"Only really cute girls can wear their hair short."

[elfs]

Yamaraashi-chan's haircut, before and after.

Yamaraashi-chan surprised Omaha and I yesterday by announcing that she wanted to have her hair shorter. I don't know if she was just tired of it being so long or what, but she was convinced-- mostly-- that she wanted to have it shorter than it's current length.

I was lukewarm to the idea. I think she looks lovely with her hair that length (see what I was saying earlier about how relentless this constant opinionating about girls' looks is? Would I be this interested in appearance if I had boys? I wonder about this kind of stuff constantly. I'll probably give myself an ulcer. I know I'm going to be The Crazy Dad when she starts dating) and trying to picture her with shorter hair wasn't really bringing anything to mind.

But she was adamant in her own quiet way, so finally we agreed to go by the salon. She picked the style she wanted out of one of those catalogs of cuts. Omaha stayed with her while Kouryou-chan and I went to the library across the street to figure out to which kid the unknown library card we'd found in the kid's junk bucket belonged.

I will say that when she showed up I was pleasantly surprised. Short hair works on her. It's one of the most successful transformations to short hair I've seen in a long time. I hope her friends like it; she's very sensitive to the opinions of her peers these days. One snarky comment from a boy she likes about an outfit can lead to her never wearing that outfit again.

Comments

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

I agree with the looking more grown up. In the long-hair picture, it looks like she had perfect fairy-tale-princess hair, but the shorter cut looks more like someone facing the world. Could be a matter of the photo composition, though.