What happened when I impulsively cut my own hair

Or How you sometimes just have to trust yourself.

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I've been having really bad emotional PMS lately -- like, total-basket-case-crying-for-a-whole-day bad. 

Exactly how you want to spend your weekend, am I right? ;)

So yeah, this Saturday was one of those days. And one thing that I kept thinking about was how much I hate the bottom half of my hair now -- the twice home bleached, by now really damaged part.

The problem is that I had a trim (to freshen up the long hair I've been growing out for over a year) just last month, so with the extra expenses that trickled in this month I just didn't want to go back and spend more (and also invalidate the trim I spent my hard-earned money on).
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So by 7 pm I just said fuck it and cut it off.

Photo by Morgan Harris

Cutting your own hair isn't really recommended, I know, but I have professional shears that I got back when I had bangs and the bleached part looked so bad I figured it can't look worse, haha.

So I took a long shower to calm down and make sure I still wanted to do it, and after reading a tutorial I clipped my hair up in alligator section clips and went for it.
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It was scary, cause your hair can really make or break your looks (god, don't I know it!). But after I had my boyfriend help me with the back and I did some fine-tuning once it had dried I can honestly say that I love it!  I've had infinitely worse hair cuts by professionals.

Trusting yourself / being brave

My point is not that you should go and impulsively cut off 3 inches of your hair over the bathroom sink (generally I'd recommend not doing that after a day-long emotional breakdown).

No, it's that you should trust yourself.

Because I felt that I would be able to do it, but I had been scared because no one would say it's a good idea (my best friend kinda freaked out until I had reassured her that it actually looks good). But I took the plunge and I got so many compliments at work and my coworkers couldn't believe I had done it myself!

So sometimes you have to just trust your gut, trust yourself, and say fuck it. ;)

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