back away from the scissors.
i cut my own hair. sometimes if i want to get fancy, i’ll have eve do it, but usually i can do a pretty good job of it by myself because i have very fine, sorta wavy hair. but it’s dangerous to be your own very indecisive hairdresser. there’s been a couple times i’ve woken up hungover and on top of it, very oddly shorn. in june i went from my long natural almost black hair to a short ashy blonde bob. i did the blonde myself too with drugstore brands. i figured, why spend $150 when i could spend $10?
yesterday I was watching bad music videos and I sorta lost my mind for a second, grabbed the scissors and started snipping away. i guess this time i was thinking, what better time to reinvent oneself after having moved to another country? i wanted to be a bit edgier (ick, i hate that word) and decided to go assymetrical and messy…
before manic snipping session:
after manic snipping session:
i guess it worked all right cuz now everyone wants to mess with it all the time.
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October 7th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Jealous! Because 1. sounds like you have the same hair type as Kirsten Dunst, and she always looks so adorably tousled, 2. You’ve achieved the perfect shade of blonde that I can never get with drugstore brands and looks terrible on me anyway, and 3. you do a great job of cutting your own hair!
October 7th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Wow, I do the same thing–and have, in the past, achieved the same look (though mine was very, very deep red. :)) I love that look and it is great for get up and go. I miss it. Now I have longer hair and my kids desperately want me to grow it long again. Sigh.
Either way it is a great look and I am all for doing your own hair cuts (though sometimes I end up with much shorter than I planned and recently I went to a hair dresser for the first time in 8 years and LOVED what she did–of course she was sporting exactly the same cut so that worked pretty well. :))
October 7th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Well done! Mine always ends up in a huge disaster. Seriously that looks professional…
October 7th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
fabulous! how does home hairdessing always end up looking fiercer than when you pay a ton to a proffessional!
October 7th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Thats the perfect cut for you!
October 7th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
unbelievable! your hair looks amazing! if i were you, i’d never set foot in a salon again…
October 8th, 2007 at 7:06 am
So courageous with the snippers! Really cute, sweetie! It suits you very well.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:22 am
well i still think your hair looks fantastic - nice snipping job.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
adorable, as usual. i get that way sometimes too- but then my hairdresser usually scolds me. you’re so lucky you can go blonde with a drugstore dye. when i had pink streaks in my hair, it took forever to get it to pale blonde and was a bitch to maintain.
anywho… i love it. good job, you freaking amateur!
October 8th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Oh my! Such a cute cut. You must be so brave!
I am right now a black headed gal but would like to be blonde!
Were you satisfied with the Clariol product?
xx
October 8th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Oh my! Such a cute cut. You must be so brave!
I am right now a black headed gal but would like to be blonde!
Were you satisfied with the Clariol Born Blonde product?
xx
October 8th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Yes, i liked it a lot, Amelianne. But make sure you only try it if you’re hair is naturally black. There’s a huge difference between bleaching your natural hair and trying to remove layers and layers of black dye. don’t even think about attempting that without a hairdresser!
but yes, if you’re hair is naturally black, Born Blonde / Maxi Blonde is pretty powerful stuff and should get you pretty light in a couple of tries. after that if you want to go more ashy/platinum, try the Clairol Light Ash Blonde #818 (don’t leave it in very long at all, your hair gets very porous by this point!) and buy some shampoo and conditioner with violet/blue pigments in them to keep it that way. any beauty supply store should have them.
good luck!
October 8th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Thank you very so much for all your information!
October 8th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
How cool is it that not only do you cut your own hair but you can style it too (I often lop off my knotty-ass ends but I can’t be said to style it at all.) It looks awesome.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
I’m impressed…I can barely brush my own hair.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
That looks fab! The furthest I go is cutting my own fringe, and even then it always ends up being a little dodgy and uneven - not good as it’s meant to be a heavy blunt affair. Very impressive job.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I can not do anything with my hair. I admire people that can ! I wish I could straighten my hair with the new Brazilian method….
October 16th, 2007 at 5:35 am
I love your new do. And you cut it yourself???
Lovely