Never Give In.

"You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

-Winston Churchill

a brave man.

I come from a family of beauticians. I, myself, am not a beautician, in any sense of the word. I can barely apply my own mascara correctly. But, having watched my mother cut hair all of my life, and seen my sisters get into similar professions, I thought I'd test my hair styling skills on Noffy! 

He looks fantastic with a faux-hawk, which he discovered when a good friend in Kansas City styled it. So I figured I'd try my luck (or his) and cut it similarly. My teacher, of course: YOUTUBE! I used the crappiest pair of haircutting scissors in existence, which were probably closer to kindergarden scissors than anything else! We had an electric clipper handy, 'cause we were pretty certain it wasn't going to turn out that great, but it actually ended up looking WAY better than expected! There was only one little "whoopsie" that forced us to buzz it, otherwise it would have looked awesome!

The "BEFORE" and "AFTER"

The reason the cut didn't end up working out was because of how I cut the left side (pictured left). Instead of combing the hair forward and cutting with the direction of his jaw, like I had successfully done on the right side (pictured right), I forgot what I was doing and cut straight out, making it all choppy.

Sooooo... since the cut was not a complete success, we decided to have a little fun with the clippers!

And the finished product! Honestly, I had a more difficult time with the clippers than I did with cutting! Those things are scary!

For now, we'll let it grow out so I can practice again! ;)

(P.S. This is the video I used.)