I suffered major hair loss almost a year ago due to a stylist who insisted that just a teensy bit more bleach could bring my light blonde to a gorgeous white. Lost about half my hair from the chin down. The only bright side was that with much thinner hair, extensions finally blended in without looking like a mullet and I could still rock long platinum at work. I'd also started doing my own roots pretty well too by that point so I thought I'd slowly recover my hair. Eventually the broken ends reached shoulder length and I cut the rest of my hair to match and had to do away with the extensions because the mullet look came back, but I felt kinda sexy in a 1950s starlet way so it worked out.
Then a couple months ago my AC broke with a full application of bleach on my head in 95 degree weather, and just the little bit of bleach that traveled down the shaft from sweat broke off a few chunks at like 4". There's enough left at bra strap length that it reads that length when styled. The only way to hide the damage, though, is to curl my hair every day I work and push it all to one side. It looks okay as long as I'm really meticulous (I even have customers rave about my hair sometimes) but in my personal life it bothers me a lot to sit around knowing I have like 1/2 my hair left. Not to mention, the constant curling has to fuck up my remaining hair even more in the long term.
One solution is cutting it, but it would have to be pretty damn short. Maybe I could get away with a lob but I don't know. And I would definitely have to rock the lob/bob at work because of the aforementioned mullet problem.
If you were in my position, would you keep trying to hide the damage while it grows out, or just chop it and rock "short" hair (for a stripper) for the next year or two? In the past short hair always fucked up my earnings pretty badly, although I was way more alt looking back then.



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It will grow back fast though and before I cut I did a beautiful ombre! The other silver lining is that my bangs and shortest layers are finally FINALLY all the same length.
And try to minimize the hot styling and washing. Good luck to you. I know what your going through! Losing as much hair as I did and having to cut it after so much hard work and patience was truly devastating.



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