Life Is Changing and I've got the Itch.

For me, with change in my life, comes change with my hair. I'm not sure if it is a coping mechanism or a form of self expression, but I'm very much a person who expresses what I'm feeling emotionally through my hair. Looking back at pictures of myself over the years, this can be seen greatly. From the time in high school where I was feeling rebellious, went to a cheap salon and had the beautician cut off all of my hair, to the beginning of my freshman year of college when the freedom I felt at being away from home sent me into a hair dying frenzy. I went from jet black to auburn (or as my dad called it when I came home one weekend and shocked my parents, "big red") then blonde, and finally, superman blue-black -- which resulted in a weird shade of green that I wholly embraced!

The change came again when I left university for technical college, and decided to go natural. Then again when I was going through some heavy emotional things and chopped off my hair on my own (horrible experience.) The pattern here is that when I'm feeling a change in myself or environment, I do something drastic to my hair.

So lately I've gotten the itch again and I want to preform a random act of expression on my hair. I think this has to do with my oldest daughter starting school. Maybe it's the difference I feel around the house with her not being here during the day that has me wanting to take a pair of clippers to the side of my head, I'm not completely sure. Nevertheless, I do want to give myself a funky, new style. Namely, I want to have Hubby fade a section of my hair on the left side of my head. Though I've experimented with my hair, I've never gone the asymmetrical route, but I'm thinking I might.

Life is changing and I think my hair will change with it...

(example of how I want my side to look)