"I tell myself that I am not afraid" -Piglet

My hair has Bieber fever! Today is the first day that I'm not having my regularly scheduled haircut (every 4 weeks) since I got my hair cut back in August.  As you can tell from my post yesterday, I'm starting to have some anxiety about what this growing our process is going to be like.  I'm currently in what I'd like to call the Bieber stage.




Who is who?

I can't tell!

It's actually quite hilarious actually since my boyfriend has been calling me Justin Bieber (or Beebz) since I got my hair cut short in the first place.  [He actually really likes the short hair, he just likes picking on me more!]  I knew the day would come that I would begin to resemble America's favorite pop star (or whatever), but I think this current length is going to require a little creativity to liven it up a bit. 

 

Oh, and I forgot to tell you, I have hair that hangs in front of my ears now and gives me this weird flip on the side of my head.  (Pretty sexy, huh?)



Me with my sexy side flip





Though I know that I have a lot of coping and looking in the mirror and saying "eh." in my future, I've decided on my next haircut milestone!  My next haircut will take place when I can get the hair by my ears to actually tuck behind them and stay there.  I think this may take another month potentially, but we'll see how it goes!

 

Thanks for sticking with me!  I think that once I overcome this hurdle, the rest of the styling should be a piece of cake (that's not to say that I won't have to talk myself out of about a million new ideas for hairstyles, but those are posts for another day). 

 

I'll have updated stats for you in a month or so, I think.  I hope this is helpful for you (it has been for me so far).  Let me know if you have any hair growing-out questions or suggestions!



I'm supposed to drink HOW MUCH water?

I promise that there will not be any pictures today!

So, I've been browsing some "How to" sites for growing out hair. Two things that I've currently implemented are drink a lot of water and taking biotin supplements.  Since this is only day 2 of the biotin, I have yet to notice any difference. 

Adding water into my day has been an interesting struggle today. 

Yesterday I went out a bought a new Camelbak waterbottle, and I pledged to keep it by my side all day at work and drink as often as I could. Today, I sat down at my desk and promptly started drinking as much as I could tolerate (which is a lot since it's so dry here in Iowa during the winter months). Now, toward the end of day 1 of my water resolution, I'm wondering if this should have been a more gradual process.  My body doesn't seem to know what do do with this extra H2O, and I've found myself running to the ladies room  more often then I'm refilling my chic new bottle.   I hope that my body will become accostomed sooner rather than later...I think some of my coworkers may start to wonder about me...(not sure what they'd be wondering, but wondering none-the-less).

[Disclaimer:  Sorry for the overshare.  I figured that I should be as forthright and honest as possible as I embark on this quest. Just so you know, I'm usually very awkward.  If you find yourself reading something and wondering what in the world is going on, that's totally normal.  You know that awkward penguin meme... it was made for me.]

  Below are a few sites that I have liked:
http://www.longlocks.com/how-to-grow-long-hair.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Hair-Grow-Faster
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/how-to-grow-out-your-short-do/story-fneszs56-1226481399127
There are not too many links about how to grow out short hair quickly. However, there are LOTS of websites about growing out extremely long hair. I'm assuming that the haircare elements of those websites should still be useful. I think that my next post will be a reflection on some of my favorite tips from the point of view of someone with very short hair!

Here are some links to photos to ease me through the process
http://pinterest.com/bexmoi/growing-out-the-pixie/ (I love pinterst!)
http://www.blendingbeautiful.com/how-to-gracefully-grow-out-a-pixie-cut/ (It turns out there are lots of people who have blog posts about growing out their hair!)
http://www.craftinterrupted.com/2012/07/the-great-pixie-grow-out-of-2010.html

I'll try to find sites to include periodically.  Google is going to be a very important tool for me!

A dream is a wish your heart makes...

In this case, I sure hope that the title of this post is completely untrue.  Sparked by my ever shaggier hair and the season two finale of How I Met Your Mother (where Marshall and Lilly get married) I had my first crazy hair nightmare!

The dream: I decided to go and get my first hair trim since I've started growing my hair out.  I was very excited, but I was not at all sure what was the best cut to go with.  Additionally, I figured that if I was just getting a trim that it would be safe to go somewhere cheaper to get my hair done than where I usually go for my styles (which I did in real life the last time I grew my hair out)...  MISTAKE!!!

As odd as it may sound, I was completely calm through this next portion of dream.  A mullet-ed hairdresser talked calmly to me about her suggestions for someone about to grow their hair out.  For some reason she sounded perfectly reasonable and I OK-ed her plan and let her set to work. The actual haircut was a bit of a blurr in my mind until I took a peek in the mirror toward the very end.  At that point, I slowly came to the realization that she had grown the back of my hair out to my shoulders and trimmed the top of my head.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mullet&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=EQsAUbGtM_SA2AXr5IGYCA&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1680&bih=901

Then, I lost my cool.  She had provided me with a mullet to match the one she had!  I was absolutely horrified.  I couldn't believe that she could do that to me, but she didn't seem malicious in any way, so I decided to pay her all the same thinking it was some sort of honest mistake... Then I immediately went to my regular hairdresser to see what she could do to fix my style. 

When I arrived at my normal salon, my stylist was forced to chop my hair back into the pixie I had been dillegently trying to grow out.  She basically demanded that I request my money back from the other salon, which I did.  After that... I woke up!

I immediately ran my fingers through my hair to be sure that my shaggy pixie was still intact and that the whole situation had been a horrible nightmare (it had, phew!).  I'm not sure that many people have growing-your-hair-out anxiety, but aparently I am one of them.  It sounds like I need to do a little bit of between-hairstyles research for how to approach my next haircut. If anyone has any suggestions or photos, I'd appreciate it. I don't think I could stand many more mullet dreams!

Just another hurdle to get past on my quest for longer locks.