So I have decided the hair must go...but I need help!

[naomimcc]

I'm cutting.

I've had a two year wait to decide...much longer than a two week wait I want a change... I NEED a change. I have had this same hair for about a decade. I will be travelling to Edmonton for May Long weekend for a complete makeover. Hair, spa day, shopping and a kick ass dinner and a good bottle of wine to end it. My BFF will be coming with me.

I love my long hair. But I'm tired and bored of it. I had the opportunity to attend the Tyra Banks show for a makeover however, the producers informed me the show has been cancelled and this is its last season ... so that's a no go.

I plan to cut to around chin length. I figure, go big or go home. :P However, Any ideas what to do with the cut-off length? I refuse to donate it...(and I have a month to prep for the arguement that is coming from others around here) but do I just keep it? Or what... any ideas?

As well...spam me with bob length pictures please. My hair type is under my name.

I plan to remain a member of this wonderful community however because I plan to grow it out once again.

[Drynwhyl]

I hope you'll like it (:
Make a braid and tie both ends and keep it like that?
If you don't find it disturbing, you could hang it on the wall or put it on display somewhere...I did this with my dreadlocks, they make a great wall hanging :P plus they're still with me.
Or give it to a dear person. If I cut my hair I plan to make thin braids and give it to my friends. They really liked the idea, it's quite personal.

[sherigayle]

My grandmother had a braid of her hair in her vanity. She kept it after she cut it when her husband died. She never grew her hair long again after that.

[Nightshade]

I also vote to keep it! Your hair is so long that with the braid you could probably use it if you went to a renaissance fair as a piece like this:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/44534915...wig-chain-link

[Carolyn]

If it were me I'd just keep it. I think I'd wrap it in something nice like a silk scarf or the like. It would be a keepsake. If I didn't want to keep it, I think I'd do some kind of a ritual where I burned it.

[spidermom]

I'd do the braid thing and keep it. I have my son's braid from when he was a teenager and grew his hair out long.

Good luck with your makeover! I know you've been wrestling with this for a long-long time, so it's not a whim. Enjoy it.

I can't help with bob pictures, though; I avoid them. The bob looks so bad on me that I can't get past it.

[Loviatar]

I think I'd braid it and keep it too, but I might hang it somewhere like Drynwhyl suggested. I hope you love your new cut! And happy future growing, with a bob you won't have to do the stage!

Hmm. bob pics.... *goes to hunt*

[MAO]

Maybe the hair you cut off can be used as extensions later whenever you get bored of looking at your short hair?

[Tovah]

I would save it.
My mother saved her hair when she cut it when she was youngish.
It was wrapped in tissue paper and put in a box.
My sister and I used to love going through mom's "stuff" and we wondered at the beautiful locks of hair.

[Yozhik]

I saved a 6" swath of my hair from when I was younger. It's tied with a silky ribbon in a bag in my dresser. My parents also have my mother's braid from when she went to mid-back length to a pixie.

If you don't want to keep it, maybe you could leave it somehwere in the woods? Then maybe an animal might make a nest out of it (if that doesn't distress you).

Go for the cut! If you don't like it, after all, you can just grow it out again, right?