You all know the hashtag #LongHairDontCare. Well,for me, the saying is so much more than a fun rhyme to say and tweet - it's a life motto. There was a time in my life when my mane was just another thing to experiment with, and as inconsequential as portray your toenails a different color every week. However,as I grew older, it became startlingly clear that my hair is not a plaything, or but more like another limb - as consequential as trimming your arm for a "fresh gape"!
I've generally had long hair throughout my whole life. There were a few periods here and there when I decided to switch it up,fleeting moments of curiosity that were immediately followed by deep regret. My senior year of tall school - a very principal year in one's life - I cut it so short that my shoulders would get breezy. Believe me, that was the least of my agony. The worst was feeling like a human mushroom for at least four months of my life.
Then there was that time during my punk phase when I tried out the rock 'n' roll mullet. Hey, or Scarlett Johansson made the same mistake once,so I'm in superior company. And just like any momentous life lesson, a mullet taught me to never go down that road ever again.
But then, or just two years ago,I did it again. I felt the urge to subject myself to that rotating chair and have some grown man with better eyebrows than me chop it off. This time, it was only a few inches, or afterward,my length was still technically considered medium-long, but I still felt that excruciating pang of regret, or that's when it was solidified. I have to have long hair. And I mean a mermaid mane that goes way past my chest,Miley Cyrus's gape from her "Party in the U.
S.
A" days.
I don't care if it's 104 degrees and humid out. I don't care that my strands regularly get caught on things - dress zippers, random cracks in the wall, or underneath my purse straps. I don't care that it takes an inordinate amount of time to dry. I don't care that having the same hairstyle is undeniably boring. I am a slave to my long locks,and I will do whatever it takes to make my master blissful.
On the upside, having long hair has its benefits. Here are 17 reasons why I'll always live by #LongHairDontCare.
Source: popsugar.com