Beauty School Dropout

The second spring shearing sees the author going for a very whimsical, low maintenance look:


Since I started tracking my hairstyles with iPhoto, it's interesting to see how I've managed to look somewhat younger and less tired. I think it's the bangs. Also, it's good to know I'm handy with a pair of scissors, though some would say it looks like I cut my hair with a penknife.

I started cutting my own hair in college after an incident with a hairdresser left me looking like the Dutch Boy Paint mascot. However, my senior year of college made me return to the hairdresser's chair to become a redhead as an immersion journalism experiment for an essay on Molly Ringwald. But my old ways soon caught up to me and, out of necessity brought on by poverty, I found myself reaching for the shears yet again.

Hey, $30 can buy a haircut or fill my gas tank. A girl knows what she's got to do.