Stop Cutting Your Hair Like That
Posted by: LizzieEver since my hair disaster, I’ve been secretly keeping track of short hairstyle trends and what I definitely don’t want my hair to look like. Here in the south, there is what my mom and I have dubbed “The Gypsy”. Some call it a “wedge”, but if you are an upper-middle class middle-aged woman (or a gypsy), this is the hairstyle of choice. I see it EVERYWHERE. But the thing is, I used to like that style! In fact, I had this hairstyle four years ago. I didn’t know what it was called back then, so I would ask whoever was cutting my hair to cut it long in the front and short in the back. Only one stylist got it right when I was pregnant with Simon, and it was an excellent “new mom” hair cut.
The angle of my cut wasn’t as sharp as most wedges I see these days, but it was what it was. It’s probably a good thing that my hair grows fast, as I quickly outgrew this style before it became The Mom Haircut, The Gypsy, etc. Today, I hate that hairstyle because it’s so overdone. I think that every woman on an infomercial we watched last night had this haircut.
Now that I’m trying to grow my hair out, I’ve had to make sure that I tell the nice ladies at Great Clips that I DO NOT WANT A WEDGE. Clean up the ends? Yes. No angles, please. I don’t know how long it’s going to take to recover from my bad haircut. I also have new hair growing in from when a lot of it fell out a couple months ago and it’s about an inch long–it looks like I have two sets of bangs!!
Hair is stupid. Especially postpartum hair.
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Tags: haircuts, southern women freak me out
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:29 pm
This was a funny post. I had the same haircut about 4 years ago too (only slighly less severe as you see it now), I recently wanted my hair short again and made the mistake of asking the hairdresser for a slighly angled bob, well let’s just say that people thought my hair was long until they saw me from behind. The look is not for me….. good luck with the growing out, I’m working on it too!
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I had that same haircut when I had my first baby. I’ll never do it again, but it wasn’t so bad, I guess. I just kept letting it grow in back and trimmed the front until it evened out.