The Cut

I have had really long hair for a while, mainly due to a very traumatic short hair cut that I got just a few days before going to BYU to start college.  I shudder to think of it.  Honestly it wasn't that bad and I figured out how to do it, but there were lots of tears shed.   So I vowed never to go short again. And I have kept that promise for close to 10 years.

But having long hair isn't always great.  I don't do the best at taking care of my hair i.e. I use a brush when it is wet, I don't brush it if I don't have to.  I got huge knots in my hair and just yanked them out using a brush.  Not exactly pantene material.  And I always shed, like a ton.  But after having a baby 6 months ago, I never knew how much hair I could actually lose.  It just kept falling out.  

I have always wanted to donate my hair because I feel like my identity is so tied up in my hair that honestly I would cry a lot if I was challenged with losing it due to illness.  And not to toot my own horn, but I have really pretty hair, despite all of the damage that I cause it.  And honestly, it is really healthy because I don't use dye or a blowdryer or really anything because I never did my hair :)  So I wanted to be able to provide comfort to someone who might feel the same why I would by losing their hair.

But I always started getting the shakes anytime I thought of having short hair again.  I would always get up my courage to cut the 10 inches, but then back out.  Well I finally did it.  I figured if it was all falling out, and if Lucy was going to pull it, and get her little fingers wrapped up in all the hair all over the floor, it would be better short and could be of use to someone else.

So I went after she had gone to bed, walked in and told them I was donating.  No backing out.  They had to divide my hair into two ponytails because it was too thick to cut just one.  So they chopped it off and I felt about 10 lbs lighter afterward.  I mailed my two, 10 inch pony tails off to the Pantene wig program.  And done. And don't mind the somewhat scary pictures!

Before

After