Hair doubts

[celticdragonfly]

I am having some serious doubts about growing out my hair.

I've had friends do their best to convince me that I'd look better without the bangs. And I've been working to grow them out, training them to get combed back, and letting it all grow.

But at the moment - at the moment it just looks awful, it's at that growing out stage where it sticks out sideways over the ears, and I feel like it always looks dirty and awful even if I've just washed it.

And I look back at the haircut in this icon, and think about how good that looked, and how good it made me feel. And how little it took in work from me. And I miss it. And I'm tempted to cut it again...

I've been letting Maggie's grow, too. I see so many little girls out there with pretty long hair, and it looks so neat. Maggie's looks like a bird nest even if I've JUST brushed and combed it, and it's constantly in her eyes.

I could use encouragement. (It doesn't help that I'm needing to grab a headshot of me for something, and annoyingly the good ones are from right after that haircut, so don't look that much like me right now!)

Comments

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

If the prism correction is more than minimal, or if you've got substantial astigmatism, contacts may be a problem.

If the reason the "glasses in an hour" places make you wait is merely because of really extreme near/far sightedness, contacts aren't a problem.

And trust me, *everyone* who's never done contacts is leery of sticking things into their eyes. I have problems with eyedrops, too, even now, but I got used to putting in contacts pretty quickly. (It *is* both frustrating and nerve-wriacking for the first few days, I'll admit.)

And I have to admit that for all my "long hair advocacy", your very-short cut looked great.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I have substantial astigmatism AND prism correction. I don't know if it can be done.

Thanks for the compliment - I liked the very short cut, too. And it's possible that if I can't get contacts, I may go back to short with bangs. I think I'll look better without bangs IF I go into contacts - but with glasses, I don't think cutting out the bangs is that much of an advantage.