Short hair isn’t all it’s hyped up to be

Short hair is nice for approximately one to two days after you first had it cut.

You love it. You can’t stop taking selfies. You feel like Lucy Hale in that one Instagram picture you see everywhere.

Then it becomes a complete nightmare.

You regret every decision you’ve ever made. You spend three hours looking at your old hair and kicking yourself for chopping off those gorgeous, luscious locks.

The good old days

Having a bad hair day? Just stick it in a ponytail – oh wait no you can’t because half of it falls out, or you end up with two centimetres of hair sticking out the back of your head. Not the greatest look. 

That cute dishevelled look at Jennifer Lawrence rocks? Yeah, you now know that that takes over half an hour, a hell of a lot of practice, a good curling iron, three tubs of texturising mousse AND spray, and even then it literally only lasts about two hours. 

The curls don’t even last that long

There’s the one odd golden day when your hair actually cooperates and you feel like a girl boss and you could probably do anything in the world that day. Those honestly only come once every three weeks – the rest of the time? You’re on your own and the struggle is real. 

Growing your hair out is the worst. Don’t get me wrong, short bobs, or lobs or whatever their called nowadays, are cute as hell. You’re not wrong. They’re just such a fucking nightmare to maintain – especially when they start to grow out, (which starts much sooner than is reasonable for how much cutting your hair actually cost). 

The point of no return.

Your hair starts to inch its way down until it reaches this weird half and half/limbo stage when you can’t do anything fancy to it but you can’t really get away with just putting some wax in it and scrunching it a bit, because it’s just that one inch too long and now it just looks greasy and unbrushed.

Short hair is not low maintenance. That is a huge fat lie. if you go for the ‘lob’ or whatever the fuck it’s called, be prepared to invest in a lot of product, and a lot of fucking patience.

(Neither of which I personally actually own.)

Me @ my hair when it won’t cooperate

Overslept and gotta run to your seminar? With short hair you don’t have the luxury of a pony tail. Seriously, you don’t truly appreciate just how wonderful a ponytail is until your hair is too short for one. If you’re running late the best you can do is a half up half down and hope for the best to be honest.

Yet we all know that despite cutting your hair short, hating it, growing it out again, you’re just going to go ahead cut it again, because you think “Oh it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was!!”, and then the whole process restarts.