I’m rising out my shorter hair so that it’s going to sit simply above the shoulder and am instructed by my hair stylist that what I’m formally doing goes from a “bob” to a “lob”. For the previous two years I’ve swung between these two comically-named hair lengths and have had (clearly) each size in between and so I assumed that I may share some experience on the matter: particularly, the right way to develop your hair via that difficult center part. When it now not hugs the jaw and appears cool and uneven, however just isn’t but lengthy sufficient or weighty sufficient to hold properly.

The Lord Farquaad Stage. The Triangular Period. When the hair seemingly solely desires to develop outwards slightly than downwards and will get increasingly wedge-like the longer it will get. It’s hair purgatory: you’re left ready round for an indefinite period of time, questioning what the hell you are able to do to cease your self from wanting like a Brownie Chief from the eighties.

Right here’s what – and all credit score goes to my hair colourist and stylist Cassie* for these reducing ideas:

1 – Maintain it trimmed. Don’t assume that by ignoring the lower because it’s rising out you possibly can velocity up the method: it’ll simply look crappier for longer. I’ve discovered that it’s much more necessary to remain on prime of the lower, as a result of in that nowhere land that’s “between jaw and shoulder” any straggliness is a lot extra apparent. The hair ends are simply hanging there, as if on show. So maintain having it lower usually and:

2 – Ask for a number of the weight to be taken out of the again, when you’ve got thick hair or a number of high-quality hair. I’ve simply had the again sliced into (there’s no layering) to take out a number of the heft and I’ve discovered that my hair is sitting extra neatly and doesn’t billow out behind me just like the hair of a medieval lute participant.

3 – Additionally discuss to your hairdresser about getting an A-line lower. That is when the hair is lower ever so barely longer on the entrance, regularly getting shorter as you get to the again. We’re speaking delicate quantities of distinction right here, not the total Vidal Sassoon works – it simply appears to make the form look extra purposeful. Reasonably than apologetic. It’s additionally far more modern-looking – I get my shorter bobs lower A-line too, it’s a nifty little trick.

So by taking some weight out of the again and retaining the stunning A-line lower that I’ve when it’s shorter, I really feel as if I largely handle to keep away from the dreaded Lord Farquaad triangle-head of doom. The one (huge) boon with rising it, although, full-stop, is that it’s lastly lengthy sufficient to tie again and so if there’s ever a really dangerous triangle-head day I can simply whack it right into a (nonetheless very puny and little or no) bun.

Actually that’s actually the explanation I’m rising it again out to the shoulder, or simply above it; a lot as I like the messy bob for its instantaneous coolness and talent to simply look nice with little or no styling concerned, I actually miss having the ability to scrape it again right into a bun or ponytail.

Exhibit C (the bun):

Let’s all take a guess at how lengthy it’ll be earlier than I get uninterested in all the time pulling it again right into a ponytail and wish to chop all of it off once more…

By the way in which, there’s completely nothing incorrect in any respect with having any hair size between jaw and shoulder – my hair stylist truly likes the size I’ve now greater than she’s preferred every other lower she’s accomplished – it’s only a well-liked hair “hazard space” as a result of it’s the size the place lots of people come unstuck. They begin to develop out shorter hair however don’t have it re-cut and re-shaped as they go and – properly – we’ve mentioned what occurs. Medieval lute gamers unite.

*I’ve my hair lower and colored at The Suite in Bathtub and have accomplished for years. I’m a completely paying buyer and go to Cassie or Mathilde, you will discover their web site right here.