Goodness

[lnr]

Now that is a bit of a change. Will take me a while to get used to it I'm sure.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Gosh, yes. But I bet it's lovely and cool! (I did something similar about five years ago, you get used to it pretty quickly...)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

So did I, once upon a time. And kept my hair that short for about two years. The bestest thing about it was the way I could change the colour *completely* all the time without ending up with messed up ends like I have now.

[k425.livejournal.com]

A number 3 was my favoured hairstyle from about 1989 to 1997 - one of the reasons being ease of style, another being the ability to change the colour if I wanted. Then when I married I decided to grow it and that was okay too, but having hennaed it and coloured it the condition was dreadful.

I cut it last April.
http://www.zen18019.zen.co.uk/l_head.jpg
It's grown a bit since then...

[soubrette.livejournal.com]

That really suits you -- your hair behaves better than mine when short :)

[k425.livejournal.com]

It doesn't for long! And now it's almost shoulder length it's misbehaving a lot again.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

And it looks great.
Different, but I really like it.

[k425.livejournal.com]

LNR, it's great! It looks lovely, it really does. You picked the right time of year for it, too - ask August about getting your hair cut /after/ your face and neck have got a tan!

Oh, I'm all tempted, again.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Rapunzel peers over my shoulder and opines "that's quite short, then"...

[lnr]

A bit :) Grade 3 back and sides and "a long inch" or so on top.

Might bleach the tips at some point and see what it looks like. It is lovely and cool, which was part of the point.

I do tend to alternate between cropped and badly grown out a lot, though this is the shortest I've had the top in a while.

[k425.livejournal.com]

And of course, the thing about experimenting at this length is that if you don't like a colour - or the length, for that matter - it'll grow out really quickly.

[soubrette.livejournal.com]

That looks really quite practical for the summer - remember to watch out you don't get sunburn on your scalp though! My hair was that short part of last year, but stood on end in a most ridiculous way, so I've given up on that :)

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Why not go all the way ;-?

1mm works. (For me, that is, but I'm not too eager about hair in general.)

[lnr]

I was half tempted by the grade 3 all over look, but figured it probably would be a bit too dykey on me really. And much shorter than that and I really would be risking a sunburnt scalp, and I do burn pretty easily, so no thanks.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

What is "grade 3" in millimeters (or something else `units` can translate)?
I get sunburns far too easily myself, but the relatively dark hair seems to protect the skin on the head nonetheless (I have a sunburn in the face right now, but nothing on the skalp)

[lnr]

I dunno if there's a standard conversion chart anywhere, or where to find it if so, but with some faffing with a ruler rjk says the hairs on the back of my head are actually around 1cm long, give or take 10% or so. Of course it's not the easiest way to measure :-) I'd have guessed less that that, but what do I know.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Well, 1 cm's not what I'd call "short" on myself ;)

[lnr]

Down from around 25cm or so for the longest hairs before I cut it though, it's damned short on me.

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Just look at the userpic that's going with this reply.
With straightening out the curls the hair did reach below my navel...

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

A "number N" guard on a set of clippers is nominally N/8 inch, so a number 3 is 3/8 inch, or 9.5mm, or "about 1cm". :-)

[k425.livejournal.com]

HAH. Calling me dykey, eh? Eh?
Kewl!

[j4.livejournal.com]

I know I said this earlier IRL but it looks fab! I think even shorter would probably look good too (though I guess I am biased...) but then I don't think there's anything wrong with looking dykey. ;-)

[nassus.livejournal.com]

Looks great - got some more photos so that we remote like types can get the full picture?

[lnr]

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~eleanorb/temp/lnr-side.jpg and http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~eleanorb/temp/lnr-front.jpg are the only pics of it so far, but they are a bit bigger than that icon.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you're not just copying (http://www.livejournal.com/users/simont/50802.html?nc=14) simon?

[lnr]

:-P Nope. Mine's loads longer than his on top, if I were copying I'd have gone for the buzzcut all over.