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| New fringe (good name for a band?) |
So, I've updated my hair.
This being my first post, I thought it would be a good time to document my new fringe (!!!)
Let me tell you about my hair.
Between the ages of about seven and sixteen, my hair was long. Not touch-your-bum long, but half way down my back, and to my bra strap, when I finally started wearing bras. It was brown, well, brownish and fairly straight. I used to say that I had dark blonde straight hair, when in fact I had mousy brown hair (as a child I was white-blonde, and losing my blonde must have been pretty traumatic) that had a kink in it. It wasn't wavy, nor was it straight. At the ends, on a good day, it could curl around and sometimes made me feel a bit like Farrah Fawcett, but it's basically just a mane.
When I was sixteen, I cut it all off. To the chin. A proper haircut, by a proper hairdresser. All well and good and until I went to university when I was too poor to get it cut, it was a variety of short hairstyles, sometimes cut at the advanced academy at Vidal Sassoon, where they did some strange, some wonderful things to it. I also did a home bleaching job on it, but rather than Gwen-Stefani peroxide it was more... yellow.
Then it grew, then I cut it again, and then, recently, it's been growing.
So now, it's boob-length. It's brown and on a good day it curls around and sometimes makes me feel a bit like Farrah Fawcett. Then this last year, I did a self-ombre after looking at various tutorials on blogs and youtube. It was great. Then, for Chrismtas, I dyed the ombre blue, which has now faded to green. It's darker, I feel more gothy, it's pretty win-win.
And just now, about twenty minutes ago, I cut my own fringe.
It looks good! I had put off cutting my hair for so long - do I need new specs, new clothes, whole new body? Nah, just new hair. My parting is a sidey which sometimes tries to go straight, so I just found my normal slightly-more-to-the-centre-than-I-would-like parting (as no matter how hard I try, the deep side just doesn't stay throughout the day for me)and then, snip snip!
Here are my pro (I'm not a pro, just a self-hairdresser and can't accept any responsibility once the scissors are in your own fair hands!) tips for cutting your own fringe.
- Find your natural parting and cut from there, it'll make it easier when you can't quite be arsed to style your hair in the morning.
- Always cut off less than you think you need to, it's obvious, but you can't glue it back on once you've chopped it off. You can always trim more.
- Unless you have the steady hands of a surgeon it's going to be hard to make it exactly straight so either a) do as I did and cut it at a slant so it's harder to tell where the cuts are or b) do as I do as well and cut vertically upwards into the hair to feather out the line. this obviously means you have one type of fringe, and if I was brave enough I'd sport a super short Betty Page or monster fringe... but I'm either too twee or too wimpy to pull it off. (Let's say too twee, okay?)
- It's just hair. It'll grow back.
