This past November I pulled a Britney Spears chopped all my hair off:
I swear I was completely coherent when this was done.
If you know me well, you know I love having my hair long. It's mostly because I can do this to it for running:
All of my PR power comes from the pigtail braids!
I have been wanting to grow my hair back out for summer, but here is the dilemma: I really, really like this new hair cut. It is easy, looks professional for work and is surprisingly versatile. I have even went back to the salon to get a trim twice since the original cut.
Yep, professional. That's me. (I have them all fooled!)
But I don't like how it looks when I'm running! At all! It either hangs down behind my headband and gets all stringy and sweaty, or I pull it back into a nub of a ponytail and it looks like I'm bald. I even tried little nubby pigtails for my last race, but I wasn't sold.
I may be smiling on the outside here, but I am having phantom braid pains on the inside.
So what should I do: grow my hair back out so I can rock the braids again or keep it short so that I actually look decent on a day-to-day basis? ('decent' is a loose term here)
It would be an easy decision if I liked my long hair for everyday wear, but I don't. It's thin and holds no volume or curl. When I would wear it down at work it always ended up feeling stringy and flat halfway through the day and would end up in a ponytail.
What do you think should I do?
Long or short? (Imagine a beer in hand in picture #2 for ease of comparison)
Tell me about you hair issues.
Do you like to style it a certain way for working out?
P.S. as an apology for having to look at so many pictures of my face in today's post, here is a palate cleanser:
I also apologize to any men who may read this blog. I'm not sure how to make this post relevant to you...uhhh...do you do any manscaping for running purposes? Wait, I don't want to know the answer to that!
I dig the braids, but I do like it short too... Such a dilemma, I say let it grow out and you just may discover you really do like it shorter. Me I always cut it off and discover I really do like it longer... the grass is always greener!
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ReplyDeleteKeep the longish short hair and get someone to french braid it--it's long enough for that! My hair is shorter than yours and my daughter can do double french braids on mine.
ReplyDeleteSee? Now all you need is a 13 yo with nimbly fingers.
Your post reminded me of Sarah's race-braid tutorial - maybe you could do something like that for running. I love braids, but it's also really cute shorter.
ReplyDeleteI have the same issue, hate my short hair for figuring what to do when working out!
ReplyDeleteI say keep it short for summer and maybe grow it long in the winter if you really grow tired of it.
Personally, I LOVE it shorter! It's stylist, classy, timeless, and very sophisticated! Cute! (But either way you rock it----so it doesn't matter. :)
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I'm about to chop my hair off too and this is a concern for me. It is often windy here and I do NOT want stringy things in my face. When it's shorter, I usually push it off my face with a plastic headband and it works alright.
ReplyDeleteI'm debating chopping all mine off to a pixie again (but longer on top) and I think just bobby pins would work while running, but I'm not sure so I haven't done it yet since I can still pull all my hair into a ponytail.
ReplyDeleteI love it short. I think you have to get down with using some clips or something for running... but yeah. I love your braids too.
ReplyDeleteBut if I had to choose, I'm going to go with the exact opposite of what Lish says, so we'll see where your loyalty lies...
I think it's super cute shorter. I vote for the new look!
ReplyDeleteOnce while getting my hair cut my stylist said, "Oh yeah you need to keep it long enough to pull up into a ponytail because you are a runner, right" I said yes as she proceeded to cut waaaay too much off. I rocked the pigtails and ended up loving it...give them another try!!
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