you’re not the boss of me! you hair what i’m saying?
as someone who changes their hair often, i have more than once heard “you cut/color your hair a lot!” in the office space. i’ve always worked in really casual environments where no one gives a fuck what you wear or what the fuck is on your head. however, that doesn’t mean there aren’t assholes.
case in point:
adorable coworker telling me how much she liked my hair and had no idea i had once been blonde/redhead/brunette/short/long/etc. as she is saying this a male coworker … old… angry… saggy for sure… spouted off “changes her hair alot? sounds like a cry for help”. oh you would make this about you captain i-wear-my-sunglasses-indoors. i mostly certainly am not crying for your help, i am far better at a whiny outreach than a subtle change in appearance.
so today’s post is about pissing people off with your hair, because guess what? it’s hair. it is 100% dead and lives on your head! you might as well have fun with it and if i wanted to keep my same trying-to-be-a-young-surfer-dude-who-went-gray ‘do from the 1990s, dear co worker sir, i will ask for your stylist’s number.
don’t want none unless you got BUNS hun
last weekend i went to pitchfork music festival in chicago. it was hot as balls but yet a good majority of chicks wore crazy outfits with tights and leather. what is wrong with people?!
pitchfork is the perfect place for people watching, mostly because everyone is fucked up and wearing sunglasses so you can literally just stare. i tried looking around to see if there was any great hair and trust me there was NOT. it was so hot that most people just shaved their head and stood in the shade, but there were a few call outs. something i saw that i love just as much as i loathe is the bun.
a bun makes me think of a ballerina which pisses me off but the new bun look is edgy and fun and GET THIS off center! i think the side bun will be a huge fall trend.
here are some buns, hun, and better yet some off center buns, my fav!
(dont hate my because i love this)
loosey goosey
i cannot say the word “undone” without thinking about stupid fucking weezer and their ridiculously catchy undone: the sweater song, woah woah woah. so, needless to say this blog in particular is hard for me to write without constantly singing.
while i love a perfectly coiffed head of hair that doesn’t have a strand out of place, i realize that sometimes imperfection is more interesting (for sure). a fuzzy bed-head or a wind-blown bun has a lot of whimsy that i am totally down with.
i will never be one to call it “after sex hair” because this is a misleading statement. i remember many a morning where i woke up a chubby 10 year old with the same tossled hair and it was just as charming without the colorful name.
(reblogged: http://seesawdesigns.blogspot.com/)
hot hat heat
every sunday i go to the farmer’s market. in my neighborhood it’s like the who’s who of coolville (and me just saying that means i’m possibly standing at coolville’s door never to be let in). everyone there is dressed so casual chic and all the girls have the “oh-i-just-stepped-out-of-bed-and-it-was-like-this” awesome hair.
as much as i’d like that to be me, it’s not. my hair needs a good washing and some super product to look as good as it does, so when i go to the farmer’s market i am equipped with my hip secret weapon: a summer hat.
look at these farmer’s market (and more) ready styles:
(reblogged: http://www.calivintage.com)
(i will find these glasses and make them MINE)
(reblogged: http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com)
am-hair-ica
party people, the time is nigh, the time where my mostly mexican/puerto rican/polish neighborhood has an uproar of fireworks to say “we are americans now, which means we waste money on stupid shit that we blow up and we gorge ourselves on animal meat”.
now i’m as patriotic as the next chick (not true) and i very much appreciate the people who fight/fought for my country (very true) but the U-S-of-A has some ideals i find hard to swallow. probably the most light-hearted of those ideals is that we get our style and hair tips from celebs. we’ve got better style walking the street than we do gracing a glamour. you wanna see what happens when we blindly follow… do you?
Look at these award-winning american do’s. god bless am-hair-ica!
(we get perms. thank you my hair jesus that this is not PERMANENT as it’s name suggests it is. PS- those glasses are so in right now)
(we bleach the SHIT out of our hair and ruin it. why? oh i don’t know to look more fucking fun i guess)
(we POOF and apparently tan … gross)
(when we get dressed up… we leave two little pieces of hair outside of our up-do, i guess to frame the face? usually this would involve butterfly clips or glitter hairspray too)
(we have trouble deciding if it should be long or short. hell- why not both? the mullet is am-hair-ica’s pride and joy. even now as the mullet has a wave of coolness again, i hear in my head my mother telling me “never trust someone with a mullet, they’re indecisive”)
(we want to serve dinner on our heads)
(we, as grown ass women, put our hair in piggy tails. ladies - never… never … think you are young enough to do this. if you mom isn’t begging you to sit still and thunking you on the head with a brush, then this should not be your look even if you think it looks great under your pink baseball hat)
(we… we… HAHAHAHA can sit back and laugh that this was soooo popular)
(we allowed the “Rachel” to happen… for like a long ass time. apparently news anchors still think it’s happening)
to end this, i’d like to point out that i searched high and low for an image of a woman saluting the american flag (a woman who wasn’t in uniform). i googled “woman” “saluting” “flag" and was disgusted to find ONLY pictures of naked ladies draped in flags or in red, white and blue bikinis. Not acceptable am-hair-ica! put your clothes on.
this was the best one. is this like sexy? all i can think about is that she’s smearing her lipstick.
bang it out, all the way out
i love a good bang (don’t we all), but eventually you are going to get tired of it. eventually you are going to want to do something else… ANYTHING else. i have had bangs for about 6 years in some sort of fashion and it’s time for something new. apparently, i’m not alone. check it out:
from All Things Inspiring
“Firstly LOVE your blog…secondly, i would like to change up my cut!! I just dyed my hair blackbrown, my natural color is a medium brown. For the past year I’ve been rocking the blunt bangs, only starting to grow them out these past two months, but they’re growing pretty awkwardly so I want to either cut blunt bangs again or just do something different to make my hair stand out! What are your suggestions for maintaining bangs set in the summer months, or do you have any suggestions for edgy cuts suitable for blackbrown hair? Thank you!”
congrats on the decision to change. you’d be surprised how many people just sit in their dislike for their hair because they are afraid of change. so suck it up and know that no matter WHAT you do, it’ll grow back.
how about some of these bang grow out pics:
(cut some layers, swoop the bangs and get yourself a sick ass lipstick)
(i’ve said it once, i’ll say it again; SPLIT IT DOWN THE MIDDLE! people are terrified to do this but it’s a great way to grow those bangs out while thinking of a new cut)
(cut them asymmetrical for the grow out. it keeps it edgy and helps you handle the “awkward periods”)
(cut it off! it all off! have you ever had your hair short? it is super liberating and the summer is the perfect time because with a little product in the morning you’re out the door in 5)
(while you’re cutting it off why don’t you try a new color. now it doesn’t have to be so drastic as to go from dark to platinum, but what about some chunky highlights?)
(if you don’t want to go all over with color, how about just a face framing tipping color? don’t like it? i am TOTALLY doing this next week and i’ll show y'all pictures as i think it will take a boring bob to the next level)
nothing sound good? here are some awesome pics of blunt bangs because let’s be blunt… this look is freaking amazing.
hairs to you, perfection!
i’ve been a mess recently: running around, going to class, working, drinking way more than one should and really doing what i do best: being a socialite. i haven’t had a hair cut since *get this shit* JANUARY! my bangs are outta control and sometimes in the morning i do the worst thing for me which is a bobby pin and headband kinda day.
when i look around me sometimes i see these perfect women walking around with NOT one hair out of place, riding their bikes with skirts on, looking like perfection. instead of being a b-i-a and being jealous, i say we pay homage to these chicks. they look like a million bucks while i’m walking around in my Umbro shorts and sandals.here’s to you girls who do your hair for YOURSELF everyday. y'all look good!
look out for next week’s post. i have a really interesting question to answer for you guys: how do you grow out your bangs without losing the edginess of the cut?
man oh man
sorry for my hiatus but i had the girliest weekend of all weekends. a friend of mine from college is getting married so this weekend we all pulled up our girdles and did some real vagina time. manicures, chick flicks, shopping, gossiping and stories about facials …. yep it was a real boob-fest.
i love my girlfs, for sure and i miss them terribly, but it was nice to come back to a world that has dudes in it. i’ve always been naturally inclined to hang out and hit it off with guys as friends. it’s not because they are easy or low maintenance… um… no sir. men are needy and shallow and just as gossipy as the cheerleaders in high school. yep, roosters are just as much from venus as us hens. plus - there are some guy styles these days that are out of this world (see what i did there with venus …out of this world, i kill myself)
quincean-hair-a
everyone knows how much i love mail (i got mail, yea!) so i found a goodie for you guys today to share:
nocturnalwolf asked:Hey! Great Blog!
I was just wondering if you can help me, I would appreciate it greatly.
You see I’m having a quinceanera over the summer and I have absolutely no idea how to do my hair! I’m looking for a vintage inspired updo sort of thing.
please & thank you
-stephanie
oh stephanie, you found my weakness: parties.
people don’t get all dressed up enough. seriously, it is something we should do more often and what better way than a birthday party (and an important one at that!). becoming a woman is tough business, so put on your game face on and see if we can inspire a sophisticated fun look with the following pics:
(reblogged: http://wildluna.tumblr.com/)
(updos get all of the fun, what about a classy down do with a bright red lip. LOVE)
(reblogged: http://lingeriedivas.tumblr.com/)
(nothing says vintage style like a solid flip. if you have shoulder length hair THIS is exactly what i would do)
want some more? check out my wedding hair blog:
http://thebeehivehairblog.com/post/3911492676/upupandawedding
mother may i, dye my hair
everyone always says their “mom is best” and “she’s the sweetest and prettiest”. they are all wrong. my mom is officially the number one creature alive. to say i’m a mama’s girl is an understatement. we are kindred spirits… two individuals just living in different decades with the same hair.
when other people’s moms were like “no you can’t dye your hair”, my mom was calling up our hair stylist for an appointment. when other people’s moms were like “no don’t cut your own bangs”, my mom was helping me search for the scissors.
mom- you’re a peach. a genuine peach. oh, and you have great hair. thanks for the genes and thanks for teaching me how to work with them.