The straight and the curly of it.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those with straight hair and those with curly hair.

I have curly hair. Up until very recently, my hair was very long. When it was wet and brushed straight, it was down to my butt. When dry and curly, it was more than midway down my back.

When curly hair starts to dry, the hair starts to curl more and shorten up, because the water isn't weighing the hair down anymore.

Most hairdressers have straight hair, so they don't get this concept.

So today, when I asked a hair dresser to cut my wet hair so it would hang two inches below my shoulder, it ended up hanging above my shoulder when it dried. Luckily, my hair looks okay. And, as a bonus, I'll spend significantly less time doing my hair in the morning.

Straight-haired people don't understand that really long thick curly hair can take up to an hour and a half to do in the morning. Most of that time is spent brushing it out. Today, it took two hair stylists 20 minutes to brush out my hair.

Now that my hair's short, it might take me 10 to 15 minutes to do my hair.

Straight-hair people don't understand that curly hair is a curse. I'm always told I have such beautiful curly hair, but people have no idea how much work goes into my hair.

Anyhow, the 11 inches of my "beautiful" curly locks that were cut off today are going to be donated to a wig maker.

The stylist just couldn't let my hair go to waste.

So weird.