I cut off all my hair

I'm super lazy when it comes to my hair.  It's kept long a lot of the time because I hate getting hair cuts. Throwing all beauty advice to the wind, I get my hair cut about once a year, and then mostly to just get rid of dead ends, and then about every 3 years, it's long enough to donate to Locks of Love/Pantene Beautiful Lengths/Wigs for Kids. But my hair grows pretty quick and also is incredibly thick, so everytime I donate it makes about 6 ponytails. But my hair becomes such a definition of myself, which can be a pain. It's strange, but people seem to take personal offense which I make changes to it. "Oh, you cut your hair? It was so beautiful!". Um yes, I know my hair is bombing when it's long. But let me tell you a little secret....


(I DON"T DRESS FOR OTHER PEOPLE. I DRESS FOR MYSELF.)


Also, unless your the one who has to spend 20 minutes to wash it, take forever to dry, and constant headaches because it's so heavy, then you don't get to tell me what to do. So, when I realized that I was, in fact, a grown-ass lady and can do what I like, I started taking risks, cause why not, you know?

"But dyeing your hair is so harsh and permanent!"

 "Don't get bangs, they always look awful"

"But boys love long hair!"

Okay, fun fact: hair grows back. It honestly does not make two toots worth of difference in the cosmos whether I have 3 feet of dead cells coming out of my scalp or not. I know that the things I do to my hair maybe aren't the most "wordly" attractive. But they make me really happy, so it shouldn't matter at all to anyone else what I do to my hair. Someone's bright teal pixie cut, that's what they want their hair to look like.!The girl with hair down past her waist? That's cool too. Want to rock a natural fro? Go for it! 

People of the internet, I have a new universal beauty rule. 

"Don't hold your beauty standards to anyone but yourself."

Be kind. Be brave. Show love. Make people happy. It's going to be okay, and it's going to be worth it.