And insecurity is ANOTHER THING I do not have time for. I don’t know why, but short hair makes me self conscious. Now that we have that covered, this is what makes my hair bearable. Then I like the freedom to do something for date night or something particularly instagram-worthy. I’d like to do more to it, but I really don’t care most days. My go-to no-time-for-this look is a ballet bun with a couple bobby pins. At most, I’ll run a straightener through it for 5 minutes or less. My hair is thick-ish, generally straight but super frizzy for the first 6 hours after washing it, and hardly ever “styled”. This is specific to your individual hair and time commitment, but let me tell you about mine (because when it comes to hair, I am lazy af).
So for the rest of us, what makes a haircut easy to maintain? Seriously though.
I always hop out of the salon with a fresh blow out and my hair never looks that good again.īetween all the products, brushes, and straight up SKILL, they’re in a completely different league. It’s easy for them to make anything *look* low maintenance. To them (the pros) they do hair all day! And they do other people’s hair. I had to get a mom haircut and it had to make my hair routine as quick and easy as possible.īut when you tell a hair stylist you’re looking for something low maintenance, they have a totally different idea of what that is. My responsibilities at home superseded most self-care activities, and the mop on my head was an afterthought. Working full-time with a new baby at home calls for some serious rearranging of priorities.I had to bite the bullet. When I made the choice to get a mom bob, I knew what I was doing. So where’s the happy medium? What’s the best, low maintenance haircut for a busy working mom? My hair lived in a messy bun for months because I couldn’t find the time to work with it. But that takes time! Even DRYING the damn mane was a pain (and a commitment). Then I got lazy and let it grow long and that’s when it got real easy. Long hair comes with a lot of flexibility with styling. My mom would have anyone chop off anything and I’d just deal. Haircuts were never a huge decision in my life.