My Hair Story

I was born with "peach fuzz" and it was all I had for more than two years, so ever since my hair began to grow my hair has played an important role in my life. My name is Katie, and this is my hair's story.

Bald and beautiful

I bought my first box of "sun-in" in 7th grade. It turned my hair a nice brassy orange-yellow and definitely didn't help with the awkwardness that is also known as middle school. (Thankfully, most of the photographic evidence from that time in my life has been properly disposed of.) As I entered high school and continued through college, I did a few highlighting kits and dying kits just because, you know, blondes have more fun, and $7 for a new look wasn't too bad.

Nuclear yellow after the white coat ceremony (after vacationing in FL!)

Studying for biochem with long blonde locks

Dolled up for Caduceus Dance ("Med school prom")

After starting med school (and unfortunately experiencing the lack of sleep associated with it) I decided it was time to become more serious and go dark. Besides, people should take me more seriously that way, and maybe (hopefully!) I would stop getting asked what high school I go to. I know that's supposed to be a compliment but it gets old after a while (Ha- no pun intended!). After becoming brunette I would occasionally play around with different colors - reddish brown, light brown, dark brown, I sampled the spectrum of brown-ness and had some fun.

sitting in the bathroom posing for a photo :)

Redhead at Keeneland

For almost a year now, though, I have kept my hair natural...I was sick of dealing with roots and split ends, and it has been awesome! I literally have not cut my hair since 1 year ago today when I chopped it all off.

May 31, 2008

However, after looking online at hundreds upon hundreds of "wedding hair" photos, I decided that I want to lighten up a bit. So today, after searching tons of hair photos I have come full circle and am now back to the tow-headed kid I used to be. It's still growing on me (HA...I just can't help myself) but I like it a lot. And Chris does, too, which is great. He's never dated blonde-Katie (I went brown a few months before we started going out) so he was probably more excited about it than I was! Anyway, here's the old- and new-hair Katie, with curls!

Before:




After!