I am letting my hair grow…again! Anyone who has known me any length of time is rolling her eyes and saying, so what else is new! It’s true. I change my hairstyle often and always have. My biggest issue with it is (no surprise) why letting my hair grow has to take so long? I don’t want extensions…I just want my hair to be longer now! Tell me you haven’t experienced this, too!
Then I thought, okay I’m now in my 50’s…it’s time to stop whining about it. So, I decided that while the end result of having it longer will be great, enjoying it during the growing out phase is important. Whoa, what a breakthrough. I no longer have to spend months of my life finding my hair disagreeable. Then, I realized I had to figure out how to make this feel good or else I was just paying lip service to this new epiphany.
The other day when I was having my hair colored I mentioned to Ed, my colorist, that at the length my hair is now I sometimes feel like an aging version of the Little Dutch Boy of paint can fame. He laughed (notice he didn’t disagree) and said, “Well, you have to put it behind your ears or play with it a bit until you get past this look.” So, since my ears are not my favorite feature (I go through phases of feeling comfortable wearing my hair behind my ears) and since it is winter and that makes my ears cold anyway, I opted for taking a different tactic – big earrings.
Big earrings are “in” even more this season than they have been, and I have my fair share of good-sized earrings. What a difference. They hang right below my hair (I have a long neck which helps), and they look great (and take a little focus away from my hair). So, until my hair grows another inch and you can’t see the earrings anymore, I have found a solution that feels good. I’d love to hear what you have done to get you through that growing out phase (short of cutting it again, that is!).
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If you want an empty compliment, Ed’s not the source. If you want the truth with some good ideas to go with it, he’s the man. Sounds just like him. 🙂
Good luck with the locks and nice to hear from another woman who likes to “change things up” hair-wise.
That’s definitely true about Ed! Ed tells it like he sees it. We’ll see how the grow out goes!
I have spent the last several months growing my locks. My biggest aha moment was when I stopped trying to continue making my old style work with my new, longer hair and starting trying some new things. Wear your bangs differently (or none at all), wear it back, forward, etc. My hair is now long enough that I can style it in a long hair style (waves, curls, etc). I think I have finally made it!
I think you’re ahead of me. Mine is still not long enough to do much with although I do throw hot rollers in it on a regular basis. Sometimes I think it is growing fast and other days it feels like it is taking forever. I’m still playing with ideas for my bangs (I don’t look great with no bangs at all but I might do them a little differently as it gets longer). Thanks for words of encouragement! See you at the Fashion Fairy Godmother Retreat in a couple of hours!