{"id":7362,"date":"2014-11-07T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2015-08-18T03:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T03:07:55","slug":"to-bang-or-not-to-bang-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"To Bang or Not To Bang, That is the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had bangs for the longest time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn\u2019t by choice initially. Mom would cut my hair after she\u2019d finish buzzing my brother\u2019s (he needed to be bribed with a grape-flavored teddy bear lollipop, I didn\u2019t), giving me straight bangs that cut right across my forehead. It was cute, I\u2019d like to think\u2014but even at such a young age when children\u2019s heads were still too big for their tiny, squishy bodies, my forehead covered more surface area than needed to be proportionate to the rest of my face. It was bulbous, even, but forgivable when you\u2019re a bubbly three year old who loved saut\u00e9ed spinach and books more than any child ever should. I was always incredibly self-aware and critical: post bangs, my forehead was seemingly\u2026 <em>normal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn\u2019t until I was 8 or so when I realized that I had the option <em>not<\/em> to bang. It hadn\u2019t even occurred to me that it was (1) a possibility and (2) that I was <em>allowed <\/em>to something in direct opposition to something my mother did. This was my first act of independence (or rebellion): she\u2019d trim my bangs and I\u2019d pin them right back back. Big kids didn\u2019t have bangs, and the beautiful ballerinas whom I aspired to be certainly didn\u2019t have them either. So every week, before ballet, I\u2019d bobby pin my fringe into submission to mimic the sleek, hairsprayed updos all the older girls at Center Stage wore. It certainly wasn\u2019t the most flattering, but it what <em>I<\/em> wanted. In my too-pink Capezio tights, for that full hour, I had staked a claim in who I thought I wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m not sure if I ever grew them out\u2014maybe <em>just<\/em> long enough to pass as shorter layers that framed around my face\u2014because the awkward pre-teen years have been blocked from my memory. What I <em>do <\/em>know is that I went right back to them. It was some combination of familiarity and a reality check that my face simply looked better framed. This time I told my hairdresser to do whatever he thought would suit me best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larry kept the length, but he gave me side bangs. Twice a year\u2014with my DIY attempts in between visits\u2014for eight years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangs became my safety net. My uniform, my unwavering armor, the security blanket I never had. In fact, I considered them such an integral part of my face that I came to think that bangs were <em>who <\/em>I was. Without bangs felt naked. No longer me, unrecognizable. I was Kim, with the long hair and bangs\u2014because when half my face was hidden, so were my insecurities. There were the physical ones\u2014fivehead, baby hairs, hairline, the fullness of my face\u2014and then the internal ones\u2014was I beautiful enough?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got over it soon enough. When you\u2019re old(er), you\u2019re supposed to get wiser\u2014and so <a href=\"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/01\/21-things-i-learned-by-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">instead of bar-hopping or binge-drinking like every <em>bona fide<\/em> 21-year-old<\/a>, I chose to pin my bangs back everyday until they grew out completely. Amongst other things, of course\u2014but it\u2019s the little things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s been a year since. I\u2019m still not 100% okay with my forehead, or my hairline, or the ill-behaved baby hairs halo-ing my head, or my face, but <em>c\u2019est la vie<\/em>. It\u2019s my forehead, bangs or not. <em>All the more for me to kiss<\/em>, an ex-something once told me, and he would keep pecking at me until I had no choice but to pull it all up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So take <em>that<\/em>, insecurities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7367\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/kimberlypearl_\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7367\" data-attachment-id=\"7367\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang-hair\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang3.jpg?fit=499%2C611&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"499,611\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"to bang or not to bang\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang3.jpg?fit=499%2C611&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-7367\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang3.jpg?resize=550%2C673\" alt=\"to bang or not to bang\" width=\"550\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang3.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/to-bang-or-not-to-bang3.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby hairs and all.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">xx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had bangs for the longest time. It wasn\u2019t by choice initially. Mom would cut my hair after she\u2019d finish buzzing my brother\u2019s (he needed to be bribed with a grape-flavored teddy bear lollipop, I didn\u2019t), giving me straight bangs that cut right across my forehead. It was cute, I\u2019d like to think\u2014but even at such a young age when children\u2019s heads were still too big for their tiny, squishy bodies, my forehead covered more surface area than needed to be proportionate to the rest of my face. It was bulbous, even, but forgivable when you\u2019re a bubbly three year old who loved saut\u00e9ed spinach and books more than any child ever should. I was always incredibly self-aware and critical: post bangs, my forehead was seemingly\u2026 normal. It wasn\u2019t until I was 8 or so when I realized that I had the option not to bang. It hadn\u2019t even occurred to me that it was (1) a possibility and (2) that I was allowed to something in direct opposition to something my mother did. This was my first act of independence (or rebellion): she\u2019d trim my bangs and I\u2019d pin them right back back. Big kids didn\u2019t have bangs, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,704,19,20,40,9],"tags":[180,366,698,690],"class_list":{"0":"post-7362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beauty","7":"category-etc","8":"category-kims-diary","9":"category-life","10":"category-outfits","11":"category-style","12":"tag-confidence","13":"tag-diary","14":"tag-girl-talk","15":"tag-hair","16":"entry","17":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>To Bang or Not To Bang, That is the Question \u2022 A Bit Coquettish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I had bangs for the longest time.It wasn\u2019t by choice initially. 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