DOUBTS - HELP ME, WHAT TO DO NEXT? by Brunetboycz

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DOUBTS - HELP ME, WHAT TO DO NEXT?

I'm sorry, but English is not my native language. My real story from the present day, including my request for advice, was therefore translated by a translator. I apologize in advance for any minor inaccuracies.

I have medium brown and straight hair. Until I was fifteen, I wore a shorter boyish hairstyle - hair cut bluntly, around the ears and at the back close to the collar. I liked longer hair, like Justin Bieber, for example, and I especially wanted to have my hair completely over my ears. I had a persistent feeling that my ears were big and completely sticking out of my head. Most of my friends and classmates also started wearing longer hair. Since I studied quite well and there were no problems with me, my parents agreed with my wish. I happily accepted their condition that I would take care of my hair and that it would always be clean and well-groomed. Within about six months, my hair grew to the desired length, the stylist cut it into the desired hairstyle, and another Justin was born. Taking care of my long hair was good for me, I liked to wash and blow-dry my hair, I used all kinds of products. Sometimes I had a stylist do lighter highlights to improve my hair.

Years passed and I still liked to pamper my desired hair. In the winter, I kept my hair a little longer at the back of my neck, and in the summer, a little shorter, but I always wore it completely over my ears. That was a condition that I insisted on and never gave up on. I didn't want to show anyone my, supposedly large and protruding - ears. I gave my Bieber hair all the care I could, I enjoyed it. Looking in the mirror and my friends' admiring glances at my well-groomed mane did me good. I became a voluntary slave to my hair, but I didn't realize it.

Now I'm ten years older and I gradually noticed that my friends had their longer hair cut short, some very short - trendy buzzcuts with high-cut sections above the ears and at the back of the neck were becoming the norm for most of them. The freshly shaved sides and neck looked really good. I have to admit that to my surprise I started to like these very short haircuts! Slowly and surely I started to flirt with the idea that a buzzcut might suit me too... But that would mean I would have to do without my well-groomed mane, and especially without the hair over my ears - because of this I have always turned away from the idea of ​​a haircut and not let it happen. Although looking in the mirror at my long-lasting great hair reassured me, the doubts persisted. And what was worse, the doubts grew stronger and with them my willingness to consider a haircut grew stronger.

I kept thinking about getting a short haircut. The sight of my friends with freshly cut hair, their very short hair and their white, clean-shaven skin wouldn't leave me alone. So two weeks ago I told myself that I would go to a barbershop to get a haircut. If it suits others, it will certainly suit me too. And in the worst case scenario, I could let my hair grow back - it would take some time, but it wouldn't be impossible.

So I went to the barbershop in the afternoon. At first I had quite a bit of courage, but it gradually waned. I started to get very nervous, after all, I had made a decision to make a radical change after so many years. Fortunately, no one was waiting in the barbershop, so I didn't have to worry about running away while I was waiting. When I was invited to sit in a chair, my legs almost gave out. I walked over to the chair, sat down - and lost all remaining courage. I told the barber that I only wanted to cut my hair short - cut it with scissors only, without using electric clippers - not into a buzzcut with high-up sides, but into a blunt cut with hair around the ears, like I had worn ten years ago. The barber got to work, the resulting cut looked good, but it was not the buzzcut I had originally thought of. The hair in the front is reasonably long, my ears have finally come into the light of day, and to my surprise, I found that they are not large and do not stick out, as I had feared for years. My concerns were really unnecessary. The hair on the back of my neck reaches my collar. The whole hairstyle is less demanding on maintenance, which is pleasing. I look like a businessman. Everyone tells me that my hair transformation has benefited me.

But I'm not satisfied - I originally thought about a modern, very short buzzcut and I'm sorry that I failed in the barbershop after sitting in the chair and ordered a classic business-style haircut, and did not have it cut very short with electric clippers. I'm sorry that when I managed to convince myself to visit the barbershop after a long deliberation, I did not make the radical change I had in mind. Two weeks have passed since my haircut and I'm now thinking about going to the barbershop again and having a classic buzzcut done, with short hair in the front and especially with electric clippers shaved the areas high above the ears and at the back of the neck...

I can't decide now. Should I go to the barber now, a few days before Christmas, and make a radical change? Should I wait until after Christmas? Or should I stick with the business haircut I have now? What would you advise me? Write to me at the e-mail address brunetboycz@seznam.cz - I will be grateful to everyone for your advice and opinions.

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