odd little bean

first off, my most hard-core apologies to my boyfriend nick who HATES it when people blog about their haircuts. oops?

i jolted out of bed this morning with one thing on my mind: i MUST get my hair cut TODAY.  i hate it when this happens, because i don’t have time to find a good salon, make an appointment, and blah blah blah.  i initially intended to just get 2″ chopped off so that i could continue to grow my hair out, but then when i went to supercuts (shut your mouth, you snob) and it wasn’t where googlemaps said it was, i started to fly off the handle, and as a result, i decided i needed something a bit more severe.

does anyone else have this problem with googlemaps?  it consistently puts markers on maps for stores that closed down 5 years ago on it.  i don’t know why i haven’t learned to cross-check their mapped store locations with the actual store websites.  grrrrr.

back to my story.  i’m in a tizzy, i’m freaking out about my gnarly stringy ends, and i’m convinced i left my straightening iron on and that i will come home to a pile of ashes.  i am so freaked out, in fact, that as i walk home i take my ipod buds out of my ears so that i can hear the sounds of firetrucks that might be driving toward my building.

i get home.

i check my iron (it was off).

i eat a magically delicious fruit rope.

i consult twitter and yelp for hair salon advice.

i find a place called floyd’s that is walkable and reasonably priced ($38).

i set out on my way.

i had decided that i wanted a pob (a posh bob…named after victoria beckham’s signature hairstyle before she pixied it all off).  i brought my laptop to the salon and showed my stylist two pics, and told her i wanted something in the middle:

i definitely needed something asymmetric at the very least.  she seemed to understand what i wanted, but i ended up with this:

i’m wishy-washy about the cut.  it’s not asymmetrical enough. the short side isn’t short enough. i don’t have bangs at all, which i kind-of wanted.  basically she went for the long pob and i wanted the short pob.  i decided that i would just let it slide since that gives me time to book an appointment with a true hair artiste for my next (shorter) pob (thanks @jannygirl for the recco).

i am honestly just glad i didn’t have to cry about my hair today.  i believe that this haircut is the one that made me cry:  http://blissfork.blogspot.com/2006/03/infinite-apologies.htm

two days later, however, i was in love with it, and it was so fabulously flippy that i was given the nickname feathers.

my main concern: will my hair go well with my new car?  i’m thinking yes.  lime green (the car) and asymmetry (the hair) are both muy 80s.  awesomesauce.

also, and i feel like i need to call this out in the name of honesty, there’s a slight chance that i’m just dissapointed i didn’t end up looking just like posh when i got off of the chair.  sometimes i indulge myself in magical thinking and when i stumble back to reality i end up drastically disappointed.  her jawline.  her legs.  her husband. sigh.