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For August, I wanted to go crazy with the color, so we did more shades of pink and purple, and added orange.

If last month was a fruity Neapolitan look, this month is Rainbow Sherbet.

Maggie also cut it short, and did a razor cut before we colored it, and the remains of the July colors on the salon floor were pretty striking:

Still getting lots of comments from folks, including the Fedex delivery woman and the cashier at Target.

Liz here,

Catching up on July, when we added a big swath of purple to the magenta-platinum combination.

I think it looked a little bit like a vanilla-raspberry-blackberry version of Neapolitan Ice Cream.

It actually looked the best from the back:

I got a lot more comments with the tri-color hair in July than I did with the two-tone hair in June.

-6 year old in line at aiport security to his mom: “Hey, wacky hair!”

-clerk at car rental place: “It’s patriotic: red white and blue”

-guy at the rental car exit: “I like your hair.”

-clerk at the new grocery store: “I’m trying to get my girlfriend to move here from Georgia, and she says she’ll only do it she can have pink hair here, so I’m going to tell her that I saw you.”

-clerk at the return desk at Walmart: “I like your hair”, and a few minutes later my mother said: “I think you get better customer service because of your hair.”

-my friend Laura: “You look like My Pretty Pony…no Poochie!” (I had to look up Poochie.)

-also lots of random comments of “hey beautiful” from men on the street, from panhandlers at 12th and Broadway, to delivery guys when I was in New York City. Which was mostly entertaining.

And what a crappy month it’s been.

Helped a friend clear out part of her folks’ living room for hospice. Happened upon this in the bathroom:

Not as good as a printed Wynkoop sticky note, but still. Thank you Lew for sharing with me that you thought the name of this blog was inspired. I’m one of many with an aching heart.

Liz here,

One of the risks of putting your photos online, whether it’s on a blog, facebook, or another public site, is that if something bad-or even something good–happens to you, one of those photos will probably end up all over the local news, or CNN, or printed on signs carried by angry protesters.

With that in mind, I’m going to be proactive and suggest this photo from June to use in emergency situations: