Has anybody gone from long to short in one sitting? I am thinking about it. I know once I cut it short it is all gone. Has anybody donated their hair to the Lock of Love? I am still in the deciding on cutting it short but how short. My hair is close to my butt.I feel I need a change in my life. I am starting with my hair.

I've done the long to short thing just two times - once from waist length to a shorter layered bob, once from BSL to lip length.   Oh my word, the regret I felt only as it had just become to late  to change  anything.  Both were  following traumatic events, i.e.  the first  was after my father's death, the second after breaking up with my s/o. 

Please  take it from someone who has spent many, many years doing the 'cut it short' thing everytime a major life event occurs -- you will do yourself NO favors.  Cut it because you're ready for a change, you no longer enjoy caring for it,  it's too hard for you to maintain - but  not just to make a change.  You don't seem very convinced to cut it, just to make  changes - as Dave said, it's very simple.  However you could lose 10 plus inches of hair easily, but it won't  have any effect on the other  elements of your life that still need work. 

Also, do a search through the forums about Locks of Love..  They are not the greatest company on earth, that's for sure.

If you want to cut it cut it.  Many women cut or dramaticly change their hair as a starting point for change in their lives.  Some are glad they did it some are not. If you want to cut all at once, do it.  If not.. do a little at a time.  What ever makes you happy!!!!!!!

Rosalie wrote: Why did you have to post two topics?

She posted two differing topics. One to gather the opinions of anyone who had gone through such a dramatic cut, and one expressing her nervousness. Consider the fact that different people responded to the different posts as well.

Similar posts are not a bad thing unless they are contaminating instead of contributing to the boards.

Ragdoll,

When I was younger, I strolled into a salon with hair I could sit on, and had it cut short, thinking I wanted something new, different.

Now while your experience may be different, mine was spent crying. I even woke the next morning feeling my hair to make sure it was just a bad dream, but nope. I was then chained to daily styling. It took me forever to get ready, my 'feathers' were never right, I had more bad hair days than I can remember, but the deed was done.

Just my experience. I wish you well no matter what you decide.

My advice, however, would be to try new styles, new hair accessories, etc. before a cut. If you decide by gosh and by golly to cut, try cutting just a bit rather than a dramatic cut, then go from there.

Karen Marie

Seeing mutliple posts on your topic suggests that you are serious, yet apprehesive about doing the big cut.

Do you have a specific short hair style you really want or are you just doing this for change with no thought to a style?  Have you tried different short styles out digitally - via a computer program or salon aid to see what suits you the best?  Try a short wig out and see if you like it?

Are you prepared for a lot more upkeep?  Shorter styles do require more styling and more frequent trims than longer ones. 

Am not dissuading you, but consider all of these before you do the big cut. 

after taking everybody suggestion in consideration I decide to cut my hair. The only question that that kept coming up from everybody is do I no longer enjoy caring for it.I went to the hairdresser yesterday and made the cut.The answer to the question was i no longer enjoy caring for it. I had made a dramatic cut. My hair was butt length and now it is  a chin length curly bob. I know that if i let it grow long it will take a long time to grow it back to wheree I had it. I have no regrets in cutting it short. I know I will have to do more upkeep on it now but it will be the same amount of upkeep on because my hair is so thick that I have to go to the hairdresser every 6 weeks anyways.

Thank you for all the suggestions I really appriecation them.

geezzzzzzz guys some the girl some love.. she wanted to change her hair so she did.  Whats wrong with that? 

Hello all,

Debbie, I read it the same way, that she was answering eKatherine's post, though with the rash of trolls and but ten posts from ragdoll, I understand how the confusion came into play.

This poor girl. We can't all be Shakespeares. (Actually, Shakespeare's grammar wasn't all that great. It was his vocab that was kick-A.)

I have heard the same thing about American English: It's one of the hardest languages to master (among languages that contain similar letter characters...this leaves out most of the Asian languages). Personally, I love English because it's quirky, unpredictable, difficult, and beautiful. The main reason English (English English, LOL) seems so "mismatched" is that, frankly, it is. Teutonic/Germanic, Latin and ancient Celtic have precious little in common. It's actually pretty amazing that it developed as a language at all.

Okay. Hijack over. :) This poor girl. All she wanted was advice on her hair...

DaveDecker wrote: There's a large difference between "I just had it trimmed" and "I just have it trimmed" and given the difference in verb tense it's no wonder I was confused.

No, Dave. That still makes sense. She's using the past tense because she's describing what she used to do. Now, with short hair, it will probably be different.

By the way...HOLY COW on your photo. Wooooooooooooooow. Holy guacamole. You take such excellent care of your hair. You should be very proud.

I was answering a question somebody ask me. What i did when I had long hair. It was upkeep on when I had long hair.

My hair is now chin length .