{"id":1417,"date":"2012-09-05T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2012-09-05T17:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:33:44","slug":"a-new-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/09\/a-new-haircut.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Haircut!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three and a half years I elected to grow out my hair (February 2009, while I was deployed, after a very bad haircut), I faced the scissors and cut off about 16″ of my hair about 2 weeks ago.<\/p>\n

I had last done this in September 2007 right before I had started a new position in the AF Reserves, and I had donated the hair to the organization Locks of Love<\/a>. I did the same thing this time around, although I was saddened to hear that Locks of Love is very discriminating about the hair they receive and very few of their donations are actually turned into wigs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy some pictures from my August 24th haircut!<\/p>\n

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First the hair has to be sectioned off before cutting. My stylist, Katrina, got four sections.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I had to say “Just do it!”. And there they are…the top ends of those ponytails looked and felt like large makeup brushes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We attempted some highlights. It was a fail. This picture was staged for a “Read Comic Books in Public” day last week<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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When all was said and done, Katrina had to straighten and flatten my hair to make sure it’s even. I felt like the Johnny Depp version of Willie Wonka. I don’t plan to wear my hair like this.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is more how I will wear my hair. Much easier to style this way. More like that cute actress who plays Alice Cullen in Twilight<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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