Bye Bye Dreads

For about a month now I have been thinking about having a big hair change.  When you have dreads you are kind of limited to what change you can have, colour or cut them off..... I decided on the cutting them off option.  A lot of people have asked me if I had got fed up with them or were they getting itchy?  But to be honest; No, I loved them.  I just fancied a change.

So heres a couple of before photos....

 

The process of getting me happy with my hair took over a week, 3 actual days of cutting, combing, cutting, colouring, cutting with a very patient friend.  We cut them at about 2 inches then combed them out, after having dreadlocks for 2 years I forgot how thin my hair was, and the huge amount that got pulled out when combing out the very tight dreads, I ended up looking very sparse in the hair depratment, but it was longish.  But I decided to go shorter. 
The day following the cut, I was really unhappy and had thought I had made a big mistake, I loved my dreads, why did I want such a dramatic change!
But then the next day I sat down with my friend and trawled through websites looking at hair, and finally got my hair cut how I like it, much shorter than I thought I had the confidence for, but I do now really like it.

Here are the final after shots.....

It is very strange to go from huge big hair to very little hair and it is quite liberating.  I do feel though that I have to make more of an effort in how I dress, I never thought it would make that much difference, but I suppose when you have dreads your hair takes away so much focus from you and you can kinda wear anything and pull it off.  I put on the same clothes now and feel really frumpy!  So I only have a few outfits that I feel look nice now, but I am happy with my hair, in fact I think I love it.  Almost, still not sure on the colour, but I will wait for that pesky gray to start to peek through and think again about colour.

So there you go, a new me!  No, not a new me, just a lighter and shorter haired one!