I visited the salon last night {Hi, Kim!} to get a trim. I left *cough* a few inches shorter. I love it. I feel lighter, my curls look bouncier and um . . . I like it.
My husband? We won’t go there this morning. Mmmkay? 
I’m curious. How about an impromptu, highly-scientific poll . . . .
{A} Does your husband have an opinion on your hair?
{B} If so, what is his preference? {Long, short, medium? Straight, curly, wavy?}
And because I know y’all are just dying to see it . . . . ta da!
I would just like to add that:
{A} I don’t like being in front of the camera.
{B} I don’t like being in front of the camera.
and finally,
{C} I don’t like being in front of the camera.
Note for my sexy, manly-man: I love you. You love me. We’re a happy family. With a great, big hug and a kiss from me to you ~ won’t you say you love me, too?
I LIKE it! You and my 9 have the same hair. I’m forever telling her to just be grateful that God gave her decisive hair… as opposed to mine which doesn’t know what on earth it likes to do… Lookin Good Momma!
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I love it! My husband usually keeps his opinion to himself, but I know he likes my hair longer. ;D
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After a “too short” cut a couple of years ago that I **LOVED** we decided on a compromise. He loves my hair long, long, long – ideally at my waist. I like my hair short – between ears and chin. We reached equilibrium with shoulder length and a full set of bangs. However, to this day any time more than an inch comes off, you would think I shaved my head.
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Teresa Reply:
September 29th, 2010 at 10:33 am
and your new length looks great! oh for some waves!
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I love it! You look great!
My husband could care less, although he does like it long (medium length), because he lives vicariously through me since he has none…
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love your hair. and you are photogenic as well! as for my fiance-he will tell me if he doesn’t like my hair but usually when i ask he doesn’t notice. he prefers long hair too even though i don’t because it is so hard to care for and it is heavy.
oh well. what do we care what they think anyway? oops did i say that?
gina
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I love it! I love your bouncy curls.
I love your new do.
My husband DOES have an opinion about my hair and is not afraid to share it. I compromise. He loves long hair (at least to the shoulder) so I usually at least grant him that. I can have any style, pretty much, as long as it’s still to my shoulders and he’s happy. He wasn’t too happy with me when I chopped Emily’s hair off, but he got over it.
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awww you look gorgeous!!! My husband doesnt really care about how i wear my hair. He always just says “its your hair, do what you want”.
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As yet, my husband has no opinion on my hair.
I like Ann’s long, but I also like Ann’s on a smiling face, so she can wear as she pleases. Although I do have an opinion and do share it.
Doug
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YOU = HAWT
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So he doesn’t like it? I love it…super cute and fresh looking!
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I love it! It looks all healthy and bouncy. BTW you are very photogenic so you should really get over the whole I don’t like being in front of the camera thing
My husband doesn’t seem to care what I do with my hair. He just says I look beautiful no matter what….yes, I am blessed beyond measure.
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Love it! Your curls are looking fabulous! I have super curly hair too, but I don’t have the guts to get it cut short. For the record, I have had the SAME hairstyle since I was a freshman in high school. My friend cut my hair off to right below my ears the summer before I went into high school. Can we say TRAUMATIC???? I had to carry a spray bottle around with me just to maintainthe frizz and poof. Needless to say I didn’t have a clue what to do with my curly short hair. Seriously. Worst time period of my life. I swear I will be 90 and gray haired and still sporting the exact same hairstyle.
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LOL! I love it! Tell your man it WILL grow back.
My Man loves mine short.
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GORGEOUS!!! I love it!
My Man would love long, long, long hair but with 7 kiddos running around I like a sweet and tidy bob!
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As your psychic hair twin, I have to say I LOVE it. My husband likes straight short hair of all things (think Meg Ryan in “You’ve got mail”)…like THAT’S ever gonna happen. I do blow it out straight once in awhile, but it takes so long it’s pretty much just an annual event – lol.
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Ha! My man likes mine LONG and BLOND. I dunno why but he does. Everytime I go to the hair dresser he gets all manly and says in his deep manly voice “Honey, it’s your hair , do what you want but I prefer Blond.
Ha. I got my hairs did last Monday – I am a red head. LOL I love it. (I have photos over at my blog) So much for his advice eh?
I think your curls are bouncy bouncy full of FUN FUN FUN ! They look to healthy!
Oh and I HATE to be in front of the camera also – hence you dont see to much of me in the RED hair shots. LOL
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Oh, it looks soooo good!
My Hubby told me a long time ago that since he didn’t have to get up and mess with it everyday, how I wore my hair was up to me. Smart man, that one! ;o)
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you look BEAUTIFUL!
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Hubby likes it long too, and pulled back. I do not think its my best look, but the way I see it, is he has to like what he sees. So he gets what he wants. As long as he complies with the short short I like on him. Then as long as we both stay away from mirrors we’re both happy!
Dana
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Luv it! It’s cute. Hubs doesn’t say much as long as it is blonde and not cropped. What I have now is probably his favorite.
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You got a GREAT cut! Very cute! I also have curly hair, though not as nice as yours, I have to say. My man loves loves loves mine curly or, whenever i feel like going to the trouble, straight also. But it must be long. Don’t worry, yours will get used to it!
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My husband is of the opinion that my hair always looks great, even if it doesn’t. And that’s the only opinion any man should have on a woman’s hair.
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You look beautiful! I love those curls. I grew my hair out once I met my husband and he loves it long. I’d love to cut it some days but I also love the convenience of throwing it in a pony tail.
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You are a knockout!
David has no preference regarding my hair. When it was long and I announced that I wanted to cut it short, he was skeptical. Once the dramatic 9 inches chopped off haircut took place, he thought it was super sexy.
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your hair is sooo adorable!! i love the curls!! my husband likes my hair long, and curled!!
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Totally cute, and since I have very straight hair, I covet your beautiful curls. My husband likes longer hair and has asked me never to go short again!
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I love your hair! And don’t complain to me about being in front of the camera — your pictures are always beautiful! My dh likes my hair long too, but the reality is that mine looks better shorter. So I just go back and forth. I grow it long, leave it that way for a while, then chop it off, grow it long, chop it off… If I could find the time, I’m at the chopping stage right now.
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Oh, I love your hair! And you look great in front of the camera!
Earlier this year when I was toying with chopping my hair into a pixie cut (yikes!), my husband was very encouraging of the change. I’ve had shoulder-length or longer hair for 12 years, so it would have been a big change. I figured, since he was okay with the idea of having a wife with boy-cut hair, I might as well give it a try, since he’d be the one seeing it most of the time. I don’t know if most husbands would be cool with that kind of change, so I should take advantage, right? And now that it’s short, I love it! And ironically, he’s growing his out (aka Bradley Cooper in the Hangover), so I now have the shortest hair in the house!
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Love your new do! I would prefer short as I have always had long hair and with 5 girls it’s hard to keep up with mine. My hubby perfers long, I cut my long locks off this past June, now I am in the process of growing it back out again.
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I like!! You’re adorable.
The lady that cuts my hair “specializes” in curls – she’s great, but her prices are steeper. So I only get my hair cut twice a year. I usually get it “trimmed” to a little below my shoulders {with layers}, and then it just grows out until I have the $$ to go again.
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You look so elegant!
My husband always says, “I learned a long time ago not to give women opinions about thei hair,” so I have trouble getting one even when I ask for it. I think he would love it long (although my daddy likes short, so I always know he’ll like it if I get carried away), but he understands that my fine hair just won’t do long.
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First, you are beautiful and I love your hair!
My husband always has an opinion that it’s too short. He wants it longer.
I have curly hair and it’s been short all my life. It just grows out, instead of down, so I always feel I look like bozo. I am however, committed to growing it longer because my stepson is getting married in May and I want fancy hair.
After seeing your hair – I think mine could totally be the same way. One quick question – do you like zig zag part the top of kind of just wing it around? The top is always what I don’t know what to do with.
Thanks for getting in front of the camera today!
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Your hair looks mahvelous, dahling! My husband’s opinion is mostly that he wants ME to like it. He’s pretty happy with it most any way I wear it – long, short, curly, straight. It’s a very good thing, considering that I’m incredibly fickle about my hair. It can’t stay the same for more than a handful of days before I’m hankering for something different. Even if that ‘something’ is just a headband or some clips. LOL!!!
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i am completely jealous of your curls. i have stick straight hair that’s oh-so-blah
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I love your hair cut. I have always had long hair until in my early 20′s. I have natural curly hair like you but my hair was always limp with no body. I started growing it long again when I was engaged to my husband. As soon as we got back from our honeymoon, I couldn’t wait to cut it. I have had short hair since then (5 years ago). It also took me a long time to find a hairdresser who knew how to work with my hair. I have been going to her for 4 years now. My husband preferrs long hair but he doens’t have to take the time to style it. With short hair, it takes me probably 10 minutes between drying and styling.
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LurV your curls!! my ‘curls’ are more like… ummm… waves. your cut is super cute, too!
i had this theory that with every child, my hair would get shorter. it was really short after gracie, which would have meant shaving my head was next, had there been a #3 child. hubs said he was always a ‘long-hair’ guy, but liked my ‘do’. after gracie was a few yrs old, i decided to grow it out. when it was long enough to pull up in a pony tail, hubs thanked me for growing it long. :-/
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You look amazing!! The first thing I saw was your eyes, actually. But you have gorgeous curls too. It’s a cute cut!
While my husband agrees with most men that long hair can be pretty and sexy, he does not think ALL women look best with long hair (maybe it’s because he’s European and not American? I dunno). I had long hair when we met, but after chopping it to chin length 6 months later, he went crazy for it. I’ve grown it long and cut it short, on and off, a bunch of times since then, but he always likes the shorter cuts best. “It’s not that your hair doesn’t look nice long,” he says, “but short hair shows off your face, and I like seeing more of your face than more of your hair.” (Is it any wonder I married this guy?! lol) Plus when it’s short I tend to style it more often–I think his biggest gripe about me having longer hair is that all I do it pull it up into ponytails every day!
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Love it! I chopped mine a month or so ago too and it is SHORT.
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Okay, for starters… These pics make you look like a genuine model. (My opinion, and my daughters would tell you I am pretty honest.) Though, unlike the typical model, your face is sweet and you have that sparkle in your eyes that makes one wonder what you are up to. :> (My 6 year old charmer son has that same look, so I know it well. Mischief is not far from any one of his thoughts!) Your curls are beautiful. Don’t lose the hairdresser.
MY PERSONAL HAIR SOAPBOX
My husband has always had an opinion about hair. LONG. When we met it was long and blond. (After each baby it got a shade browner, and now it is getting a shade whiter!) I’ve tried to keep him generally happy with the length. But I have thick hair, so wearing it up for long gives me “hair aches” (for those who don’t know: painful headaches caused by the weight of your hair up). But my husband does NOT like pony tails all the time. To him is says, “too busy to care/frumpy housewife/lazy teen”. He just does not care for it, unless we are playing volleyball, or working in the side yard. I have 8 children… so extra time to “fix hair”, well… it feels like a sacrifice. I usually just curl the ends under a bit, and make my bangs go in the direction that suits my face best. I do try to make an effort daily to have decent looking hair. But not lots of time… It’s when we go out that I try to curl it up some, and he likes that. (To give him a little credit, he also complements me even with short hair, when I take a bit of time to fix it nice.)
HOWEVER, I’m normal. I’ve done a lot of experimenting. Color. Liked it. Started to look fake. Cut it short. Grew it out. Perm. Loved it. After a while just looked like old frizz. Hacked it into a layered modern type “do” myself. Liked it. Then didn’t like it so much. Let it grow out. Etc. Life unfolds like that I think. Now I’m in decent, but not great looking, shoulder length mode. And I know that I am on the path to growing it out again…
One thing I think is fascinating: My husband is one of the majority of men that seem to LOVE long hair. I’m trying to respect that, and realize that maybe God in fact made him/them that way… and that hair really is an “earthly glory” on women as per the Bible. Fixing long hair, and keeping it looking decent tends to be a daily… pain. But I know how I feel when I have a “bad hair day”. It really does sort of knock me off my feminine feet, and I don’t FEEL pretty. Then I don’t ACT pretty. Even if I just percieve I’m having a bad hair day, it’s a struggle to feel positive at all! Fickle? Shallow? Yes, but also true. So there is something about hair that has a direct psychological link to my general outlook on a day. I can’t explain it. It is a perfect mystery to me. So better for me to take a few minutes to fix my hair daily… sort of like brushing my teeth (which also has a direct impact on my attractiveness if left undone).
ANYWAY… I can appreciate all sorts of styles on ladies. I guess the main difference is how one might DESCRIBE a style on a lady. One style might be really cute. Or pretty. Or elegant. Or beautiful. Or even sexy. I guess my husband does not mind any of those adjectives. All have their pleasant attributes. But if he had a preference he’d fall into the beautiful/sexy camp… and for him that would be slightly curled LONG. Since I’m in the cute/pretty mode (on a good day), I figure I need to do all I can to keep my hair LOOKING as cute/pretty as it can for now. I can’t always pull off beautiful even when I DO have long hair, but I like of the idea of knowing I can get close when my hair is long enough! Until then I’m determined to be the most “pretty” wife I can be… (I don’t know, I’m thinking some highlights might help. :>)
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