Too Short.

Yesterday, I had a highly-anticipated haircut with my favorite Minnesotan stylist.  When I arrived, I was ready to have my locks trimmed and shaped into my typical style.  Because of the way that my hair grows, it gets thicker and heavier at the shoulder area which causes it to be the most annoying thing on the face of the earth when I am overdue for a trim.  It refuses to stay styled.  It flips out when it should be flipping in.  It gets strange bumps in strange places.  Overall, it gets to be a constant source of frustration.

So, walking into the salon yesterday, I was so ready for a wonderful trim.  Jen welcomed me, put my cape thing on and walked me over to the washing area.  She began washing my hair and mid-scalp massage, she had to go pick her sick daughter up from the babysitter.  I was left laying back in the chair with wet hair and no stylist.  So, one of her co-workers offered to finish my appointment.  I reluctantly accepted her offer considering I had driven 25 minutes and had soaking wet hair. 

It turns out that I had the most scissor-happy stylist in the salon.  She brushed it down, allowed me to talk through what I wanted, discussed my crazy part, etc.  Then, she clipped up the top and brushed out the back.  Then...snip snip.  I felt the cold scissors on my neck, and I instantly regretted accepting her offer to fill in for Jen.

With some patience, we were able to figure it out...but it is safe to say that the back of my hair is shorter than expected.  I have acutal hairs on my head that are less than an inch long.  Eek.  Luckily, they are all the way in the back.  I am quite certain that this haircut is only shocking to me.  You know how you can feel it even when you only get a 1/2 inch taken off?  Well, this is way more than that.

So, basically I ended up with an inverted haircut that is quite a bit longer in the front than the back.  I will have to learn to deal with it because I can't put the hair back.

Here are a few crappy iPhone front camera/Instagram pics of the new 'do.  Here's to shorter-than-expected hair!