CUTTING
I find cutting therapeutic. I’m not talking about cutting up food for dinner, like chopping onions to force tears to start the healing, or cutting up at a really funny joke; although that can be helpful. I’m not even referring to cutting my skin; curative though it may be, I’m referring to my hair. When my life takes negative turns, stress is being pumped in from all sides, and/or psychotic family is corresponding with me at a frightening pace, I chop off all my hair.
I don’t chop at my bangs because I learned I look like girl interrupted when I do that. And Unlike Franki, my face isn’t cute enough to get away with anything I would like to do with my hair. But the short, chopped, sheared pixie look isn’t tragic on me, so I do it every couple years. Then, I grow it out only to do it again!
March 20, 2008 at 11:28 am
No joke. I’ve been doing this since I was 14. I thought it too cliche to cut my skin, so my hair went from top of my butt crack to about 1 inch length. I’ve been faithful since. Unfortunately I don’t have much time between my bouts of needing to hack. I’ll have a shitty day and when I get home I lock myself in the bathroom for an hour and come out with something entirely new atop my head.
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March 20, 2008 at 11:46 am
Oh I’m pretty sure I look like girl interrupted too. I haven’t cut my bangs in like two weeks. It’s like my own personal Lent. But I am about to go dye it. I think your hair always looks great. I love a pixie too, but my hair is so fine I end up looking like a cancer patient. HOT.
March 21, 2008 at 5:11 am
I used to have hair to my butt, cut it off, grew it back for my wedding, and it’s been steadily getting shorter ever since. I would LOVE that ‘gamine’ Audrey Hepburn look, but alas my head is too big and I suddenly look very masculine (I’ve tried it, there were tears and then a lot of headscarves until it grew out.) A bob with it clipped in the back is the shortest I can do, though I do sometimes find that cutting my own bangs is better than any therapy. Luckily, I have a hairdresser who understands.
(I cut my own bangs right before my last passport picture was taken - have had the pleasure of looking at wonky hair for the last 9 1/2 years!)
March 21, 2008 at 9:35 am
awesome.
i’ve never been one to cut ALL my hair off when feeling overwhelmed… but i like to drastic things like dye it blue or get blonde highlights in my black brown hair. maybe now that i’ve realized i don’t look half bad with short hair, i’ll join your kind. guess we’ll see
March 21, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Hmmm, I sport the pixie look most of the time. I wonder what that says about my stress levels?!
Puss
March 21, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I run really short hair the vast majority of the time. No bangs.
March 21, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I never change my hair. Almost never. When I’m stressed, I eat.
March 22, 2008 at 12:27 am
I’m wondering at the fact that I can completely understand, but I’ve never felt that compulsion myself. Hmmm. Could you channel it to cutting OTHER hair on your body?
Btw. I tried commenting a few days ago, and WordPress was being all finicky and mean with me–not letting me. But I was reading!
March 22, 2008 at 9:31 am
You need to get some professional help. (I could get my stylist on the phone….)
March 22, 2008 at 10:49 am
I keep mine short all the time.
March 22, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Heh….we have this in common. I do the same thing. It’s very liberating.
March 24, 2008 at 5:45 am
I tried the pixie cut once. I liked it for all of one month, then desperately wanted my butt-crack length hair back.
March 25, 2008 at 3:45 am
I got about four inches chopped off my hair last week by suolas, it was the first time I got my hair cut in two years and I wouldnt got to the hairdressers because they would probably cut it to my shoulders and thats too dramatic for me - I love my hair LONG. Ive too much of a stigma when it comes to short hair since I went from rapunzel to Lady Diana when I was 11
March 30, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Good for you — I have a hankering to cut mine off, too, but I’m waiting at the moment. I agree with Carrie. “Liberating” is a good word for it.