Goodbye, dear hair

[averygoodun42]

I'm getting my hair shwacked off tomorrow. I have enough to donate. Wheee.



Things I will miss about my lovely long hair:

The feel of it tickling my bare back
The ability to just pull it back off my face
All the dreamy hairstyles (that I never had the patience for)
Having something to be vain about
Being able to use it as a tool for seduction
Being able to tickle Babe without wrecking my neck.
The beautiful curls that happen when it's been just long enough since washing it last. It looks like I've used a curling iron, only it's natural. When my hair is four inches shorter than it currently is.


Things I will NOT miss about my lovely long hair:

Showering: a) the amount of time it takes to wash my hair b) the amount of shampoo it takes to wash my hair c) the amount of hair that ends up in the drain after washing my hair and d)the amount of time it takes for the damn stuff to dry!
The weight, and the headaches it induces
The need to pull it back from my face
All the hair everywhere. I swear I'm as bad as a cat, only the hair is 10X longer than any cat hair I've ever seen!
The heat. My hair is thick. When it's short in the summer, it's hot. When it's long in the summer, it's murderous. Heat stroke, anyone?
Cooking. Especially for company. I hate hairnets.
When swimming, I hate having to tie it back (I love the idea of hair streaming behind me all wavy and mermaidish), but if I don't, surfacing requires extreme care and finesse, otherwise I end up with a gob of wet hair trying to drown/suffocate me. It's tenacious, I tell you!
Bedtime
Tangles
High humidity days (let's just say I give a good impression of 1st movie Hermione.)
Low humidity days (The frizz is coming! The frizz is coming!)
Greasy locks. I may like Snape, but I do not want to impersonate his look.
Catching my hair in DH's glasses.
Catching my hair in my glasses
Catching my hair in random buttons (coat hood buttons are the worst)
The unflattering effect on my face.

I love my hair for it's color, texture, thickness and whatnot, but in the end, I like short hair better. And I look better in short hair.

So goodbye cruel whorls! Maybe I'll see you again in another ten years.

Comments

[beletseri.livejournal.com]

Goodness! Is that picture really you? I'm missing your hair too if it is you, and I'm terribly jealous. I've always wanted hair that color, but alas, I got stuck with brown...

Goodbye beautiful hair! And hello to Avery's new look!

Whoever ends up getting a wig made out of that hair is one lucky girl if you do donate it!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yes it is of me, though the evening sun is helping a bit on the color front. ;-) When I was young I HATED my hair color. My sister and I would have gladly traded hair colors (hers is a very dark brown, basically black), but over the years I've realized how lucky I am. But really, the color is even nicer when it's short because then the sun bleaches it a bit, bringing out all the highlights...

Okay, enough.

[onyx-noir.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I ask what organization you're donating it to? I've got long, thick hair myself and have thought (usually during the heat of summer) that if I do ever get it cut I should donate it, probably to an organization called Locks of Love.

And boy, do I relate to the things you won't miss. My hair has gotten long to the point where I have to watch it when I sit down, and I've lost count of how many times I've accidentally closed the car door on it.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yep, Locks of Love. I don't know of any others out there, thouh there probably are. *shrug*

Yeah, long hair looks pretty, but it is such a pain in the butt. Well, sounds like your is more of a pain in the neck via butt. :D

[muggle-prof.livejournal.com]

How short?
Color and thickness are the main thing about nice hair -- length is whatever works for you. (Mine's a decent color, tho not as bright as yours, but really thin, so long is not an option AT ALL for me.)

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Quite short. No strand longer than four inches at the most. I'm guessing you go for layers?

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

I was really trying to come up with at least a few cons. Not that it would have changed my mind. I had decided to get my hair cut in January, I just wanted to wait until the warm weather. No sense freezing my neck by choipping off the insulation in mid winter, right? The only good thing about my hair and the heat is that it isn't black. Maybe that's why blonds seem to keep their locks long?

[subversa.livejournal.com]

::waves bye to pretty hair::

I admire you for donating it. Mine is longer than it's ever been, and I don't have the courage to part with it.

[keladry_lupin]

You're donating it?! Bless you! That's so cool. I love your lists, and can commiserate with every last one of the things you won't be missing about it. (But I also liked the same things about my hair that you like about yours, before I had it shorn; I donated mine last Octogre, and I love it short.)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I'd comment but I'm still reeling from the "cruel whorls" pun!

[kismet0116.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you do have lovely hair. And good for you for donating it. My hair isn't as long as yours but I won't get it cut anytime soon. The big downside to short hair is once you get it cut you have to keep getting it cut and I'm too lazy to go to the salon so often