Haircut!!

So as you may or may not have been aware, I was trying to grow out my hair. I figured, this would be it - I would stick with it this time, actually manage to get past the incredibly awkward middle stage, and see if I liked having long hair slash could deal with the time suck that is doing my hair when it is long, and if not, that would be it - I would cut it off and never try again because I would know I couldn't deal with it.

That.. didn't exactly work out. I was just feeling really gross and unkept looking all the time, and since I'm going to be trying to get a real life job soon, I didn't really want to go around with a haircut that just makes me grumpy and like my head is twice as big as it actually is. So I read some reviews on the web and Friday afternoon I headed off to a hairdresser that I hoped would listen to what I wanted. The first shop I went to didn't have any openings (I decided to cut my hair Thursday night, so I didn't really have time to try and make an appointment and decided to just wing it). Luckily, I had picked out three possibilities, and, undaunted, headed off to the next one - who did have space, and could actually take me at noon (it was 11:58). I had several photos on my phone, and was very prepared to argue very clearly for what I wanted, but Jonathan totally got what I wanted right off (the last time I got my hair cut, way back in November, the girl didn't seem to believe me when I said I wanted a sharp, straight divide between the buzzed hair and the long hair on top and kept blending it). Jonathan was great, he let me know what he was doing (he even cut my hair with no.4s first, so as not to 'shock me' with the no.2s I asked for - though said to the girl who once buzzed off all her hair on an impulse, I'm not too likely to get freaked out by some hair coming off). Anyways, long story short, LOVE my haircut, it was a great experience, and he suggested the triangle shape on the back, where I usually get it blended just in the shape of the crown, which looks awesome.

I also loved the way he styled it, though I will probably not be doing that very often (there was a lot of blowdrying, combing, straightening, and product involved to get it up like that) - altogether, I was in there for and hour and forty minutes, and not a lot of those involved actual hair-cutting. The other hairdressers also really liked the cut, and kept commenting on it, and afterwards they had me pose for pictures, so that was cool :)

From the salons instagram:

In other news, the city (?) has been planting daffodils EVERYWHERE in the meadows, and I just keep taking pictures of them - they're so yellow!!

Jealous, Canada?

Yeah you are.