Hip Length To Pixie Cut: How And Why!

Do you ever sit and wonder what you'd look like with short hair? How you'd like it? What people would say?

Do you go back and forth, wondering if you have the courage to ever do it?

It has been an interesting journey for me from my old signature look of butt-length hair to my new style of short pixie cut, and I'm sharing all about that with you today.

Follow along, and see how similar we've probably thought about this topic, and how I made my transition to a more freeing (and adorable) style.

Follow me on Instagram (@beth.shamblin) to keep up with me, more content, and to connect. :)

Shout-out to the stylist for the OG "lived-in" pixie cut: Kelsie Jacob (@hairbykelsiejoy)

Please share this with others who are thinking about making this journey or who just love seeing transformation videos (like I do, ha!), and like and subscribe for more content.

See you in the next video!

Hi everyone, it's beth, welcome back to the channel, i'm going to be walking through my hair journey with you today from how i got from that crazy long, hair um to how i wear it now in this short pixie style. So, let's get started so i had worn for so many years, my hair in this type of style. That um, i don't even really know if it is a style. It was all the way like down to my butt like long past, my waist and i had had long hair for all of my life, except for a couple of years when i cut it short in middle school like to my shoulders, and so this is a Hair saw i was very used to. It was probably my trademark like something that people would say about me. First off, if um, you asked about me like oh yeah, that, like the girl's, a really long, pretty hair, that was kind of my thing - i even won a superlative for in high school, so anyway, just too much focus on the hair, but i mean it was Really pretty it was natural, i never dyed it um, and that was just how it was. It really was um, something that i kind of obsessed over though, and i would you know, take pictures of it all the time just because i really did love how it looked, and i also was proud that i was able to grow it that long and keep It healthy. I then, though, did decide um a several years back to get a big haircut from my obsessively long hair that had only been trimmed. Maybe once a year to i decided, let's take several inches off and have a massive haircut and in that picture in the right i felt so almost kind of naked, because i felt like i lost so much hair, which honestly i did cut off a lot. But it didn't do that much in the overall grand scheme of things, as you can see in the picture, but it felt massive to me um. These are just some more images showing again like how i did let it grow back out. This is around the time i met my now husband and it was just a very long hairstyle. My hair was always very thick, so that was part of this whole process too um, and it was, you know either like long and down and kind of in the way of everything or when i put it up, it would take like several hair bands to keep It up as well, because there was just so much of it even throughout having my hair, long um and really loving it, and you know getting compliments on it daily. I did often think about what it would be like if i did cut my hair shorter. What the hairstyle would look like how i would enjoy it, and here are a couple pictures of me using different hair styling apps, to try to see what those short styles would be like so um. I think this lorealprofessional.com just trying different styles and seeing how i would look with those, because it's something i kept thinking about and wondering about and thinking would i like this, would i uh be able to try it and really, though i felt like i had so Much at stake because my hair was so long and i loved the color and everything that i just i didn't want to try. I didn't want to try cutting it, so i said, but then on and off i would practice and use apps and blur out my hair with editing on my phone to see if i would like it, shorter um and by the way, if you're thinking about doing That it's not a terrible strategy, because, as you can see, my little blur out method did work pretty well. This give me a short hairstyle, even though my hair was way longer than the frame shows so um. You could give it a try, but i put these on here just to show how deep down i kind of had that want anyway, while my hair was long and so again, just obsessively long um. It was part of just who i thought i was at that point in time and um. This is one hour before i had a hair appointment a few years a couple years later, and you know i kept wondering like did. I want to try this short style. Did i have the courage to um? These pictures are taking minutes apart, the first one. You know my hair was just long and loose and then the next one i took it and kind of bunched it like behind my neck, put a little elastic or like a claw clip on it to try to keep it back and turn my head at. Just the right angle and take that picture to see what it would look like. If that day, i decided to tell the hairstylist to take several inches off and i wanted to, but did i have the courage did i truly 100 want to, and so anyway, there's the big chop, the actual result of the haircut that day it was the same Day i just changed, dresses um, so you know i didn't want hair from the haircut getting all down in there, and so that is the big chop of that day. Um. It felt again massive to me um, because you can see from this last picture of me. My hair was way down past my chest and it was a cut, but it wasn't as massive as it felt the time and so um. I kept it long. Let it grow back out even from that massive haircut um throughout one of the happiest seasons of my life, which is here where i got engaged to my husband and we had our. You know engagement season and photos and our wedding and then our honeymoon and i continued wearing it in just that really long style, but that urge and that thought of i wonder what it would look like short and how i would like it still never went away And so, two months after our wedding at my birthday, i made an appointment got my hair cut the very day after my birthday, and it was my first actual bigger cut. So i fed that urge just a little bit to see how i would like it got it about a little longer than shoulder length, which i mean you could tell the haircut before from the last photos. It was, you know, way down onto my back, so it was more significant than any of my others so far, and even with it wanted to it looked even shorter, so it felt massive, but i was really happy with it kind of giggly kind of excited because It was just different and something that i had been wanting really for a while now and deep down. Even if i wasn't 100 percent sure until that moment - and you know with any haircut - it's going to grow and you notice the growth so much faster whenever it's shorter. Because again, i had been used to get my hair cut, maybe once a year just to trim on my ends. But it grew out after that and to kind of what was an annoying mid length and it didn't really like go up well all the time. But it wasn't long enough to do certain styles i wanted, and so i was tired of it, and this was in quarantine, and i decided this was: let's see like summer of 2020, i decided it was time for a haircut, and so i did one myself after Watching a few youtube videos which again youtube is so valuable. Thank you for all those creators who put time into that, and i gave myself my first actual short hairstyle. So it didn't touch my shoulders. It was, i guess you would call it a bob uh. Maybe a lob a long bob and i was very proud of how it turned out. I was really just so in love with this. I had done so much changing on the inside, so so much internal growth over those years that having this shorter style on the outside really felt like it reflected who i was internally, if that makes sense or resonates with anybody. It just felt me - and i got some um comments about that too, from just family and friends like this. I love this style on you. You know it really looks great and i just felt like it represented me very well and i was in love with it and so happy because i did it myself, which i never thought that i could do so. That was my do-it-yourself quarantine, haircut and um. You know, as that went on, i um like to say now that short haircuts are like tattoos, because you want to keep getting more of them, and it is so true because my hair with each cut, which, as i mentioned earlier, you need more of since it's Shorter um, i trimmed it shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter, and you know i have a couple tattoos myself. So i truly understand that, like itch to continue getting more because your mind just kind of wonders to that every now and then and that's how it was with my hair and so each trim. It got shorter and shorter, and i loved that. I really really did like that style and wearing hair shorter. It was so freeing, but you know, as i'm always very transparent with you here. Another factor came into play too. That was out of my control with um things that related to what we can assume or my chronic health issues that i brought up earlier in another video, and it was out of my control. It was pretty upsetting. My husband really encouraged me and he is my biggest supporter um. He really helped me in all aspects with this, and i considered you know it was already short, but it wasn't pixie short or buzz cut short, but i considered doing those things to get ahead and take some control of how i felt and looked and also i Was just ready to be comfortable um? I was kind of excited with the idea of breaking some of those beauty barriers and the standards and expectations that women have to have long hair to be beautiful, because that's what men expect and i i was excited to break those. But i was just so ready to feel comfortable with my hair. You know, that's something. I'Ve changed as i've grown as i i don't dress, or you know, act in any way. That is for other people's benefit, but what's comfortable for me - and i was ready for that, so i took a day of pinterest searching more playing around with hairstyle apps and even made myself look like kate from john and kate, plus eight and um. An appointment was made the next day and there it is the big day um shout out to kelsey jacobs at lox salon who did an awesome job styling this but gosh. I was nervous watching the hair be cut away, and here is the big change. The actual big change that got me to where i am today with my pixie cut and i will say the day felt kind of weird. I mean i'm not going to lie to you and say when you cut your hair in a big drastic change like that. That you're not going to feel kind of weird for a day or so as you adjust to it, because i was like do i still look like me. This feels so strange, but i could not have been happier with it. I got adjusted and we even had a celebratory photo shoot of me that my husband did he's my biggest supporter and also a pretty good photographer. These are my youtube photos that you'll see on my cover image and my profile image, and so they probably look familiar to you, but they have so much significance as you now can see, and it was just really an empowering day and i was so happy to Capture something that was me and it was newly me and it showed who i was kind of inside and out, and it was just so much fun and you know really an emotional day. It was, it really was um and it's been an interesting journey over the years from the point of the picture on the left there, which is how insanely long my hair was to how it is now and how i've kept it um for all these months. Since i got that haircut, but i really just have been thriving with this ever since it is comfortable, it is freeing. I think it's really cute and i get compliments on it all the time out in public too, from um like other ladies or women girls who are like this looks so good on you. I always think about doing this, but i just never had the guts to do it and you know i'm glad you're rocking it, and i love hearing those comments, because i get to share encouragement to them too, that you can do this too, and i think that You will love it. I really just have been thriving with this. I love this style. It is so comfortable and um. So just me, so if you're thinking about it, i hope this gives you a little bit of encouragement. I'M going to be doing more content on women and short hair and breaking those beauty standards in the future and just that journey of self-discovery. So, thanks for following along and i'll see you in the next video

Beth Shamblin - Self-Discovery Journey: 0:00-2:32 - SUPER Long Hair Recap 2:32-3:57 - Hair Changing Apps 4:04-5:22 - Gathering the Courage 5:44-7:05 - Shoulder Length Chop 7:05-8:27 - DIY Quarantine Bob Cut! 8:27-9:56 - Haircuts Are Like Tattoos... 9:56 and on - Breaking Barriers and Becoming Comfortable: THE BIG CHANGE

Beth Shamblin - Self-Discovery Journey: What has been your favorite, most comfortable, most "you" hairstyle? I'd love to know what your journey has been like or if you can relate. :)

Tom Hanlon: Enjoyed your hair journey. Love the chin length bob look the most.

Cassette Anomalies: I've always been more comfortable with long hair but have had many different styles, from buzzcut, mohawk, dyed crazy colors, etc. But Everytime I get the length to where it is currently (a few inches longer than shoulder length) I always start thinking about cutting it idk why lol. Maybe it's just craving a stylistic change. If I do cut it again I'll probably keep the length but get it nice and cleaned up, layered and all that haha.

Buzz Cut: Very very beautiful. I really like it a lot

L'ART EST LA MATIERE: Far better short ! Congrats ! Go ahead shorter !!

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