cobden 28
September 29th, 2013, 03:15 AM
Six months ago I decided to have a fringe cut into my hair, because my husband said that with my hair tied back in a ponytail (how I usually wear it), I look like an old granny - especially if I wear my hair up. I have a photograph of my parents' wedding back in the 1950's and yes, I do look the spitting image of my paternal grandma who was in her late 70's at the time, so my husband's comments about the 'old granny' look aren't said just to annoy, it's the truth!
At first I thought my fringe was fine; I have a good hairdresser I can trust not to cut too much off when I go for a trim, but with the arrival of the summer weather I discovered one reason why I'd grown my fringe out all those years ago. On a hot summers' day my forehead gets all sweaty and the skin of my forehead all spotty underneath a heavy fringe, also at the end of the day I have a 'suntan line' across the middle of my forehead with lobster-pink skin below and lilly-white and freckly above, under where my fringe is. Not a pretty sight! :(
I've recently discovered a second reason why I grew my fringe out....what the hairdresser calls a 'cowlick', this being the way my fringe grows in that the left side of the frionge sticks up at an awkward angle whereas the right side of my fringe hangs down nice and neat-like. I tried to trim the offending cowlick myself but made a right hash of the job, ending up with a lovely wavy line of a fringe, so i had to nip into a local hairdresser to have my fringe neatened up and cut in a straight line as well as being thinned out for coolness. This has left me with a fringe somewhat shorter than I would have preferred but at least it's in a sort of straight line.....if not for that darned cowlick!
I've now come to the conclusion the only way round the probl;em is to grow my fringe out again. At the rate my hair grows it will be two years before I can tie it back in a ponytail/off my face in a topknot/put it up neatly.
Tomorrow when I'm out and about I'll be booking myself in for a proper professional trim - I need an inch or so of untidy split ends cut off the length but will probably not need anything done to the fringe as it was trimmed only a fortnight ago. I'm just going to have to wait now till my fringe is long enough to be held back with an Alice band at least - probably about four to six months.
Should I keep the long ends of my hair - just fractionally above waist - at the length they are whilst I wait several years for my fringe to grow out completely, or should I carry on trying to grow the long ends of my hair at the same time as trying to grow my fringe out?
At first I thought my fringe was fine; I have a good hairdresser I can trust not to cut too much off when I go for a trim, but with the arrival of the summer weather I discovered one reason why I'd grown my fringe out all those years ago. On a hot summers' day my forehead gets all sweaty and the skin of my forehead all spotty underneath a heavy fringe, also at the end of the day I have a 'suntan line' across the middle of my forehead with lobster-pink skin below and lilly-white and freckly above, under where my fringe is. Not a pretty sight! :(
I've recently discovered a second reason why I grew my fringe out....what the hairdresser calls a 'cowlick', this being the way my fringe grows in that the left side of the frionge sticks up at an awkward angle whereas the right side of my fringe hangs down nice and neat-like. I tried to trim the offending cowlick myself but made a right hash of the job, ending up with a lovely wavy line of a fringe, so i had to nip into a local hairdresser to have my fringe neatened up and cut in a straight line as well as being thinned out for coolness. This has left me with a fringe somewhat shorter than I would have preferred but at least it's in a sort of straight line.....if not for that darned cowlick!
I've now come to the conclusion the only way round the probl;em is to grow my fringe out again. At the rate my hair grows it will be two years before I can tie it back in a ponytail/off my face in a topknot/put it up neatly.
Tomorrow when I'm out and about I'll be booking myself in for a proper professional trim - I need an inch or so of untidy split ends cut off the length but will probably not need anything done to the fringe as it was trimmed only a fortnight ago. I'm just going to have to wait now till my fringe is long enough to be held back with an Alice band at least - probably about four to six months.
Should I keep the long ends of my hair - just fractionally above waist - at the length they are whilst I wait several years for my fringe to grow out completely, or should I carry on trying to grow the long ends of my hair at the same time as trying to grow my fringe out?