Comments on: “I’m thinking a shaggy pixie cut”

By: Laurie | Your Ill-fitting Overcoat

Laurie | Your Ill-fitting Overcoat — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:49:07 +0000

I know this is a really old post, but this really rang true for me. And the first comment on this post? DEAD ON. I’m a bit infamous for cutting my hair in the bathroom mirror every time I get a bug up my butt (sorry, that’s a southern saying, I think, ha). I had long hair for years and years, too, but I’ve discovered that there’s something so cathartic about just chopping it all off and saying, “This is not part of me. I can live without this.” It’s empowering.

By: Stealthnerd

Stealthnerd — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:50:17 +0000

Before I broke up with my ex, I kept telling him I felt like I needed a change. When he didn’t get that I meant I needed to see a change in how he was treating me, I dumped him. 2 weeks later I got my tragus pierced–I still have my “freedom piercing” but now it’s more just a cool detail.

By: Mermanda

Mermanda — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:29:01 +0000

I am a little behind on my reader, but I think you are such a cutie in that pic. While I’ve never had a haircut that left me questioning “What just happened?” I do sympathize. I think you probably looked adorable before you ever came to terms with the cut, and you look beautiful with your long hair. Just face it. You can’t NOT look good. :)

By: sarah marie p

sarah marie p — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:16:20 +0000

Aw, I think the shaggy pixie was cute on you! I have a sort of similar story … About four and a half years ago, this girl I knew asked if I wanted to come to a salon for a free hair cut – I told her I had just gotten my haircut a week before so I didn’t need one so I asked if I could get hilights for free. She said yes …. but then the hairdresser proceeded to dye the back of my hair brown and the top super light — and then cut my hair even though I told her I didn’t need my hair cut. And she basically gave me a buzz cut in back. I proceeded to cry and cry and cry while driving home but I eventually embraced it and learned to love it. I’m trying to grow out my hair right now but I think one day I’ll get the super short pixie cut again.

By: Awmb

Awmb — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:55:53 +0000

I have never cut my hair due to heartbreak, but I do have a story to share. A bad case of bugs the summer before going into 8th grade did it for everyone involved, and they made me chop off my waist-length luscious red locks to boy short not-so-mushroom top. I couldn’t stand the way I looked. And when I went back to school I was asked quite a few times if I was a boy. But sooner or later, I learned out to deal. And it grew back. Bug free!

You are an amazing person. And sometimes I’m still a little freaked out that we know so much about one another, yet have only met twice.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:54:55 +0000

I love the way you told this story, it was perfect. I actually went through something pretty similar, it’s so amazing to see what you find in yourself just from something that seems so small.

You’re awesome.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:04:58 +0000

Wow! That would have been terrifying, however, it is absolutely adorable in that picture! I always mess with my hair–new cuts colors, etc…but I have never cut it short, short…I’ve always wanted to. I do think that when you are going through transitions in life, changing your appearance can be part of that. Obviously it was time for a change–good for you for doing it, even if it was a bit traumatizing! :) Either way, your hair is super cute.

By: Paula

Paula — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:02:07 +0000

Weirdly I’ve never felt the need to cut all my hair off or make a drastic change to it – no matter what I’m going through, the only thing I ever seem to want to do to it is make it blonder!!! Also, I think the fact I don’t “DO” hairdressers means I’m less likely to do something drastic – unless its an accident at my own hands.

I had shortish hair for most of my childhood and have been pretty much trying to grow my hair ever since. But I seem to have that annoying kind of hair that reaches a certain length and then just stops so its been just below my shoulders at the same length for AGES now!

By: Dutchess of Kickball

Dutchess of Kickball — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:44:40 +0000

I am pretty sure I would have reacted much the same way you did upon seeing such a short cut. While my hair is hardly anything to me because it ends up in a pony tail every single day, I would clearly miss it if it were gone.

By: Emily Jane

Emily Jane — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:45:44 +0000

I never did a break up haircut but I did have a “pixie” forced upon me when I was about 12 years old lol. My mum was sick of me having straggly hair I didn’t brush properly even though it was nice and long (almost waist length!) so she took me for a big chop. I remember it vividly…. sitting there bawling in the chair afterwards while the stylist told me “but look! you can see your pretty earrings now!” It was awful, I had a boy’s haircut and the growing out was the worst because my hair is naturally frizzy and curly, and this was before straightening irons came into my possession. I did the same cut for grad though. I think that was shortly before I met you! (Never let me do it again!)