that she looks a lot older than she really is. I wonder why she cut her hair.

I'm only vaguely familiar with Celion Dion. How much hair did she cut? The great news about long hair is that we have more to sacrifice.

Would I cut off five inches for a million dollars? Yes!

You didn't specify how much.....

Oops, that got posted twice. Sorry!

Hi Lyris, Isla, Uzma et al,

You are all soooooooo right about this topic. Ack. I have so many problems with email & messageboards on a number of fronts. On one side I have to be careful not to take emails I receive or posts to me the wrong way (and I get hundreds of emails every day for every reason from soliciting money to hair advice to business stuff) and then I have to be careful what I write in my emails back.

You guys should just see some of the Customer Service emails we get and some of the private emails I get. I think it is because people lose sight of the fact that other people can be hurt by flippant words in email that would never be said over the phone or in person. I wish I could publish an anonymous book of the emails. Geez. I am always totally amazed.

I am especially careful about what I post on any messageboards anywhere because Lyris you are 1000% correct that sometimes people are just posting tongue-in-cheek (and we don't have a symbol for that one) or they are just enjoying the potential for discussion and not really serious. Or intending any harm or meanness.

As Dave Decker, Jen Bahney, Jeff and many who know me personally will tell you, in person or on the phone I am humorously sarcastic. However, that is hard to translate sometimes into words. So I try to be careful about that in my emails and posts.

So yes, it is important for everyone to remember that unless you can hear a person on the phone or see their face, it is wise to not overreact.

Anyway...a long winded reply to a basic statement that I agree. :-)

Best wishes,
Karen

PS. Lyris I have not forgotten about you and am still trying to pin down that stylist about the bun accessory. I have left her 2 voice and 2 emails and she has not gotten back to me. But I will preserve until I get an answer. ;-)

You're right Isla.
What we also need is a "I'm being deadly serious" icon, if such a thing exists.

Apologies if I have offended anyone.

Uzma

sure.. for a half a million i would cut it to my shoulders.. for a million i would go for a buzz cut and just buy a wig and viviscal and hair vitamins to make it grow back faster and healthier. it would be doing me a favour, my hair is so trashed, damaged, and knotted up all the time.