20 Aug
A little shorter
Some of you know that I could qualify for the A&E show “Obsessed” based on my hair neurosis. That’s a slight exaggeration. But seriously, I’ve been known to pine for days over an annual haircut that most people fail to notice completely. Not this time. The combination of: the month of August, the baby who tries to eat my hair, the enormous amount of time my long hair consumed, and how FREAKING HOT I WAS, this time it was easy to get rid of a lot of hair. And, as luck would have it, I finally got the haircut I have always wanted. I feel like a character from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, or Places in the Heart, or a Dorothea Lange photograph (except I have a little more meat on me than all that).
Cayla Roberts at Bob Steele Salon created this literary magic for me. Also, she packaged up all my hair in little ponytails and sent them off to Locks of Love for me. Nice, huh? Anyway, I didn’t have time to find a picture of a target haircut before I got there, and I liked her hair, so I just told her to make mine like hers. I can be very Single White Female like that. But since she’s a professional and all, she told me that she’d take a look at my hair and see if it was remotely like hers in texture, etc. It was, remotely. So I got a version of hers. And yes, it’s a version of the haircut lots and lots of moms have. Short in the back, a little longer in the front. Or, as my sister Danyelle calls it, a tellum. That’s mullet backwards, y’all. Well, I couldn’t love my reverse mullet more. And that picture up there? Just rolled out of bed. THAT is the kind of haircut I need.
Posted by Vicki on 08/20/09 at 9:23
Like I said. Pinup.
Posted by sara on 08/20/09 at 10:06
We should go to salons together. Because I do the SAME thing. “What do I want? Oh, I don’t know–whatever you think is best.”
Every. Time.
Also–this looks GREAT on you. You were born to have hair like this, fo shizzle.
Posted by Greg on 08/20/09 at 10:46
i LOVE it!
Posted by April on 08/20/09 at 10:48
love the reverse mullet, you go girl!
Posted by skurtz on 08/20/09 at 11:45
sassy!
Posted by Jackie on 08/20/09 at 13:24
Very Great Gatsby styling
I know you feel much better now and look cute (you looked cute before though too).
Posted by Danyelle on 08/20/09 at 14:29
As far as I can see, this does not qualify as a tellum. It has to be much much shorter in the back for this label to apply.
In any case, it’s very flapper/hot/cool. See?
Posted by Danyelle on 08/20/09 at 14:30
And plus it reminds me of MadMen. Which I don’t even watch. So it must be very evocative. Or I’m off base.
Posted by Leigh Anne on 09/01/09 at 9:39
Great Gatsby, Mad Men, Flapper…
GIRL. You are The Chic.
I love it. Best your hair’s ever looked. Seriously.
Posted by Beck on 10/11/09 at 9:00
LOVE IT!!!!
I’m so sorry to hear about the robbery and I hope you all weren’t hit by the floods.
Okay, clearly we need to talk more; I’m sorry. I’m a bad friend, BAD FRIEND!