How cutting my hair changed my life

Some of you might know that I used to have very very long hair in secondary school and I cut it shoulder-length before entering high school. But for some mysterious reason it became very curly and very messy...
I always had this passion and this admiration for girls who cut their hair extremely short because I’ve always felt that it gives so much charisma and confidence to someone. So when I decided that I couldn’t continue to wear the same horrible haircut (because let’s be honest it was ugly and nobody had the courage to tell me) I looked on the internet for some ideas of short haircuts. I hesitated for weeks because I wasn’t sure that I was going to like it or not and my mum feared that I was going to have some regrets. I finally scheduled an appointment without really knowing if I was going to do it and I went to the hairdresser. I told her my ideas aaaaand it took me a while to take the ultimate decision.
Ok, you might think I’m over the top and you’re probably right but it really did change a lot of things for me. Most girls with long hair might not consider it but it does take some courage to do it. When you are not extremely confident you might have the tendency to “hide” behind your hair, which is totally normal ; but once you don’t have hair anymore you really have to face -basically what you look like- and to accept yourself. The hair is one of the main things you focus on when you look at someone so when there’s not a lot of it people won’t look at you the same way. I feel very free with short hair ironically maybe lighter, I gained way more confidence and I realized that there are a lot of advantages : you need less water and less time to shampoo and your hair dries quickly ; you don’t need to brush it AT ALL in the morning ; and you’re not too hot in summer (well...*wink wink*).
I’m not here to do some propaganda and I do still enjoy long hair but just so you know if you are hesitating to cut it, you might fall in love with the result (I hope that Mrs Chavel would agree with me) ! I would particularly like to thanks Charles who was the first to criticize my new hair, and Marie-Lou who gave me the idea to write this post.
PS : I also particularly wanted to dedicate this post to my mum and her short hair. Jacinthe xx