There's Something About The Bang Bangs
Hey there! (What's with the starting the posts like an email?)
Remember when I told you all that I was going bald?
Well, there's good news around here. The hair! is! growing! back! And while I am overjoyed about not removing the equivalent of a Tea-Cup Yorkie from my head [three times a week if I'm lucky] after every shampoo, the return of the activity in the follicles is bringing with it, well, some pretty ODD arrangements.
Behold The Bang Bangs:
The name Bang Bangs, just to [make this already ridiculously long and equally meaningless post even longer and less meaningful] let you in on the joke, is derived from the college age term 'Butt Butt', which is when your in-profile ass cheek is large enough to have a smaller ass cheek underneath it. You know, a Butt Butt.
ANYWAY.
So, in this picture my real bangs (which are considerably longer and usually worn swept to the side) are pinned up. Those poseur bangs are merely the new growth that is coming in now that [my body has gotten its proverbial head out of its ass and realized that I've already given birth and that any potential threat to the fetus re: my hair is long gone] my hormones have regulated.
The real problem with The Bang Bangs, of course, is what to do with them. Do I slop some product on them and skoosh them over to the side, trying to effect a blend-in? Do I wear them down and just feign ignorance, the equivalent of a man with A Comb-over? I'm at a loss, really.
Maybe I should just embrace The Bang Bangs.
You know, keep positive and use this as an opportunity to change my look for the better.
I have those, too. They're so bad that my mom actually asked me "Did you cut your own bangs? Because those don't look good at all."
Like I'd willingly try to create this effect.
I try to sweep mine to the side and blend them with my real bangs. They always poke back out, though.
Posted by: Christina | April 09, 2008 at 08:03 AM
I don't have any tips as to what to do with them but I sure can relate. 2007 was a highly stressful year and my hair started falling out by the handful. I was seriously starting to worry that I would be bald. I noticed a couple months ago that the hair loss had stopped (as had the stress!) and looky there! New hair is starting to grow...all over my head and it likes to stand straight up as though I'm being mildy electrocuted all.the.time. But I won't complain...at least it's coming back!
Posted by: Lora | April 07, 2008 at 02:05 PM
HA! I have bang bangs as well and they just get swept in with everything else.
Posted by: ImpostorMom | March 31, 2008 at 04:31 PM
But would The Man be willing to help you out with the new 'do?
Posted by: Manic Mommy | March 31, 2008 at 08:08 AM
I am so tired of pregnancy messing with people's hair. I used to have really pretty, easy straight hair. Three kids later, it's unevenly curly. (I'm clearly pretty upset about it.)
Posted by: Stimey | March 31, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Oh god, I'm so with you on this. Only I have bang bangs all over my head--an entire layer of inch and a half long hair that sticks straight up. I knew about the hair falling out but why didn't anyone mention this!
Posted by: Laura Lou | March 30, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Snork. So your hair is, like, actually DONE and smooth and such and your baby is not a year old yet? Um, I'm sorry, but I can't help you. I just rocked a mess-tastic shag for that whole year because it was just going to do its own thing anyways.
Posted by: mimi | March 30, 2008 at 09:19 PM
I had the same thing. Except mine were short and underneath my real bangs making it look like I had to layers of bangs. It was super attractive. : /
Posted by: Erica | March 30, 2008 at 04:40 PM
There ain't no stopping the bang train.
Posted by: flutter | March 30, 2008 at 03:48 PM
Accidental, unintentional bangs.
Posted by: The NG's Little Sister | March 30, 2008 at 03:13 PM
OMG I barely got passed the butt-butt without snorting tea out my nose!
Posted by: Clink | March 30, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Ha! At least those bangs looks nice. All my postpartum hair loss was remedied with these little fly-aways that do nothing but make my head look perpetually unkempt.
So, I'd totally embrace the bang bangs, as long as any styling you do with them doesn't involve...ahem...a bodily fluid.
Posted by: Kelly | March 30, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Hey! I had those! Only, in my world, they were called: "those fucking annoying pieces of whispy hair". Bang bangs is much nicer!
Posted by: Jen | March 30, 2008 at 10:49 AM
It's like the universe is telling you that you MUST HAVE BANGS.
:)
Posted by: Motherhood Uncensored | March 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM