LOOKIT MAH NEW HUR!
Also the contents of mah shower!
Y’all, as God is my witness, I will not take all self-portraits in the bathroom mirror forever. Future Bachelor Girl habitats include plans for a “self-portrait area.” There’ll be a nice flower arrangement and a pretty rug. Or something. Something other than a toilet, at least.
Last week, I went to my hairstylist, the fantastically talented Kelly Turner McGuffee of Cabello Hair Studio, determined to do something different. I told her it was either this or we were cutting it all off. “Yeah, we’re not cutting it all off,” Kelly said, wisely. I showed her photos of Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada and asked if she could please give me the wardrobe as well.
Kelly gave me a look that said plainly, “These are scissors, not a magic wand.”
Using this as her inspiration,
Kelly went to work, and 15 minutes later, I had these:
“Your hair is so Prada!” Erik said when he saw me a few days later.
Nothing anyone has said to me before or since has made me happier.
When I tried to wash it, though, things went…awry. I did my best, but…yeah. No. It was decidedly less Prada and more Kathy Ireland for Kmart.
So I washed it again today. I overheated my hairdryer, caused a massive tangle and burned myself before I found my phone, called Kelly and begged.
“I need you to teach me how to blow my hair out,” I said, ashamed.
“Can you be here in 20 minutes?” she asked.
“Yeeeeesss…” I wailed.
“Come on,” she said.
Kelly gave me a 10-minute lesson in How to Blow Out Your Hair Without Setting Yourself on Fire, and I was Prada once more.
All is right with the world, and I am the proud owner of a new hairdryer and brush.
It’s a good thing my hairstyle philosophy can best be summed up as:
It’s hair. It grows back.
Your clipped
Kel
You do realize I have a studio and am in walking distance…
You do realize I frequently forget that, as I can also forget my own phone number with alarming regularity?
I love it. Like, really, really love it. Like love it so much that I don’t know how to tell you how good it looks without giving you a complex about how it looked before. Plus, yours are thicker than Anne’s, which looks even better.
“Like love it so much that I don’t know how to tell you how good it looks without giving you a complex about how it looked before.”
It’s startling sometimes, how well you know me.
Also, if you truly believe the philosophy that it just grows back, I really think you could do chin-length hair.
I tried it a couple years ago with disappointing results. I may give it another go in the next year or two.
Probably right before I decide to audition for the lead in “Rapunzel” or something, knowing me.
The bangs are a great look for you. Don’t go chin length. Wear long hair for as long as you can, I say! I’m fighting my stylist on this one; she wants me to look middle-aged, and it’s driving me monkeynuts. I’m trying to trick her into letting it get longer with each visit.
Your follicle-envying,
Mer
“Monkeynuts.”
AND YOU WONDER WHY I LOVE YOU.
You make that stylist your bitch, Mer! You give her what-for! Hair knows no age limits!
Adorable! Looks fantastic on you!
Thanks, Ann!
SOOO not fair that you can look fabulous WITH bangs or without them. *smacks flimsy-fine-hair-non-’do’d head on desk* Not fair! Not fair! Ok…. I’ll stop whining. But I’m only doing it because you look fantastic. So… there!
Grumbling, jealous, etc.,
Cristy
Haha! If you only knew how much I envy your beautiful blonde hair, my dear!
Sadly, my blonde bits come out of a bottle, and I pay Kelly a small fortune for them. Sigh.
Adorable! And you know I am a firm believer in the “it grows back” philosophy. And also “you can always change the color” as well.
As Anne is one of my girl crushes- excellent choice! Personally, I think you already dress just as well as her…
“As Anne is one of my girl crushes- excellent choice! Personally, I think you already dress just as well as her…”
Talk about compliments! Wow!!
I LOVE it! Looks great on you.
I am about to head in to see Kelly T. (or I guess M. now) myself, though I’m not quite as adventurous as you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told Kelly M. to do whatever she thinks will look best. Glad you started going to her!
It really does look fantastic.
Aw, thanks, Jess! You’ve done a million wonderful things for me, and introducing me to Kelly was one of the best!
Are you really not going to share info on how to do a blow out?!?? Don’t be stingy!
looks great!!
Thanks, Kacie! We may have to post a blow-out tutorial soon!
Intern Chris’s father gave him excellent advice on this exact subject. He said, “Son, always tell them that the new haircut makes them look younger, and thinner.” That and, “Don’t trust whitey”
Intern Chris’s father is, not surprisingly, a wise man.
A wise man who has probably never been slapped by a woman with freshly-shorn locks.
I wanted her the first time I saw that movie!! I went ahead and went with the Heidi Klum Lob! Turned out splendidly! So were both happily clipped!
Awesome, Daphne! Thanks!!
Love your writing style Keep em coming you’ve got a fan:)