Yesterday morning, I traded my long blonde hair for a '60s/Astrid Kirchherr inspired blonde short cut. It was difficult, but I really love it. Astrid first met the Beatles when they traveled to Hamburg, Germany in 1960 (with Pete Best, not Ringo, and the original bass player Stu Sutcliffe). She was an existentialist thinker and photographer who was one of the first people to be close friends with the Beatles. Astrid took very famous pictures of the five who were then still inspired by Elvis, his greased hair, and leather look. (You should look those pictures up by the way, I think they're very interesting). Anyway she convinced Stu, who she was engaged to before his death of a brain hemorrhage in 1962, to stop greasing his hair and to comb it down, thus inventing the mop top. Stu then convinced the others and the hair that would make girls go crazy finally appeared. With all that said, I now have a haircut that resembles the more feminine mop top that Astrid had in 1960, seen in the picture above. It's a bit different than the long hair I've had all my life but I love it!
