I want to be Jane Lane

The other day I stumbled upon/became obsessed with the show Daria, and in it I think I may have found my next hairstyle: Jane Lane's totally bad ass haircut.





I just have this deep desire to be a kick ass girl who doesn't give a damn, does whatever the hell she wants, and vocalizes her belief that everything is bullshit.  Unfortunately, I care too much about being nice to people (thanks mom), but that doesn't mean I can't still look like a bad ass.

...that's all.
-Kristy

new haircut

Check it out, I have a bowl cut>>>>



This was taken at the end of June so it's grown a little since then, and currently I'm torn between buzzing the bottom again or letting it grow because I miss being able to throw my hair into a ponytail when I don't feel like dealing with it.

The only problems I have with this style is that, like I said, it's impossible to do any sort of ponytail, except for my very top layers which, according to my boyfriend, makes me look like a samurai.  What a compliment, right?  Anyway, I also have an undercut (you can see my sideburns) so that'll set me back when it grows in.

But I like my hair now way more than how it was before.  I've always been kind of a tom boy so I get uncomfortable when my outfit or hairstyle is too "girly," and with this haircut it's easy to wear anything I want and feel feminine, but also feel like myself.


I like to wear my bangs to one side, and the other side tucked behind my ear.  It's pretty versatile, too, there's a bunch of different styles I've played around with, but most days I'll tame it with pomade and a straightener (looks similar to Twiggy's iconic haircut).  My favorite look is my "hot mess-slept on-day after washing/styling" 'do:




Since I'm all caught up with how my hair's been growing, I'll be posting more daily styling pictures, products I like, tips, inspiration, etc.

-Kristy

the first three months

Hello hello hello!

This post is all about the beginning phases of growing out my pixie cut.  When I got my hair cut in March, it wasn't super short and already had a LITTLE bit of length to it.  On most days it was unmanageable and almost NEVER looked good unless I straightened it, which was still a hit or miss type deal.  Since my hair is thick and has some volume to it, it basically just sat on top of my head looking like a puffball for weeks.  But, alas, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  It's been four months (three of which consisted of pure growth of my original haircut) and my hair has made substantial progress.

Now, the first month or two I didn't take many pictures of my hair because I really hated the way it looked, so the ones that I'm posted reflect the most cooperative/crazy my hair was during those months.

So let's get down to it!  Here are some of my best and worst hair days during my initial growth stages:


Month 1 (March-April):

Month 2 (April-May):

The first picture (left) you can see my lil' mullet growing in (get that shit trimmed!).  Also, that is the way my hair looked daily if I wasn't leaving the house.




Month 3 (May-June):

Roughly three months in, I got my first trim - strictly the mullet to keep it cute, no length taken off the top/sides.  I also got the awful brown stripped out of my hair and had a deep purplish red color put on to hide the little bit of my ends that were still bleached.  The dye job made the growing phase INFINITELY more bearable.





At the end of the first three months I got a nice new cut to get rid of the forming bob.  I'll have a post soon with some pictures of it and my explanation as to why I chose to avoid the bob!

-Kristy

Why I Got a Pixe Cut

The reasoning behind my pixie cut is that I absolutely hated my haircut before I got it done, and it was way beyond help.  In early 2012 my hair was long, glorious, curly, and my natural red color.  For some reason I didn't like it so I cut it to about chin in May length with weird layers and that just did not go well so I wore my hair up every day for months.  Then over the fall months, I got even more layers (my first mistake) and bleached my hair (the clincher).  Now, if you don't have red hair, you might not know that bleaching red hair will only make it yellowish/orange if you don't use a toner, which I didn't.  So that was bad.  Then in December I dyed it brown, which was good for a couple weeks before it faded and I dyed it black, and then it faded again and I ended up with what you see below:

This is the closest I have to a before picture.  On a good day in decent lighting, my hair looked glorious (right), but almost every other day of my life, my hair looked reaaaallyyy gross (left).

Here's the first pictures I took of my pixie in March this year.  Looking back, it doesn't look so bad, but at the time I hated it almost as much as the cut I had before.

So, basically I decided to try the pixie because I wanted to grow out my natural color again!

Here's the most glorious my hair has ever been, circa 2011 senior prom:

(Yes, my boyfran is a ging as well)

A little background

Hi!

About four months ago I chopped my hair into a pixie cut, and an awful one at that.  Since then, I've spent countless hours scavenging through the internet for advice/alternate hairstyles for growing out a pixie cut, usually coming up empty handed.  The general consensus that I found, however, was that it's easiest to let your pixie grow into a short bob.  Now, I think bobs are adorable if you can pull it off, but my hair just doesn't cooperate with layers like that.

With that being said, I have two aims for this blogs.  The first is to motivate myself to keep growing my hair by documenting my progress (I have frequently feel the compulsion to just chop it again).  The second is to provide all you girls who were blessed with thick, voluminous, and wavy hair (such a love/hate relationship, isn't it?) and decided to chop it, and grow it.

And another thing, this is my first blog, so if you happen to stumble upon it, please bear with me as I'm sure it'll take me a bit to get things goin'.


-Kristy