Are you thinking of cutting a short fringe (or bangs, if you will), but not sure if you are ready for that mid-forehead skimming life? Here are some handy pros and cons to help you make up your mind. You can thank me later. With wine. At the hairdressers. While we get our fringes trimmed.

Cons

Your running shadow won’t like you: You’ve turned it from a regular looking shadow into one that looks like that professor character from the Simpsons as your hair awkwardly parts somewhere in the middle and flies straight back and up. God help me to think what it must actually look like from the front in real life (ie, not shadow life. Obvs a totally other life).

You can’t wash and go anymore: You need to spend at least 3.47 minutes combing and “bouncing” your fringe to just right and then you should wait until it’s pretty much definitely dry before you leave the house just in case the wind should blow it into some weird shape and then it will be stuck like that all day. Like your mum used to warn you about when you pulled faces, if the wind does change, you will look like that forever. FOREVER.

Waking up is hard to do: Gone are the days of yonder where you could wake up and bed hair really suited you and it was probably your finest hair hour (only to be brushed and then lay flat and fine against your head as per usual). When you wake up now, while the rest of your hair may be bed hair bouncy, your fringe will be sticking straight up like a 15 year old boy at prom.  Which is not what will eventuate if you happen to wake up next to someone with said morning time short fringe.

Waking up hungover is even harder to do:  Think the morning fringe, but oily, so it’s still sticking up high, but also kinda limp. Sexy.

Your hair has memory: You hair does not forget the 30 odd years of parting your hair on the right and sweeping it across your forehead and still wants to live this way. Which leaves you always trying to sweep it back into the centre, making you look awkward and ill at ease with your fringe. Which is not the case, because you love your fringe.

Your dry shampoo bill will increase ten-fold: Oily hair is never good at the best of times, but if your front-and-centre fringe gets oily, well, that’s just not a good look. Always keep at least two cans of dry shampoo on standby just in case.

Exercise becomes an enemy: Whereas you used to be able to pull all your hair back into a ponytail and mostly escape the sweat that comes from exercise, now your fringe hangs out with that sweat. They’ve made friends and stick together like peas in a pod.  Likewise if you’ve just moved to a hot and humid AF city like I have, you don’t even NEED to exercise for your hair and sweat to become buddies. Just step outside and let that friendship blossom.

Scissors are also your enemy: No, the hairdresser did not make a mistake cutting your fringe, and no, you do not need to grab the nail scissors and “just fix it a little”. No.

Pros

You look like a babe: Seriously, you’ll love yourself sick every time you pass a mirror or window or selfie camera (what, how did that get there?! *looks shocked*).  Why you haven’t been wearing your hair like this since you had hair is beyond me, really.