Hair Inspiration

At some point I had a moment where I realized that for the better part of my life, I had sported the same hair. Long, dark, parted to the side and either worn curly, straight or back (it's back most days- -Hey! I work in an insurance office!). Every other part of my life is defined by sporadic decisions, impulse, and pseudo craziness, but my hair has always been so utterly safe. I've been completely reticent to alter anything about it, and once I had that realization that my hair was the one tell-tale thing about my deeply-hidden inner reservedness, I decided it had to be changed. I think this realization happened simultaneously to discovering that Daphne Guinness was a person...and an awesome one at that. So, my hair went from long and straight/curly or pulled back to my own version of this:

Et voila! After four or five months, I grew bored with that. It was a lot of upkeep to make quintessentially dark brown hair try to be platinum. So...it was the moment that I saw this image on the design sponge blog that I decided to adopt this hair style. It was bold, drastic and this chick looks like someone I would hang out with. 8" of hair loss, hair color, and bangs later...one of my friends came up to me at a very quiet bar and started introducing themselves before they realized it was me. Tomorrow's hair adventure is less exciting- -but this is the gal that's inspiring it. No more framing bangs- -blunted, straight across, and I'll take the cigarette while I'm at it.

And, here it is....