Okay, so the season finale "cliffhanger" was maybe a bit predictable...but I do so love my Jim and Pam.
Unrelated: I decided to grow my hair out for another year, as you may know.
And I like to plan in advance, as you may know.
So, to the predicament: many short-hair people somewhat close to my age bracket that I have pictures of--Wait-until-Dark Audrey Hepburn, '90s Winona Ryder, recent Natalie Portman, recent Sister Phoebe, 2002ish Mandy Moore--are brunettes. Hair people always say if you're copying a cut, you need to have a similar color/texture/bone structure/etc. for it to work.
Unrelated: Pam from The Office is also a brunette, and my age, and I also have a picture of her as you can see, but I don't think I'll be bringing that to the hair lady.
There are a few "older" (than me) famous blondes whose super-crops I have always admired--Sharon Stone and Meg Ryan come to mind. More so Sharon (vampy and FAUX-HAWK) than Meg (creepy and LIPS). But I can't seem to find any decent pictures of either. (Word to the wise...google-imaging Sharon Stone is not advisable.) Sienna Miller maybe...but she's all like "I'm SOOO Edie Sedgwick and boho chic" and by the way I wouldn't g-i her either, just a tip.
Unrelated: I really liked the name Edie, until Edie Britt burned down Susan Mayer's house.
Unrelated: I really liked Desperate Housewives, until it got all needlessly sleazy (my mom's voice echoes in my head even as I type that word) as I should have known it was bound to do.
So hair: Mia Farrow, maybe.
Or perhaps the command "Let's see a #4 on the clippers, and make it snappy" will suffice.
I'm thinking maybe shaggy chin-length bob to transition to the gamine crop (every fashion magazine's favorite moniker for pixie cuts...and mine too).
I'll probably end up doing what I did at age 12 for my first major chop and that is bring a picture of Dolores O'Riordan from the liner notes of No Need to Argue (good idea) and another one of Sister Bonny (better idea). And Phoebe too. Yeah she's a brunette but we're sisters!
I said, SISTERS!
Semi-related: My problem with the super-short cut is that when my hair is super-short, I feel like I always need to dress cute, abandoning the freedom of the ponytail/bun, which goes with anything slummy OR glam. Anyone else have that problem?
This is why I could never write professionally. Non sequiturs and semi-relateds consume me. I'm in constant need of a commercial break from my point. I blame TV. I need to throw mine away.
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ok-i'm trying to clarify-
you're still growing your hair out, but you're feeling pressure from the media to go gamine?
or are you going gamine and haven't figured out what style to go for?
i think i need to read your post again.
My suspicions are confirmed--I cannot communicate clearly, especially late at night.
No pressure from the media whatsoever. I'm just planning ahead--I'm going to cut it off in several months and I want to bring pictures in to the hair lady. I'm just thinking about it now because...the planning ahead thing.
Not surprised you didn't gather that.
This post made No Sense.
I too have done the cut-it-off-grow-it-out-dance-drama with my hair since I was 12. Some have been great, some have been hideous and I would love to burn every photo in existance of those hair style choices. I cut my hair off last fall and am now wishing that it would grow faster. I finally found a picture of what I think I probably wanted back then and for sure want now. But I have to wait until it grows. Although there are some very cute short cuts...too many choices. I think in the end, no matter how much I love the cut, within 2 weeks I am tired of the extra work the style requires and want to go back to the ponytail and the knot on top of the head. I guess it is more important to have a low maintainance style than a high fashion cut.
Anway, after all that rambling. I feel where you're coming from.
Well, Hannah, sometimes you gotta put yourself out there with nonsense posts.
I figure with all the information in there there's something for everyone to mull over.
Yeah Katie--love The Office. But Michael is SO AWKWARD that I actually had to leave the room when Jan showed up at the casino party. Yep.
They called pixie cuts gamine cuts when I was a teen - wearing pixie/gamine cuts myself.
Short hair CAN be low-maintenance - mine is - but they CAN be high-maintenance too - so it's a conundrum for sure.
I agree though -with a very short cut, you feel the need to dress MORE - as if to offset the short do - or at least not get mistaken for a male person.
It's all about jewelry and lip gloss.
Go for it!
I heart Jim and Pam so much!
Oh geez I love 'em too. So great. Although I don't know how next season will go--the whole dance between Jim and Pam was one of my favorite parts of the show. Okay, that and everything else.
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