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venetia_sassy) wrote2011-04-03 10:39 pm
venetia_sassy) wrote2011-04-03 10:39 pm
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I feel accomplished! After a rotten few days, no less.
I have trimmed my hair for the first time!
... that sounds like I've never had it cut before. I have. Plenty of times. But I'm really bad at remembering to make appointments and it seems utterly ridiculous to pay $60+ for a blunt trim of unlayered, ruler straight hair. And my hair grows so fast. I did find a place that did haircuts for $24 but I did mention that I was bad at remembering to go? Plus, they were so cursory about it, I figured I could probably do it myself. And when I came across Feye's Hair Trimming Instructions, I thought, why not?
Asked Mum to buy some hair trimming scissors (about $20) when she went out on Thursday (to get a haircut *amused*) and after washing my hair on Friday, I gave them a try with the straight-across trim. I only cut about three inches and it seemed even but it is really difficult to determine that with hip-length hair! I needed two long free-standing mirrors, really. And since Mum was away for the night, I had to wait for her to take a look.
When she came home, I asked for thoughts and she thought it looked okay but that I needed to trim a bit more length (which I knew.) So today I cut another couple of inches. Mum said it looked more even on this attempt, the split ends are much improved and I am no longer sitting on my hair. Which didn't bother me but it always surprised me a bit!
Now let's see if I'm any better at remembering to trim my hair myself.
... that sounds like I've never had it cut before. I have. Plenty of times. But I'm really bad at remembering to make appointments and it seems utterly ridiculous to pay $60+ for a blunt trim of unlayered, ruler straight hair. And my hair grows so fast. I did find a place that did haircuts for $24 but I did mention that I was bad at remembering to go? Plus, they were so cursory about it, I figured I could probably do it myself. And when I came across Feye's Hair Trimming Instructions, I thought, why not?
Asked Mum to buy some hair trimming scissors (about $20) when she went out on Thursday (to get a haircut *amused*) and after washing my hair on Friday, I gave them a try with the straight-across trim. I only cut about three inches and it seemed even but it is really difficult to determine that with hip-length hair! I needed two long free-standing mirrors, really. And since Mum was away for the night, I had to wait for her to take a look.
When she came home, I asked for thoughts and she thought it looked okay but that I needed to trim a bit more length (which I knew.) So today I cut another couple of inches. Mum said it looked more even on this attempt, the split ends are much improved and I am no longer sitting on my hair. Which didn't bother me but it always surprised me a bit!
Now let's see if I'm any better at remembering to trim my hair myself.