2009-02-14 - 11:42 p.m.
Please Stop Reading Now if You're Not Interested in Hair
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One of the preparations for our move to Shizuoka that has been quietly ongoing for a couple of months now is me growing out my bangs. Summers in Shizuoka are hot and humid, weather that makes bang-having a fairly high-maintenance affair. So, I decided to grow out my bangs now rather than waiting until July, when they felt like some sort of greasy rodent stuck to my forehead.
At this stage, my bangs are too long to be bangs but still two months or so away from being long enough to transform into something like face-framing layers. The only option available to me at this point is swooping them off to the side which is driving me crazy because a) it's a dumb style* and b) my bangs aren't naturally inclined to swoop, so I have to use hairspray, which I hate.
Lately I've been thinking about cutting my bangs no less than twenty times a day, which is an awful lot of times to think about one's hair in a day. These thoughts resemble those conversations on Looney Tunes where an angel whispers good advice into one ear whilst a devil disagrees in the other. (I imagine the angel encouraging me to be patient while the devil says 'Screw this! Go cut your bangs in the bathroom with your miniature Swiss army knife right now!')
I guess what I'm looking for is for is outside opinions. I mean, there's a reason ELOFTING@HOTMAIL.COM has had bangs for so long. That is, they totally suit me. On the other hand, they are kind of painful to deal with during summers. Also, does anyone have any good ideas for bang-growing hairstyles? (Just please don't use the H-word***. I won't do it.)
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* The only exception for this being girls who have really round or heart-shaped faces, in which case swooping can look kind of good. Of course, the opposite of this would be girls who have kind of long faces, like me, which makes swooping look extra, extra bad**.
** I just thought of a really lame joke about bang-growing. You say: Hey Erin, why so long in the face? And I say: I can't help it. It's because I'm growing out my bangs.
*** That is, headbands. No headbands. And certainly not headbands for the next two months straight. The best solution I've come up with so far is making a little bow out of a piece of ribbon, shoving that onto a bobby pin and then securing my swoop with that. (I know this is a rip-off of those ads KD did for Miu Miu - which makes me feel kind of gross because KD is so embarassing to reference that I can't even bring myself to type her name - but it's the best I've got.) I think I want more ideas like this one please.
PS. It's a tiny bow, not a giant frou frou bow. And I stick the ends of the bobby pin up under swoop so that you can't see it. I don't use it like a barrette.
