First of all, please ignore the water spots in the picture. There are mirrors surrounding the tub in my bathroom & the kids like to splash. Keeping the water spots off is a losing battle.
I'm having a serious internal debate today. I love my hair. I hate my hair. It's good hair...really, it is. But it's not easy to deal with. It takes for ever to wash. I HAVE to comb it out in the shower or I can't get a brush through it afterwards. I live in a pony tail. If I don't pull it back, I spend all my time trying to get it out of Bitsy's face. I'm post-natal shedding so there's hair all over the house. I keep finding stray hairs on Bitsy or her bedding. But I do love my hair and am not sure I'm ready to lose it. Seeing that picture makes the debate even tougher.
I measured it this morning. Locks of Love needs 10 inches to donate. Panteen collects hair to make wigs for women with Breast Cancer. They need 8 inches. I have 13 inches I'm willing to part with.
Husband likes my hair to be an inch or two past my shoulders (at the shortest). I hate it that length. For me it's long or short. Nothing in between. So I am at an impass.
October is Breast Cancer awarness month. I may wait until then to decide what to do with it (that is if I decided to donate it to Panteen instead of Locks of love...that's another debate in it's self. Locks of Love is a better known program. They probably get more donations. Are there more women with breast cancer or more kids with alopecia? ) That's another full month, so it won't be a spur of the moment thing...but I'm still undecided.
PLEASE put your 2 cents in...I need some advice. I want your opinions. Should it stay or should it go?
14 comments:
I cut mine when Pumpkin was an infant because grossly enough (and this is pretty nasty) I was shedding and she was eating my hair, and I'd find it in her diapers, if you know what I mean. Ick. I figured that couldn't be good for her, so I hacked it off. Which really DID help. So I can relate to wanting to cut it. Having said that, you have super gorgeous hair, and I bet it will look pretty long or short. (And I would actually donate to the kids rather than breast cancer patients - I would think it would be more important for kids to have a natural looking wig... I don't know, that's just my 2 cents).
i think you should shave your head.
it's not like you are single and on the market looking for some meat anymore so who cares, plus you live on a farm and can get away with all kinds of odd behavior.
you should explore that more.
you should just sit around the farm with a shaved head and instead of using words to express yourself, shoot a shotgun all the time.
by the time your hair grows back, various people that saw the crazy lady with a shaved head that used a shotgun to express herself will be forgotten.
your hair will grow back, longer, thicker, and stronger.
in less than 18 months.
if you don't like it, i have this friend that can sprinkle magic sleeping dust on you and when you wake up, your hair will be long again.
your youngest kid might be 16 or 17 years old when you wake up but it's totally worth it.
chop it. consider it part of your hot mama revolution.
it is beautiful, but it can always grow back. and it sounds like you are ready for a change.
your hair is absolutely beautiful, breathtaking..Gorgeous.
Blue Eyed Pixie sees your picture and wants her hair that long. She's wondering if you want to have it made into extensions for her head..LOL...She wants her hair that color with blonde on top..I say quit messin' with the color.
Ok back to you...We have donated to Locks of Love (Blue eyed Pixie and I) before but I wasn't aware Panteen was doing wigs for Breast Cancer. (Runs in our family)But I have to say my heart would lean towards the children.
If you grow it longer could it be donated to both charities?
I recently had 7 inches of my hair cut out. And the best thing about hair: it will grow out. I have to agree about hair, for me it's either one or the other: long or short. At my shoulders drives me nuts, which is where I am now.
And I cannot imagine a better reason to get it cut than for Locks of Love.
I am certain you'll be loverly whatever you decide.
For those of you who may be wondering if Boomer the Unicorn is some bog surfing nut job giving me advice that will undoubtedly send the department of children & family to my home...he's not. He's a friend from WAY back in the day who's recently found me. No worries!
And thank you all for the advice. My original goal was to make it until next year before cutting my hair for L.O.L. Maybe I'll still do that.
Serioulsy undecided here!
wow, you have totally beautiful hair. like a movie star seriously, but without all the tragic stupid stories plastered across the tabloids. you could still have long hair if you cut off 5 or 6 inches. then it would maybe be a little easier to maintain and deal with. and it would still be long.
thanks for all the quizzes in earlier posts. i totally loved doing the superhero powers one. what a hoot.
happy Sabbath,
kathleen
don't give these people the wrong idea about me, i'm a complete nut job.. WACKY i tell ya.
that's why Hollywood pays me the big bux baby.
anyway i'm glad u get my twisted sense of humor, most don't.
girls tell me all the time to cut mine, that i would look so much better..
i just lay on top of them when they say that and let it fall in their face and laugh when they say "pfft ugh get your hair outta my face, now i know how guys feel when i'm on top of them"
oddly enough, i've developed some pretty close friendships from that alone, must be the biceps.
in all seriousness
your hair is absolutley beautiful.
if you cut it, i'm going to stop talking to you.
Hello! Your hair is beautiful and I didn't know that you could donate hair to charities so that is a cool idea.Boomer's idea of shaving it all off is interesting, if a little bizarre ! I reckon have it cut. Find a photo of a cut you like. Your hair looks so healthy and it would look gorgeous however you had it, but short is a lot easier. S
If you cut your hair, please tell it I said goodbye first. And of course, warn me before I see you so I can deal with the loss and mourn a bit. You could leave it until November, after I've gone away, and then you wouldn't even have to tell me you had suddenly decided to shave it all off. Grace knows how I feel about long hair. I know she would vote for you to cut it short. Don't listen to her. =) If you cut it really short, I'm going to need therapy. But then again, my gag reflex would win over my need for therapy if Bitsy started pooping out long strands of hair. You decide. Either way, I think you need to get some of those southern bows going in that thick hair of yours.
If it was me I would cut it. I just remember those days with an infant and there's just not enough time in your day with out adding to it with a long hair routine. Just my two cents. BTW, it is beautiful, but it will grow back.
Under no condition should u cut. AMAZING head of hair is rare!!! With that said I vote no cut...I know all the mommies out there are rolling...that I do not understand the chaos of being a mommy.
Okay, so I finally put in my two cents... cut it! I promise you will regret it on some days and experience tells me that you will cry about a few times... remember I once had hair all one length down to my butt! But most days you'll look in the mirror and say "wow, I look sharp"! I will never grow my hair long again, much to Inkling's chagrin I know! She hates my hair like it is right now! :)
p.s. It is a beatiful head of hair!
I vote cut...but I also remember the Marisa Tomei-do for the Spring Formal, as well as the Hope Brady look-alike photo from the fall of the same year, and know that no matter what it will look great...
I know that hubby may like the long hair, but is HE the one who has to comb it in the shower, and wait forever for it to dry all the way? *SIGH* In the end, you'll look fabulous no matter what (little miss size 4 after baby #4).
Post a Comment