On Why I Cut My Hair

Details: Shorts-Urban Outfitters, Shirt-Madewell, Bra-Free People, Shoes (not pictured)-Converse

Let me preface this by saying that the second picture of me is just the worst. But, it's the only good one that my mom got of my whole outfit (even though this post is obvi about my hair). I'm literally about to move from cute smile to talking-my mom has a really special talent of snapping pictures of me the exact moment that I make a weird transition face because I THINK she's already taken the picture. But hey, isn't that what moms are for? (Thanks mom for taking these awkward pictures of me because Jack is on vacation-love ya)

I digress. MY HAIR!! While pretty much everyone and their grandma was swooning over my short locks today at the office, I feel like a lot of people that I know personally want to know "WHY?!". My long hair kinda became a part of my identity throughout high school. After I chopped off all my hair right before freshman year, I vowed to never cut it again. I mean, it was bad. It was at this weird length and kicked out at the end and oh I had these horrid bangs the covered my whole face. Not cute. So, I let it grow and grow until it became a security blanket to me. I would tell myself "well at least my hair looks pretty" whenever I was feeling down about myself. "At least I don't look like the loser I was when I was 15" I would think. But, no more! I find that a lot of people I know are actually lobbing their hair off right now, and I think I know why. I've just finished my freshman year of college; I've survived a lot of self-discovery and I've learned that I don't need a security blanket of hair to make me feel confident about who I am. I'm at a really exciting point in my life where I have my whole life ahead of me and I know that many exciting and potentially difficult changes are ahead of me, but at the same time, I've been through a lot and I have learned A TON about who I am, what I like, what I dislike, how I deal with emotions, and how I can make myself feel confident about who I am no matter the situation or setting that I'm in. So, what better time to make a huge change to a part of me that's defined who I am for the past three years of my life? And I am SO excited about my hair and the exciting year it has ahead of it.

Anyways, here's my favorite song of the moment, Cardiac Arrest by Bad Suns. It's kinda become the Sweater Weather of this summer in that I can't go a day without listening to it (don't get me wrong though-this fact still applies to Sweater Weather)

Karis the Baybonnet