This is Beth. How do you measure a year? Liz and I will measure 2013 in 12 new dos each. Wishing everyone lots of love to measure in too.
Happy New Year.
P.S. Here’s a link to a live performance of the song from the Broadway musical Rent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i1ZGhBcLWA&NR=1&feature=fvwp. Or borrow the soundtrack from me.
This is Beth. Today I went to see Monica the doer of dos. She’s also a planner. We made a plan.
A few weeks ago when I went for a regular maintenance cut and color I told Monica about the concept for this little hair/blog project. As suspected, she’s perfect for it – I could almost see ideas spinning in her head. She’s an artist. I think she appreciates a canvas.
I don’t know Monica well. I do know she likes music, knows music, sings along, frequents live shows even in other states. She has great tattoos and likes themed costume parties. Once she was excited about a trip to the container store and organizing her space at home. I trust her with my hair. I expect my relationship with her will last beyond this project. (Please Monica, tell me you’re in for the years of growing it out!)
Monica can be found at Bang Salon: http://www.bangsalon.net/park_hill_salon.html
P.S. No, I’m not revealing the plan.
This is Beth. Looking back before moving forward.
In preparation for do-planning sessions, here’s the me me me post previously threatened. Some dos I’ve done:
In no particular order, the pics pretty much showcase dos from the last seven years, most were taken in the last couple years. Coming soon: a scary assortment of dos from the more distant past. Maybe.
P.S. Links to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE David Bowie (great hair)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnJo88kuP8 Davis Bowie (also great hair)
& check out the Shrek 2 motion picture soundtrack for the version by Butterfly Boucher featuring David Bowie (it includes a couple other good dance-in-the-kitchen-with-babes tracks as well).
This is Beth. This is my bathroom. And a close up of the supplies currently in my bathroom.
I might have to invest in monthly do-appropriate products. Also considering accessories: scarves, hats, barrettes, clips, beads, headbands, bandanas, wonder it they still make those pony-tail holders with two big plastic balls and elastic. And makeup. I’m pretty serious about a tattoo on a shaved section eventually. Will I need a piercing to go with a style at some point? Just thinking. Starts with the do, but might mean doing a whole look. Or experimenting for a month.
For example, Anne Hathaway on newsstands – same month, think it’s the same cut:
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Do done different. Helps to have a stylist and.., and…. I may get a new barrette, but not a stylist. Maybe it’s as inexpensive as rubbing a little sugar water in the hair like early Rod Stewart, that’d be nice.
P.S. Thank you to friends who thought of hair accessories as holiday gifts!
This is Beth. When I tell people about this little hair/blog project, they often have their own do-related tale to tell. It often has something to do with how their hair has something to do with their identity.
Liz and I both work at museums; we recently saw this in an exhibit in Minnesota:
The label: “To many American Indians like the Dakota, long hair is culturally significant. By forcing children to have their hair cut, boarding schools were destroying a piece of the student’s identity.”
The reference to an enormously tragic part of history brought a few things to mind:
This is Beth. Once upon a time we could drop our kids off at school without feeling so scared.
I started this hair/blog project as a frivolous distraction from seriousness and sadness in the world.
But some events demand attention. They deserve full focus.
We give them that, and simultaneously we keep living. We remember the good. We encourage our kids to embrace life and love and beauty and magic and laughter. We have a good cry and then we allow ourselves to have a good laugh too.
Maybe, when we’re ready, we could laugh at the hair of fictional characters. A dozen dos for you to peruse:
Oops, that’s only eleven. Who would you add?
P.S. On Friday night I thought about gun control and mental illness. I wondered why people bring children into this world. And I thought about my own choice to do so without a partner in a way I never had before. I hugged the babes and I cried to Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxcMw5PTDg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLHCC3geTpc. I knew I could only begin to imagine what people more directly involved were going through.
P.P.S. Thanks Bill.
This is Beth. Planning a post about my own past dos. Feels so, “I wanna talk about me Wanna talk about I Wanna talk about number one Oh my me my What I think What I like What I know What I want What I see; I like talking about you, you, you, you usually; But occasionally, I wanna talk about me (me, me, me, me) I wanna talk about me (me, me).”
Can I blog and be not so sure I wanna talk about me?
And just in case you don’t already have Toby Keith singing under your do too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4wOkAyi5Q; or, for the worst in gender streotyping, the official video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxUuDPNbkJk.
Finally, Google image search revealed many pics of Toby in hat, but love the one with hair showing AND I’ve added bandana to accessory list.
This is Beth. A friend and colleague commented on the blog, “I am intrigued (and slightly afraid).”
I, too, am afraid.
Do I have what it takes to do this? For a whole year? Will I really end up with a platinum crew-cut-I-mean-pixie? Will Liz really do the lizard? We’re lookin’ at lots of months of thinking and writing about hair. Will it stay interesting (to me and others)? What’s the point?
While learning about logic models this week I had the opportunity to think about outcomes for this little project. I hadn’t really articulated goals beyond having a few laughs, creating an amusing distraction from the seriousness and sadness in the world. Just making it through the year (“finishing is winning” or so they say [thank you Singers]). Is that enough?
From the metaphor exercise: It’s not how many times I post or how many people read my posts, it’s how many likes and comments and followers the blog gets. But really, it’s how many times people laugh and think while reading my posts (I can measure the first; don’t think I can measure the second).
And… Do I have longer-term goals? Am I willing to admit that selling rights to the screenplay has crossed my mind? That I want to meet Ellen DeGeneres?
Really, if I anticipate a finale of very short and blond, who better to emulate?
Or, maybe I just want to keep it close to home. I might copy my other idol Michelle (seen here with artist husband Brad and his art):
P.S. I learned this on the Internet: Geena Davis said the famous line “Be afraid. Be very afraid” in the movie The Fly (1986).
This is Beth. It’s my birthday and I’m going to a party tonight. The party is not for me, and I hope not to cry.
I do expect to cry during 2013, however (and probably sooner). Sometimes over my hair.
I wanted to take this opportunity to document the starting do. This is how I look turning 44 on 12/10/12:
(Thanks photo’ers Jilly & Mae)
What will I look like turning 45 on 12.10.13? Whatever the do, I do promise to redo the bow-on-head pic.
P.S. Links to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4 Lesley Gore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gceGGSSxDqo Amy Winehouse
P.P.S. I just learned (thank you Google) that I share a birthday with Ada Lovelace. From opensecrets.org: “Female bloggers owe a lot to Ada Lovelace, the imaginative and intelligent “enchantress of numbers.” As the first person to envision the use of computers for purposes beyond mathematical computations — and considered by many to be the first computer programmer — Lovelace not only paved the way for all those who use the Internet to communicate and educate, but continues to serve as a hero for women and girls involved in math, science and technology.” Also, a nice do.
This is Beth. The girl and I were surfing styles. “Why is Justin Bieber there?”
“That looks like Justin Bieber too.”
And Emma Watson:
Not sure the message here. Except that it helps to be young and attractive. Maybe that’s why this is a good experiment for the rest of us.
P.S. Did you know there were boys in New York (luckily back before my babes were old enough to notice celeb styles) getting Bieber-inspired blowouts? And not admitting it had anything anything to do with Justin. The original with flip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe00S22Fa0Y
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