Weddingbee Blog

A question I was asked more than once on my wedding was ‘is that ALL your own hair?!’. People seemed impressed when I said yes. I was a little surprised, because at that point, my hair was nowhere near the longest I’ve ever had it—it was about down to my bra strap—for a long time, it was down to my waist! You can see a side-view of my wedding hair-do in this photo.

I like big buns?

I’ve had it all chopped off a few times, and enjoyed the fun of short hair, but never kept up the short haircut, I always grew it out again (which leads to some really awkward this-doesn’t-quite-fit-in-a-ponytail-but-is-long-enough-to-be-annoying-down styles). The past few weeks, my hair had been bothering me. It was too long to do the ‘loop’ where you only pull it through the hair elastic halfway on your last wrap, so it makes that little loop. It wasn’t quite substantial enough for me to make into my regular style of bun that holds itself in with just one hair elastic (twist it until it curls back on itself, secure with elastic) so I chopped it. Bye bye hair!

This is the night before (funny angle because Mr CB was lying in bed when I remembered I wanted a photo taken of the back of my head)

This was the day of the cut, when the stylist wanted to blow it out straight, although I’ll never wear it that way again (takes WAAY too much effort)

And this is how it’ll be most days after my ‘routine’: shower, pat dry, Aveda ‘Be Curly’ curl enhancer, air dry. This photo was after a full day of work, it was a little curlier earlier in the day. I’ve also found that it takes a few days for my hair to realize it doesn’t have all that extra length weighing it down, and that it does know how to curl properly.

Have you ever chopped off all your hair?