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!
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.
Okay, I already touched base upon the Mullet and why this horrendous-looking hairstyle is somehow still widely in use, and for a plethora of reasons that are unbeknownst to me, and that for the life of me I will never truly understand. But, it does make for some great hair style fashion blogger fodder; for certain it does! The reality is that if—and whenever I do—see a person sport a mullet, I have to try and not laugh. (They remind me of this monkey picture I have added to the upper left that has a primate mullet.) Generally when this occurs, I do end up laughing. I am coy enough not to point and jeer. But seriously: I think of seeing a person sporting a mullet like I would the worst NCAA mascot hopping around the field (a few choice teams come to mind here that just have ghastly-looking mascots, like a pickle, for example, but I will refrain from mentioning such collegiate teams for the sake of no legal liabilities—and also because I love NCAA football).
Do you think that goatees are hot? Well many women do, as do the countless men who sport them. Even on the popular fashion blog and website, StyleList, they tagged a recent Getty photo of superstar A-lister, Brad Pitt, sporting his own brand of a goatee. But they were not so nice about what they had to say. And I quote, “While Brad’s skin still looks youthful and supple (and kissable, of course), the gray in his goatee ages his considerably. No skincare product is going to fix that.” (Here’s a 
Living in the great ‘Wild West’ state of Arizona, there are so many fashion faux paws that I see on a regular and daily basis that bewildered is a vast understatement of my perception of this hair style dilemma that most people here face. What I am talking about is the existence of the most trashiest of all hair styles ever to be fathomed, one that had to be brewed in the vats of a moonshine, rusted-out bathtub somewhere far out in the desert—in a trailer park nonetheless—where some dude, somewhere, on some sunny day decided that a mullet was the way to go.
I aim to keep this article short and sweet, because I don’t wish to bore you to tears with my fomenting and bantering on about hair styles 101. However, there are some interesting things that I have been learning lately, with regards to my hair and the nifty hair style I am always shooting for on a daily basis that has really made me wonder. I also have deemed one of these things as a really cool tip that should work for most hair types and hairs styles, or for that matter, most people.