New Year, New Hair

Have had a bit of a radical re-think about the old barnet after I had a minor accident with the clippers a couple of months ago. Having run the clipper over the front top of my head once and even twice, I marvelled at the amount of hair laying in the bath and then with abject horror realised too late that I had forgotten to put the comb on and had more or less shaved my hair right down to the quick :-( What could I do but finish the job and hope that the mickey taking at work didn't get too out of hand until it grew back again. Fortunately several of my male colleagues had on occasion made a similar mistake and so were fairly understanding and the rest either didn't notice or just chose not to comment. Within a week it was back to its normal, albeit short length but that one forgetful moment made me wonder if after 5+ years of shaving my hair it was time to go for something longer. Now that I have made that decision I've been trawling the net looking for some ideas and have gone from the thought of having normal short hair again to something far more challenging, along the lines of the image above.

My hair has, over the years, gone from being long enough to sit on as a child, to being approx. 3mm long and just about every length in between. Being dead straight and quite thin it doesn't hold a curl unless its blasted in by chemical means but its a New Year and hopefully a new hairdo! I appreciate that it's gonna take quite some time to achieve the above on the premise that hair normally only grows about 1/2" a month but I am very determined not to bottle it and reach for the scissors. In fact I've instructed my daughter to confiscate any pair she finds in my hands.

So wish me luck on this journey and here's hoping I like what I see in the mirror when I get there...