Hair Over the Years

This blog is just for Cherie who challenged me to do my hairstyles over the years. I will begin at the beginning just for you Cherie. I would label some of these pictures beauties and some of them beasts.

When your little your don't have a choice about your hair. I don't yet have my first haircut yet and not even a full head of hair but here is the first hair style I could find. And next to it is a few months later when I had my first birthday. You can see that my hair has grown a little but still it isn't very stylish.

Here is evidence that I have had my first haircut. I am 16 months old and I am beginning to look a little bit like a blond. You can see that I have a very stylish early 1960's look with the bangs cut a little bit crooked. I think this was probably my mother's first attempt at cutting hair or I wonder maybe if she took me to a barber or something.

Curlers were a part of the agonizing process of being beautiful when I was 3. I woke up with a headache in the morning from sleeping on hard rollers in my hair, but the wonderful pretty curls were worth it in my eyes.



Here I am at 4...a real tow head...white blond all the way. And my hair is cut short and a little unmanageable.
Six years old and there isn't much of a difference between 6 and 1 except that my hair is a little longer. My bangs are still cut in the same crooked manner and I'm still a blond.

At 13 I hit that awkward, braces stage and I grew my hair long. It was the style. Just long hair. And most of the girls my age wore their hair like that. We didn't dye our hair but kept it natural. In fact the style was to stay natural then. Some people were doing the beehives of the 60's still but when I was 13 girls my age felt weird doing their hair like that. At least I did.


Seventeen was a bad hair year. Of all the horrible mistakes I have ever made with my hair I am ashamed to say that this was the worst. I didn't have the equipment and know how to do this do and it just didn't work for me. I think it was a bad haircut too. The only way to go was to wait until it grew out. And I was really happy to see that haircut go. For a long time I wouldn't get my hair cut because of that bad experience. Perms were in too and that time I got a perm.

Twelve years later and I'm 29 years old. I went along with the 80's styles and had the upswept bangs along with lots of hairspray. I had a permanent so the curl would stay in my hair, but along with that I had a difficult, bad bang cut. Who knows what would have happened if I had a decent haircut.

It is 1993 and I have a really funny fringe on top. I think it looks like I got another bad haircut. My goal is to look for the ultimate awesome stylist who will save my hair. HELLPPP!!!!
It is 2005 and I think I have hit upon a solution...the bob. It seems to work for me and is a variation of my 1993 haircut and the haircut I had when I first started out life. It seems to me that this haircut is a theme throughout my life. I still have a variation of it. It may be that I gravitate towards it and as you can see by my profile picture, I still have a bob. Oh, the glorious wonderful bob.