Clare Henney: February 2011

One of things I promised myself this year is to grow my hair long.  I know it’s sounds so simple and so ordinary a goal to have but it’s something I really want to do.

When I was little, my parents (my father in particular) compared me to the Biblical figure Samson, who loses strength when his hair was cut.  To him I was the complete opposite:  I usually got more sickly when I had long hair.  I blame it all on the fact that I have nice, straight and shiny hair (wow, that sounded like a shampoo commercial).  Maybe my hair is like a parasite getting all the nutrients my body needs to make itself pretty.

For most of my life my hair has been kept short.  When I manage to get it to a long, shampoo-commercial length, I find reason to cut it (to the horror of the hair stylist that I go to, because I usually end up cutting it really short).

I’m in a bit of a dilemma lately about my hair.  Part of me wants to keep it long but part of me wants to cut it back short again.  I really don’t know what to do.  I promised myself I’d go long for at least a year but I’m loving some of the shorter styles I’ve been seeing on my favorite celebrities (well, Yoon Eun Hye mostly) and I’m tempted to cut it again.

Should I make the cut?  Will shorter hair make me look more overweight or will it help me look less weighted/heavy?  What do you all think?