Hair Mood Boards

I'm seeing a new hair person on Thursday. I'm sick of looking. I really want to settle down.  He sounds amazing and I really want things to work out between us. I want to have a lasting, productive relationship. I really want to establish a standing appointment. Having a standing hair appointment will be some grown-ass-lady stuff. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

I've been creating mood board collages of my hair history. The good and the better.

Sure, it's vain, but it's also hard to create verbal illustrations of how you expect your hair to turn out. I recommend when you're having a good hair day that you photograph it. You don't have to share it with the internet, but save it somewhere you can refer to if you need to meet a new stylist.

I sometimes feel like a little psycho taking all these photos of my hair, but look, they're helpful. I'm really happy I've got this crazy-girl archive to mull back over and decide where to go from here.






Til then, I'm breathing deep and printing, printing, printing examples.

I bet I'm the only person who brings in example photos of myself.

Dang, girl

I left the salon feeling good, feeling cute, but not until I scrolled through these photos did I realize DANG! The before & after is serious.


This isn't even a full haircut. He just cut the bottom parts. And again, ratted it with his fingertips in a way that I must perfect.

This is a follow-up to the fun news that I'm going to be a hair show model. My recent frequent salon trips are preparatory for the show. I'm not paying for all this extreme hair maintenance of late.

Hair Show & DIY Salt Spray

I'm going to be a hair show model in about ten days. I'm super excited because I love to get professional hair & make-up. I really love to learn about hair & beauty from professionals.

I'm going to be in this show for this salon:


Yes- after my sessions end, I am going to soak up the convention.

Viva on the Left, Kate on the right. This is my lock-up spot for this salon. I love the cafe balloons. VIP.


Yesterday, I got the message that the owner wanted to see me again and speak to me about the show.
My hair went on a job interview. The owner ratted the ends of my hair with his fingertips and I fell in love. I spent a lot of time at work today trying to re-create what he did.

Tonight I went and met the stylist in charge of me for the show and he gave me a thorough cut and talked about his plan for my hair for the show. I am definitely getting my hair cut twice and colored once and a conditioning treatment before the show, then I get completely done-up for the show both days... I think. It's unclear if I'll get styled exactly the same both days.

I loved tonight's cut. I love my blunt bangs. After he did them, he taught me how I can maintain them myself.


I am really happy how every hair person who's dealt with me lately, including these guys, and the lady who did my hair for the NYPost are very supportive of me cutting my own hair. They're really happy for me, and that makes me glad I cut it myself the past couple of months.

My guy tonight also confirmed that my DIY Salt Spray is Awesome. Never buy salt spray again, guys. Make that stuff at home. 

How to make it? Take a bunch of sea salt and mix the heck out of it in HOT water so the salt dissolves and then put a little leave-in conditioner in there and mix it some more. You could also smash the salt with a mortar & pestal if you're fancy. And add fresh lemon juice to make it a little sticky. 

He told me another more complex technique that we can get into if we hang out and you care. You need actual ocean water from the beach. Maybe after Memorial Day and I can visit the beach I'll do a blog post tutorial. 

He also taught me what I should do after I put in dry shampoo. I've been using dry shampoo incorrectly it seems. I just brush it out. You're supposed to blow dry your hair a little bit too. I'm excited to try it and find out but until that hair show, I don't think I'm going to do much to my hair myself at all.

YES! I absolutely ran into the bathroom to take pictures of this done hair...

My face was/is tired. This face has been on the go for 12 hours.

I had to smash it with my bike helmet. Safety before Beauty. 


Safety before Beauty!!! 

Hair: Tamed with bobby pins

I used some bobby pins to pull some of my hair back for my Friday night event.
And I sewed this new style for my Fundraiser-Online Shop. 


I'm trying to do this middle-part trend. It works on day 1, but on day two, I wake up with my old lefty part. I put a little mousse in this hair before I blew it dry.


This new peach color is added to the shop too.

The Stephanie Szostak Hair Post

This topic was my most popular blog post/search/whatever of 2010. My blog changed locations in 2010, so there was a sort of interruption in service with keywords but my #1 most popular by leaps & bounds posts was the one where I talk about Stephanie Szostak's hair. 

Dinner with Schmucks is coming out on DVD this week and I bet another traffic flare-up will occur. I sat in the theatre clawing my arm-rests trying to burn the images of her haircut in my brain. I almost want to buy the DVD so I can look at her adorable hair over and over. Even my pics on Flickr where I mention that my haircut was inspired by her hair are top most popular photos. 

I tried to find new photos of Stephanie today on Getty & through Google image searches but I found nothing. I wonder what she's up to? If she googles herself and finds this- she should message/comment me. I believe she lives on the West Side and I will ride my bicycle right over there to hang out and talk about cute haircuts. 

I was SO LUCKY because I already had a hair appt. on the books for the next evening as I sat there in that 'Schmucks screening. (I went to a couple free pre-screenings this summer.) This haircut lead the way to my hair becoming very short this summer.

If you're looking for that Stephanie Szostak haircut- I don't know where she goes salon-wise, but it looks to me like a razor cut. As in, that cut was not done with scissors. It's very asymmetrical. If you can't handle your hair being long on one side and short on the other-  move on. 

Scientific J-Skills

I've been being really allergy-sick lately and I've been doing a BAD JOB at taking vitamins, because I'm forgetful and don't like pills/medicine.

Definite scientific finding: Since I've been pretty much off vitamins, my white-trash leg bruises are back.

Got to get back on the vitamins. However, I have been taking care of my hair. I got a new cut after work. I got my roots colored so the color difference is subtle. She put some highlights just on the top.



This necklace is some Arkansas Thrift. It's some old-lady JCP brand like Worthington or something for grannies. Lesson learned: Don't hate on Granny Brands! This looks cute with my billabong tank. Good for work. Takes the (lack-of) edge off such a surfer-girl-brand top.

There were really only 2 girls in Dinner for Schmucks, which we previewed on Thursday night. Kristen Schaal, or Mel from Flight of the Conchords was in it, and that was great. Then there was this cutie pie, Stephanie Szostak. Stephanie's hair got burned into my brains with it's cuteness.

I think it's going to cause a haircut mania and I warned my ladies at the salon.

This is a really good example of a Summer of Cheap outfit. I got the tank on clearance for $9.99 and these are my buy 2-fer Charlotte Russe wedges back in action.

My Brown Self

I'm enjoying my brown-self. And I had a great hair day today.

I don't have ONE GIMPY Part of my body from that self-tanner. Great self-tan success! I slept in a drop-cloth, but I didn't really need it. Model Co "Tan in a Can" Is the SHIT! If you can find it. Neither Times Square Sephora had it - I had to get it at Bendel's.




I'm not wearing much make-up with this new super-tan, but that's OK because it covers my zits & veins.


I didn't have the balls to take a Bike_Wardrobe_Remix pic outside the front of Sotheby's, but I took a pic of my bike with this cool poster. I've got to make it to this exhibit this weekend despite my full social schedule.


My life is so hard sometimes! Ha ha ha!

MY outfit today was Summer-Fridays-Friday plain Jane. Just jeans and a black tank.

But I did put on a cardi and some heels at work. This was a day to mark on the calendar, because these jeans are size 27 (Citizens) and I did not have to do gymnastics to get them on.

Yesterday I wore this Billabong sundress from last summer with my wonderful "Summer of Cheap" Charlotte Russe wedges.


I ate some Twizzlers that matched the print.