I wanted a change from the first season because I had to wear a lot of curlers every day. It wasn�t fun and it was hard to maintain continuity-wise. My solution, since I couldn�t cut my hair, with that whole fiasco with the WB telling USA Today ""Nobody can cut their hair", was to go in the opposite direction and get longer hair.
I got much longer hair and I started to have repercussions from that. It was too much for my scalp and it was just creating a lot of ickiness and hardship and was not the right thing to do.
So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair. They did and then it was darker and they didn�t like that dark edge for Cordelia. It wasn�t as warm and effervescent as she is usually, so they wanted me to go shorter and blonder. Hence, I�m growing it back out because I think I�m going to go back to season one style. It will just make life a lot easier.