I’ve had a complicated relationship with my hair my entire life. It has always been thick and wavy, which sounds like a compliment until you are a child who cannot manage it and your mother solves the problem by keeping it short. For years, I wore a pixie or a ‘Dorothy Hamill’ style. In high school I finally developed enough coordination and patience to handle it myself, and I started growing it out. I loved it long. Even past my shoulders felt like an achievement. For most o