Waddup Party People,

I’m guessing you can tell what this post is about by the title.

I feel like everyone has considered a “pixie cut” but they always have these thoughts:

• I can’t pull that off
• I’m too chunky for that
• I’d look like a boy
• I would look I preferred the same sex (no negativity here, just stereotypical of people)

I can’t deny that these are the thoughts that ran through my head for the past 3-4 years when I considered cutting my hair off. I am naturally a curvy woman. I’ve never been thin, even throughout high school as an athlete. And I really believed that short hair would somehow divulge how “fat” I saw myself to be.

Let’s go back to the history of my hair in a short bullet timeline form:

• Younger years = long, blonde golden locks.
• Became a mom = long, blonde golden locks, but hormones took the platinum out and replaced it with brassy. Lovely.
• Trauma of 2013 = Hair brassy on level 10000000.
• Continual high level stress = Breakage, turned to sponge like texture, no coming back from this.

I tried Keratin Treatments and hair masks, but it’s like no matter what I did I couldn’t stop my hair from the texture and color it had become. I didn’t dye my hair like the normal routine of most females. I was blessed to have naturally blonde hair, so all I really had to do was highlight maybe 3 times a year. There were a few fun phases of ash grey and dark grey but quickly went back to blonde. To say the least, my hair wasn’t shot to crap because of coloring. It has been 99.9% stress.

Even after I washed, moisturized, dried, straightened and/or curled, my hair still looked unhealthy and crappy in my opinion and I got sick of it. Trauma and unrelenting stress had totally depleted my hormones to be able to save my hair. So my supportive husband said GO DO IT NOW OR YOU’LL NEVER DO IT. So I did. And with 3 days in, here’s how I feel.

AMAZING

LIBERATED 

SASSY

SEXY

CONFIDENT

FREE

FEMININE

POWERFUL

TRUE SELF

WEIGHTS LIFTED 

RELIEVED 

I didn’t have an emotional freak out (and I am an emotional, sentimental person for sure), I didn’t regret my decision, and I surely don’t feel ANY of the ways the enemy in my head had led me to believe. I felt relieved, so so so so so very relieved. Like a weight had lifted for so much baggage I carried in my freaking hair. It’s liberating.

If you are considering cutting your hair off and have been for a long time, my best advice is just to go do it. Stop holding on to the past and other peoples opinions and try something. IT WILL GROW BACK. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.

Love,

B