Liz here.
March is going to be a very labor intensive month!
(Pictures of the March look will be posted on Monday, March 4.)
Archives For author
Liz here
I am finally posting about my February do, on the last day of February. (It’s a short month!)
The plan for February was to add blonde highlights. The blue from January was very tenacious, so we ended up with blonde highlights and bright blue at the bottom.
The tiny elk that I received as a birthday gift got in on the act:
Over the month, the blue slowly started to fade out, and looked like this by the end of the February:
I’ve really enjoyed the blue, and will miss it in March, especially finding blue hairs in my brush and on my clothes.
And while this may be the most under-recorded of my hair looks on the blog, it will be the most long-lived hairstyle, since this month I had to renew both my driver’s license and my passport.
The best quote of February came from the guy at the DMV: “It says green eyes and brown hair… you still want to go with that?”
Changing the Locks is now on twitter (@ChangingLocks ), if you are into that kind of thing.
Liz here,
Kicking off 2013 with a quick review of some French/fashion vocabulary:
OMBRÉ adjective \ˈäm-ˌbrā\
Definition: having colors or tones that shade into each other —used especially of fabrics in which the color is graduated from light to dark
Origin: French, past participle of ombrer to shade, from Italianombrare, from ombra shade, from Latin umbra — more at umbrage
First Known Use: 1893
Ombre fabric was huge in ’70s fashion, like this Bill Blass caftan, and t’s still popular (lot more images at this blog):
It’s also become a big trend in hair:
In fact, U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) was even sporting the ombre bangs at the start of the 2013 congressional session (she also has exceptional taste in boots!)
To start off the year, my hairdresser/stylist/partner-in-hair-crimes-for-2013, Maggie at Double Dutch suggested that we start out with something subtle, to ease into the project. Before I went in for my appointment, one of my co-workers enthusiastically said “ombre!”, so when Maggie brought it up, I was already primed.
(I’m having some issues with editing and uploading pics, but I’ll try to do a post about the process later this month.)
And here’s a few shots of the finished product:
Liz here,
Even though I haven’t been blogging as much as Beth, and even though I am a bit (a lot?) behind on the practical side of planning for 2013 Hair-o-rama, my subconscious is hard at work thinking about the hair project.
Last Saturday, I dreamed that I was on a plane to somewhere in South America. When we arrived, I learned that I was part of a semester abroad program, and that I would be living/studying/researching somewhere in the mountains of Peru? Brazil? Chile? for 3 months. In the dream, I wasn’t too worried that I had left behind my actual job, family obligations, and new dog for 3 months, or that I was going to be living in a foreign country with apparently no preparation, or that I would be sharing a room with college students. BUT I did have a moment before I woke, when I clearly thought: “I’ll have to find someone here in S. America who can cut and style my hair each month, good thing there are hairdressers here…”
Then this Saturday, I dreamed that I had decided that my first hair style would be straightened, flat-ironed hair. So I needed to purchase a flat iron. I met some guy who would sell me one, and he convinced me to get a combination flat-iron/ cell phone. So I got it, but it was sort of an old school flip phone that had a very small flat iron attachment, and I immediately thought “wait, why did I just trade this guy my new-ish iphone for a phone that is also a hair styling tool? What the heck was I thinking.” (Much relief when I woke up from that dream to the sound of my iphone alarm.)
Analyzing these dreams, I think that they show that I’m definitely committed to the project (even if I end up in another continent) but that I’m a little concerned about what crazy things I might do in pursuit of the next hair style (hopefully not downgrade my phone, but who knows!)
Liz here, with a few inspiration pics. I’ve had short or shortish hair for much of life, so while I’m definitely looking forward to the short cuts, I’m also very excited to do some long styles:
Extensions and blow out:
This color
The K$sha:
Changing the Locks 