My new haircut: El Cockatiel

Yep, I cut it all off again. I've been cutting my own hair for years (because when your hair is thick and curly and you can't afford to/are too lazy to find anyplace better than Supercuts, you learn to cut your own or die trying), and it's basically one of those things I do when I'm bored or frustrated.

I had been thinking about a sort of fauxhawky-crestish thing like this (but, you know curly) on and off since I first saw season 3 of the L Word:

this, by the way is the only likable thing the character Jenny has ever done on that show. Also? It took me forever to find a picture of it on the interwebs

I just decided to go with it one day a few weeks ago after I had been laid up with a migraine and was officially done teaching. I was afraid that if I had cut my hair dramatically different twice in one semester it would scream FLAKE to my students. And it would have if I had stopped halfway through:

it's like Simply Red, but brunette...and with Jon's foot

Right? Anyway, this is the finished product:

by the way, that's my office in the background. Exciting, huh?

I have to say, I really love it. It's very much the result of knowing the peculiarities of my hair like the back of my hand, though. I cut the back and sides just short enough that they wouldn't curl, and kept the crown about and inch longer than that so the natural texture of my hair would do it's thing. I sleep on my side in such a way that cause my hair to stick up like that already, so I really just have to slick down the sides and back and stick some styling wax in the hawk part to keep it as is and I'm done.

By the way, this is the origin for my personal nickname for the 'do.

Elvis's pompadour

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the crest from a cockatiel

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my new hairdo