Shelby's reaction to haircut

Heck yes, and I wasn't a diabetic about to go under the knife to get a new kidney either.

Not cry but often it took me a while to warm up to it. I don't blame Shelby for crying, though. That was quite a drastic change.

Yeah.... I went from 20 years of long hair to short. And it wouldn't have been bad, except (true story) the stylist had just gotten hooked on meth and my haircut was the horrific proof. Like if Carol Brady got attacked by Edward Scissorhands. I cried for 2 months.

Yes!

I have extremely, extremely thick hair. I have to keep it long so it flattens out at least a tiny bit. If it's short, it looks like a pyramid.

But many times as a kid my family convinced me short was better. I would cry in the chair.

Now that I'm an adult, never again.

I've cried over a bad haircut experience, but in terms of getting a dramatic haircut, it's sort of the opposite for me ... I like growing my hair really long and then chopping it all off to donate. Every time I do this, I have to deal with 100 questions from the stylist regarding my preparation for the extreme change. I totally get why they do it, but I still can't help but get a bit annoyed. Especially after I've done it so many times.

I didn't cry about the haircut itself...but I sure cried buckets when it GREW OUT.

This is a bit long, but bear with me!

I have very thick red hair, and it was even thicker back in my very early teens(around 13 or 14).
All my life, I'd had hair down to just short of my butt. It made me scream to comb it (my mom helped me even then), hated washing it. One day I just decided to cut it to my shoulders.

To this day, I'm not at all sure why I waited sooo long to do this!
Anyhow, my head felt about 7 pounds lighter! It looked great! I loved it, even the kids at school who teased me about my red hair laid off me for a few days! 

But the next year, I was at the hairdressers with some of my family (they knew my hairdresser as a close friend), and were discussing the merits of short hair.
The ease, the snappiness.

So, I guess I decided to try it out (I don't remember honestly, but I must have).
My hair was cut a little shorter than Shelby's.

It was a bit boyish but I liked it. I also LOOOOOVED how easy it was to shampoo & to comb!

Then.....I tried to grow it out. The nightmare began. How could I possibly know that my hair would grow out in an AFRO. For YEARS, I resembled Ronald McDonald...then a young David Bowie. 
The kids had a field day teasing me, but there was nothing I could do but wait it out. It took until JUNIOR YEAR of high school before it resembled nice hair again.

Now, I keep it at just about shoulder-length. Looks good.
Advice: Stay with what works for you, ladies. Variety aint always what its cracked up to be.






I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

When I was 12, I used to have very long hair long like you. When my bio mom took my to her hair stylist for it to be shaped for my 6th grade graduation, he was busy talking to another hair cutter and he cut my hair so much, that after he was done I looked like a boy. Infact, when I would go out, people would say to my parents, that their son(meaning me) was very cute and well behaved. I was mortified. The kids in school would call me pinhead and Qtip. This was almost 35 years ago, and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

Oh yeah! It was not as dramatic but I was around 14 and I told the hairdresser I wanted a trim. He cut off 10+ inches of my hair and I was sitting in the chair tears running down my face. My Mom was with me and she is NEVER outspoken. It was probably the only time in my life that I remember her speaking her mind. He was so arrogant ... I remember him saying something that my hair was dry and he needed to cut more. Yeah ... not sure decision. If that client wants a trim, respect her opinion.