I really need a hair cut. It’s getting desperate because I’m starting to eye my grown-out bangs critically and I know where the hair scissors are. That’s never a good thing.

I really liked the cut I got last time, right at the end of the summer. The bob is technically a good cut for me, except that my hair doesn’t like it. It doesn’t co-operate well with the whole concept of curling under at the ends. It prefers to flip up instead. It’s been an enormous pain in the ass trying to get it to behave, and within an hour, one side is always flipping out again no matter what I do. Now that it’s grown out a bit more, I just brush it out and up at the ends anyway.

At this point, I want something that will work with what is natural for my hair. Last Saturday when we went to a birthday party, my friend had one of those hair magazines lying around because she had just gotten hers cut. I flipped through it and found an updated shag cut that I think will work with my hair, my face shape, and my preference for bangs. Lots of bangs.

I don’t know when I’ll get around to going, but I’m hoping my hair god will agree that it’s a good idea for me. If not, I think I’m almost ready to just say, “do something with my hair” and let him do whatever he wants.

Yes or no on the shag?

(I’m too Brit-influenced, I seriously can’t say shag without giggling like a 12-year-old boy.)