Let Down Your Hair

For more than 13 years, I have worn my hair short.  I know the time precisely because the year I chopped it all off, it was at the suggestion of a Stella Hair Designer who worked for CNN.  I was interning there and his services, at 50% off, were one of the perks.  He told me I didn’t have the face for long hair…or “~air” as he said with his mysterious accent.  The man gave great scalp massages.  Those impressions stay with you, if you know what I mean.

Since that time, I have gone from above my chin to just above my shoulders. Then, after leaving the news business, I didn’t need the neat style, but kept it mostly out of habit.  I worked in PR and needed to look neat and polished as well, but there was less of a need to show my full face then there was with a camera pointed at me.

Over time, my hair began to sink a bit lower and lower…and now..it is about the length of my shoulder blades.  I think it often looks messy, humidity- huge, and often unmanageable but I love it.  It is fun and sassy and I can do so many things with it.  I figure, as a 34 year-old, my long hair days are numbered.  I might as well enjoy it while I don’t look like a hippy or Michelle Duggar (minus 18 children).

So, here it is…in my terrible self-portrait attempts.  This southern summer has tempted me to chop it all off, but we’ll see.