Life in time of COVID – taking care of self

What you see in the photo is evidence of my most recent haircut. That would be the one I gave myself this morning. I’m not sharing a photo of the remaining hair on my head, not because it’s a terrible haircut (it is, of course, a terrible haircut) but because I don’t post photos of myself on the internet.

Besides, who wants to see a photo of terrible haircut?  

I do have a thing or three to say about it, though. I don’t have a future as a hair stylist, but I have paid attention when Sarah has cut my hair. I do know that putting a bowl over one’s head and cutting off all visible hair is not a good idea. Individual hairs must be snipped.

I have no patience for snipping individual hair, but I was willing to snip smallish clumps of it. Mostly.

I also have noticed that Sarah cuts all over my head, not just working one spot to perfection before moving on to the next. I was willing to do that.

I confess that it is a mystery to me how Sarah knows what length to cut, so I decided I’d just cut off all hair longer than the width of three of my fingers.  I could swear I did that, but it seems that either my hair has grown half an inch since this morning or I was actually cutting more like four finger-widths. Possibly I was concerned with cutting off my own fingers, since I wasn’t bothering with a mirror.

The hair is pretty short, no matter how many fingers you measure by.

At some point I did look in a mirror. I ignored the overall results and just identified the bits that were sticking out and clearly too long. This resulted in the hair being rather shorter than it usually is in the back.

When I forced myself to stop trying to make it all even, I took the time to admire the hair I’d so blithely cut off. What a nice job Sarah had done with coloring! I had received many compliments on the results just six weeks ago when she had last touched it up. Kind of a calico-cat effect. All of which was now in the catch-pan and pretty much not on my head anymore.

Three things:

1. I have faith that Sarah can fix this whenever I can see her next, COVID permitting.
2. I’m sending Sarah an advance on my next cut via PayPal right away.
3. I have hats.