get my hair cut regularly

I’m going to get a haircut once per season. I definitely don’t see the need for more than four haircuts a year, and I think it’s a good idea to look good during each season! Plus, it’s an easy reminder for when to get a haircut. Since my last entry I haven’t had a haircut, but my plan is to get one sometime between the beginning of October and before Thanksgiving so I can get it out of the way before the holidays. So that will be my Fall haircut, then I’ll see when it’s time to get it cut again in the Winter. I won’t be strict about when in each season I should get it done, I just need to do it sometime during each season. If I happen to get a lot cut off as I’m known to do on occasion, and I’m not ready for a haircut at all during the next season, this will be acceptable. It might just mean getting it done sooner rather than later in the next season.

Ugh, the anxiety and thought that goes into a haircut! I figured it was time to get off my butt and go get a haircut. Summer is a good time to get a haircut and I have some upcoming plans I want to look good for, so why not? Well, my hair didn’t look so bad. It’s been about 5 months since my last cut, but didn’t look overgrown and still had some shape. Still, I wanted it shaplier, plus I’m trying to grow out/cut off some darker permanent dye job, so it was time. It could have easily been the time to do it maybe a month or so ago, but making the appointment and going after work to get it done is an actual effort for me. I feel like I have so little time, and I’ve been so tired lately. I would rather go straight home. Well, yesterday I went shopping after work and felt better for having done so, so I was on a roll.
My hair looks great. I went to the usual place. I can basically go whenever I want. They take walk-ins, but I’ve been making appointments so they can take me right after work so I can get it done. They always ask who I want. I always say it doesn’t matter, just whoever is available. This time I got A. He’s the best one there. I’m always happy to get him. So why don’t I request him? I thought over my haircut anxiety as he cut my hair, and this is why: I always hear women talking about their relationships with their haircutters/hairstylists. They say things like they have to make appointments every so often, or they make complaints about how they want to grow their hair out or cut it shorter and they stylist becomes upset, disagrees or doesn’t want to do it. Or they get in trouble for dying their hair or going elsewhere in between visits. Well, I don’t want any of that. I know my goal is to go regularly, but I don’t think any more than what I have been doing needs to be defined as regular. I don’t get the same amount cut off every time, I don’t have the same budget every month as different things come up, sometimes I’m too busy, tired or lazy to make the effort, and that’s okay, or any other assortment of reasons could come up. I have been going about every 4-6 months, and I think I’ve gone a couple times with only 3 months having gone by. I don’t let it go any longer than about 6 months, because by then it’s just time! So I’m feeling like I’m doing just fine with this, I just need to keep after myself as I’ve been doing to make it happen. I just want to make sure I’m doing the little things like this that make me more presentable and feel better about myself. Like yesterday when I was shopping, I decided that was the last day I would wear the shirt I was wearing. I’ve had it at least 10 years. I like the cut and it’s actually held up well, but it has a couple bleach stains, one which my hair covered in the back, but not for long since I put my hair up in a bun, and the other on the chest area which I convinced myself wasn’t noticable but actually was as I examined it in the dressing room mirror.
So, I think next time I schedule a haircut, I’ll ask for A. He does do the best job, and doesn’t strike me as the nagging hairstylist type I hear women complain about.

So 4 months have gone by and no haircut yet. It’s still not very long so I haven’t done it yet.

I was going every 4-5 months. It’s not enough and I know it. It feels like a huge chore for me to do it, but I’m always glad after having done it. I’m not sure yet how often regularly will be, but I’m guessing every 2-3 months.

i used to be a personal care junkie. manicures weekly, pedi’s monthly or whenever i felt like it. hair cut every 6 weeks with some color in there now and again.THEN, i had a baby. in the last 12 months i have had my hair cut twice. once in jan 06 and the other sept 06. it is awful that i put it off. it’s not urgent but something i need. i just dont go and i need to start the maintenence a bit more.

i think regular is going to end up being once a year, or less, maybe, given that i’m growing it out. and by growing it out, i mean wayyyy out, like, actually, maybe i’ll never get it cut again. maybe i should take this off my list….