Channeling RaHow: Everything but the hair color

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Everything but the hair color

My silence over the last few months (eek!) has been abominable. I feel this way because so many great things have happened in my life and so many great outfits have been worn and I have neglected to document both. My apologies.

Here's a bit of a recap:

Ten Things (in Chronological Order) that have happened since I last wrote:

1.) Finish my master's program

2.) Finished supervising student teachers

3.) Packed (again)

4.) Got married

5.) Moved half-way across the country (the following day)

6.) Settled in to our place right outside of D.C.

7.) Began my new role as "Life Facilitator"

8.) Officially changed my name

9.) Went on a wonderful honeymoon

10.) Chopped off my hair

I will write more in upcoming posts about some of these (mostly 4 and 7) but today I am going to focus on the most recent happening.

After hemming and hawing for what seemed like months (ask J) I finally decided to go ahead and get the locks chopped. I have sported short do's many times in my life and have generally come to the realization that I like my hair more when it's not dangling in straggly strands down my back. I was extremely nervous but was so happy with the results.

The hardest part was picking a salon. For years, I went to the same salon and had the same hair stylist cut my hair. She was someone I felt who knew me, knew my hair and knew (when I used to get shortcuts) could give it the wow factor. That's a lot to live up to, if you ask me. But I went in with an open mind and remembered: it's just hair. It will, in fact, grow out. I did a little research but ultimately went with convenience.There is a salon on the the way to the metro where I drop off/pick up J so I went with that one. At to my surprise, I loved it. I was just going in to schedule an appointment when they told me they had one opening so I took it. So happy with the results. It was a wonderful experience and I will definitely go back there again.

These pictures were taken the day I got it cut. Since then, I have been playing with how I style it. I love actually having style to my hair again. I think my hair thanks me too.