You can’t start a fire without a spark

By BK
January 3, 2013 //
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This is Beth. Kicking it off with the fiery redhead.

1. The inaugural do: Reddish-orange inspired by The Fifth Element (Milla Jovovich as Leeloo)

Milla Jovovich Fifthe Element

and many famous female firecrackers. A small sample:

Maureen O'haraLucille Ball 1Tina Louise 3Molly RingwaldJulianne Moore 2Debra MessingChristina Hendricks 3 Alyson Hannigan

To be worn straight most of the month, although I may play with styles.

2. Music: Couldn’t hear much with sinks (3), dryers (3), and foils (many) spraying, blowing, and crinkling in my ears, but did come up for air long enough to catch Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer and Madonna’s Like a Prayer. Hum.

3. Drink: Spicy ginger beer, whiskey, and lime.

Jan drink mixin's Jan drink & foils

4. Theory: Redheads = hotheaded, passionate. Note: My hair has been various shades of reddish-brown at various times in my life, from auburn to burgundy. This do is a bit, well, less subtle. So maybe I’m actually testing the… vibrancy more than traditional redhead stereotypes (see #5).

5. Reactions – to be reported if/when needed throughout the month.

Jan done

What will it spark?

P.S. Links to the songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs (“…wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face… come on baby the laugh’s on me.”); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk (hair!); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ8YGwUOHUQ (some fire in that one).

P.P.S. Thanks to Monica of course and Kylie and Crystal of Bang.

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Five elements of my dos

By BK
January 2, 2013 //
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This is Beth. Dos start SOON. The blogging continues.

My process will include five components:

1. The do

2. The doing-of-the-do Music

3. The doing-of-the-do Drink

4. The theory behind the do (a stereotype to test)

5. Reactions – of friends and strangers recorded all month

Also – ongoing hair-related observations, guests posts, and of course – Liz dos.

Cheers!

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525,600 minutes

By BK
January 1, 2013 //
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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.

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The who and where of doing dos

By BK
December 27, 2012 //
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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!)

Bang1 Bang2

Monica can be found at Bang Salon: http://www.bangsalon.net/park_hill_salon.html

 

P.S. No, I’m not revealing the plan.

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Ch ch ch changes

By BK
December 27, 2012 //
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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:

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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).

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Products, paraphernalia, possible peripheries

By BK
December 26, 2012 //
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This is Beth. This is my bathroom. And a close up of the supplies currently in my bathroom.

bathroom product

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:

anne-hathaway-covers-vogue-december-2012[1] anne-hathaway-glamour-cover-january-2013[1]

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!

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Hair Dreams

By locks2013
December 23, 2012 //
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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.

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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!)

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Power of hair, power over people

By BK
December 22, 2012 //
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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:

MN Hist

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:

  • We’re lucky to pretty much control our own hair.
  • We should have control over the rest of our bodies too (I’m a big fan of women’s reproductive rights and can’t help but think of recent political debate).
  • How much of our identity has to do with our hair?
  • Sign, sign, everywhere a sign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklM1AiZX0s
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Once upon a time

By BK
December 15, 2012 //
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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:

Olive-oyl-pictures-61 Princess-leiaCousin-Itt-addams-familyhunger-games-effiePipibernini_medusagirl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-06TANGLEDbride-of-frankensteinQueenamidala 220px-Marge_Simpson

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.

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I like talking about you, you, you, you usually

By BK
December 14, 2012 //
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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.

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