Prompt for December 19: Challenges: What did you wrestle with in 2011? What did you learn? What challenges do you foresee in 2012?
It's been getting rather feelingsy around here of late so in order to pacify the part of me that squicks and cringes at lots of emotion my challenge this year was my hair.
No, really. Thanks to the stress of the last few years, I've decided that my hair is falling out. There's this series of books I read when I was a teenager and the girl has lupus I think and there's this scene where she knows she's getting sicker because of the amount of hair in her hairbrush. I'm pretty sure this is the first (Ed: it's Julie and Matt before FNL!) but I may be mixing it up with another series. In fact I'm pretty sure I am now that the cobwebs are starting to come off.. in this series I think they have a baby named Danielle but she dies in the fourth book? Maybe the third. Drat, now I'm going to have to find the series again. I remember my teenage self being very impressed by a particular t-shirt scene. Sheesh, tangent much. Trust me though, there is a series where the main character is sick and there's a hair falling out scene.
Anyway - to stave off the hair falling out, last December I chopped all my hair and got Carey Mulligan's cut (right at my ears, piecey waves) and enjoyed it for the month before it started to grow and look ridiculous. I'm always a let it grow, chop it off, repeat kinda girl when it comes to my hair. Aside from over dramatizing it all being about to fall out of my head, it's there, it's fine, it'll grow. When I had it super long (several inches below my bra strap) a few years ago, I wore it down one day and my co-worker said it reminded her of a Pantene commercial. That was a good day. Ordinarily though, I wear it off my face. It's super dark and super wavy (Italian much, you say?) and anytime it's between my cheekbones and my collarbone, I resemble a frizzy triangle head. I shower at night and I'm not willing to spend 45 minutes every morning and who knows what product/tools to tame it into submission so most of the time, I clip the sides back and look slightly less than sleek.
I'm lucky that my hair grows fast and a year after my last cut (that's the other thing: I am not a regular hair cutter. Once, maybe twice a year is it for me. I'll pay for good cuts [best cut of my life was the $90 cut from Bumble and Bumble in NYC a few years back], but I feel like to get the most bang for my buck, I have to see a change. I will definitely not pay $90 for a half inch trim.) my hair is a little below my shoulders. But it's so wavy/frizzy/out of control that it just kind of curls up on my shoulders in an ever so attractive looking bundle. I'm getting it cut Friday with Mom and she speaks highly of the woman doing it so we'll see what she says. I figure they're the expert, she'll tell me what'll look good. I want to keep most of the length and definitely do not want too big TX hair (Mom's hair has absolutely gotten bigger over the years. Cracks me up.) but am pretty much going to go in a beg for a style/shape change.
In 2012, it'd be great to expand my current styling repertoire from ponytail and clip back the front piece without looking like a before picture on the hairstyling commercials.
Either that or bite the bullet and allocate every penny of disposable income to weekly blowouts.
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