The barber cut my hair short today. Really short.
He's supposed to use a 1.5 guard. But he used a 1. I was sitting in the chair thinking "Ask him if he has the right guard on. Ask him. Ask him now." But I didn't. Two strokes and it's over. Almost bald head. No choice but to keep going.
*sigh*
The 1 is 3.0mm (1/8 inch) while the 1.5 is 4.0mm (5/32 inch). This might seem like a minuscule difference in hair shaft height but it isn't. With a 1.5 I look like I have some hair but with a 1 I look like my hair is just growing in. It's subtle but important.
The main problem with the whole really short hair thing is that I have to CONSTANTLY think about my eyebrows. The shorter the hair the more prominent the eyebrows and I'm not much of a groomer. I wash my face. Put on moisturizer and that's about it. Short hair means that I have not only think about my eyebrows--I also have to pluck them. Everyday. One of the reasons I have short hair is so that I don't have to think about it.
This too much hair coming off my head thing happens every so often. The worst time was when some poor woman shaved my head. Totally bald.
Of course, no one really noticed. "Oh, Emily, you got your hair cut! Looks good!"
If you only knew of the tears that came earlier.
I'm blogging 'cause it seems like everyone else is doing it.
2 comments:
can i just say that the most noticeable hair growth comes from a freshly shorn head?
We love blog posts about barber chair anxiety. Be glad you don't wear glasses and thus need not remove them for the duration of the operation, only to blink bewildered into the unrecognizable mirror image after and curse yourself for not stopping the artist formerly known as your barber and checking on the progress of the shear affair.
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