Style Vagrant: In the Mood for BANGS

I haven't had a proper haircut until I was a senior in high school. And by proper I mean anything that was different from the look I've had since I was 10. I was 19 and still and still extremely weary of doing anything major. This is also the time that my love for everything vintage and amazing took over me and I grabbed the scissors and never looked back. I've never even considered going to a salon, because if the hair style won't come out the way I envisioned it, then I will sulk until my extremely forever taking hair grows out. I chopped of almost everything in the back and gave myself some Bettie (Page) bangs.

The best part of having short hair is that it drier immediately and I never had to use a hair brush.

Inspiration for the big change

The amazing & legendary, the only Bettie Page.

Freja Beha Erichsen & Abbey Lee Kershaw

I can't explain how absolutely liberating cutting hair feels.

This was three years ago. Since then I've maintained the bangs, either letting them grow a bit past my lashes or snipping them back into place. I grew out the back to match the rest of my hair, and just as my hair was getting to a proper length, I saw a photo of a girl with half of her head shaved.
I've seen Alice Dellal and kinda of laughed it of at first, but it's just one of those things with me I can see the same thing over and over again and then something will push me, and the timing becomes perfect. I'd say Cassie was the one to blame, because she looked absolutely flawless. So beautiful, even though she was missing half her hair, she was still so girly. So I shaved the right side of my head. My family didn't really appreciate my appreciation for trying different things for myself.

Marceline Abadeer, The Vampire Queen

So now, I had an undercut AND bangs. A few months later, after maintaining the undercut, I got annoyed at how the right side of my hair would look disastrously thin, no matter how it was styled.
This is when I stopped the upkeep and set out on growing out my undercut and my bangs.

The reason that I'm putting so much emphasis on the part that I was through with my bangs, is because I never felt that I looked my best with plain, split down the middle, wavy hair. So that summer after high school when I was "reborn" after I gave myself a big girl hair cut...that's a big deal , because I understood that smartly placed bangs make me look beautiful.

One of my all time favorite pictures of myself. Thanks to the bangs ;)

As always, my changing tastes were ahead of me, so I let the hair grow.
In addition to my many interests, thanks to the fact that I was bored with everything on the radio and was seeking something that I wasn't exposed to enough, I took more notice of death metal. And I fell in love. Hard. (Thank you Black Sabbath for steering me in the right direction!) So me growing out my hair felt right in sync with the style that is prevalent in this genre of music. Now my hair couldn't grow out fast enough. My mama has started asking me how long would I go until I got a hair cut, because my hair was too long. NO my hair is still not long enough.

The day I became one with Abbath

Inspiration for BANG FREE

June Carter Cash

Sheri Moon Zombie, Sid Haig, & Bill Moseley of The Devil's Rejects & House of 1000 Corpses

Frost of Satyricon

Vampira

Laura Stone & Frida Gustavsson, Peter Lindbergh for Vogue, July 2011

Anyway I was trying to fight the overcoming urges and maintain something for a little while, but again, the moods are changing. I love A LOT of types music, so constantly seeing one of my favorite girl groups plastered all over tumblr was definitely not helping me kick the habit of craving bangs (former url).

That's the problem with me. I love so many things that when I try to follow a lifestyle, it doesn't go so well because my interest clash. As in I'm a sucker for anything Vintage, 1940s & 1950s are my soft spot. How do you mix 50s housewife with combat boots. You don't, or rather you don't when you're trying to emulate a look. That's sort of the point of the url. My never ending battle with myself. The things I want constantly slipping away from me and hiding and reappearing inconvenient times. But maybe I'm just being an annoying prick going on about nothing of point.

Anyway enough with the pointless ramblings..............I'm weak, I constantly give in, but that's life. Bangs, to me, mean being carefree and absolutely fabulous. You don't have to worry about having a "look" or being unmade, because the bangs are the look.
How could you not want bangs after seeing something like this???????