"getting your ears lowered"

Remember the Nicktoon Doug? It was a bout the life of a teenager in a sweatervest and his assortment of wildly pigmented friends. His best friend Skeeter just happened to be a wild shade of blue. And "getting your ears lowered" is what Skeeter referred to as a haircut.

Anyways, I finally decided to chop off the wavy locks. There are many good reasons for this... for one, I have not brushed my hair in years and I comb it about once every two months at best. My sister found this so silly that one year for Christmas, she gifted me a 99-cent comb in my stocking.

Another good reason to cut my hair: I have tons of split ends, which happens frequently to curly-haired girls because it's so hard to keep the strands moisturized.

And lastly, I've decided that though having long wavy-curly hair is pretty, it is an easy sort of pretty and does not really fit my wacky style or wackier personality. So following in the footsteps of Milla Jovovich, Halle Berry, and other beautiful women who have gone short, I walked in to my 1 o'clock appointment yesterday at Overland One Salon on Noriega Street.

So here it is... before:

And AFTER!

Rosie was my stylist and she did a fantastic job. She was in love with the curly texture but was willing to cut it off and give me a cut that would look good straight and curly. She also used a blow dryer to dry it straight so I could see how it looked that way (I use a flat iron once in a blue moon to straighten my hair and it just doesn't give any volume.) I love it, and my dear Mumsy isn't a huge fan, so I love it even more!

Today I washed and let it air dry for curls (and oh did my hair dry quickly today!) I liked the curly bob look...

... and I love it more when I muss it up, like so:

Let's hear it for fabulous, low-maintenance hair that looks fun and sassy... ooh, we love adding "sassy" to hair, don't we.

The price of this wash and cut service at Overland One Salon was $40... nowhere near the crazy rates at a hip salon with fancy Aveda products but about four times the price of a cut at your average Chinese-owned salon. However, in my opinion, Overland One Salon is well worth it if you have curly hair. No bargain stylist, no matter how much they love my crazy mess, really knows how to deal with curly hair.

Hey Mumsy, it'll grow back!