Growing Out Short Hair

Even though there are a lot of blogs with these kinds of posts, I know I read and am reading all of them every time I decide to grow my hair out.  This seems to happen a lot because every time I get past the awkward stage I just cut it really short again.  Or decide to be stylish and get a mo hawk.  But I was going through old pictures and when it jumped from shaved head to long hair I realized I really do miss it.  So, it's happening.  It's really happening.  I'll tell you about it.

Hopefully this time I can avoid the looking-like-a-little-boy phase.  Let's find out!

I'll start with mo hawk phase, because the rest was grown out in the past and this is the most recent issue.

I'm not going to say that it looks really good on me or anything, you can make that call.  I think it did.  I did the stylish, chilled out version, which is pretty cute.

I think the only way to grow it out is to trim it down to a pixie cut.  Just cut the long strip, not the sides, dumb dumb.  So, I trimmed it down:

Apparently I wear this shirt a lot.

Devotion: no kids on drugs.

By "kids" I mean "children."

So, I let it grow out.  Since I lost the better pictures of my hair as it grew out, I'll just show you how nerdy I am, and that as this grew out without cutting, it looked pretty ok.

Also, a cute picture with my dog!

Anyway, your hair will get long enough where you decide you're bored again, and Hey!  Why not get a perm!  I mean, it's still pretty short, but fuck it, do it anyway.  And then this happens:

Which looks a lot like this:

But then you realize that this:

Reminds you a lot of this:

And looking like Bob Dylan is way better than looking like Larry.  It turns out, having a perm with sort hair is awesome, and you can style it to look very fashion-y.  Though it's still Day 1, I know form experience that hair styles tend to get better over time, so I'm pretty damn happy with it.  Plus, now I can pin it back to a curly-type mo hawk, because everything about the 80s is fabulous.  Bam.  Everything is a possibility!  The world is my hair-ouster!  Something I don't recommend eating.

It looks like the best way to avoid looking like a child is to not cut the sides of your hair while your growing it out, so it stays layered.  And that's pretty much it.  I feel that now that since my hair is long enough to get a perm, about 10 months later, this post has served its purpose.

Good Luck.