Because I Think it’s Time For the Return of the Earmuff

Dear Amy,
I recently cut my hair shorter than it has ever been cut before. And I am absolutely in love with it. (Here’s a picture for your reference. My face is really shadowed and my arm looks unusually enormous, but the hair looks pretty
normal, and that’s what counts, right?)
But I have a dilemma. Seeing as how winter is quickly approaching (here in Colorado it’s highly unusual to NOT get snow in October), I find myself wondering how I am going to keep my ears warm without flattening my hair. I have always had long, straight hair, so pulling a hat over my ears in the winter was never a problem. However, now that my hair is short and styled in a cute flippy sort of way, I can’t imagine that pulling a hat over my head is going to do anything remotely good for my hair. And there is no way I am going to take the time to style my hair in the morning and then wear a hat on the cold drive to work just to spend the rest of the day with horrible hat hair. And not styling my hair is not an option, because there is absolutely no way I’m going to go to work with boy hair.
So, to get on with the acutal asking-for-advice part of the email: What are my non-hair-flattening options? How do the short-haired girls of the world protect their ears from the cold, anyway?
(Also, I’m on a pretty tight budget, so options costing $20 or less are preferred.)
Thanks so much!
Audrey
Cute earmuffs!
I love earmuffs, even though I know most people don’t wear them anymore. But I DON’T CARE. I love them. I think they are cute and adorable and girls with flippy short haircuts wearing cute and adorable earmuffs? Oh my lands, CUTE.
My sister once bought me a pair of white rabbit fur earmuffs with a black velvet headband. I wore them for years. I think I finally ditched them in college when I had a crisis of conscience over the “fur” part.
Depending on where you stand on the fur issue, you can get a pair of rabbit fur earmuffs online for around $30. They are REALLY warm. And soft. And fluffy. Like a little bunny. Like a poor…dead…bunny.
Aw, crap. There I go again with the selective conscience, which doesn’t extend to my leather shoes and handbags. Hmm.
The fake fur earmuffs are not nearly as cute (or warm), unless you go kind of funky and get like, leopard spots or zebra stripes. I also think these are really beautiful.
You can go more utilitarian and buy some fleece earwarmers like these, which also have the added benefit of not causing any sort of headband dent. (Stay away from tight, fleecy headbands like these, by the way, as the pressure and the smushing and the static electricity will do monstrous things to your hair.)
Please visit us again on Monday for some more Advice Smackdown Q&A.