hair today, gone tomorrow

last fall i realized that my hair was getting long. though i was tempted to just chop it off then, i decided that i could hold out another few months to grow it long enough for another locks of love donation. i had hoped to chop it off before caroline was born, like i did when i was pregnant with Q, but that just didn't happen. so yesterday, in the midst of one of the first true summer hot and humid days, i decided it was time and went off to the mall to find someone to cut my hair. - here are some "before" pics with dripping wet hair: -

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here is the damage. it's kinda creepy that my ponytail is just chilling on our bathroom counter because it needs to dry out before i can send it off to locks of love. -

- and here is my attempt to take my own photo to illustrate how short we've gone: -

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it is way shorter than it needed to be. after the ponytail came off the hair in the front was still down to my shoulders. i told the hair cutting lady that i wanted to keep as much of the length as possible, keeping it longer on the top and front and just evening it out toward the really short part in the back. she didn't quite get that, so she evened the top/front to match the back, resulting in a super-short 'do. that's what you get for getting your haircut at the mall. i don't really care, i just need to figure out how to style it in the easiest manner possible since i didn't stick around the mall long enough to let edwina scissorhands style it for me.