RE: Good Hair

My friend Justine posted an interesting blog about what good hair is. I am not an ethnic woman and my opinions on good hair differ from hers, but I thought a response blog would be appropriate, since I'm attempting to grow out my hair and it's frustrating me to no end.

What does define good hair? In my opinion, it is hair that is healthy, vibrant, and full of life. Hair that bounces back. Hair that maybe isn't always silky and smooth but has the correct texture based on the ethnicity of its owner.

According to television healthy hair begins at the scalp. Do I believe that? I certainly do. I don't think that your hair can truly be healthy if you don't take care of it, starting at the roots. I treat my hair like I would treat grass - you have to make sure and feed the roots where the nutrients can travel to the rest of the grass to make it grow full, thick, healthy, strong, and vibrant. You have to have healthy roots to grow healthy grass and you have to have healthy roots to grow healthy hair.

Well, for me, I need my hair to grow and it's trying...really, it is. I've decided to grow it out. Why? Why not? I don't have anything else to do with it. I don't really have the money to get it cut. I don't have any good reason to get it cut. I'm not trying to impress anyone specific and I haven't grown my hair out in about a year, so why not grow it out? It's grown about 2 1/2 to 3 inches since I got it cut around the end of May. I really hope that by December, it will be a good 3 inches below my shoulders.

I'm sure I'll get some flack for saying I don't have anyone to impress. Well, I don't. I don't feel sexy with long hair. I feel sexy and flirty with short hair. I feel sophisticated with short hair. I feel like I've got it going on with short hair. But ya know, I don't look bad with long hair. There's a lot you can do with long hair. I haven't had my hair really long in about 3 years or so and I really think it's time for a change.

Speaking of change...I'm making another one of those. I'm going to dye my hair, like all of it, all by myself. I've never done anything like that before. I've only ever gotten high- or low-lights before and I think that sometimes (especially after a break-up) you have to do something to reinvent yourself. This is my way of reinventing Liz. Yeah, I'm really nervous about it, but I guess the worse that could happen is that I have to cut my hair short and wear a hat for awhile.

I will certainly post before and after pictures once I dye my hair so everyone (who cares) can see what it looks like and I can hear everyone's opinions.

Alright guys, here are the pictures (before, during, after) the whole coloring process.

Before

During

Riiiiight after

What it looks like "fixed" - or after I've been out alllll night! Par-tay!