hairspray, hair spray, hairs pray

GOOD MORNING BALLLLTIMOOOOORREEE!!!!!

ok, not THAT hairspray.

so hair spray is one of those beauty tools that people are either really scared of, and thus don't even own, or own it and use it incorrectly.

hair should MOVE it should look like it's soft to the touch... hell, it should BE soft to the touch!!

and hair spray can actually be your friend and help make this possible! i sweeeaaarrrrr!

the new flexible hold hair sprays are not your grandmother's hairsprays that kept her hair looking like an easter egg on her head, they really just make your hair stay where you want it to stay, while still allowing it to move and be touseled...

mmmm, vegas. how i miss you so.

ok, point is, get a flexible hold hair spray in an aerosol can (the kind that goes shhhhhh not spritz spritz), and before you go out for an evening on the town, lift sections of your hair and spray it at the roots- providing lift all night if you have fine hair like i do, and/or just mist it all over and smooth hair down, so that no matter the weather you won't get frizzy fly-aways.

if you are using hairspray to give you crispy, crunchy, won't move a millimeter hair, then you're using the stuff alllll wrong.

and if you've never seen this guy sing and dance, you're living life alllll wrong.

mmmmm, zac efron. you are the only person who can pull off that much gel.

the grass is always blonder

so the grass is always greener on the other side, right? well, in my case, that means that i've always been a brunette, and thus always fantasized about the lighter side of life... as a BLONDE.

now, i neither have the funds nor the discipline to keep up with highlights right now, so how do i satiate my desire for change???

INSTYLE.COM MAKEOVERS!!!!

omg, this is the most fun site EVER. i even tricked my aunt into thinking i had ACTUALLY gone blonde once when i sent my 'rents a pic of me with cameron diaz's hair on!!

so all you do is upload a photo of yourself without any hair in your face and you can try on every celeb hairstyle under the sun. they've also added makeup, so you can try on entire celeb looks.

here's my before, for comparison's sake. thanks tlm and tru for peekin' in my picture.

so when kim kardashian went from dark dark brown, maybe even black hair, to blonde i was super jeally! i thought she was one of those people that HAD to have brown hair, but she looked super great and summery with her dark blonde/light brown highlights!

and here i am with her hair! i like it! i think it brightens up my entire face. am i going to do it... well, not right now, but maybe??

now i had always thought that if i went blonder, it would be darker blonde.... say, like, gisele bundchen's hair.

gisele not only has great hair color, but great hair. i would be lucky to have this kind of volume any day... so i must remember, it'd be this COLOR not this HAIR.

but still, mmmm, i love her light warm brown!

now here's someone's hair that is categorically blonde, blake lively.

and i still like it! i know i am clearly trying on very similar hair styles, but hey it's all hypothetical here, so my hypothetical hair can be whatever it wants to be.

i think my eyebrows are light enough to not make me look like a crazy bottle blonde...

but just to switch up the style, here i am in reese witherspoon's adorable bangs!!!

i never considered bangs, because my hair's really fine, and thus has a tendency to lie flat on my head, which in the bang world means greasy greasy greasy- so they just seemed like more work than they were worth, but these are kinda cute??

i think this would be a MUCH harder cut to actually get than it looks- i mean, her bangs are all different lengths and they're styled really well so that they separate all on their own... mee likey, but mee not readyy.

another thing you can do is FLIP each hair style, so you can finally figure out which side you should be parting your hair on!! i usually part my hair, or in this case, mamma mia's amanda seyfried's hair, on the right (first pic) but am not looking like a complete alien in the second picture with it parted on the left! i've even been considering rocking the middle part every once and while... but my middle part debut is still TBD...

here's not just vanessa hudgens hair, but her makeup too!

see, i told you this site is RIDICULOUSLY fun!

bold lips paired with bold bangs?? i love it! but this is a VERY stylized (read: ballsy) look to pull off!!

i don't love my jawline with bangs, but these bangs are so long, you could easily brush them to the side for soft side bangs anytime i felt like i had fat face.... something to think about!!

and finally, i will leave you with my favorite look yet...

yup. kate gosselin.

i mean, what's NOT to love??? the spikes in the back or the fact that it looks like a toupee?

hope you enjoyed all these pictures of me (a self-absorbed blogger, whhaaattt??), and you should really play with this for yourself!!

but, if you happen to be employed/don't have enough time or patience to play on your own, send me your pic and i'll do it for you!!

SRSLY!

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how to get a great haircut

I've needed a haircut for the past three months, but still haven't gotten on it because... well, because I'm lazy... OK, lazy and broke. But, when it comes time to get a haircut, you better believe I'm going to do it RIGHT.

Follow these tips to getting a great haircut, not just the first time, but every time.

1. Get a recommendation. This is how most people go about it, but remember to get the recommendation from the RIGHT person. Yes, you should admire whomever’s hair- but for what reasons??
   
   The person with the most enviable hair in the office may have great highlights, but if you’re not getting highlights, he/she may not be the one to ask. People who get their hair colored are most likely used to spending $200-300 per visit, and the focus is on the color, not the cut- so you’d be better off asking someone whose cut you admire, specifically if their hair is a similar texture to yours.
   
   You may love your friend’s blunt bangs, but if her hair is pin-straight and extremely fine, while you’ve got over two pounds of wavy, thick hair sitting on your hair, you’re not envious of her haircut, but of her hair.
   
   Accept what you’ve got to work with, even though the grass is always greener, and you’ll end up with a cut that she wishes SHE could emulate.
   
   
2. Yes, they wash your hair when you go to get it cut, but do NOT go in there with greasy, grimy hair twisted up in a disgusting knot. If you’re going to a new stylist for the first time, you have to look the part that you want your hair to look. When I made an appointment right after work and showed up in my uber conservative clothes and asked for a shoulder-length bob, I got a mom-of-the-year haircut above my chin. This wasn’t because my stylist didn’t listen to me, but the image I was projecting stuck in her head, so as she’s making strand-by strand decisions, she (and rightly so) made it match my image.
   
   If you pull your hair back all week at work and at the gym, but live for the weekends when you blow-dry, straighten, curl and style your hair, then throw on a pair of jeans and a funky necklace before heading to the salon, so that when you’re explaining what you want, to the stylist, he/she can see how it would look on you in the clothes you’d be wearing.
   
   This will also help the stylist at the end of the appointment actually style your hair in a way that you can do again, and a way that actually looks good.
   
   Hair stylists seem to have their own opinions about what’s in fashion (yeah, that's another post all in and of itself), so make sure to exude your own fashion sense so that you don’t have to walk out of the salon with teased hair that’s hair-sprayed into a helmet.
   
   
3. Bring a picture. Nothing can show a stylist what you want better than actually showing him/her what you want!
   
   You don’t have to love everything about a picture of a celebrity’s or friend’s hair. It can be like building your own Mr. Perfect- with Brad Pitt’s bone structure, George Clooney’s voice, and Zac Efron’s eye’s, you’ve got the perfect man!
   
   So, bring in a picture of bangs you just love, as well as a picture of layers that you want, and if you wear your hair up a lot, also bring in a picture of how you want your hair to look pulled back... and DON'T be afraid to get them out. I can't tell you how many times I've sat in the chair using every adjective under the sun trying to describe what I want, when I have picture's of Nicole Richie's bangs just SITTING in my purse. Walk in with the pictures in your hand so you don't chicken out. Be brave, which leads me to my final point...
   
   
4. Don’t be afraid to say something! In most cases, you know your hair better than this stylist. You know where your cowlicks are, and you know how your hair inevitably ends up falling.
   
   So if as your stylist is cutting bangs and you think they’re looking too long and you’ll just end up tucking them behind your ear and when you get home or you’ll end up trimming them yourself- then say something.
   
   This will not hurt your stylist’s feelings, and he/she will NOT take it out on you by chopping up the rest of your hair, this will just ensure you get what you want!
   
   Also, do not wait until the very end when the stylist turns you around and hands you a mirror to see the back of your hair to ask for corrections. As you can see he/she is finishing, ask vague questions, “Is this piece always going to fall here?” Give directions to the stylist, like, “I’m really going for voluminous hair, so could add some shorter layers?”
   
   This way when you do get spun around to see your new do, you're happy as a clam... but hopefully looking hot as a tamale!!

Just remember to take part in your haircut!! You're the one who's going to have to live with your hair after you leave the salon... which brings me to my final point (I sweeeear) you wear your hair every day- EVERY DAY!! So, make sure you LOVE it, and hey, at the end of the day, if you get an awful haircut... hair grows!!