If you're a boy you can skip to the last paragraph.
I'm sure just about every girl reading this went through a stage at one time or another (for me it was second grade) where they wore their hair back in a headband everyday, put fifty bobby pins or clips in their hair, and looked in the mirror every morning to see if they still had bangs. I'm not quite sure why our mothers let us get bangs in the first place when it seems like all of us grew them back out for what seemed like yearsssss. Now, I'm not really sure how long it took to grow out those dreaded things but it seems like I have tons of pictures of me with my hair sticking up from behind the headband because my bangs weren't quite long enough to lay down....are you with me girls?
Good. So, we finally grow out our bangs and feel really cool because this is how all the fifth graders are wearing their hair (when I say we, I'm assuming some of yall went through this phase too). For a while we enjoy not having bangs...part our hair straight down the middle, giving a nice triangle shape to our forehead. (My hair was actually really big for several years....ok, it can still be really big but I didn't know how to control it back then.) But after a few years of wearing our hair slicked back in a ponytail (that's what I did through most of 6th and 7th grade) we begin to get self conscious about our big forehead and begin thinking that maybe having some bangs would make our forehead appear a bit smaller. Then we try parting the hair to the side and going for the swoop, which does make for a prettier triangle on your head. But we really want some long bangs to swoop across our forehead because that looks really cool to have hair falling in your face constantly. I tried to convince my hairdresser to cut me some for years but with no success. She claimed I'd hate them and they'd get in my way. She's probably right.
I say all of this to say, I cut myself some long bangs the other day. I don't think you can really tell...for the girls: they still tuck slightly behind my ears and I didn't really slant the cut enough. Now I'm back to waiting for them to grow out so I can cut them again...this time with a slant. So...I'll take a picture later and post it for yall to examine.
IN other news...I left AL yesterday with hopes to arrive on the other side of the world in a few hours. Unfortunately, my flight in Dallas was delayed which caused me to miss my connecting flight in LA...so the rebooked me for 24 hours later. I'm writing from the LAX Hilton. Had a real swanky breakfast and am putting a pretty penny down to write you all. So, I leave LA tonight at 11:35. From what I can see CA looks real nice, Brian. Woot.
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i had sweet curl under bangs for oh lets see...about 15 years of my life. i didnt get the "bangs arent cool" memo until way way too late. i hope your trip goes well when you finally get off the ground. we're praying for you and i even looked up some pictures of your future homeland on flickr today in your honor.
i too grew out my bangs in fourth grade... seemed like it took forever. and now for some stupid reason i recently tried the swoop bangs again and your hairdresser was right- they get in my face and drive me nuts and aren't even that cute. loved your post. hope all your travels are going well and can't wait to hear from you when you land.
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