As you can see from the title of this post, I have a love-hate relationship with haircuts. I love when my hair feels healthy and is beautifully styled after a fresh haircut, but for the past few years I have dreaded getting my hair cut. I had a great hair stylist in high school, and even went back to that salon for my wedding hair, but I never found a hair salon I liked in college when I was away from home. This problem trickled into post-graduate life. Whenever I needed a haircut in college I would wait until I was going home for the weekend or for a break and get my hair cut at my regular, beloved salon back home. That was a fine solution, except that I didn’t get my hair cut nearly as often as I should, and it only prolonged and exacerbated the problem of not finding anyone local to cut my hair.
This photo was taken before my last haircut^
I wanted to get a haircut before Easter rolled around last year, and decided it was finally time to find someone more local. As much as I loved my Raleigh hairstylist, I just didn’t have time to make the 45 minute to an hour trek in the middle of rush hour traffic to get a haircut before the salon closed, so I tried my luck at a new-to-me place nearby. It was terrible. The girl who was cutting my hair had only been at the salon for a few days and, while she seemed to know what she was doing, she was extremely slow at it. I told her that I wanted a good amount cut off (I hadn’t had my hair cut in a while) and she questioned me the whole time. She cut off less than I asked for, and when I asked her if she could cut it a bit shorter she said she really didn’t have time; she had another customer waiting and didn’t realize how long my all-one-length long-bob haircut would take, so she asked me to go home, see how I liked it, and come back if I wanted to have her cut off more. I didn’t have time to make my haircut a two-night ordeal, and needless to say, I didn’t return.
This photo was taken after my last haircut^
Since then I have been so wary about trying a new salon, with the fear of having a bad experience again. But, after a while, hair grows to be too long, split ends form, and haircuts are necessary. I scheduled a haircut for this week and realized that I wasn’t sure what kind of haircut I wanted, I just knew I wanted a change. In the process of preparing for my haircut, I gathered some inspiration from celebrities. I ended up loving my hair stylist and my new cut this time and am so glad to, after 6 years in this town, FINALLY have a local hairstylist again. I gathered my inspiration photos and my final result below :)
And the new haircut reveal with some windblown shameless selfies!:
All celebrity photos via Pinterest and Google Images
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