My hair is finally starting to look like its former self after all that hair mishaps of 2004. Yes, it took one year, the whole of 2005, to reverse all my stupid hair mistakes. One year of cap-wearing and pony tails to playdown one too many bad hair days. Doesn't help that for almost the whole of 2005, I was reminded of all my hair disasters everytime I look into the mirror. Too bad, I wasnt born a guy or I might just
go bald. :-)
Pre-2004, I've always kept very long hair. It's just one of those things- you had a bad tomboy cut when you were 12 and swear never again to go down that road. That changed in 2004 when I decided to do something radical- change what I thought had become such an inherent part of me. Feeling brave, I had gone for a haircut and when I thought it wasn't short enough, I hit the salon again. My friends thought I was going nuts. This time, I chopped it just below the ears. That is ALOT of hair to cut. (It's 2006 now and I still don't know what I was thinking then.)
I grew more and more adventurous with my hair-experimenting. Soon after, I dyed it reddish-brown, changed my mind in a month or two, and dyed it brown. Somehow it came out very uneven (DIY disaster) and turned somewhat blond after a few washes. (I actually have a picture
here. Funny I didn't burn it.) I hated it. When it started to grew out abit, my friend recommended me to this artsy-fartsy (more fartsy, really)hairdresser. He layered my hair so zealousy, I had nothing much left by the time I left the salon. I walked out pretty devastated.
To disguise the lousy cut, I decided to experiment with curls. So I did the perm thing. It was all nice and dandy at first. I liked the carefree curls. But that too did not last. In about 3 days, my hair was back to its natural poker straight again. By then, the damage was done. My once shiny head of glory became nothing more than a bunch of parched grass. Yes, it was a series of bad hair decisions and there was nothing more that I could do then to look back at old photos where my hair was once glossier and shinier...nothing more to do but to wait ..wait and wait some more.
One year and lots of conditioning later, my hair is finally starting to look less like parched grass. I think for now, I'm quite happy to just leave it alone.
(Your hair must have grown another inch in the time that you took to read this. Thanks for indulging me. I never knew I had this much to talk about, of all things, hair!)
