Long Hair Short.

Long Story Short.

Check out my friend's sweet and condensed story @ http://beatuifulday.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/jubilee/

There are things that defined beauty for me. One of those things was HAIR. A silly thing such as hair. Yes! I know I'm not the only one. It's not a bad thing. For those of you who knew me- I loved messy, big, crazy hair. I spent years and years growing out my hair and it was finally where I wanted it! Not only did I love it, but other people loved it. (besides those who have had to brush through it or my mother!) The days I didn't do my hair were the days random strangers would come up to me and ask how I did my hair. My prideful response was :"I didn't do it, actually. This is au naturale". The days I was insecure of my skin or didn't wear makeup, I could hide behind my hair. A safety net. There, I said it!

A traumatic experienced challenged me and my friend Molly to take a "radical" action that was an outward expression of what was in our hearts.

(Again-*Read* http://beatuifulday.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/jubilee/) 

I watched what used to be beautiful become chains that dropped to my feet as we hacked off the hair of precious Marta to bring about her freedom. I have never seen beauty the way I did that day. And it had absolutely nothing to do with an outward appearance. 

I wasn't going to do it. I was NOT about to chop my hair off. The more I thought about it, I became disgusted with the way I held outward appearance so close. I started imagining a freedom I could walk into through a simple act. I knew it was the only right thing to do at that moment. I can't even tell you the change in my heart since that day. I will never expect anybody to understand. Some do, but most don't. And that's ok. **A cool little side note- I happened to have my camera with (which is weird if I'm not going to or coming from a shoot) so we got to capture this, and I got to donate 12 inches of hair!

I think we all get the moral of the story. I hope this inspires you to go a little deeper and discover the gold in people we've never seen before.