It's a Boy

When I was about 15 and had braces (along with a weird contraption that consisted of three sharp prongs that came down from the roof of my mouth and made me have to suck my spit back instead of swallowing like the rest of you lucky people - it sounded something like, shhhlit, shhhlit...), I also had the fine experience of telling a hardcore chick-mullet wearing hairdresser that I wanted a "shorter in the front, longer in the back" haircut. Of course, I was thinking more of a Lee Aaron feathered haircut which is so not what I got. I got a mini-me version of what my sweet hairdresser had, a hardcore chick mullet. gulp.

It certainly wasn't my best year - I haven't even mentioned that none of my jeans fit the length of my skinny, knobby legs. I was wearing floods with slouch socks (not meant to be worn high, btw). Sexy beast? Yes, indeed.

However, I loved the way my hair felt. Shhh, don't tell anyone.

Back then, my hair cut didn't do me any favors ( who's kidding who, back then there wasn't much that was gonna help me but a whole lot o' time), but I liked it, a lot. Ever since then, I've wanted to, ever so slightly, recreate the event, and now, well...

I got my hair cut. I showed the new hairstylist lady the picture I wanted, and she did it. It's just... she did in away that it would grow into the haircut I want in about three to four weeks.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a boy.

But, I am please to say... that it is not a mullet! Whew!

I've always wanted to try having short hair, it's kinda sexy. Again, it feels good. When the wind blows, I don't get a mess of hair all in my face, sticking to the lip gloss I always forget to wear, and when I look in the mirror, I see a different person. I like her - she's kinda nifty (at the very least, she'll do in a pinch).

This haircut reminds me (finally) of that army mullet I had so many years ago - how secretly free I felt not having hair hair, not being a slave to my tresses. I like short hair, it's fun.

Now, if I could just get rid of these boobs - I'd be a real boy for sure.