A “Boy” or “Pixie” Haircut

I have had really long hair (just below above my knees) till 1997, that’s 28 years of my life. The first ever time I cut my hair to waist length was in Mumbai in 1997, when we were smack in the middle of our bankruptcy.

Then we reached Delhi in Aug 1997, and slowly my hair kept getting shorter. I reached shoulder length and finally in 2000, I got my first “boy” cut – totally short.

I had lost oodles of weight, and worked with Pizza Corner at that time. My colleague Prashant and I were in Chennai for work and for some reason they wanted a pic of mine to be clicked in the Pizza Corner uniform. This photo above was clicked in a photo studio in Kilpauk Garden Road, near the cemetery. Prashant cracked a joke just when the photographer clicked this pic and this is probably the best passport size photo of mine ever.

All other passport size pics have me looking glum :):).

I again got this “boy” cut done in 2016 when I wanted to let my grey hair to be showcased :). That was a short lived project and I soon went back to colouring my hair.

A couple of days back we were in Chennai for Chitappa’s 10th and 13th day ceremonies. I got together with Latha and went to her hairdresser to get a haircut. The shoulder length hair wasn’t working for me, as the humidity rose. Dealing with a permanently wet scalp is not very exciting.

I toyed with the idea of a short layered hair cut, but then told Pavithra to simply go the distance and give me a pixie or boy cut. She left one last layer more than what I had in the Pizza Corner pic, which I may just snip off once we are back in Gurgaon.

Please do share your thoughts on which look works for me …