There are lots of things about myself that I am very proud that Lucy inherited. She is a true mix of her father and me, and most of the time, she got very lucky. She has my eyes, but her dad’s eyelashes, which is good, because mine are invisible. She has my skin. She has her father’s mischievous nature.
But where she may have been shorted a bit (damn DNA) is in the hair department. See, I have weird hair. I used to love it, but now it’s just a pain in my behind. It’s dirty blond in the winter, lighter in the summer and I have a TON of it. It takes 45 minutes to blow dry it straight out of the shower. It’s wavy enough that I can’t just wear it without styling, but not wavy enough that it looks cute. It just looks like I have two huge lumps on my head. And despite the fact that I have so much of it, it’s very fine and flat. So, basically, it’s sucky.
Lu has my hair. It’s blond, wavy (sometimes curly) and fine. Very fine. And to top it all off, she also inherited my yuck-o habit of twirling her hair when she gets sleepy, which, as a baby, led her to pull half of it out. If we try to put it up in pigtails or a ponytail or something to get it out of her face, she yanks whatever barrette/clip/hairtye right out, taking a bunch of stray hairs with it, thinning it out even more.
Until now, I have refused to cut it. Not for any real reason, but mostly because I don’t want her to get some horrid haircut and be forced to live with it. I have gone back and forth on giving her bangs, and I’m starting to think it’s the way to go, just so it will be out of her face instead of up in clips that she’ll just yank out anyway. But will the mullet-ish style she already has going on look even worse with bangs?! TOO MUCH PRESSURE!
So you decide. Should I cut Lu’s hair? Or should I leave it as it is? Lu’s counting on you!
UPDATE: OK, I can’t find a picture that adequetly shows the mullet, but these are close…
The biggest problem is when we put her hair up, she yanks it out. I think if we cut it so it didn’t have to be up everyday, then maybe she wouldn’t pull on it so much. Or, at the very least, we would stop spending so much money on hair clips and such that we lose every day when she pulls them out at school.
And also, in a random freak accident, I finally figured out how to center things on this wordpress layout. Instead of the common CSS code like “center_align” or “align_center”, it’s just “center”. I spent a year trying to figure that out, and learned it by a typo! OK, done with the dork talk.
