The last time I sat in a hairdresser's chair was January 2, 2020. I was to have a follow up appointment to start treatment to achieve the hairstyle of choice, lavender locks that would be about shoulder length. The follow up never happened because of the pandemic. For several weeks, if not months, I've been complaining about my brittle hair; the damage goes over half the length of my hair, it's thin, and I lose hair in small clumps. This is probably connected to adrenal function. I've had enough and I can't even manage it anyway. Several nights, I would say something to Kirk about my hair and he would joke out taking the scissors and cutting it at shoulder length, I finally called him out on his comments and told him to cut my hair. He said no initially, but he said yes last night. 

As mentioned in the previous post about my hairstyles called How I Manage My Hair With Fibromyalgia, I prefer having a short style. My styles of choice is a pixie haircut or a bob. I wanted my hair to be styled in braids while it was long, but with my eldest daughter on her own in her new apartment and Kirk working long hours at work, I don't have help with my hair. It was time to let the damaged hair go and start fresh with a short style.

I am super impressed with my haircut, this was the first time Kirk cut my hair. He is surprisingly good at everything he tries. He's my Jack of all trades.

When Katie saw my haircut this morning, they were shook. I told them that if they're still looking for that hair trim they spoke about recently, that I know a guy that does hair. (lol)

Honestly, I am spoiled. I get a lot of help with my hair. There was a time when every time I washed my hair, I would be exhausted afterwards, still happens once and a while, so I ask for someone in the house to brush my hair for me. For about a year, I have had long hair. I believe it would have been shoulder length this time last year and now it's just above my chest. My preferred hairstyle for several years has been the pixie cut and most years previous to 2010, I usually kept to bobs and chin length styles, with the exceptions of three different years that I had long hair for special occasions: 1997, 2005 & 2008.


My daughters bugged me to grow my hair long and they promised they would style it for me as long as it was grown out. Just my oldest daughter was actually helping with my hair, she would braid my bangs and pin them back when I was started college in the fall of 2019. For my birthday this year, my oldest daughter gave me that cute crimped look in my blog profile photo (she did my makeup too). In the late spring, or early summer, she started doing French braid in my hair, I love that look. When she left for college in September, my husband styled my hair a few times and I really loved the style he tried on September 13th, it was simply beautiful.

Lately, I am sick of my long hair, it's so damaged from the hair dyes I've used and I've tried reviving it but it's still broken and the color is imperfect. I am very temped to go back to a pixie style but might consider a style that is short and could easily be styled with a braid or something simple for my daughter(s) or my husband to style for me.