hair envy.

 

 

Fashion magazines and websites are loaded with

this hair style... the grown out color or sun kissed fade...

I'm not sure what the lingo for it is...

but i'm liking it.

Casual, real, relaxed.

Now if my hair would just grow already

i'd be able to get a move on the color. 

 

"Hurry hair! You're taking forever!"

Growing like a weed.

ha! I wish!

My hair is growing soooo slow! But it is long enough to start thinking of an actual style. It's not just "growing out" and forced in to hair pins anymore. Although that doesn't stop me. Cause I do have Lazy in me folks!

To DO:
A load or two of laundry so I have my cute clothes clean.
Take the time to orderly place make up on to my face.



Then I may be able to polish up like this cute chicka!

spotted via A Cup Of Jo


I love her swooped messy bangs. Her make-up is minimal and neutral but really really lovely. I like her clothes too....



spotted via A Cup Of Jo


But a little too school girl for me.
I think I'd pick something more casual...



Like this...

spotted via a history of architecture

or this...


spotted via toast


OK... off to do that laundry. ugh.

oops.

I got stir crazy yesterday.


and hair color was on sale for 5.99.




pro: my hair is one color.... aka, the same color as my roots.

con: not sure i like it and with summer around the corner it's going to fade like a bitch.


oh well.

am i indecisive or just cheap?

My last hair cut was november 18th. So I guess you could say that I've been growing my hair out since november...


but i think the true story is that i'm broke
and
sick of spending money on my hair when i have it.



I keep seeing such pretty natural long hair styles all over the internet.

Like this pretty braided do.

My hair is naturally curly and and so easy to take care of when it's got some length to it. Just jump out of the shower and go! Weee! So if I let my hair go closer to my natural color and grow it out I wouldn't have to worry about keeping up with the salon appointments.

BUT

I really do love my hair short. It fits my personality i think. And the light color keeps my short hair looking more "PDX fashionista" rather than "soccer mom blah"

See...
I don't know what to freaking do.

holy mother of giant giraffe toes!

What the hell happened to me last night?

I'll tell you.

I took a shower.

went to bed with wet hair. (yep, i have curly hair y'all)

and slept like C R A P.



So now this is what I look like.

F
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V
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God I hope not!

happy paddy day.

Here are a few of my favorite (green) things via etsy.

flower crown

when i was a little girl i always wanted the flowery-fairy-crown-things that i saw at the art fair.

this would sooo spoil my inner ballerina royaly.

cemetery moss drop
i *heart* this BIG time.

poppa bird

owls and beards... yep. cool.

rosebud necklace
so sweet with any happy sun dress or spring tank.

pretty green journal
hand grafted yummy-ness... gotta love a special leather house to hold all your
deep dark secrets. no?



Hope you all have a happy sunny leprechaun day!

The last time I f****ed up my hair...

...trying to fix my blond color.

At home.

By myself.

My dear boyfriend went to the store and bought me a box of brown hair dye and all was better.

I should have learned my lesson then! But on I went feeling happy with my new brown hair. After I got bored with that I had my hair cut OFF. I mean really short. But I LOVED it. Then every time she (my last stylist) dyed the color it kept getting darker and darker and eventually it was black. I let that grow out a bit and then got bored with the color. SO I added highlights on my own. They actually turned out really cute! But when it was time to freshen them up... I *&^%$# up the color, again.

I don't know what it is about me thinking I can do it on my own. I know that I like to change my hair and that's great. I know I like to not spend hundreds of dollars I don't have doing it and that's great. The thing I can't seam to get through my thick skull is that if I want to go from dark to light or even medium to light.... ok scratch that!

If I want to go lighter than the color I'm rockin'

I NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE DO IT!!!

So last week I tried to fix my roots at home. I didn't want to do highlights I just wanted to slap on some color to the roots and have a solid blond head. But by now in this post you are smarter than me 1 week ago. It turned a yellow orange and the rest of my hair was, well, let's just say "not good."

I was able to land an appointment with my new favorite hair stylist and sported hats the rest of the week. (I didn't just go buy brown hair dye! See, i am learning a little, just really slow.) I give her the story on why my head looks like a polar bear's whizzed on fir and she says, "oh rach, don't worry, we can totally fix this." She's AMAZING! She put a great toner on my head and next thing i know my hair is one pretty color. I love it. It's really light and now really short thanks to her magic scissors and I LOVE IT!

The best part is that I don't have to get the roots done for about 8 weeks (cause she said the grow out will be really cute, i'll let ya know when that comes around) and it will be a lot less expensive than a weave touch up ever was.

*above - the pics black and white... but I want to play with my hair a bit before I shock you all with a color picture. "Wahooooo" for an affordable fix and cute new short cut!!!