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nervous about cutting my hair short

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Topic: nervous about cutting my hair short
Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Subject: nervous about cutting my hair short
Date Posted: August 05 2005 at 5:18pm
I am nervous about cutting my hair short. I have been thinking about it for the past 4 weeks. I love long hair. I feel it i do not cut it soon i will be cutting it myself. I been wresting with the idea about cutting it for the first time in 10 years.  i have mix emotions about how i want to cut my hair. I know than i need to cut it. I am hot with it long in the summer and i like it long in the winter. It is going to be the inbetween time. It is going to fall soon.  Does anybody have any advice for me where i am nervous and I want to cut it short but how short.



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Posted By: AnaisSatin
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 1:32am
How long is it right now?

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http://anaissatin.livejournal.com"> my LJ , 40 inches long


Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 4:00am
my hair is close to my butt.


Posted By: KB
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 11:37am

Okay - I'm not trying to talk you out of it, but please remember that once it's gone, it's gone. Yes, it will grow back but it takes a very long time - especially to get it back at the length you are now.  So think carefully before you cut it about how short you really want to go.  Maybe this is something you need to do in stages.  Why don't you try taking a few inches off first, see how you like it and then you can gradually go shorter.  It will be too much of a shock to go from long to short in one sitting.

Some people may disagree with me and just tell you to go for it.  Whatever - it's you that has to live with your hair so just think carefully before cutting.



Posted By: Bob S
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 1:43pm

Sounds like you are very detemined to cut, so I wish you well. I'm sure your hair is quite beautiful, and that it doesn't "need" to be cut much, but all I will ask is that you be honest with yourself about how much your length means to you. You must have enjoyed it to have had it for so long. If you do it, do it for yourself, and not to please another or b/c of some specious idea that you are too "old" or "short" or "facially inadequate" for it any longer. They are thoughts planted by an industry which profits mightily from shorter styles, and have little basis in objective reality, IMO.

Only if you are really excited about a change is it probably the right decision for you. Blessings, Bob



Posted By: Rosalie
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 2:14pm
You'll probably regret it, to be honest, by the sounds of it. If my hair was that long I probably wouldn't cut it...


Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 2:54pm
Originally posted by ragdollragdoll ragdollragdoll wrote:


I am hot with it long in the summer and i like it long in the winter.


Wear your hair up and off of your neck when it's hot.  You'll be glad you did so when winter comes around in a few months.

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Posted By: fruitsofchaos
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 4:28am
I know what you're going through. &here is how I felt about my decision. My hair was half way on my butt, such as right in the middle of it. I wanted to cut my hair, but not so short. But then with much thought, I went and had it cut. Oh and this was the summer of 2003. When I came home it'd been cut it all the way to the middle of my back (feathered), which for me was big, so I sobbed over it. But for some people, hair cutting can become an addiction. So my hair grew back to where I am assuming the length you have now. End of April of 2004, I had a urge to cut it even shorter, which I did all the way above my neck bone where I also had japanese straightening done. And cut it twice more between 6&3 months of that.

So the point is, watch out because this can be an additction. I'd suggest thee above, tie it up. You should first cut it short like a trim, or whats best is get layers where you can expirement more since layers, you can tie it up any part and it can look about any length. But this is just an idea. But rememeber..hair cutting=addiction.

Goodluck, neh?


Posted By: Vicky
Date Posted: August 11 2005 at 4:43am
Play with different updues, hairsticks and so on. If you feel sexy like you said you do with long hair, then i think you are really going to miss it.
It sounds like you think you need to cut it of, not like you want to cut it. There for i suggest trimming it. Or just go gradually shorter...

Like they said, its easy to cut of but it wont be easy to grow it back that long..



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