Hair there, gone tomorrow....

Ok, today we're going to discuss how NOT to treat your hair if you are born with dark hair and would like to grow that hair out. First of all, I think you need to understand I began cosmetology school with shoulder length hair, intending to finish with a longer result. However, it is now a year and a half later and I have made zero progress and actually lost length. Luckily, I have pictures to document every single one of my hair failures along the way.

I believe it is important for you to know why I wear extensions and why I hate my hair:)

 Ok, here we have me in October of '09. This was taken before I headed out to chop my hair off. I don't really have a good explanation to why I thought I'd like short hair...I had just started cosmetology school and there were these two girls in my class with really short hair. They were cute, and I think I thought I would look like them if I cut my hair, plus I was bored....and I do impulsive things like that.

 

...and here is the result of my impulsive decision. I didn't cry right way, I managed to wait until I got into my car to start crying and didn't stop until May. But really, it's not that bad. I just went into shock and couldn't handle it. I was never confident to actually pull it off. I began to grow it out immediately....

So, I did a pretty good job of growing it out until November (some  may say that one month isn't much of growing out...and I'd agree, but you can't argue with the past:)) But, anyway, I went into the same lady who had previously cut my hair and asked her to trim my neckline because I was convinced I was growing a mullet....and this is what it turned into--an even shorter cut. I was incredible upset and never returned to that lady again...

And here's where I really started to lose my mind....I did <<THIS to my head. Yuck! I think it lasted about a day, or maybe two before i went back brown. I learned my lesson.... 

 from this<->back to this, in about a day

I'd like to say I wasn't lying and I really did learn my lesson, but it's not true. I let a couple months pass and then I started to highlight my hair. It didn't look bad; I even thought it was cute. My hair wasn't healthy, but it was no longer boy short, it was growing. It also would curl and be awesome....

 And this is where the true disaster struck. I committed hair suicide. There isn't much to say, I bleached the dickens out of my hair. This lasted for about a week, but only because I was camping for a week and wasn't too concerned about what my hair looked like....

 I am now back to my natural color of hair and it's finally pretty healthy. It's been chin length since June-ish, thanks to my bleaching endeavors, but I think it's finally ready to grow. Sorry about the poor picture, but it's a really good example on why I wear extensions (I look terrible without). Also, this is why I should wear make-up...and it's also the most recent photo of me, taken on Friday. I hadn't planned on going out this night and was caught make-upless and hairless. However, it was fun, so I am not ashamed :). Now you know my hair history, why I wear extensions. 

 I hope that through this post you were able to learn that cutting your hair off on a whim is a terrible idea. I also hope you learned that bleaching your hair after you've already done it and hated it once is another terrible idea. And lastly, not to be shallow, make-up and long hair are better for pictures if you look like me:)