Before the summer where I was going into my tenth grade, I never wanted to cut my hair. I never even wanted to get it trimmed because that meant about an inch of my hair had to go. The length of my hair was something I rather adored back then. When it was not straightened it did not really look that long because of my big and crazy natural curls. I would tiredly work on my hair in the bathroom for over two hours to to straighten every curl just so my length would increase. That love for long hair did not last very long because the summer before I went into tenth grade I got a pixie cut. Two years later and now I am trying, for about the third time, to grow my hair out.

It does sound a little ridiculous that I never wanted to even trim my hair because I did not want the length to decrease. I did not even want it to decrease by an inch. An inch seemed like a foot to me when it came to cutting my hair. I eventually caved into cutting my hair and I cut it up to my chest. It was nice for a while, but then I wanted to cut it up to my shoulders. My shoulder length hair was nice the first day because it was all dolled up from when the hairdresser styled it. After that it was a nightmare. My hair has always been extremely, thick, coarse, and curly, which is why it would take so long to straighten. The worst part about my shoulder length hair were my bangs. My bangs sloped down into my hair and it was awful trying to put my hair in a ponytail. I hated how my bangs would never go back into the ponytail and it bothered me very much. Wanting to get a pixie cut was not something I thought about for a while, it was a random thought that popped into my mind one summer day. I do not even know where the thought ever came from, but I remember one summer day I went up to my mother and told her I wanted to cut all my hair off.

Before that summer I would have never in a million years have wanted to cut my hair so short. So I not only shocked my mother when I asked her if I could get a pixie cut, but I shocked myself too. I have had a pixie for over two years now. Having my hair so short is quite nice because of how easy it is to do deal with. There is not a lot of work involved when I have to do my hair and that is amazing. There have been times though were I have missed my hair being longer. I have attempted twice to try and grow my hair out and those two attempts ended up with me getting my hair cut even shorter than I got it cut the time before. I have been growing my hair out since the summer. To anybody who looks at my hair they will most likely think that it looks exactly the same as it did before school ended. I am mainly the only one who knows it is a lot longer than it was at the end of last school year. Unlike the last two attempts where I tried growing my hair out and did not succeed, I am very determined this time.to grow out my hair.

I am quite happy with how much my hair has grown since the beginning of summer. Normally I shave the sides down and now my sides just about reach my ear lobes. My bangs to the right of my face also just about reach my ear lobe. I know that it will take me a long while to grow my hair out. It will take me about a year to grow it out to a long bob hairstyle. After I grow it out I plan to get an undercut because of how thick my hair is. A high undercut would get rid of the bottom half of my hair which would help greatly when doing my hair. Plus I think having an undercut would be pretty cool.