Hairstyles 6-8 of 27.
First of all, I came across these month-old outfit photos on Jacob’s phone and am posting them here, for completeness’ sake:
Frida hair!
Probably the best outfit I’ve ever put together. I got the dress at a thrift store in Paris!
BONUS! A glimpse of the aforementioned living room!
Nextly. Not sure why you’d want to read more of my crazyass ramblings, but I’ve got a super huge mega giant 2012 biz highlight post over at the other blog. The parts written by the shop wenches are particularly heartrending.
And thirdly. I finally found a hairstyle I like in the list of 27 hairstyles I’m trying out. Squee, and all that.
Braided Updo
It’s a variation on Heidi braids (also called Frida hair [by me, above], and milkmaid braids) but where you do a little pouf first. This is good because having that part in the back is always annoying. It looked messy in the back, but we were just taking Anandhi to the beach, so I knew it was only going to get messier (girl has a thing for chewing on hair), so I didn’t care.
Otherwise, I’ve had some real hair clunkers lately. I’ve been watching YouTube videos about braids and special buns and reading way too many hair blogs (IT’S RIDICULOUS, I KNOW.), and here’s what I’ve come to realize:
every cool girl in the world is teasing her hair before she puts it up.
I was never let in on this secret before. Oh, and it’s called “backcombing,” not teasing. And also, for reasons I can’t for the life of me figure out, you are supposed to curl your hair before you put it up—even in a bun, where pretty much none of it is seen.
Why? I have no fucking clue.
The beach was great, though!
The Piece-y Pony
Basically you make a low ponytail with half your hair, then divide the remaining hair into thirds and twist and pin it into the ponytail. If I’d tried harder (read: at all) I think I could have made this look cute, but it was such a giant fuzzy mess that I’m only showing you this completely useless photo of it from the front, taken from about 50 feet away. I think this could only look good if I had wavy hair, as pictured in the tutorial. And I twisted the twists too hard, methinks.
I always go for tight control over loose cuteness.
It’s a big problem with my life.
(Well, ok, here’s one of the back…)
Bun with a braid thingie
I did this on New Year’s Eve, and if I’d teased it first, I think it would have looked better. Owing to the crap light in the cottage, none of the closeup photos of it came out that great, but it’s a style with potential, sure.
We went to a party at the Big House (Jacob’s dad’s house 50 feet away) where his Thai stepmother had invited a dozen or so Thai families who all made the most unbelievably delicious food in the entire universe. They made a ton of it vegan just for us. I made the one dessert I make all the time in Hawaii: tapioca pudding with coconut milk and a caramel sauce made with lilikoi (passionfruit) from the backyard. I dressed it up with star fruit, young coconut, and bananas from the back yard or the farmer’s market. I was super psyched that Warunee’s (Jacob’s stepmom) BFF, who runs a Thai food truck, asked for the recipe.
Happy New Year, my rabble-rousing pretties. Here’s to revolution, cuteass hair, and delicious desserts in 2013.
2 Responses to “Hairstyles 6-8 of 27.”
I’ve got so many good things to say about this post! Okay, first: LOVE the French outfit. Best, yes. In combination with the lipstick you’re wearing your hair in that photo looks very Geisha-inspired, it’s a nice contrast to the stripes.
Second, have you been teasing your hair now that you found out this secret? I literally understand nothing about hair product and terminology and I need cool things to do with my hair but I don’t understand/have time for that shit.
While we’re on the subject of hair — do you have any tips for cutting bangs? I’ve been thinking about doing it for a while and don’t feel like going to a hairdresser if I can do it myself for free .
Third, that picture of you in the floral romper = amazing. You look like Loretta Lynn. For a second, the shadow of the tree on your arm looked like a tattoo and I got really excited that you finally got one! With the rad vtg. romper I was reminded of these photos for some reason: http://www.vintag.es/2012/08/vintage-photographs-of-tattooed-women.html
Last but not least, THE SUIT! IT IS PERFECT! That color is so perfectly you. Have you worn the pants with the top yet? We need pics!!!
I love your excitement! Oh, Veronique!
OK! OK!!!
THE SUIT PANTS NEED SOME TAILORING. Which I sort of thought they might.
But how nice does the jacket look, riiiight? I like it a ton.
I always cut my own bangs. I just search for YouTube videos about it. Or I just cut them at a diagonal while twisting and/or cutting vertically. I’m not explaining this as well as a YouTube video would. I just recently cut myself MORE bangs! I felt I needed more fringiness. Thanks, YouTube! I’m pretty happy with how it came out.
Today I teased my hair a bit. Meh. Whatever. It’s annoying, as I figured it would be. And I didn’t notice it was any poofier.
I don’t understand about hair products either. At home sometimes if I have a good up-do I will spray it a bit with some organic hairspray I got at the health food store. And I once bought some dry shampoo (at freaking MOTHER EARTH’S for a MILLION DOLLARS) that I thought would rough up my hair for better up-do staying power, but it is just cornstarch (WTF) and looks exactly, precisely like dandruff.
So those are the only hair products I own.
Oh, also I have a tub of this thing called Grease I’ve had since 1997. It sits in the medicine cabinet.
I’m dying for you to see the fabulous hair I’ve got going on today, but first I need to do like 20,000 boring work things. Alas! But let me tell you, your hair is PERFECT for today’s style, and with some practice you will look AMAZING in it. Not to hype you up or anything…
Those vintage tattooed-lady photos. Are. Amazing.