Kristen Gamboa considered buying a wig.
The 27-year-old chopped her hair in January into a "bob," a blunt, chin-length hairstyle. She and friend had made a pact they would never get bobs — but there Gamboa was, 10 inches of her hair falling to the ground.
"She stayed strong, and I did not," says Gamboa, an executive assistant based in Tennessee. "I'm just feeling the regret. It's going to take me years to grow this back out."
Gamboa is still managing the short hair as a self-proclaimed "victim of the bob trend." She's among many women posting regret on social media after succumbing to bob temptation. Teary-eyed women with bobs-gone-wrong are sharing their sadness — and warnings — about impulsively shearing their hair.
"There's an element of 'don't make the same mistake I did,'" says Lauren Downing Peters, associate professor of fashion studies at Columbia College Chicago of the bob discourse. "Women look out for other women."
