When I was a kid, I had light brown hair. It was like a caramel color. The length was short, but not too short--almost shoulder length. I liked it for a while, but then l got into high school and I started falling in love with the scene hair craze. It was the hipster style that made me feel more like myself so I started fantasizing about changing my hair. And boy, I have changed my hair so much since then.
In 9th grade, I would trim my hair ever so often and kept my honey blonde highlights (from the box) going. I had no interest in changing it much. But 10th grade was when I started getting into changing my hair often. I had almost blonde hair from the sun and I started letting it grow a lot. I started looking at black, purple, and red hair and thought about getting the "comb over" bangs (which, in fact, I had until recently). But I let the sun do its thing and continued to let it grow.
Finally, the summer before 11th grade I had let it grow so much it was almost at my hips and I actually put bright blond highlights in. That year I kept it long, but it got so tiring to keep up with that I cut it back to my shoulder length hair and a few months later I died it black with a little red. That was my favorite thing. My senior year I was feeling more like myself because of my hair. I just let the black fade and continued putting red in.
When I started college, I had reddish black hair as the dye wasn't fading. It had been a year at that point so I kept it. I never did anything to my hair until my second year. I had trimmed it like normal and then right before Christmas of 2015 I chopped 10 inches off to get a really sassy pixie cut with red highlights and ever since been keeping that and the red highlights. Now, I am in the process of growing out the pixie cut to get shoulder length hair again.
What I've learned from changing my hair is that my shoulder length hair was always my favorite length. I also liked my blackish red hair the most. So, my first goal is to grow my hair out and then figure out what I'm going to do with my highlights because hair is the biggest expression you can make as it is a more permanent part of your style. Hair has and will always be in my heart.