Okay, so the season finale "cliffhanger" was maybe a bit predictable...but I do so love my Jim and Pam.
Unrelated: I decided to grow my hair out for another year, as you may know.
And I like to plan in advance, as you may know.
So, to the predicament: many short-hair people somewhat close to my age bracket that I have pictures of--Wait-until-Dark Audrey Hepburn, '90s Winona Ryder, recent Natalie Portman, recent Sister Phoebe, 2002ish Mandy Moore--are brunettes. Hair people always say if you're copying a cut, you need to have a similar color/texture/bone structure/etc. for it to work.
Unrelated: Pam from The Office is also a brunette, and my age, and I also have a picture of her as you can see, but I don't think I'll be bringing that to the hair lady.
There are a few "older" (than me) famous blondes whose super-crops I have always admired--Sharon Stone and Meg Ryan come to mind. More so Sharon (vampy and FAUX-HAWK) than Meg (creepy and LIPS). But I can't seem to find any decent pictures of either. (Word to the wise...google-imaging Sharon Stone is not advisable.) Sienna Miller maybe...but she's all like "I'm SOOO Edie Sedgwick and boho chic" and by the way I wouldn't g-i her either, just a tip.
Unrelated: I really liked the name Edie, until Edie Britt burned down Susan Mayer's house.
Unrelated: I really liked Desperate Housewives, until it got all needlessly sleazy (my mom's voice echoes in my head even as I type that word) as I should have known it was bound to do.
So hair: Mia Farrow, maybe.
Or perhaps the command "Let's see a #4 on the clippers, and make it snappy" will suffice.
I'm thinking maybe shaggy chin-length bob to transition to the gamine crop (every fashion magazine's favorite moniker for pixie cuts...and mine too).
I'll probably end up doing what I did at age 12 for my first major chop and that is bring a picture of Dolores O'Riordan from the liner notes of No Need to Argue (good idea) and another one of Sister Bonny (better idea). And Phoebe too. Yeah she's a brunette but we're sisters!
I said, SISTERS!
Semi-related: My problem with the super-short cut is that when my hair is super-short, I feel like I always need to dress cute, abandoning the freedom of the ponytail/bun, which goes with anything slummy OR glam. Anyone else have that problem?
This is why I could never write professionally. Non sequiturs and semi-relateds consume me. I'm in constant need of a commercial break from my point. I blame TV. I need to throw mine away.
ok-i'm trying to clarify-
ReplyDeleteyou're still growing your hair out, but you're feeling pressure from the media to go gamine?
or are you going gamine and haven't figured out what style to go for?
i think i need to read your post again.
My suspicions are confirmed--I cannot communicate clearly, especially late at night.
ReplyDeleteNo pressure from the media whatsoever. I'm just planning ahead--I'm going to cut it off in several months and I want to bring pictures in to the hair lady. I'm just thinking about it now because...the planning ahead thing.
Not surprised you didn't gather that.
This post made No Sense.
ReplyDeleteI too have done the cut-it-off-grow-it-out-dance-drama with my hair since I was 12. Some have been great, some have been hideous and I would love to burn every photo in existance of those hair style choices. I cut my hair off last fall and am now wishing that it would grow faster. I finally found a picture of what I think I probably wanted back then and for sure want now. But I have to wait until it grows. Although there are some very cute short cuts...too many choices. I think in the end, no matter how much I love the cut, within 2 weeks I am tired of the extra work the style requires and want to go back to the ponytail and the knot on top of the head. I guess it is more important to have a low maintainance style than a high fashion cut.
ReplyDeleteAnway, after all that rambling. I feel where you're coming from.
Well, Hannah, sometimes you gotta put yourself out there with nonsense posts.
ReplyDeleteI figure with all the information in there there's something for everyone to mull over.
Yeah Katie--love The Office. But Michael is SO AWKWARD that I actually had to leave the room when Jan showed up at the casino party. Yep.
ReplyDeleteThey called pixie cuts gamine cuts when I was a teen - wearing pixie/gamine cuts myself.
ReplyDeleteShort hair CAN be low-maintenance - mine is - but they CAN be high-maintenance too - so it's a conundrum for sure.
I agree though -with a very short cut, you feel the need to dress MORE - as if to offset the short do - or at least not get mistaken for a male person.
It's all about jewelry and lip gloss.
ReplyDeleteGo for it!
I heart Jim and Pam so much!
ReplyDeleteOh geez I love 'em too. So great. Although I don't know how next season will go--the whole dance between Jim and Pam was one of my favorite parts of the show. Okay, that and everything else.
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