It had been over a year, and those braids were getting a little unruly, so I decided it was high time to get myself a haircut. A trusted axe-throwing friend of mine with straight, true aim (you really wouldn’t want a friend with bad aim doing this) sharpened up his hatchet, measured out my braids, and with two thwacks on the chopping round, my hair was cut. I call it the mountain woman haircut. And to think, some ladies pay a lot of money and spend substantial time at the hairdresser being tortured with itchy little bits of hair on the back of their necks for the same result. For those of us modern homesteading women who are busy doing our homesteading things, have unruly children, don’t feel at home in the salon, or just plain can’t sit still very long, it’s the perfect way to get your tresses trimmed, not to mention it makes for a fun story to tell in your old age. Your family will be talking about their awesome great-grandma who cut her hair with an axe for generations to come.
What a cool way to get a hair cut! I have a short pixie cut so I'd probably get decapitated if someone tried to cut it with an axe. But I'm tempted to grow it now just so I can get 'the mountain woman haircut'.
Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned that long hair is required for the mountain woman haircut. I still have a lot left!
I sure would live to see this hair cut featured in style mag. Love it!!
Amber
But how did it look after it was unbraided? Need to tidy up the ends? I think I will sick with my boyfriend trimming my tressses with a sharp pair of hair shears rather than an axe 🙂
He braids my hair for me, but I prefer it not to be cut that way.
It actually was a pretty clean cut, and since I rarely wear my hair unbraided, there was no tidying up to do. If someone in my immediate family ever learns how to cut hair, I'll take them up on it, but in the meantime I'm just letting it grow.