get a mohawk

My grandmother has been perusing my various forms of internet presence since she recently bought her own laptop (and I’m so proud she’s delved into this new world of technology), and she’s been e-mailing me her input on my various entries in blog and other forms.

So when she came to this particular Thing on my list, she e-mailed me to tell me about another time when I had a mohawk.

I was about 3, she believes. My grandfather had agreed to take me to get my hair cut since it was around Thanksgiving and things were pretty busy in the house. So we walked down the street to the barber’s.

As my grandfather passed away when I was 6 and I can’t remember the day in question, no one knows what happened between the time we left and the time we got back, but my grandmother does remember nearly having a heart attack when we BOTH walked in the house with mohawks.

I was permitted to keep it for one day, and then I was taken back to the barber shop to get my head shaved. My grandfather got his shaved too, but he wasn’t any happier about it.

I like this story a lot, because I don’t have a lot of memories of the old man. The only thing I’m ever told about him is that he was an intolerable drunk, but I know I loved him. So now, I have a new reason to get a mohawk, and it’s going to be so much more fulfilling now.

(There’s a picture somewhere, she says, of both of us. Once it’s found and scanned, I’ll post it up!)

i did it myself last night. i don’t have it for such reasons as a trend. i grew to love my hair this way. i get the best of both lengths :)

I’m headed back to the old US of A, and I think it’d be the perfect time to have a mohawk. There are a couple of catches, though:

I have to cut it myself. I’m in the military, and there’s no way I can get out of Okinawa without someone locking me on for having it.

And, I have extremely wavy hair. If it were any worse, it would be curly. Any suggestions on how to straighten things out? (Not even ceramic or chemical straighteners have worked on my hair)

Ahh, but I’m so excited! If it doesn’t work out I’m just going to buzz it down and try again a few months later. We’ll keep working til we find one that’s good!

i love my mohawk :3
gett one totally <333

Like it? I do!

Summer only, because you cannot fit a hat over it

Okay, I guess I cheated cause it wasn’t a real mohawk, it was a fauxhawk. I just bought a really strong gel (basically hair glue) and did it (Manipulator by BedHead by TIGI). I put the gel on my hands on leaned over so my hair was straight down, and i just gelled it like that and pressed it all together, then blow-dried it on cool. Then it stayed. Woo!

<3333 it.

Its little, but its all I have to work with! I’m going to get some glue tomorrow, to help hold the back up as my gel wasn’t working as I’d like it to.

Once it’s done it’s suddenly no big deal!