A Long Overdue Post Wedding Chop

Yes, you read that right.  I finally cut my hair.  It only took thirteen months of marriage and my husband badgering me on a daily basis for the last month when I was getting my hair cut, but it is now done.

Let's take a look at the before, shall we?

My ridiculously long hair.  Also, self portraits are weird, hence why I'm not looking at the camera.

Obviously, my hair was not in great shape.  After almost two and a half years of growing without a trim, the ends were just plain gross.  I tried to cut off split ends when I saw them, but what my hair really needed was a cut.  And a cut it got.  

This is what almost two feet of hair looks like after it is chopped off and put on a coffee table.

And, this is what my hair looks like now, with about twenty two inches removed.

Yay healthy hair!  

This is easily the shortest hair style I have had since my hair started growing.  At first I really loved it, but after the novelty of short hair wore off (approximately two days), I'm kind of over it.  I can't style my hair nearly as nicely as my stylist did (shocker, I know) and it usually ends up looking kind of...triangular.  

I also don't think it looks much like the inspiration picture I showed the stylist:

vs.

My hair seems to have much more of an angled bob look, whereas I really wanted a long bob with some tapering in the front (I think. I just want Heidi's hair.).  I am comforted by the fact that my hair will hopefully be made into a beautiful wig for a very deserving cancer patient, since I am donating my hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths.

And, because I started to feel silly trying to take decent pictures of myself with my dslr and tripod, I share with you my outtakes.

The before and after, including my 'styling' on the right, pictures courtesy of my cell phone.  

Apparently I wear a lot of blue.  Also, go Bears!

How long do you normally go between cuts?  This is brand new territory for me and I'm unsure how to proceed!

Happy weekend everyone!