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Going With the Short Hair Style (Finally!)

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I did it! I finally parted ways with my old hair style (all puns fully intended). I used to, forever and day, have very long hair, most often to my shoulders. However, after getting sick and tired of all of the maintenance—and I am sure that most girls out there can agree with me here, or men who have longer hair—I was burned out on always having to manage my thick locks. There are just so many different things that you have to do in order to really take care of long hair.

Now mind you, I did take excellent care of my hair. And having four brothers with male pattern baldness in the family, one could easily deduce that I did indeed dodge the hereditary genetics bullet. But, once you get tired of always having hair in your face, sweating profusely on hot summer days (especially in Arizona where I live, where it easily tops triple digits several months out of the year), and then spending hundreds of smackers at salons to get it cut, styled and colored—well, sufficed to say that short hair has welcomed me back into its loving arms.

In case you are wondering, I used to have hair that went past my shoulders. The climb up the ladder to the short hair that I sport now was a lengthy process that spanned several years. Over the past five years, or so, I have been going a little bit shorter each year. The other day, however, I decided that I had enough, and it was time to take the sheers to my head and get to cutting. From the very moment I left that hair salon, sexy women were looking my way; a lot more so than usual.

Could it be the new hair style I am sporting? I think so, my friends. Then, to confirm my suspicions, my sister and mother met up with me for lunch, and they would not stop yapping about how handsome I look. Now, I have updated my online dating profile with my new, shorter hair style look, and voila: I am getting bombarded with emails from very attractive women looking to go on dates with me. (That simply put: Rocks!)

I wish I had known that dating tip a while back. But knowing is half the battle (I know: GI JOE!). However, the lesson has been learned for me. Shorter hair is the best look for my melon, and I intend to keep it that way. Now if I could only get free premium cable channels, I think I would be on to something truly grand!

Funky Hair Colors Can Rock—But They Can Be Messy, Too!

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Once upon a time, I had hair that was a bit longer than my hair is currently. I was always playing out in a band, and I was constantly changing up my hair dew, nearly to the point of that of which a young girl in high school who has a cosmetologist for a mother would do. (No really, I knew some girls like that in high school, and they always were changing up their hair styles and colors; nearly on a weekly basis.) Today, however, I would like to dip into the remuneration that you can experience if you decide to go with a crazy color for your hair style – like this girl in the drawing to the upper left has – and just what you can expect if you do opt to dye your hair using one of those funky-colored hair dyes.

For me, I decided that I wanted black hair with blue streaks in it, and all over the place, for a really big show my band was playing. So I phoned my stylist, who is still on my cell phone’s speed dial, by the way, and made an appointment. About four hours later, I left the hair salon with smoking hair that was blue and black, streaked and chic, and ready to rock out at that show like a real star. That was the fun part, then I was made aware of why most people do not use fancy colors, like blue—and in my case this really deep midnight blue hair dye—to upgrade their hair styles with. You want to know why? Because they get all over the freaking place, that is why!

I recall being at that show and watching blue beads of sweat drip everywhere. By the time the show was over, I was covered in blue on my neck and face. Everywhere I went to for a few months following, the same thing: Blue, blue and more blue! I am unable to recant how many towels, bed sheets and shirts I destroyed during my stint with a blue hair style. But sufficed to say, it turned out to be quite a costly endeavor for me in the end. I suppose that the moral of this story is rather simple at heart: Make sure you know what you are getting into before you go for an outlandish blue hair style like I did. And yes, I was quite frequently called a smurf when I was sporting those dark blue locks!

Three Tips on Getting a Hair Style You Will Adore!

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Over the years, I have greatly played around with my hair and have had so many different hair styles that I would be—in all honesty—unable to recall how many ones that I have sported on my noggin. Most recently, I had a longer hair style that had cool blue streaks that were on the front bangs. However, despite trying every and any hair dyes out there, even hair stains, I found that quite often the blue dye would bleed whenever I sweated and get all over the place; not to mention getting on pillows, sheets, towels, clothing…you name it.

So I recently made the decision to chop my longer locks for a shorter, newer and more stylish approach, and really just for a change of pace. In the process of doing so, I arrived at this conclusion: There are some really easy and fun ways to find a new hair style that you will just love. Hopefully these candid tips will aid you in your quest for that pristine cut you so desire.

1. Find pictures of the hair style that you want first. This is rather easily done if you have the internet or some fashion magazines. Try and find pictures that closely resemble the hair style that you desire. Then print them out on your computer or cut them out of the magazine to bring in to show to your hair stylist.
2. The hair salon you choose greatly matters. For certain, hair cuts can vastly range in price, depending upon where you go to get them. The best advice that I can offer here—and based upon my own experiences as well—is that you get what you pay for. Going for that ten dollar hair cut and being dissatisfied with it should be no shocker, if that is the choice that you make.
3. Always demonstrate the length you want cut off using your fingers. Never tell a hair stylist to remove ‘so many inches’ because quite often it may be less or more than you want. A great rule of thumb to follow here is to show them how much hair you want cut off using your fingers. In this manner, they can have a far greater idea of what to cut off.