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Friday, October 15, 2010

reflection on updos

I love hair. Obviously. I don't think there are many aspects of hair that I don't like. So much creativity goes into everything that is done. One of my favorite ways of expressing creativity - apart from color - is updos...(updo-ing?)
Thursday was my sister's birthday, as well as my service day. We decided to go out to see Jason Castro at Mohegan Sun that night to celebrate. He's really awesome, by the way, but that's another blog post for another day. Anyways...because it was my service day, and because we were going out to a concert, I decided it would be cool to get a funky updo. So after lunch I asked Morgan, a highly gifted individual, if she would do something cool with my quirky locks, and this is what she came up with. Freakin. Awesome.
Sorry if all the pics seem to be from one angle/side...I had a fascination with the braids. :)
Having lots of different tones in my hair, as well as really randomly placed, chunky blond bits made for a fun canvas to work with. I was totally psyched with the results.

On Wednesday we had a halloween updo competition. Now, I really don't know what a 'halloween-updo' looks like, and honestly, I didn't really care. I did, however, have an updo in mind. There had been an idea - a vision, if you will - rolling around in my brain for a couple of days so I decided to play around with that idea instead of doing...holloweeny stuff...



And here we have my dear Barbara Blonde, modelling this trial-run updo.


3 comments:

  1. oh is THAT what you meant yesterday! I see now. But it wouldn't have worked unless I curled it like that. I would have had all this long hair stuck on the center of my head by some little braids. and we all know (or you do) how my hair likes to curl... :/ troubles.

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  2. Yeah, it's kinda what I meant. Itd just be a straight version. I actually only had braids on one side of my head...

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  3. You couldn't have taken just one picture with your face in it? Poo.
    I wish I had somewhere fancy to go that required an updo...

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