1. Excitement
It’s time for a change. Yay! You can’t wait to toss your luscious mane over your shoulder and not have to worry about blow-drying the front of your hair every single morning to get your bangs to look good (or just lay flat). Besides, bangs are so 2014.
2. Optimism
Awesome: It looks like your hair grew about half a centimeter this week. At this rate, maybe you’ll be able to shove your bangs behind your ear by the time summer rolls around. Guess you’d better stock up on bobby pins in the meantime.
3. Frustration
You knew it wasn’t going to be super easy. In fact, you prepared by bookmarking a million articles on how to style hair when you’re growing out bangs. But clearly, those writers weren’t dealing with your unruly locks. Can anyone over 7 years old really pull off a headband or barrettes?
4. Joy Over Slight Progress
Okay…maybe you can rock this side-swept swoopy bang thing for a while? Gonna need more hairspray, though! (Sorry, ozone layer.)
5. Desperation
What the eff, hair?! Do you need to start taking biotin? There must be something wrong with your diet or your shampoo. Maybe you should start saving up for hair extensions? Ugh.
6. Determination
You can do this—just a few more inches to go! At about this point, you fall down a rabbit hole of YouTube tutorials on braided hairstyles that will help you twist your hair out of your face. You feel proud of yourself and totally sophisticated—but only on the days you actually happen to wake up early enough to even attempt styling your hair. Most days, you’re unapologetically wearing all of the bobby pins in the entire world at once. Or scarves. Or a hat.
7. Weakness
You have a big event coming up next weekend, and you realize that there’s no way you can wear your hair down without looking like Shaggy Dog. Maybe if you just snip off a tiny bit yourself, it’ll look better?
8. Panic
OMG, disaster. Why did you go anywhere near those scissors? You call your hairstylist in a frenzy to schedule an emergency bang trim. You’ll pay extra to make sure she can squeeze you in ASAP if necessary.
9. Resignation
You walk out of the salon sporting baby bangs à la Beyoncé. It’s okay. You’ll be able to grow them out in no time…right?
