DIY Hair Cut!

It's been waaayyy too long since I last posted! Although I'm not really sure if anyone really reads my posts, I still enjoy making them here and there. I'm trying to figure out what type of blog I want. Sometimes I like it for updating people on life, but Facebook does that pretty well. Other times I want to be crafty and make it a DIY blog to teach others and then I want to be that super effective teacher who has time to post ideas and share things for other teachers. Today I'm a DIYer.

Back more than 10 years ago when I danced pretty much 5 days a week for 4-5 hours a night, I had this awesome teacher Marlo (who I recently reconnected with on Facebook :) ). She was actually the best teacher for me. I improved more than I ever had and my sister even told me so! Any-who, we adored her and thought she was the coolest. She was in college (I think), was a great dancer, and she cut her own hair. It was gorgeous!

I have always wanted to cut my own hair since knowing her. So I got on Google and typed in "cut your own hair in a pony tail" because that's how Marlo did it. I found this blog (that I can't find now) that explained how to do it, looked at it and thought oh that will be easy. I didn't do it for a few months, afraid it may not work and I wouldn't look like me when meeting all Steve's family so I waited a few months.

Here is how the blog described it but in my own words: hair needs to be wet, brush it upside, put into a tight ponytail on top of your head, turn upside down again, the blog said to make sure to cut it straight so your layers are straight. I don't like it to be obvious, I like my hair to blend so I cut it straight and then cut into it at the bottom how my hair stylist does it so my hair isn't flat/blunt on the bottom. Took it down and I was done! I cut to the bottom layer and didn't actually cut the bottom because I wanted my hair to stay long, but you can cut as short as you want! Here are some pictures, hope you can tell the difference:

Before, see how straight it is at the bottom

Before, the front no layers

The hair I chopped off

After, wet, you can see the angle from side to middle

showing the layers

After, dry, angled again

Now, if only I can learn how to cut my bangs like this so they stay and I will never have to pay for a cut again.