I FINALLY did it! Resurrection of the BANGS.

I've had a love-hate relationship with bangs all my life. For most of my childhood/teenage years I had bangs. Because my hair is curly, it was always a huge drama after being active. My bangs would curl up and I HATED IT! But also, I have always been self-conscious and insecure about my forehead. You see, my forehead is BIG. I was called "bumper head" as a kid and so I was hiding it behind a fringe. When I was about 20 years old, I finally said, "forget this!" and let the world see it, including my curls, which I hated as well. I was tired of hiding and being ruled by my big forehead complex and so I was free! From that moment on, I hated bangs and blow-drying my hair! Nonetheless, I still knew my forehead was there and I still tried to subdue it. When I was thirty years old, I met a man who told me that one of my most beautiful physical features was my forehead. It was the first time in my life that I actually felt 'normal' and even beautiful. I wasn't ashamed of it and I didn't mind flaunting it during that season of my life, but he was the only person who ever had told me such a thing. Years later, I still have people telling me that I look better with hair on my forehead without telling me straight out that my forehead is huge.

At this point, I admit, I still feel a bit uncomfortable with the vastness of my forehead. I perhaps will never feel comfortable enough to slick my hair back, but knowing I am "fearfully and wonderfully made" by my Creator, I can embrace it. This was my background to my bang story. For about a couple years, my hands have been itching to do something different with my hair. Now that I know I would not be hiding under bangs but would just have them for aesthetic purposes, I began to re-think the bang idea. I thought this would be the next best thing to really changing things up without having to cut the length of my hair that I've been growing out for years! But the more it grows, the blah-er it looks. There is just no style to it...and if you know me, you know that I love change. My friends cannot believe that I haven't touched my hair for about 5-6 years now when I have had every hairstyle and hair color imaginable! After getting married, I wanted to really change things up, but also didn't want to freak my husband out. I refuse to look dated.

One of my problems is that my hair is thin so my bangs aren't those luscious, thick bangs you see many girls sporting nowadays. I also hate blow-drying my hair. In addition, I had to take my "style" into consideration and I didn't think bangs would "fit" or match with my more mature bohemian, eclectic, global style. I think I was wrong about that. I began to discover some hairstyle muses that were more up my alley which ended up motivating me to take the jump and just do it. I also discovered that thinner bangs can look edgy and hip, not dated and I don't have to be in my twenties to have bangs, have pin-straight hair, nor have a retro look to pull it off, so I was ready. I was ready to blow-dry (or not) and I was ready to face going back to bangs and redeem my bang history...SO I DID IT!

Here are those muses and inspirations that led me to cut those bangs.

Hindi Zahra. She is just cool and cute. I love her style and her hair is just dope!

Zuzuka Poderosa was one of the first inspirations. Her hair is tight and I am loving her bangs, though mine aren't as short. Now her bangs are a bit longer, but I absolutely dig her hair and style.

Bezem y Mailan. Both are amazingly cool designers...and their hair. Love. (check out the post I did on them here.)

Well...I'm still gettin' used to it. And there's lots of flexibility, contrary to what I thought before. I can wear it curly, wavy, or straighten it (like below). Anyway....hope I inspired someone out there! Remember that hair grows back...