Hair

I have a love hate relationship with my hair. I love that it is strong, grows quickly and I loved the color growing up. I hate that it grows quickly and is losing its color - grey is invading my head.

This dichotomy of issues leads me to my hair issues - short or long, color at home or at the salon. And these issues play over and over for me. I can never just settle on one.

I love short hair. Chin length bobs are what I have had for most of my entire adult life. I grow my hair out, cut it to a pixie, grow it to a bob, rinse and repeat. Sometimes I keep the various stages for a few months, sometimes for years. The exception being the long hair. I can never manage that for more than 6 months. I shed at an alarming rate and longer hair ends up everywhere. So right now I am really working on growing my hair out. I just want to see what it is like to have longer hair. But I fear it looks like a ponytail, day in and day out.  It looks like mounds of hair blowing down the hallways of my house like tumbleweeds, straightening irons, longer showers and tons of time spent doing hair.

As for the at home color or the salon color - I dyed my hair at home for years. I was quite good at it and it doesn't bother me to do it. It is much cheaper and because my hair grows so fast it is much easier to maintain. However since the grey started invading my head I have had difficulty covering the grey and that lead me to the salon. But I have an ongoing issue - to stay at the salon with the $100 dye jobs or do at home, just more often. As it is I often go 2-3 months without dyeying my hair and the roots get quite bad towards my appointment time. This could be fixed at home with dye jobs every 6 weeks, but how does one master just the root touch up at home.

So the thought cycle continues. On one hand I am grateful that this is currently my biggest worry. On the other hand I think it is ridiculous that this is my biggest worry. But neither of these thoughts solves my set of hair problems. Short hair? Long hair? Dye at home? Dye at salon?

And if I decide to dye at home - how do I break up with my hairdresser that I love dearly?

Rinse and repeat the thought cycle.