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10 April 2008
This morning I asked my hair dresser to cut off the damaged hair. Now I have very little hair and look very butch.→[More:] I'm not a vain person, generally, but now I'm a little sad everytime I look in the mirror. *sigh*
I bet you look lovely! How short is your hair? When it comes to hair, "short" is so subjective- to me, it's "long" when it's past the top of your ears :-D
If it's truly "butch," ain't no self-respecting girly-girl going to be hitting on you. Everyone knows that it's the "butch" women who do the hitting. So I think you're in the clear.
Having short hair does not necessarily sentence one to "looking butch". I shaved my head and some people said, oh nose peoplez will think youse a lezzzbian, but that never happened (at least not to my face). Haircuts do not a sexual orientation make.
Women, as a stereotype, get SO ATTACHED to hair! It's crazy! And dude, I chopped off like, a foot of hair when I was in high school, and I admit that I bawled like a baby, so I know what I'm talking about. I think there's this whole "long hair makes people feminine; women with short hair are old" double-whammy that is so dangerous. Oh, and probably a little bit of "I'm so plain - long hair is my best feature."
I'm not usually attached to mine- hence the vicious bleachings and dyings I submit it to. After today I probably won't think about it at all. It's just a shock. Plus I know I'll get grief for it this evening from the guys I tutor. And who can I complain to if not you?
I'd upload a picture if I could figure out how to do it at work.
Mudpup you should totally upload a picture of that. It sounds awesome. If you do I promise to upload an embarrassing school picture of me, if I can find a flatbed scanner. Hmm.
Eh, my scanner currently exhibits the blinking red light of death, so I'm afraid scanning it is not possible right now.
I will, however, tape the picture to my monitor. If you add me as a contact, you'll be able to view it through the seeing-eye portal (provided that you download the plug-in).
The good thing about hair is that it grows! In just 2 weeks, you will have something softer-looking. Also, when I first cut all my hair off in high school I thought I looked just like George Clooney. I thought it was a disaster, but people liked it and then I got my first boyfriend! Now I go up and down with my hair all the time.
No one thought I was a lesbian. If you still walk and talk like a straight girl, no one will mistake you.
I am envious that you had the guts to do it. I want to break out of my shoulder-length hair rut but I'm too chicken. Good for you for doing it. I bet your head feels really light and cool now. Within a week or so it's going to feel just perfect, I bet.
With the right styling and coloring, my ex could look like Molly Ringwald, Joan Jett or Pat Benetar. Now that she's a pre-op trans, she looks like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men.
With the right styling and coloring, my ex could look like Molly Ringwald, Joan Jett or Pat Benetar. Now that she's a pre-op trans, she looks like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men.
Something about that is frightening, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is.
Having had short hair all my life, the best invention ever for short hair is wax. I like the American Crew stuff (yes, I'm a girl, but it works great). Remember, a little goes a long way.
I bet it feels fantastic --- especially if the cut-off tresses were as damaged as you say. I loooooove that after-haircut texture; it feels so soft and smooth that I can hardly keep my hands out of it.
This was a dangerous thread for me to see this morning. I have a haircut in 40 minutes, and now (after months of growing it out to shoulder-length) I'm tempted to get it super-short.
photo by splunge
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