by James Nelson II

There’s no easy way to live through a bad haircut: that’s just the cruel truth about it. Aside from the obvious-avoiding a bad haircut situation in the first place-surviving a nasty ‘lowering of the ears’ gone wrong is more about what you choose to do next and how you deal with it.

So the cut went wrong. One can’t very well walk around with obvious dints and dents in their mane of glory…consider the re-cut. Yeah it may be yards shorter than you ever feared in your worst nightmares, but it’s all about how you set your mind about it. Make it a choice: tell people you shaved it for a charity…better yet, actually donate to one and brag about it to friends and co-workers. Transform your dismayed ego into an act of social grace. In fact, dare your buddies to join you. What started as a heinous chop will become a merit badge in your personal history. One day you’ll even be able to laugh about it.

Once you make the determination to go all the way with a new ‘do’, however temporary you wish to make this style choice, you have to decide who’s going to do it for you. Did your barber or stylist make an innocent mistake? Were they trying something new that went wacko on your head? Have they been pretty on the spot for you for a long while, and this just represents an unfortunate event? Or did you make that fatal decision to just pop into a new place cause it was convenient, while you were on the run? We really wouldn’t advise you to begin home-barbering in the bathroom if your hand/eye coordination isn’t aerospace accurate! Make sure you find an experienced operator that you trust to pull the phoenix from the fire rescue routine on your man-mane!

By now, it should be clear that surviving this situation is 99% mental…only time will allow your locks to return to former glory.  In the meantime, don’t walk around looking like you have the mange. You never know, you might even like the new look that results. Bottom line: make lemonade out of lemons.