This is the story of a girl.
She had been blessed with a thick head of full, thick dirty blond hair, but cursed with a lackluster metabolism.
She had a hard time controlling her somewhat unruly locks. They were kind of wavy, kind of straight, and all kinds of crazy. So she cut them all off and hoped she looked like Gwyneth Paltrow.
Celebrity look-alike or not, she grew tired of the short hair and started to grow it out. Which was awkward. She was eager to have long hair again but it seemed to be growing at a snail’s pace. She sported this mushroom cut for the better part of a year while the hair grew.
(Can we just take a moment and gawk at how skinny I was?! It was a fleeting phase, one made possible by a near-encounter with anorexia, but STILL. If my hair hadn’t had been so hideous I could have been Canada’s Next Top Model, dontcha think? That sound of laughter I hear? It hurts.)
Finally her hair grew and she kept it like this for a few good years:
However, she grew bored with this cut and style. She made a terrible, terrible mistake.
(Let’s just take pause and have a moment of silence for the tragedy that this cut and colour was. Really. I mean it.)
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Realizing the err of her ways, she tried to regain her blonde hair. This did not work and her hair literally burned off. She had to wear a permanent side-part for a year while the charred ends grew out.
(Smiling through the pain.)
The obvious theme in this hairy saga is that the girl is never satisfied with her hair. She gets bored of a style though nothing is really wrong with it, then realizes that, as Joni Mitchell would say, “don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone”.
Which brings us to today. This is what the girl is sporting as of late:
Besides her obvious need of having her roots touched up, what do you say? Should she go for a new look or just enjoy what she’s got?
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Oh Enjoy what she’s got. Most definitely.
This picture entices me to think thoughts like:
Hallelujah!
Must be the beautiful rainbow in the backgroud.
I’m never 100% satisfied with my hair either. You always look fabu (minus the ‘melon’ days, perhaps). The beauty of it is, it always grows back so if you want to try something and it doesn’t quite work, you always get another chance. :)
Your hair grows so super fast, and it’s so nice and thick. I would try different things if my hair actually grew fast like yours.
go for it…I think you looked stupendous in your “Gwyneth” days… I lopped off all my hair back in March. It clearly needs a lift, but I just can’t bear to touch it again… Too traumatized. :)
De-lurking to say that if I had your color, thickness, and shine, I’d totally keep it on. My head, I mean. I think your hair is fabulous (this is coming from someone with thick, curly, recently cut-short hair), and my ass-vice is to keep it as such. It’s beautiful.
I think that you looked gorgeous in all those pictures. I have no advice because I desperatealy need hair advice, myself.
Oh, you’re so funny! I swear I enjoy coming here and reading your posts every day, without fail.
“That sound of laughter I hear? It hurts.” — laughed OUT loud to this sentence (not the picture). Mike came in and read it over my shoulder and laughed too. You may not appreciate this but my husband DOES NOT READ (anything).
Also, I love your current hair, but you looked pretty dang cute with it super short, too (all Gwyenth like).
I’m sorry Amanda, but you are pretty no matter what hairstyle you have, no matter how much you hated it. Well, except for the darker colored one…didn’t like that much.
Makes me want to dig out old photos to have a good laugh!
You were born to be a writer, I swear! You rock.
You should totally get another mushroom cut ;)
(snicker,snicker)
It looks really pretty long, how it is now ~ just don’t dye it again ~ you were meant to be blonde!
I like it long, the colour is good, but maybe just a shade closer to your natural and just livin’ it up again :) Lookin good though ;)
I like it…but I think you have enough attitude and guts to do something a bit less “tame”…i.e. go really really blonde…or red…just don’t blame me if it looks horrid.
p.s. i cut my hair, and don’t know if i like it…so maybe you shouldn’t listen to me…
I think your hair is gorgeous and you really did the short hair thing well. Maybe keep the length but just have it layered/shaped a bit more? Would layered side swept bangs work for you? I can’t do them on account of the super curly hair but it looks like you tend to style it straight anyway so maybe that’s not an issue for you. I’m sure you’ll be beautiful no matter what you decide.
I love your hair now, but looking at the other pictures it seems you can get away with many different styles! (Maybe not the mushroom cut though!) I love the picture of you “smiling through the pain”!!!
Your hair is gorgeous long. There is nothing better than nice shiny, thick long hair. There is so much you can do with it.
You don’t look bad with any of the do’s in the photos above, although I think you look best with your natural blond.
I personally really liked the style in the picture with you looking up at the camera. It said happy, carefree and boisterous. Like you ;)
But I like it long and straight too.
I point no fingers about bad hair history…man I can match you year for year on some crazy do’s and colors. I love your current look, really elegant. Definitely touch up the roots, I really like you blond blond. Very sassy.
Keep the hair! I’ve done all the different colors/styles as well. Now at 38 my hair is so thin, and blah, and limp, that I can’t do anything with it. I would love long, straight, thick hair. Sigh… keep the hair!
Perfectly timed post! I’ve been toying with the idea of chopping my hair, but you just reminded me why I probably shouldn’t! The regrowth! The awkward phase!
Your hair is fabulous, keep it medium-long and blonde. That’s just my dos pesos…
what a GREAT post.
i love looking at the hair evolution :)
it looks great now! i love it long!
You know you’re hot regardless of the style :)
jim morrison said that his biggest mistakes in life were haircuts. smart man. smart dead man.
anyhoo … if you want a slight change, add some long layers for that “i’d like to get to know you better” look. Tossled. Hot. Fun. Easy. Breezy. Covergirl. Or something like that. And then you can get more of your natural wave going on if you like and still keep the length. tossled long hair is oh so sexy!
I totally coveted the Gweneth cut back in the day, too! But I didn’t have a good picture to show the woman at Great Clips, so I ended up with an awful awful cut that I had no idea how to style. It was a bad year, for sure.
I agree, try layers (great for scrunching if you’ve got wavy hair like mine and you’ve got thickness so layers will cut down the fro)…. what about bangs? Not short ones, longer so you can sweep to side… if they end up bothering you, you can pin em back, they don’t take long to grow out. Why don’t you go for a strawberry blond colour? red and blond, best of both worlds, would be great with your complexion. I must say though, I loved you in high school with short hair. You have the best bone structure (nice cheek bones) for it :) But please don’t dye dark again, you looked a little oriental in that pic! One last idea… highlights? let natural colour grow in and add hi and low lights… I know my natural colour of brown is mega dull so the hi/low lights warm it up. Umm, ya I’m done now, sorry for rambling!
I say she should enjoy what she’s got, because what she’s got is all thick and gorgeous and not at all FRIZZY AND CHOPPY LIKE THE BITTER PERSON WHO IS WRITING THIS AND WANTS HER $100 BACK.
Ahhhhhh.
I liked your Gweneth look, but I laughed to see it must have been from a few years ago – I got mine cut like that about 2 1/2 years ago and somehow thought I was very cutting edge! I actually liked it, and am thinking of getting it done again – people and 50/50 on it, but with a new baby, I’m hating my current hair. Only now, rather than call it the Gweneth, I think I’ll call it the Posh to be up to date!
But yeah, you’re beautiful no matter what!
I love the length and color; if you want to change it up a bit, throw a few layers in there. Your hair is totally gorgeous, Amanda!
Hair cuts are the only change I can handle!
My son told me I needed a “mom cut,” so I stupidly listened him and got some kind of weird choppy bob in April. I’m still sobbing. Keep what you have.
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