{"id":2156,"date":"2012-06-02T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2014-06-15T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:08:34","slug":"the-big-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2156","title":{"rendered":"The Big Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but never really thought I would. Then, maybe a year and a half ago, I began growing it out…casually, not sure I’d really go the distance.<\/p>\n

I’ve loved it long, had fun putting it up in clips and braids. But, the last couple of months seemed to crawl by. I was pretty much over it, and counting the days till today’s cut. Interestingly, I woke up today feeling really crabby and just on edge. I was so nervous! But, once I got comfy in the chair, I was ready!<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I brought along a famed photographer (and her assistant) to document the process.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Donna (my stylist friend) separated my highlighted hair and plopped it on top of my head. The program we used through Pant*ene doesn’t accept processed hair. Thankfully, my highlights are only on the very top layer. Here, she’s dividing the hair into individual pony tails. I promise I wasn’t as nervous as I look. Well, maybe a tiny bit.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

4 ponies, ready to be snipped. Deep breath…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I swear, each one took about a minute to slowly cut off! Well, it felt like it anyway.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And, then she was done. 4, 8 inch ponies ready to be sent to the Beautiful Length*s program!<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

After a wash, cut, and style :) It’s honestly not as short as I thought it would be and I love the cut. It’s taking some getting used to…it feels so light!<\/p>\n

Donna surprised me when she told me there was no charge…standard procedure for her when someone donates. Sweet :)<\/p>\n

I’m so thankful I did this, and I pray that my hair is a blessing to someone in the future…what a privilege it is to do something so simple and hopefully make a big impact on someone else’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but never really thought I would. Then, maybe a year and a half ago, I began growing it out…casually, not sure I’d really go the distance. I’ve loved it long, had fun putting it up in clips and braids. But, the last couple of months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-mom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}