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" Do you like it? Though I&amp;#x27;m loving it now, this was not a planned haircut and it&amp;#x27;s taken me a few days to get used to it before I could even write about it. Here&amp;#x27;s how it happened: I walked into Ted Gibson&amp;#x27;s salon for what I thought was a trim. He gave me a great cut a few months ago and I thought we&amp;#x27;d do the same thing again, just get rid of all the dead ends. Ted had something else in mind. He wanted to cut my hair off! I quickly BlackBerryed Petra, for advice. While I waited for an email back, I sat in Ted&amp;#x27;s chair and really looked at my hair, realizing Ted was probably right. It looked very unhealthy and losing the ends alone wouldn&amp;#x27;t cut it (no pun intended). Still, as a long hair freak I couldn&amp;#x27;t commit to going short easily. Also, so many fellow Glamour staffers have cut their hair--Suze, Jenny, Leslie--I didn&amp;#x27;t want to be a copycat! So I asked Ted a loaded question I thought I&amp;#x27;d use for my magazine column: &amp;quot;With everyone cutting their hair, how do you make long hair look fresh?&amp;quot; His answer was (drumroll....) &amp;quot;You don&amp;#x27;t.&amp;quot; Sigh. Depression sets in. I gave the go-ahead and a minute later about four inches was gone from one side of my head. That, of course, is when I got Petra&amp;#x27;s email telling me she thought it would look great but maybe I needed to not be so spontaneous. I emailed her back: &amp;quot;Too late, it&amp;#x27;s gone!&amp;quot; Then the word spread in the Glamour offices and I got a series of &amp;#x27;Wow&amp;#x27; emails wanting to see the cut. Ted finished up and handed me over to colorist Jason Backe who made me quite the blonde! I took the subway home in the rain and waited for my husband to come home. He immediately loved it, though he told me I looked like Katie Couric (I love Katie but don&amp;#x27;t want to look like her). The next morning I washed it, still on the fence. But I loved what happened when it air-dried. It&amp;#x27;s fun, this hair! Over the last few days I&amp;#x27;ve been experimenting with different ways to wear it. It&amp;#x27;s still got a long, sexy-ish vibe to it despite the lack of length, but feels fresher, more modern and easier than my long hair did. Everyone at Glamour loves it (Baze says I look a little Gwyneth, a little Beyonce at the Grammys). Tell me what you think of my new hair!! --Andrea"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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