I always insisted I would never cut my hair short. When I was very young I had a Prince Valiant hair style which I HATED, plus my mother would take a small piece to the side and pull it to one side with a bow - then I had to wear my school panama hat, and it HURT!
I was permitted to grow my hair long after that (I was 4 or 5 at the time) as long as I had it tied up in braids. And my mother did TIGHT braids.
I kept my hair really long, as long as I could get it. I never went to a hairdresser for a trim, I always got husband to do it for me, after we married. I've cut husband's hair since we married.
Then after I had difficult child 3 and all the stress, I had a lot of hair fall out. I had what appeared to be male pattern baldness. It would grow back, then fall out again. So I had my hair cut shorter so it didn't look so thin. A specialist told me to take biotin, which helped a bit but my hair would keep falling out every time I had a fever, or got sick in some other way. No more male pattern baldness, just sparse hair.
So I figured, maybe a styled hair cut would look better. It could hardly look worse and the long, shiny hair of my youth was increasingly hard to recreate.
So I've been going every six months or so to have my hair cut shorter and layered. I still have a lot of short wispy bits, but layering it makes these bits look like they're meant to be there.
The place I go to is one of the cheapest - my cut costs about $17 - and I SHOULD go more often, but the cut is so good I can get away with it. I've also gone back to colouring my hair. Previously, I'd been trying to grow out the colour (another reason to cut it shorter) but I have very dark eyebrows which, with grey hair, makes me look fierce and scary (at least, I remember finding this look scary when I was a kid). So I will keep colouring my hair until my eyebrows go grey. And if my mother is anything to go by, I think I'll be colouring for many years to come. Grey hair with Brooke Shields eyebrows - not great, in my book.
But with fine, wispy hair, I can't take up scissors and do this myself, unless I'm also going for the GI Jane look. We DO have the clippers for it, though. I bought them just in time to do difficult child 1's last hair cut - a buzz cut which looked great. He's never cut his hair since. I wish HE would get the urge to slash & burn.
The one thing that annoys me about short hair - it falls in my face too easily. And it's now too short to tie back. Oh, well.
Marg