sad hair

I'm sure it's a great cut.  Just not on me.

It's been three weeks since my hair makeover. In the hands of a professional, my hair looks okay. But when it's just me doing the styling...the results are not good. Not even close.

I figure, four to six months and it'll be back to where I want it. Long layers, shoulder length. Chin length around my face. A few light highlights in front.

Right now, I have a row of short, choppy layers forming a bowl around my head. The layers vary in length from about 4.5 to 5 inches. They stick out, and not in a nice, hip way, but more in a crazed-person looking way.  The hair at the crown of my head is too short to even curl around the brush I use for blow drying. I am not exaggerating. And I thought my new no-fuss-do would be one of those wash-and-go styles. It's not even a wash- and-spend-hours-trying-to-make-it-look-good-style.

Then there is the color. My hair looks dead — the texture destroyed.  Even with a three-times a week heavy-duty hair mask, my hair is lifeless. And, my highlights are gone.

I go to lovely Lyo, my miracle worker colorist. She advises me to do nothing for as long as I can, because my hair already looks over-processed and she doesn't want to dry it out any more.

I figure hair grows about half an inch a month. So by the fall, my hair should be more acceptable, to me anyway. This is not the wash and go hairstyle I'd hoped for. If I did that, I would look plugged into an electric circuit, as my short frizzy layers would be horizontal to my head. Either that, or it would look like some kind of mis-woven bird's nest sitting atop my head.

I'm sure this is a very fine haircut. And I'm sure on the right person it'd be great. But on me, it's not.

I know. It's just hair.  But man, I can't even pull it back into a low pony. If I do, I still have that short bowl cap that's not long enough to pull into the pony.  Almost like I'm wearing two entirely different hair cuts that don't mesh. I like the overall length, but the layers are too short for me. Choppy is fine, chopped off isn't.

I know, this post begs for a picture. But I'm deferring, at least for a while.

Four months and counting.