Hm.

[marydell]

So, I'm growing out my bangs.  I haven't attempted this in many a year (having consistently been a short-hair person for nearly a decade prior to my current long-hairness) and whenever I did attempt it in the past, I would give up and cut my bangs again as soon as they got to the extremely-lank stage.  My hair's a little thicker these days, thanks to depo-provera I think, so it approaches the thickness of your average very young child's hair. I'll take what I can get.  Anyway my bangs now end just around the tip of my nose, so I pin them back on the "wide" side of my part, and just kind of swipe at them on the "narrow" side of my part.  Pinning back both sides is a hassle and looks dorkier than just the one side, sort of.  With the understanding that "dorky" is the starting point for my particular look, and it just increases exponentially as I fiddle with it.

Anyway, I've been pleased with the general good behavior of the eventually-to-be-former bangs, except that right now my whole left cheek is totally broken out.  Like some Batman villain called Dr. Acne shot me in the face with his acne gun.  This is another thing I can thank the depo-provera for, but also apparently having my hair touch my face, ever, makes my skin totally crazy.  

So now I'm rocking almost the exact look I had when I was 14 years old, except my glasses are a lot smaller and my eyebrows have had several stern talkings-to over the years, such that they are now well-behaved. [edit: and without the benefit of retouching IRL, alas for my skin] If I continue the cycle, I suppose I will have to move along to a mullet in a couple of years.  Dorkiness forever!

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

!! I, too, had those ginormous glasses back in ye olde daye.

On the other hand, your icon photo looks sultry.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have a deeply unsultry personality but I occasionally can fake it for the camera. Followed by a quick return to goofy & facetious.

I distinctly remember picking out those glasses with my mom & aunt, and them both worrying that the lenses were too small. Ugh and the lenses were made of *glass* back then, remember how heavy those fuckers were?

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes yes. Soooo heavy!

[notodette.livejournal.com]

Cu-ute! I like your 14 yo self!

[pameladean]

Aww, you were cute! Not that you aren't now, but there's something about 14, you know?

P.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I had those glasses, too! And hair like that, but much longer.

The glasses were heavy motherfuckers.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

My high school and early college boyfriend dug out a photo of me in the most ginormous frames evar (totally Berke Breathed character sized, seriously). So kyoot, and I want them back, dammit! I like having peripheral vision of a sorts while wearing glasses, as opposed to the peepholes they call "big frames" now.

I'm back to an old hairstyle, too. Except that I've done a range of them, so it'd take something truly bizarre to not harken back to a bygone era.

Hope your left cheek improves soon.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I first read the initial sentence as your growing out your fangs.
I need new glasses.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

or I need to adopt your new plan for changing my look. Fangs would be useful, I think!

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I also had those glasses. At the same time that I had a mullet. AND my lenses were tinted brown. Oh, 1987. Never ever ever come back.

[seawasp]

1987? Young punk! 1976 for me!

[seawasp]

Oh, you're Kawaii in your new icon just like you were at 14. Well, more kawaii now, at least from my current point of view (which is good, I'm heading for 50, I'd have to worry if I found 14 year olds cuter than adults).

MACGYVER had a mullet, which means it's always in style and always cool.

I *wanted* larger-lensed glasses like that, but my correction was (and is) so strong that such glasses would have been like two inches thick at the edge and weighed five pounds.

I also wore things no sane man or woman would look at.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! The icon is actually from before I started growing the bangs, so is more kawaii than my current straggly look (right now I look pretty much like this, (with the long parts of my hair properly pinned up of course): http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrawn150/4722584751/in/photostream/. Note that Charlie has stolen both my glasses and all the available cuteness.). I have hopes that once the hair is all one length I can pin it up and look something between elegant and artsy.

My parents let me switch to plastic lenses and metal rims (despite their conviction that they were unwise for various reasons) after I broke three pairs of glass-lens glasses. I kept taking them off and putting them on my desk, whence they would fall to the floor, because they were so heavy. And that was with pretty mild correction. I can't imagine having to deal with strong correction in the pre-plastic-lens days...my nose hurts just thinking about it.

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! I love this entry! Growing up bangs requires extreme dedication! It is not an easy task. When you get desperate you could try a head band...

I love your grade school picture! Soooo cute! :)

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

*growing OUT bangs! lol

[readinggeek451]

I had those huge frames, too! And long, straight hair, although mine was parted on the side. I was a bit older, though.