gone from long to short in one sitting
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Topic: gone from long to short in one sitting
Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Subject: gone from long to short in one sitting
Date Posted: Aug 6, 2005 at 2:00pm
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Has anybody gone from long to short in one sitting? I am thinking about it. I know once I cut it short it is all gone. Has anybody donated their hair to the Lock of Love? I am still in the deciding on cutting it short but how short. My hair is close to my butt.I feel I need a change in my life. I am starting with my hair.
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Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Date Posted: Aug 6, 2005 at 2:00pm
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Has anybody gone from long to short in one sitting? I am thinking about it. I know once I cut it short it is all gone. Has anybody donated their hair to the Lock of Love? I am still in the deciding on cutting it short but how short. My hair is close to my butt.I feel I need a change in my life. I am starting with my hair.
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2005 at 2:58pm
Don't cut your hair because somebody else is urging you to do so - even
if the reason seems to be "for a 'good' cause." Wear your hair as
you like it.
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I feel I need a change in my life. I am starting with my hair.
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What are you unhappy about? Cutting your hair is super simple to
do -- it's no challenge -- but what will it do for you besides making
it shorter? Changing other things which *make* you unhappy
(perhaps your job, or boyfriend, or physical condition) will probably
have a much more powerful impact on your state of mind.
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Posted By: Rosalie
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2005 at 3:52pm
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Why did you have to post two topics?
Don't cut your hair just because you need a change in your life. Too
many girls with hair your length cut it just for the sake of it. If you
really want to try something different, and feel the thrill aswell as
ending up with a finished product you KNOW you'll like, then do it. It
seems you have no idea what you want, you just feel the need to make
"Changes".
Keep your hair, it's not something that needs to change. Very few
people have hair like yours, you'll only look more common if you cut it.
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Posted By: loquacious
Date Posted: Aug 7, 2005 at 5:44pm
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I've done the long to short thing just two times - once from waist length to a shorter layered bob, once from BSL to lip length. Oh my word, the regret I felt only as it had just become to late to change anything. Both were following traumatic events, i.e. the first was after my father's death, the second after breaking up with my s/o.
Please take it from someone who has spent many, many years doing the 'cut it short' thing everytime a major life event occurs -- you will do yourself NO favors. Cut it because you're ready for a change, you no longer enjoy caring for it, it's too hard for you to maintain - but not just to make a change. You don't seem very convinced to cut it, just to make changes - as Dave said, it's very simple. However you could lose 10 plus inches of hair easily, but it won't have any effect on the other elements of your life that still need work.
Also, do a search through the forums about Locks of Love.. They are not the greatest company on earth, that's for sure. loquacious38571.741724537
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Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Date Posted: Aug 8, 2005 at 6:14am
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I decided I will go gradulately go short. I talk to a friend of my mom's who is a hair dresser for a long time. I haven't talk to her in a very long time . She call my mom and my mom told her I wanted to cut my butt length hair and how I was nervous. She ask her If she have any suggestion.She suggested that I cut it a least a half of and inch to a inch at first. So I am going to cut atleast a half of an inch off.
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Posted By: Hal
Date Posted: Aug 8, 2005 at 7:44am
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If you want to cut it cut it. Many women cut or dramaticly change their hair as a starting point for change in their lives. Some are glad they did it some are not. If you want to cut all at once, do it. If not.. do a little at a time. What ever makes you happy!!!!!!!
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Posted By: Viktoria
Date Posted: Aug 8, 2005 at 12:56pm
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I went from BSLish to supershort twice in my life. Didn % C`e adu a - , `b 4(` /.%% -$ ,%$! 8bp ,(
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Posted By: ACCOLADY
Date Posted: Aug 9, 2005 at 10:53am
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She posted two differing topics. One to gather the opinions of anyone who had gone through such a dramatic cut, and one expressing her nervousness. Consider the fact that different people responded to the different posts as well.
Similar posts are not a bad thing unless they are contaminating instead of contributing to the boards. 
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Posted By: ACCOLADY
Date Posted: Aug 9, 2005 at 10:58am
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Ragdoll,
When I was younger, I strolled into a salon with hair I could sit on, and had it cut short, thinking I wanted something new, different.
Now while your experience may be different, mine was spent crying. I even woke the next morning feeling my hair to make sure it was just a bad dream, but nope. I was then chained to daily styling. It took me forever to get ready, my 'feathers' were never right, I had more bad hair days than I can remember, but the deed was done.
Just my experience. I wish you well no matter what you decide.
My advice, however, would be to try new styles, new hair accessories, etc. before a cut. If you decide by gosh and by golly to cut, try cutting just a bit rather than a dramatic cut, then go from there.
Karen Marie
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Posted By: Tyranna
Date Posted: Aug 9, 2005 at 2:57pm
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Seeing mutliple posts on your topic suggests that you are serious, yet apprehesive about doing the big cut.
Do you have a specific short hair style you really want or are you just doing this for change with no thought to a style? Have you tried different short styles out digitally - via a computer program or salon aid to see what suits you the best? Try a short wig out and see if you like it?
Are you prepared for a lot more upkeep? Shorter styles do require more styling and more frequent trims than longer ones.
Am not dissuading you, but consider all of these before you do the big cut. |
Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:11am
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after taking everybody suggestion in consideration I decide to cut my hair. The only question that that kept coming up from everybody is do I no longer enjoy caring for it.I went to the hairdresser yesterday and made the cut.The answer to the question was i no longer enjoy caring for it. I had made a dramatic cut. My hair was butt length and now it is a chin length curly bob. I know that if i let it grow long it will take a long time to grow it back to wheree I had it. I have no regrets in cutting it short. I know I will have to do more upkeep on it now but it will be the same amount of upkeep on because my hair is so thick that I have to go to the hairdresser every 6 weeks anyways.
Thank you for all the suggestions I really appriecation them.
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Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 8:41am
Well, I suppose. It sounds a little unreal that you think your long hair required as much upkeep as short hair will. For me it's hard to imagine what you could have been doing that took so much of your time, because my long hair takes hardly any upkeep at all.
And when you were going to the salon every six weeks, what did you have done to your long hair, just curious... |
Posted By: Hal
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 9:11am
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geezzzzzzz guys some the girl some love.. she wanted to change her hair so she did. Whats wrong with that?
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Posted By: goddess_mels
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 12:51pm
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I'm glad you're happy with your new style. There are all different phases in our lives. Some of these phases involve changing our appearance in some way in order to feel different inside. That's okay. I've gone through that before. I'm 38 years old and I'll probably go through it again! It is all correct and good...there's a time for everything. You now have super-healthy hair, so if you do eventually decide you'd like it long again, it will have a great starting point. Hope you enjoy your new style! !,!
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Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 3:15pm
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 6:29pm
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Merely six hours later, you post that you just had it trimmed.
So, which is it? A chop or a trim?
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Posted By: Renee
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:10pm
yeah first you said, its a chin length bob. now you say you just had it trimmed. im a little confused here
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Posted By: Debbie
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:19pm
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She was answering EKatherine post! When she said she had a trim she had answered EKatherines post on what she had done when she went every 6 weeks. Re read it again, please. Dave am I missing something here? % ic adp` - ,(b` $( b !( ,,,--% -,--,Bb '$
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Posted By: ACCOLADY
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:22pm
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Hello all,
Debbie, I read it the same way, that she was answering eKatherine's post, though with the rash of trolls and but ten posts from ragdoll, I understand how the confusion came into play.
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Posted By: Debbie
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:27pm
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Thank you Accolady! At first I thought I was losing my mind! No you never know about trolls, but I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt? (Hmmmm! LOL!). Debbie % ic adp` - ,(b` $( b !( ,,,--% -,--,Bb '$
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:29pm
Ah, perhaps you are correct, Debbie. I may have misread her response.
Spelling, verb tense, and punctuation matter!
Ragdoll wrote: "
i just had it trim"
In the context of having described hours earlier having a lot cut, her
verbatim comment seems inconsistent with "I just had it trim."
There's a large difference between "I just had it trimmed" and "I just have it trimmed" and given the difference in verb tense it's no wonder I was confused.
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Posted By: Debbie
Date Posted: Aug 10, 2005 at 7:38pm
Ya know what they say about the American English Language? It is complicated! (That is what I have heard all of my life anyways!). Oh well another happy ending!  Have a nice day ya'll! Evening I mean! % ic adp` - ,(b` $( b !( ,,,--% -,--,Bb '$
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Posted By: goddess_mels
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 12:55am
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This poor girl. We can't all be Shakespeares. (Actually, Shakespeare's grammar wasn't all that great. It was his vocab that was kick-A.)
I have heard the same thing about American English: It's one of the hardest languages to master (among languages that contain similar letter characters...this leaves out most of the Asian languages). Personally, I love English because it's quirky, unpredictable, difficult, and beautiful. The main reason English (English English, LOL) seems so "mismatched" is that, frankly, it is. Teutonic/Germanic, Latin and ancient Celtic have precious little in common. It's actually pretty amazing that it developed as a language at all.
Okay. Hijack over. :) This poor girl. All she wanted was advice on her hair...
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Posted By: goddess_mels
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 12:56am
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No, Dave. That still makes sense. She's using the past tense because she's describing what she used to do. Now, with short hair, it will probably be different.
By the way...HOLY COW on your photo. Wooooooooooooooow. Holy guacamole. You take such excellent care of your hair. You should be very proud. !,!
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Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 7:26am
Definitely sounds like a non-native speaker.
It seems that the time to say "no regrets" will probably come sometime in the future. Do you have before and after pictures? |
Posted By: ragdollragdoll
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 10:07am
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I was answering a question somebody ask me. What i did when I had long hair. It was upkeep on when I had long hair.
My hair is now chin length . ragdollragdoll38575.4233912037
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Posted By: Bob S
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 4:59pm
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So, the deed is done. I could sense your urgency! As short styles go, I
think well-cut bobs look very nice on many women. My own wife looked
good with a bob as she was growing out her pixie, but after one
maintenance cut, she decided to keep growing b/c it took too her too much time to style it. Good luck, Bob
Bob S38575.708587963
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Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 7:03pm
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Ragdoll is posting from within the United States. So, there are
two possibilities, as I see it: (1) eKath is correct, or (2) ragdoll's
native language is English, but her command of the language isn't quite
top notch. Either way, Ragdoll's comment wasn't phrased in a way to prevent
confusion.
And Mels, her words were "I just have it trim" As it is, it doesn't quite make sense. Possibilities:
"I just have it trimmed"
"I just have a trim"
"I just had a trim"
"I just had it trimmed"
Have or had, trim or trimmed... we were all left to guess what she
really meant. No matter, we all clearly understand now what she
did.
Okay, end of my nit-picky language dissection. 
P.S. Thank you muchly for the compliment, Mels!
DaveDecker38575.7949537037
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Posted By: Debbie
Date Posted: Aug 11, 2005 at 7:20pm
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I know that sometimes I donot pronounce my words correctly and I KNOW that I make many mistakes on here! Also in diferent parts of the USA we speak diferently also. (We won't get into that though!). Dave are you a teacher by any chance? LOL! If so, I will try and make sure there are no errors in my grammer! LOL! But my spelling---I cannot do anything about that - I still blame it on these bifocals! AHHH!!! Another happy ending on here! % ic adp` - ,(b` $( b !( ,,,--% -,--,Bb '$
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