The Pain of Growing Out a Pixie Cut

I had short hair for about 3 years straight, and by short, I mean it was SUPER short! I loved my pixie. I swore I would forever keep short hair. Then I got married, and my husband begged me to grow it out. Men... they just love that long hair. So I decided to do it. This is my pixie tale in pictures. My process took 2 YEARS!

Let's start with the very first time I had hair shorter than any other woman I ever knew....

I was in love. 

Over the course of several years, I had many variations of this. I loved pretty much every single variation. The boyfriend... now husband, never really liked it lol. But I did. So I kept it. 

Then we got engaged, and I thought how nice it would be to have that long flowing hair for a wedding. Well I started the growing out process... one that takes much longer than I had hoped for. Here is how that went for me....

Those first few months were horrible. You have this horrible hair, it isn't even a style. It is like a mop on your head. You can do nothing with it. I mean literally nothing. Not enough to pin back, not enough to comb over, not enough for anything but ugly.

So, I went crazy and thought just a color and a trim.... that will help.... YEAH NO. It set me back because now I have short hair AGAIN.

Alright, fast forward several long months.... we have progress. Still very short in the back, but I have managed to get this far.... If I can just hold on.... But NO. I can't stand it. So I do this....

I got so much crap for this hair cut.... this wasn't long after Miley Cyrus had a similar cut. Now while I thought this was prettty kick ass.... it REALLY set me back on the growing it out thing, because now I had to let the other side grow back and eventually lop the longer side off to match. Cost me MONTHS.

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But I did like it :)

 

So I get to the point here ^ and this was the LAST cute cut I had for about a year. It just got so ugly. I had to use bobby pins to get it out of my face, I had to continue cutting the back to get rid of the looming "mullet" that was a constant battle.

 Then I finally had something like an inverted bob...

I found this stage a relief. I tried many different ways of fixing it. It was still way too short for a pony tail, but pinning it up was possible (somewhat) and I discovered waves were cute...

Fast forward another 5 months and I finally got a pretty cute style.... but NO pony tail yet.

The first time I was able to get a bun was 2 years after the official "I'm growing my hair out" statement. I was so excited. Now mind you, it is still stacked shorter in the back, so I had bobby pins holding up the stuff in the back. 

So here is where I am at right now... and I am still not there yet. But it really is just a process you have to endure. Patience obviously is the key. Do not keep lopping it off, it only delays the time it will take you to grow it out! The only way to get here is to suck it up and have hideous hair for a long time LOL. Best wishes <3 

Happy Husband LOL ^

(Update... 3rd year and I still hope for 4 more inches before I consider my hair "long" :) ) Pic Below