TBT: Hair Edition
8:00 AMI've had the same hairstyle for most of my life. I can count on one hand how many times my hair has been dyed. It's been permed once (and that was one time too many). It's been trimmed a little, and trimmed a lot. It's been fixed by a professional when things have gone wrong, and now it's starting to change colors on it's own.
I've always had a love/hate relationship with my hair. It's very thick and wavy, and while it does have some natural curl, it's at times hard to manage. It wasn't until I found "professional salon products" that I was actually able to care for and manage my hair.
So this is my hair journey, the good, the bad, and the worst. Aren't you excited? You should be. Here's a little hair evolution:
{Hot rollers. Getting ready for my first dance recital.} |
{Age 5 with baby bangs.} |
{3rd grade. Thick bangs and flyaways.} |
Around age 10, we (probably my mom and I) decided a shorter haircut would look good. So, we chopped off several inches, leaving my thick hair to "mushroom" out. Yes. I had that haircut. I'm not even going to show you a picture of that.
I would let my hair grow back out over the next several years, going back to my old look of long and unruly.
{Middle school look.} |
{Discovering hot rollers.} |
The summer before my freshman year of high school I decided I needed a change, ushering in the first of two phases of "short haircut Angela." I chopped off probably eight inches for that cute "stacked" look from the late 90's. Unfortunately, my hair was super thick and wavy so that "stacked" look really just looked messy and wavy a lot of the time.
{Freshman year look.} |
You know that girl who has to completely change her hairstyle after a traumatic experience (a break-up perhaps)? Yeah, I'm that girl. A few months after perming my short hair, I completely chopped it off into a pixie cut (phase two of "short haircut Angela). I didn't think of how this boyish haircut would look on my small boyish frame, or how it would look with my expensive Christmas Ball dress. This haircut would take a couple of years to grow back out. I learned I'm not a short hair person. That was the last time my hair was that short.
{The "pixie" after it had grown out a bit. I can't even. I just can't.} |
I didn't touch my hair again until freshman year of college. My roommate was coloring her hair at the bathroom sink and I thought, I should do that. So, I bought 3 boxes of haircolor (because of my thick hair) in a color 4 shades lighter than my own color. Wouldn't you know it, my hair turned orange. I mean orange.
{Orange hair don't care. Also shout out to my college besties.} |
So, during Christmas break I had someone "fix" my orange hair and also take a little length off. I came back to college with black hair that was way shorter than I had wanted. Hairstylist fail. I did try to dye my own hair again eventually, this time going a bit darker. My hair looked no different after, so I was pretty much done dying my hair after that.
{Who hasn't dyed their hair while wearing a trash bag?} |
{After the mullet had grown out a bit.} |
I vowed to never cut my hair again. I didn't really, for several years. Luckily I found an excellent hairstylist in St. Louis who kept me looking great, even though I was very sporadic in my visits. I was probably the worst hair client ever, only coming in once or twice a year. Enter, the year of long long hair.
{A few months before "the big cut.} |
{Right after the cut.} |
{Current hair.} |
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