@Boxermom , I honestly had a total mental breakdown in the salon when the hairdresser stuffed my hair. After a couple of days I realised that this is my chance to redo the disastrous haircut given to me 20 years ago by a stupid hairdresser who mistook "short bob" for "an inch all over". In your adolescence, that is not something you can deal with easily. I was teased, ridiculed, and lost all self esteem. But here is my chance to rock the cut with colour and product and make the most of it. My hair will grow, and I'll do my best to take care of it as I always have. No doubt my creative desires will have me trashing it again in no time.
In reality, I shouldn't try to have longer hair as it's really fine and just not up to the treatment it gets put through. What kind of expectations do we have for ourselves as women?! As I left the shopping centre after the salon yesterday, I felt totally segregated by my short hair. It just is not the norm at all to be female with short hair! But the reality is, not all of us have hair that should be long. I am a total black sheep in the herd.
I'm still not happy with the colour of the original regrowth that the first hairdresser never bleached properly. I think I want to try to get into the new hairdresser on my day off to see if they can just lift it through the red and give me some happy christmas snowy white hair.