Nozaki Yuu was a very attractive girl. She had just graduated high school and was in her freshman year of Tokyo Seitoku University. For the first time in her life she was free from the control of her parents and felt ready to take on the world. She was beautiful. She had a very pretty face. Beautiful eyes. And she had long, thick and brown highlighted hair that reached below her shoulders.
She was in the bookstore getting her supplies for her classes. When she walked up to checkout she could not help but notice that the cashier was a very beautiful woman. She was tall looked like she was in her 30s and was wearing a summer dress perfectly framing her body. But the thing that caught Becca's eye was the cashier's hair. She had a very short haircut. she had wispy bangs that just barely brushed her eyebrows the hair on the back and sides was much shorter. The hair was cut clean around her ears drawing attention to her beautiful big earrings.
"I really like your haircut," said Yuu. The cashier smiled. "Thanks! I used to have very long hair many years ago but life got so busy that I just decided that enough was enough so I got it cut super short and I haven't looked back since."
"Wow that's amazing," said Yuu, "I wish I could pull off short hair like you. I'm too nervous to cut it."
"If you want to, you really should give it a try!" Replied the cashier, "it is really not bad and it feels AMAZING to get long hair cut off to a new short style"
"Where do you get your hair cut?" asked Yuu.
"I get my hair cut in Shibuya where there is a shrine. Next to it, is a retro themed salon owned by a beautiful lady. It's a really nice place that's just an hour drive from campus. And best of all, she specialize in short Women and girls haircuts! In fact, I should head down there sometime soon, I'm really in need of a haircut right now," said the cashier as she caressed her Pixie cut.
"Nice! well anyway thanks you have a good day," said Yuu as she left the store.
As Yuu walked down the sidewalk, she saw what looked like a boyfriend and girlfriend walking together and noticed that the girlfriend also had a short haircut. She had a short bob with side bangs and the hair was buzzed at the back of her neck. She looked stunning. The boyfriend also looked handsome as he had a classic crew cut.
Yuu always loved boys with very short clippered haircuts. She loved the masculine, clean cut, athletic, military style look. Every single guy that Yuu ever had a crush on in high school had either a buzz cut or a very short crew cut.
Days had passed and Yuu's desire to get a short haircut had grown. She could not get it out of her head. Although she really wanted short hair, she was nervous. One of the reasons was, when Yuu was a little girl, she used to hate brushing her hair in the morning so her mom would brush it for her, however she hated it so much that she would scream and cry. One day Yuu's mom had enough of the fussing and she took Yuu to a salon and asked them to give her a haircut short enough that it would not be hard to deal with.
The town where she grew up was a very traditional small town where men always had short hair and women always had long hair. Despite this the hairdresser at the salon cut Yuu's hair as short as they could while also being what they felt was socially acceptable for a girl. From then on Yuu's mom made her keep her hair in a very short bob where the nape was clippered very short and the sides were cut short enough you could almost see her earlobes. Her bangs were cut straight across her forehead high above her eyebrows so her hair would never get in her eyes.
Yuu hated it and dreaded getting her haircut but her mom made her keep her hair in that short bob until she was a teenager. Once Yuu was old enough, she grew her hair long way past her shoulders, as that was what all the pretty popular girls did at her middle and high school. She was still haunted by the days when she was forced to keep her hair cut short, however things were changing and she felt a burning desire to cut her long hair off. In recent years Yuu has begun to admire celebrities that had short pixie cuts. Many models and celebrities all over the world were cutting their locks off in favor of a shorter and more sophisticated look.
After some thought Yuu had decided it was time for a change. She was no longer in high school and this was a new chapter in her life. It's time for a makeover.
That next day Yuu felt butterflies in her stomach she was so nervous. She tied her long hair in a ponytail and got on her bike to go to the salon. The salon was in near the Shrine area as the cashier said. She locked her bike and walked in the building. When she walked in the salon the butterflies in her stomach grew. There were barber chairs, she could smell that familiar smell of hair product and spray. All over the walls were pictures of beautiful models some recent, some long ago. In one of the chairs was a girl who looked like she was about 13 getting her haircut.
Yuu could not help but notice that the girls hair was being cut super short. The sides and the back had previously been buzzed short enough to give a faded appearance while still long enough that it appeared soft. Her ears were completely exposed with the hair being cut short enough that there were arches around her ears with no hair touching them. The nape had been buzzed and tapered really short. The hairdresser was cutting the hair on top of the girls head.
Lumps of hair fell to the floor. The hairdresser would grab another clump of hair with her comb, hold it a couple inches above the girls head and proceed.
After the hairdresser finished texturizing the top, she turned the girls chair around to face her. The hairdresser brushed the girls bangs down flat on her forehead and proceeded to snip away.
The bangs were cut so short that most of the girls forehead was exposed. The hairdresser blow dried the hair and styled it.
"What do you think?" asked the hairdresser
The girl looked surprised and shocked at first but as she reached up and touch her new short hair a big smile spread across her face as she said, "I LOVE it!!"
The girls mom walked up and told the hairdresser, "thank you so much, Chisato. she looks wonderful!"
"Absolutely," said Chisato, "she's at the age where a more mature haircut would suit her. Now she really looks like a beautiful young woman."
"For sure."
The mom paid and they left the salon.
Yuu was amazed to see such a young girl getting a haircut so super short. That would be unthinkable where she came from.
The hairdresser cleaned up her station, she was sweeping large lumps of hair. It was clear when the girl came in that she had previously had very long hair. Another hairstylist walked out from a back room.
"Greetings, have you come for a haircut?"
"Yes I am."
The hairdresser smiled as she bowed, "To the Winds of flower, to the stream of the river, Katsumi Kejoro at your service, How can I help you"
"My name is Yuu, please give a cute short look"
"Then I'll be cutting your hair today," she said. Becca gulped. The butterflies in her stomach had gotten worse. It was her turn to be shorn.
Kejoro Katsumi was a very unusual looking woman. She was slightly slim yet still had a very curvy physique. Her hair tied in short ponytail and wore a traditional Japanese look.
"I'm guessing you've never been here before, right?" asked Katsumi.
"Yep that's right," Yuu said.
"Umm... I was think of getting a pixie cut, but I'm not exactly sure what kind of cut I want. What do you recommend?" said Yuu.
"Perhaps we could start by giving you a longer pixie cut and we could take shorter if that's what you would like?"
"That sounds great."
"Follow me," said Katsumi as she took Yuu to the salon chair. She sat down nervously. Katsumu then caped her.
"I thought we began with a shampoo," said Yuu confused.
"Yes but first we gotta get rid of all this bulk. This is way too much hair to shampoo."
'All this bulk?' Thought Yuu . They were slightly loosened Yuu's ponytail and grabbed a large pair of shears.
"You ready?"
All Yuu could do was nod as she felt like a dear in the headlights. Katsumi began by snipping away her locks first.
In no time, Yuu's ponytail was gone and all of the remaining hair fell loose. Suddenly Yuu's head felt so much lighter.
"Doesn't that feel better?" asked Katsumi. She nodded with amazement as she shook her head feeling light and refreshed.
As Katsumi led her to the shampoo station another woman walked into the salon. This woman was a very professional corporate looking woman. She looked like she was in her 40s. She was thin and tall and was wearing a skirt that went down just past her knees. She had a suit on and a white button up collared shirt worn tightly.
Meanwhile, while the woman was getting her haircut, Yuu was very relaxed by her shampoo and scalp message. But now it was time for her haircut. As Yuu walked up to the salon chair, she could see the woman walking out of the shop and a whole lot of blonde hair on the floor. It looked like there had been quite a shearing.
She sat down in the chair. Katsumi brushed her hair flat against her neck and grabbed her shears.
Yuu could feel the cold steel blade of the scissors moving across her nape cutting the hair at the back of her neck. Although Yuu could not see what Katsumi was doing, she sure felt a lot of hair being cut off.
As the barberette moved the comb further up her head more hair was being sliced. After the back had been finished, Katsumi moved over to the side and cut the hair so that the earlobes were just barely exposed.She moved over to the other side.
Yuu's head continued to feel lighter.
Suddenly katsumi brushed Yuu's bangs flat across the front of her head. They were long enough that they reached Becca's mouth.
She could see again. Katsumi has cut hair bangs straight across just above her eyes at her eyebrow length. This was the first time in a long time that Yuu had bangs covering her forehead. For a second she thought she could see that little girl she used to be that hated haircuts but this time was different. Yuu's head felt so much lighter with all that hair cut off. She was really enjoying her haircut.
After katsumu finished layering the cut she asked "what do you think? Is this a length you had in mind?"
Yuu loved the haircut. She looked different, she looked better. Although she loved this haircut she still had a burning desire to go shorter and that desire she received.
"I Love it so much, but I think I'd like to take it shorter."
Katsumi was a little surprised considering how unsure and nervous Yuu looked earlier.
"How short do you want to go now?" she asked.
"Like the woman who just walked out ten minutes ago," She said referring to the woman who Chisato cut her hair.
"Ahh the classic short pixie. You can never go wrong there, that look is flattering on just about any woman!"
Katsumi grabbed a pair of clippers and plugged them in. "Let's do it!"
Katsumi shaved from sides and shave as pieces of her hair fell to the ground . She sa the clippers up the back of Yuu's head removing clumps of her thick ginger hair. The last time clippers has been used on her head was when on her nape when she was a little girl. This brought back memories.
The buzzing continued. Katsumi began working away at the hair on the right side of Yuu's head revealing her ear. The feeling was so soothing. continued on Yuu's left side revealing two little feminine ears.
Yuu loved the way she looked with her ears exposed. 'Why did I keep them hidden for so long?' She thought to herself.
Soon the clipping stopped. And Katsumi snipped away at the top of Yuu's head with her scissors. She held a clump a couple inches above the head and hair fell to the floor.
She continued the process.
After the hair on the top of the head was cut short, Katsumi combed Yuu's bangs down.
yuu's bangs were cut very short exposing her eyebrows and most of her forehead. Yuu was loving the super short look even more.
After Katsumi blended and layered much of the hair, she grabbed a pair of small electric trimmers and buzzed off all the little fuzzies and stray hair around the neck and ears.
yume loved the feeling of the trimmers. They felt so soothing. Suddenly the trimmers stopped. her as she combed Yuu''s hair and styled it. "How does that look? Short enough?"
Becca was beaming with excitement.
"Yes! I LOVE it!"
"Perfect!"
Katsumi removed the cape, and Yuu had never felt so free. She touched her newly chopped hair and it felt so fresh and soft, especially the buzzed parts around the ears and neck. Yuu's hair was now almost as short as some of the boys in school she had a crush on.
Yuu paid and left the shop, as she walked out she noticed that a mother who was sporting a very short haircut herself was bringing her daughter in to get her haircut. Her daughter had long wirey hair and did not look happy but Yuu thought to herself
'She may be young but one day she will learn to love having a short haircut. It may take a while but there is nothing that can reveal the inner beauty of a woman like a super short haircut'
As Yuu walked outside, she felt a breeze on her head and there was something striking about that. When she had long hair, she hated windy days. It would always mess up her hair and her hair would get in her face. But now, nothing happened. There was no hair to fly in her face and no matter how windy it was her hair still looked neat and put together. The only thing she now had to deal with was the amazing feeling of the wind blowing on her ears and neck. That was nothing to complain about.
Not only did Yuu's hairstyle just change but with a change of hair Yuu also started wearing different kinds of clothes and jewelry. Yuu started to wear earrings on a daily basis now that her hair was so short. Since her neck was now more exposed, Becca began to wear more collared shirts. She started wearing more polo shirts, turtlenecks, and button down blouses. Yuu also began wearing more dresses.
Yuu continued to get her haircut at every month. She always knew it was time for a haircut when the hair on the sides began to tickle her ears and the hair at the nape started feeling a little shaggy.
From that point on, She did not plan on ever growing her hair out again. She loved the way the super short hair feels, looks, and most of all, the practicality. As Yuu s life got busier, she only became happier and more grateful that she discovered the short pixie when she did.