Time for a Change

I've been growing my hair out for over 2 years now and while it was fun to have the length for awhile, lately it just felt heavy and listless.  So I decided I was due for a big change. When I got to my hair appointment, I was surprised when my hair girl measured my hair and said that I had enough to donate to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program which is a program that uses donated hair to create wigs for women battling breast cancer. 

A couple of snips later and I had 8" inches to donate to the program...

 And I walked out of my appointment looking like this!

I am really happy with how my haircut turned out.  It feels so much more fresh and healthy and I'm glad that it's still long enough to pull back into a ponytail for work outs!  I felt like a new woman walking out of the salon!

I've been through a lot of change over the last several years and a lot of that change felt 'out of my control/forced on me' so it was nice to make a change that was completely my idea.  :)

When is the last time you made a big change to your hair do?  Have you ever donated hair to a program like Pantene's?  This is the 3rd time I have donated my hair!

Chopped!

Yesterday I chopped my hair!!  I have been growing out my hair for quite a while, and it has been long enough to donate for awhile now.  I originally had planned to chop it off after my marathon, but the length is driving me CRAZY!!  When I ran, I felt like a horse with a mane because my hair is always on my back!  I  tried putting it up in a bun during runs and it just didn't work.  And besides that, I just feel like my hair had surpassed the phase of looking very "presentable."  It just looked long and bleh.  It did look nice if I blow dried, straightened, and then put it in hot rollers (yes, I have to straighten it before putting it in rollers thanks to my natural curl that becomes frizz).  So I decided a couple of weeks ago that it was time to cut it!

My hair-spiration for the cut was this...

Yesterday my hair went from looking like this...

To looking like this!

I am really, really happy with how it turned out.  That is much more of a Lisa look versus the long, long locks of hair.  It feels healthy - and it moves when I turn my head!  It's a fun change for me, and looks more professional and polished.  Also, I think that I look more mature with this shorter 'do.  I will be doing a bunch of presentations next month to a (mostly) male audience, so looking a bit more mature works to my advantage!

Have you ever drastically changed your look?  I am not at all attached to my hair so it wasn't scary to cut off all that length - it was exciting!