Hairy Situation

(Picture 1 from a few years ago. Picture 2 taken a minute before posting.)

If you don’t already know, I got a haircut 2 Fridays ago. Big shocker, no? It is. I did it to please my parents. Really, it was a win-win situation. See, my parents always want me to get a hair cut. Now they know that they technically have no control over me and my hairy decisions, but they love being persuasive. It’s their nature. So I finally decided to give in during my Thanksgiving break and get my cut. They won. They got their son to get a haircut. I won as well though. See… I had all week to get my hair cut, I could’ve gone before Thanksgiving. But I decided not to. I decided to go with my long, semi fixed hair to our family thanksgiving dinner. And damn I looked good. I decided to wait, till black Friday to get about 2 inches cut off. That’s a lot of hair. Enough to make my head feel reasonably lighter.

So why don’t I cut my hair every month like a lot of people do? Why do I wait 3-6 months before I go into the salon? I love my messy hair. It makes me somewhat unique. When I’m back home, I like getting up in the morning and scaring my mother and father with my messy hair.

It keeps me warm during the fall and winter seasons. As I was walking out of the hair parlor last Friday, the breeze blew through my hair and gave me chills that I normally don’t feel when I have a full head of hair. I was cold. Not even my hat could protect me from the cold breeze. Hair is designed to keep one’s head from getting cold. It is also designed to project a person from getting a sunburn on their scalp. So hair is a good thing. So why hack it off? Why even fix it? To look nice? Albert Einstein had messy hair. Teenage heartthrob Robert Pattinson has messy hair. And they both pull it off. Even glamorous women artists such as the sexy Paulina Rubio and sexy Shakira have wild hair that makes them look good. Granted, lately Shakira’s hair has been more tamed lately, unlike her videos. Maybe I don’t pull it off as suave as they do but I really don’t care. People say presentation is key, and I agree. But

I also save money. I did the math and depending on where I go, a SuperCuts or California Cuts, I would be spending $180 to $240 a year on hair cuts. This is based on a monthly haircut. By only getting a haircut 3-4 times a year, I only spend $45-$80. I save about $100-$195 a year! That’s a hair load of money. In this economic crisis, haircuts should be a luxury. With the money I save I have more to buy food with and do other stuff I love, even buying hats.

So if you want to know when I will get my next haircut, so you don’t seem so surprised, it will happen somewhere between the end of February and the end of March or early April.