The Big Chop
I have never been attached to my hair. It probably started when I was about 5 and got gum stuck in my hair on a Saturday morning and I didn't want to wake my parents, so I just found scissors and cut it out of the back of my hair on my own. And by cut, I mean hacked. Pretty sure my mom still tears up over that.
Growing up, I was teased for my red hair, but I learned to embrace my color and I always had fun with my hair. In high school, I CHOPPED my hair my senior year & in college I just went shorter. I loved my pixie hair, and often have dreams of going back to the pixie, but I also have this crazy love for putting my hair in a bun. A few years after college, donating hair became a thing, and being charged over $50 every time I went to get an inch trimmed (which would happen very quickly for me because my hair grows very quickly) was just not something that I could spend money on every month. People would tell me how pretty my hair was, so why not grow it out for a few months, get the length that I needed in order to donate, chop it off and achieve the length that I wanted to have and allow someone that needed a wig to have some great hair?
Starting in 2020 I went ot chop my hair again, and no longer was the company that I donated to taking real hair to create wigs. The statement was that wigs with fake hair had come such a long way that they not longer needed to collect real hair.
Now that this idea of growing my hair out and then chopping it off has become a part of my life, I will probably continue to do so, but it will now all be for me and to change up my look without doing too much. I love the shock of cutting it all off. So over time, don't be surprised if you see my look change over and over again.
Growing up, I was teased for my red hair, but I learned to embrace my color and I always had fun with my hair. In high school, I CHOPPED my hair my senior year & in college I just went shorter. I loved my pixie hair, and often have dreams of going back to the pixie, but I also have this crazy love for putting my hair in a bun. A few years after college, donating hair became a thing, and being charged over $50 every time I went to get an inch trimmed (which would happen very quickly for me because my hair grows very quickly) was just not something that I could spend money on every month. People would tell me how pretty my hair was, so why not grow it out for a few months, get the length that I needed in order to donate, chop it off and achieve the length that I wanted to have and allow someone that needed a wig to have some great hair?
Starting in 2020 I went ot chop my hair again, and no longer was the company that I donated to taking real hair to create wigs. The statement was that wigs with fake hair had come such a long way that they not longer needed to collect real hair.
Now that this idea of growing my hair out and then chopping it off has become a part of my life, I will probably continue to do so, but it will now all be for me and to change up my look without doing too much. I love the shock of cutting it all off. So over time, don't be surprised if you see my look change over and over again.