Suzy Q Homemaker

Ever 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.

It happened.  I got all of my hair chopped off.  It wasn’t supposed to be this short, but that’s a long story I’ll save for when I’m typing with both hands and Timothy isn’t attached to my boob.  I’m trying to ease the transition to short hair by looking up cute headband patterns and browsing etsy for vintage barrettes.

So it’s not a “new mom hair cut”, right?

Ok, I’ve reached that point in my postpartum period when I think about getting a new ‘do.  I haven’t had short hair since before Simon was born, and I thought I was growing it out.  Really, I think I was just experimenting with having long hair again.  The thing is, it’s SO thick that I always have to go get it thinned with texturizing shears in order to keep from getting mushroom head.  I wear it up in a ponytail 99%of the time, so I need to keep my bangs trimmed, too.

This is how it looks as of today when it’s down:

And here is how I would get it cut (this pic is like four years old, but I have plans to get back in the gym to lose my baby jowls & double chin):

What do you think?