Hair Update: Blonde Bob w/Roots

I enjoy the beauty school, but I guess I wanted something different and I observed a blonde woman's hair for a while and asked her who she goes to. (I asked a blonde person because I think blonde trickery is harder and the last brunette I asked sent me to a terrorist.)
My blonde lady-friend goes to someone who books a month in advance.
I made the appointment weeks ago and my appointment was very near but I am happy with my hair at the moment so I postponed until January.

I have been cutting my bangs myself. I guess I cut the sides and back too.



I did feel frustrated and diseased by having roots all the time but now I kind of like them. I'm Ok with them... for now...  and since we're going to try a popular person, we have no choice but to look like this til' January.

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.

My Fluffy Big Hair

I did something different today with the hair routine. I just shampooed with Bliss SuperShine and skipped conditioner. I put a touch of conditioner on the ends after blotting it dry and did not rinse. I blow-dried it to about 90% dry and I use a round-brush. I know my co-workers were staring at the bigness.


I haven't whittled or thinned it out in over a month. Normally thickness can't survive because I get hot wearing a helmet and rush home to cut it with my thinning razor. I'm like Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite, I don't even hesitate to relieve myself of the misery of a hot wig.

I'm trying to embrace the possibility of having that wall of bangs like Zooey D.

But alas, when my head gets hot, and when I feel like blow-drying hair is a waste of my precious time - out will come the thinning razor and I will chop that shag right off.

Growing, cutting, growing

I was a useless lump today except I did give myself a little haircut.
I'm trying to grow this stuff out with some unity but sometimes you have to weed-out your crazy flips and rat-tails. My orange lipstick is MAC Vegas Volt. It's easier than red. 

I pulled myself together to go out to dinner after just laying on the couch all day.
We did take Bonnie dog to Central Park this morning to have coffee and pastries and lay in the grass and sun.

I'm excited about my new motorcycle jacket that came from a real motorcycle store.
I got it a few months ago when it was SUMMER so it was on SALE.

It's ultra-wind-proof and has wonderful pockets and I love this shade of pink. Very Lady Biker Badass.

I realized we are twinkies in our helmets and black-frame glasses. His are real and mine are fake.


I can't believe this is about our SIXTH night of not only riding bikes together but simply the fact that we haven't had a night where were did not go out at night to do something. We need to ground ourselves. Just for one night. 

Maybe don't try this at home

Maybe don't drink your dinner then go home and cut your own hair. I've had years of practice.
The first time I gave myself a drastic haircut was in the 5th grade.

Lotsa times my hair gets thick and round and I just cut it myself. Here's my result from last night's affair.

I had a life-long hair-dresser in Arkansas. When I moved to North Carolina I didn't know who was going to cut my hair, so my Arkansas hair-lady told me to buy a razor like this - It was less than $5 at Sally Beauty Supply. 

I've had this one razor for about 10 years.

Last night I felt a final straw moment with this hairball.

I definitely look more put-together. 

I didn't even see these results until this morning (after a fresh wash & blow-dry) because I passed-the-heck out last night and just slept on wet hair. It looked amazing this morning when I walked The Bonnie Dog at 6:30am. Gorgeous, I tell ya! I'm quite embarrassed about my dog-walking looks which occur at that early hour on week-days. Sometimes I'm smart enough to cover-up with sunglasses. All these maintenance dudes and construction workers see me walking Bonnie-dog, then I re-emerge later and no one recognizes me. 

I don't know if I will ever grow out of this asymmetrical cut if I just keep repeating it. I'm OK with that. Who needs symmetric hair anyway?

The saddest part about cutting my hair is knowing that I'm cutting off $$$ in haircolors. Yes, $$$. 

*I'm in no way encouraging anyone to cut their own hair. If anyone jacks themselves up, I never told anyone to cut their own hair. I'm just telling you about how I do it. Probably don't cut your own hair. Don't do it.