I Don't Have Time For Bangs
Remember when chunky bangs
were in style? I think they still
are for models, but for the rest of us- who has the time?
I did the ‘big bang cut’ over a year ago, and the long layering. I thought I’d love it, but I didn’t. It looked great when I really took the time to style my hair, but I don’t really take the time to ‘style’ my hair every, single, day. Plus, every day, at some point, my hair goes up in a clip, in an ‘up-do’, as it were. And layers don’t really work with an ‘up-do’.
I actually love bangs, I’m a ‘bang girl’, but I don’t have the time anymore. They’re not practical. I know, this is one of those burning issues that we all think about and mull over…
But this whole ‘bang-thing’
is really an analogy for my life as a mother, wife, blogger, writer and
mompreneur…
My son just started full day kindergarten, so I do have more time now. I’m out of the ‘I don’t have time for myself’ phase and ‘I’ll just throw on a sweatsuit’ phase.
But the time I have now is for me, and my family. I want to spend my time on things that are important to me, and not fight with my bangs to lay the right way or stay straight.
I’m not in a time of my life that the 'Rachel Haircut' works for me anymore. I’m actually going for the Meredith Vieira look- the ‘very long layer of would-be-bang-hair that just folds into the rest of your hair’ look. Yes, Meredith Vieira, who is almost 2 decades older that me…
Wow. She looks good though, doesn’t she? And her haircut is easy, yet sophisticated?…
So, that’s it. It’s official. I’m getting older. I’m still in my thirties, but only for another year.
I’m not yet… elderly, senior,
ancient, past-my-prime, or decrepit.
So I don’t want to spend the best years of my life styling my bangs. I don’t have time for bangs.
I’m… mature, grown up, sensible, in-my-prime, (sophisticated, even?).
So I’m not taking the time
for bangs.
When Nicole isn’t finding unusual analogies for her life AND trying to distract herself from the fact that her little boy is growing up and in ‘real school’, she’s over at BananaBlueberry.
