entirely frivolous post

[sebastienne]

Dearest internets:

Speak to me of hair, and of drag.

In about three weeks' time, I am doing a drag turn as Stephen Fry. I am also very bored of my current haircut, and in desperate need of a change.

It seems obvious to me that these two factoids can be combined to their mutual benefit.. however I would like to avoid, as far as possible, looking like this.

I have had some damn weird hair over the years, and am not afraid to get quite radical cuts.. but at the same time I am vain. I'm not convinced that I look right without the hair from my forehead grown to around chin length - shorter and I'm into "aargh, a fringe!" territory, longer and it starts to hang strangely, or get reflexively tucked behind my ears.

So I'm thinking about compromises. A happy medium where most of my hair can be quite short (hurrah, low maintenance!), but the fringe-parts stay chin-length (hurrah, socially-acceptable prettiness!). I'm imagining that such a cut would allow me to pull off effective drag if I were to sweep the fringe-parts back. But does such a cut exist in the real world? Will I really end up looking like this, or is this the closest I can expect to get to butch if I try to keep the front of my hair chin-length?

Comments

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that. I think that you look totally awesome in those photos, but know immediately how uncomfortable I'd sometimes feel with that haircut, even if I knew I looked awesome a lot of the time.