Thank you all! Yes, I plan to keep it shorter for awhile - and sometime I might even go shorter, as I think my hair takes really well to shorter layers. My biggest concern was that it would swell up into an enormous mushroom cloud around my head in high humidity. Incredibly, it doesn't! (although Memorial Day will be the ultimate test as I'll be at the Jersey shore.) What floors me most is that my hair actually looks just as good if I don't style it in the morning. I run some leave-in conditioner/straightening gel through it, plus a little mousse, and I LEAVE. It dries into the same shape that I would get from heat styling. I could never do that when my hair was longer, as it would frizz out of control and the last six inches would go every which way.
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Wow Lyris that looks fantastic! My other half is trying to grow hers to the sort of length you left from (kinda like what Amanda Bynes had for the Nickelodeon Kids Awards last month), but she's got it at a similar length to you right now.
The question is, is that a zig-zag part I spot? VERY COOL if it is.
Mylissa - yes, I still love All Soft (the smell!!!!!!!) and the Mica spray. Use it every week! :-)
Here is another "before" picture." This was taken late last year, so my hair was a few inches longer just before the big chop. Long hair lovers, please don't cry....it might have looked good but it felt like straw from a Halloween haywagon ride.
Hi Lyris, been a long time since I talked to you. Your hair is awesome. Your before picture looked great but if your hair was as damaged as you say then your decision wasn't so bad. Besides, you love it so you don't have to defend your haircut to me or anyone else. No one should ever have to defend a haircut by choice.
Especially when you got what you asked for and like it. I would only be upset if you had said that you got it cut and it turned out bad. Your cut is very pretty and even though it's a medium length it still looks long. It still touches your shoulders.
Something else, looking at your before picture and the after it doesn't look as drastic of a length change as it really was. The shorter layers make it seem like more hair was cut but you really did keep lots of length.
I'll leave off by saying that looks like a fun hairstyle. It looks like something you can do lots of stuff with.
I was hoping you'd keep your hair long, but now that you've cut it, I've got a suggestion. I was looking at your picture and wonder, maybe you'd look real good with a jaw to chin length, one length precision cut bob. Maybe angled a bit, with a wedge in the back. What do you think? I'm not trying to pressure you, just making a humble suggestion.
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Beautiful Lyris! Just like you, I am thinking of getting a haircut but unlike you, I am too chicken to really do it.
One of these days, I tell myself. One of these days... sigh.
If you would like to see how Lyris's or any other cut would look on you ... I can help. It only took Lyris a year an a half to take my advice...lol I'm still batting 1000! I have yet to make a sim, have someone take it to a stylist and come home unhappy!
Mylissa - yes, I still love All Soft (the smell!!!!!!!) and the Mica spray. Use it every week! :-)
Here is another "before" picture." This was taken late last year, so my hair was a few inches longer just before the big chop. Long hair lovers, please don't cry....it might have looked good but it felt like straw from a Halloween haywagon ride.
Hal - I don't have the sim anymore :-( as I had to get my computer switched out. Blasted technology!
I don't do a lot of things that scare me in this life, but getting this cut was one of them. I went to the best stylist in town (my boyfriend goes to him) and showed him a picture of Cameron Diaz's hair from a few years ago. He was done in 15 minutes and I had about 12 inches less hair! Initially I walked out of the salon and stared in the rearview mirror at the shortest piece in the front thinking, whoa....that won't even go into a ponytail! But about an hour later I was warming to it. By the next day I loved it!
One thing I really like about the layered look (as opposed to my one-length 'do) is that it hides damage easily. Everyone gets those little pieces where hair has broken off, be it from chemical processes, the hairdryer or a bad run-in with a wire brush. On my old style those areas were painfully obvious. Now, the layers blend any damage rather well.
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Thank God for the chickens of the world, Crazygirl! Three cluck salute for you! When women have enchanying long hair like you, I don't care what the reason is for keeping it. These eyes always hate to see it vanish. I respect the choice, but my heart sinks. My own wife would opt fot the "practical" stumpy ponytail look if I ceased to take care of it for her. She knows her tresses look extraordinary, but she is more a no-nonsense person. As things stand now, her hair is 2 or 3" above her waist. She wouldn't go short b/c she thinks short is "mannish", but she'd go with the minimum length she could pull back during summer if left to her own preference. BTW, I think most women look pretty good with pixies. "Mannish" is her opinion, even tho' hers was cropped above her ears and neck for a few years! Go figure. (lol) Bob
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