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Journey - Growing Out My Hair

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After 10 years, why am I putting myself through the grow out pain? I've had my hair short for almost 10 years... It's seems crazy to think that it's been that long, but even in the couple of years before I went super short, my hair got progressively shorter. And now I plan to do that in reverse. If you watch as many grow out videos as I have (and trust me I've watched them all) you get pretty familiar with other people's horror stories... "Grow out your pixie cut is a horrible process" is the general consensus. But these people cut their hair and for the most part hated it. I, on the other hand, have loved my short hair - I've grown up with it and grown into it. For so long it’s been a symbol of who I am. I’ve said before that I don’t get much choice on whether I stand out and for a while I wasn’t entirely okay with that. Put simply, I am now. I have accepted that and embraced it. So why do it now? Why grow out my hair? I have two....

3. What's in the Box?

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I'm going to take a slight detour away from vintage and running kind of this week and share with you the most exciting news because its all I can think about right now. But we can work some running into the story and possibly even some vintage inspired bling...So I know I am relatively new to this whole thing, but for any of you out there who actually know me or my partner, will have seen our social media explode with well wishers over the weekend. All because he asked me a simple little question. My hand has never looked so elegant But let's rewind for a wee minute. We met 10 months ago to the day... (I'm writing this on Tuesday and this will go up on Wednesday). On Tinder of all places, but what a whirlwind it has been since then. I moved away for work a couple of months after we met, but we have muddle through the distance, going from strength to strength. And I have done so many things in that time I never thought possible, all because of him. Well because of...