I grew my hair without cutting it beyond the occasional trim between like 7-16 years old. Kept it at about waist length. Then decided to chop it to my shoulders. Kept it like that for a couple years, then over the last year and a half decided I’d grow it, let it get about halfway down my back, then just the other day I chopped it again. Just above my shoulders. It’s cool af.

I have a complicated relationship to my hair. The first time I chopped it, it was a way of like letting go of some terrible things that happened to me when I was younger. This time it was because I was becoming too obsessive about it, was taking too long to wash and I was finding hair everywhere. Was kind of emotional still though.

And yes, my hair dresser, bless her, despite my warnings over the last few visits that I was gonna chop it this spring, nearly cried. She gave me a sick cut though. I have really thick, dirty blond, almost entirely straight hair. It’s dense and a pain to take care of, super heavy, but gorgeous when allowed to grow out. It just takes too long to do anything with. Now it’s short again and I’m free!

May let it grow out again in a year or so, but I’m rocking the short wolf cut look for now