hair fashion

[wavyarms]

I know, I'm totally over-posting on LJ tonight, but I'm enjoying having an evening at home (which won't happen again for a week...ugh) and my VERY OWN STUDIO with a WORKING INTERNET CONNECTION.

*ahem* Sorry to holler.

Anyways, I have a fashion question. I have so far at school (both the middle school where I subbed, and the high school where I am permanently) avoided wearing my hair down - it's always been up in a bun, or at least back in a braid. I sort of feel that having my hair down is unprofessional. Am I crazy? I just feel that b/c it's quite blond, and quite long, it's sort of going "Look at me!" when I wear it down, and I don't really want to do that when I'm working. Also, I worry about differentiating myself from the high school students - I am totally waiting for the day when I get stopped in the hall and asked for my pass.

Thoughts? Should I keep on with this habit, or am I full of it?

Comments

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

My hair has always been long, and I recently chopped it off entirely for partly that reason - but also because my hair was *messy* and I was finding it impossible to keep neat. And I was sick of it. :)

When my hair was long, I mostly didn't wear it loose because of the messiness factor - my hair gets bushy and needs containment of some sort. So at a minimum I would clip the top part back and leave the rest loose. Lots of ponytails and buns. But that's me, and *my* hair issues.

Mostly I was going to say what ltbird said - look at other teachers and see what they do. For a while, I was even checking out strangers in the grocery store or whatever - "Hmmm, she has long hair, look how she's wearing it.... do I like that? Does she look professional? Could I do that with mine?" - and figured out a lot of how *I* view these issues that way.

[samtheeagle.livejournal.com]

I had to chuckle at your comment that your hair needs "containment." My brain said, all by itself: "Yeah, Kirsten's hair and North Korea." (Proof that I need sleep, I guess.) :)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Now that my hair is short, it's easier to ascertain whether there are any nuclear weapons hidden in there. I'm just sayin'.

I really need a Wild Hair icon. Alas.