Monthly Review #8

Just a few days late this month with the review!


Okay remember how when last month ended I was on a not having to wash my hair kick? I know you were patiently waiting for what Lisa (the stylist) said about my unwashed hair. She said it was crazy because it didn't look dry or oily.

Unfortunately I finally got my pillowcases and started sleeping on those instead of the fuzzy body pillow. My hair is back to being oily. Maybe pillowcases are a scam and I should just buy fuzzy ones I can unzip and wash.....

Anyway! Now I have to "wash" my hair with super hot water and scrubbing (my hands get kinda scalded) every 4 days. It's the pits, bro.

But My mother's wedding was in this month. she took us to a salon for updos. You'll see my hair that was aiming to look like Charlize Theron in the Jadore commercial:

And Lisa did a great job - of course curling and pinning every piece of my hair took longer than my mom's hair and make up. But it looked epic - and my mom paid for it... :) But seriously I think there are some hairstyles that just look different with different hair colors. This might have been one of them. You tell me. I also got Drew (the photographer) to shoot a few headshots for my new job.

When I had to do my own hair (booooo) it was easier to make stylish this month. I mentioned it last month - but now it looks like I mean to have  this hair and I can make it look cutesy or mod. All I use is a flat iron and my fingers to tousle and pull into shape. Headbands are now harder to wear because the hair is long enough to flip around the band. I tried with bangs...not good either. I'm just waiting to have enough hair to pin the bangs back. That'll be a great look on me. The last set of shots shows how my hair might wake up after a shower the night before and how 10 minutes with a flatiron coaxes it to style. See you next month!

Monthly Review #7

Wow - I suck. No eyelash, dating or monthly updates in over a month. To be fair...I didn't really have a computer for the past 2 weeks. I was also really lazy.


Anyway Dec - January with short hair. DAMN IT'S COLD. and my scarf is really messing up my hair every morning. And I fear wearing hats for the same reason.

I moved to NYC in this time - not having long hair is good on those days. :)

NYE I wore a wig to a party - you know the one: Brass on top black on bottom. CLASSSSSY. And people must have believed it was my real hair because when I drunkenly pulled it off at 2 AM (I mean I was pulling it off all night but ya know) people looked at me open mouthed. Then on the way home I pulled it off and whipped it around my head (I had it back on because it's so cold and synthetic wigs keep you hella warm. A+ in winter.) while drunkenly scream-singing willow smith's "Whip my hair". The wig is still in a pile in the corner of my room a whole month later. And my doorman now knows me by name. Oi.

Other than that I did a lot of working from home in December so not much keeping it tame. I did spike it for something on the 16th (first pictures) and some guy on the train told me two separate times how much he loved it. Unfortunately it falls down quickly. It also gets kinked up if I wear a headband.. Then in January this miraculous thing happened: my hair grew to a point where it looked like a real style. you can see that in the end. And not pictured (I selfied it after the 15th): I can straighten the sides and look mod - the forward swept, curly, crazy bangs actually look kinda cute on my face. Still I battle with my cowlicks unceasingly. The one in front makes this ugly part in my bangs - it must be put to rest!

Showering is a big deal this month - it might be because I was sleeping on a fuzzy body pillow for a while but I went 11 days without washing my hair and it looked fine. Then I "washed" it with the hottest water I could stand (read on the internet) and went another 6 days before I went to the salon for my mom's wedding and the stylist was amazed. But her exact words will be covered in next month's entry since that was on the 17th (how long will you have to wait for that? Suspense!).

And now, my pictures from Dec 15-January 15th: