New Hair!

My hair has been the bane of my life for a LOOOOOOONNNG time. The last time I got it cut, I was really really unhappy with the result, and so I spent the last 9 months with it tied back waiting for it to grow so I could get a decent style cut into it again.

Yesterday seemed like the right time to break the hair care drought - the Mister was taking me out for dinner and I wanted to look nice, and not have to have my hair scraped back and pinned into place...

It really was bad...

After the last disaster of a cut I got, I was really nervous about getting it cut again.... I developed something bordering on a phobia about going to the hairdressers! The problem is, I am absolute PANTS at explaining what I want - I never explain it right, and as a result I never get quite what I want. Last time I went I asked for layers through the mid lengths to give it more body and I came out with a really terrible cut with one massive thick layer around the middle (you can still see the remnants of it above) and then a kind of floppy curtain of hair below it.

The monster hairdresser who did this also made me feel like a moron because everytime I tried to explain that I wanted more texture cutting in, she gave me "a look" and also made sarcastic comments - "Texture is your favourite word isn't it!", and so eventually I gave up, accepted the monstrosity on my head, and went home and cried about how awful it looked. Then resigned myself to it being tied back for months.

So suffice it to say I was on the verge of a panic attack before I arrived at the hairdressers...

Armed with a picture of a haircut I liked and help from lots of lovely people on Twitter, I managed to get the haircut I wanted!

Dunno why I look so moody in this picture - I was trying to "give good hair" I guess... I was very pleased with it though!

So I got a full fringe cut in, with disconnected chipped in layers... And I am very happy with it.

I went into work today and got lots of compliments - in fact it was suspiciously like they all thought I had terrible hair before this cut....

Can't think why!

I had this cut done at the Toni and Guy salon in Horsemarket street in Warrington, and the lady who cut it was named Nicola, a senior stylist. I also bought a product (restructuring dust) to use at home, and it all came to £57. The moral of the story? Don't go to cut price salons, unless you have been before and they know what you want, do your research before hand,and take a picture.