A recent post by my good friend Kevin Brennan inspired me to post this picture of me from 2007.
August in Florida might have had something to do with this.
In my case, it wasn’t bad haircuts that “caused” me to take my husband’s beard trimmer to my head. It was years of dying my very hair to its “natural” color. That natural color seemed to get darker with every application, and so my gray roots showed sooner and sooner as well, leading me into a vicious cycle of expensive salon dying and cheap do-it-yourself dying until I just got sick of it.
Nice but a lot of work and $$.
It took all of 6 years to get to this length.
You can tell how hard I worked at my hair by all the wrinkles I gained.
And I have absolutely no plans whatsoever to ever “shave” it off again.
Next time I’m frustrated with my hair, I’ll just put a fruit helmet on.
Green goes well with pink, I think.
Categories: Hair
Marie A Bailey
Writer, blogger, knitter, cat lover, and introvert.
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each stage of your image is sharing different story, that’s incredible!
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Thank you!
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You look lovely! 🙂
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Thank you, Carol 🙂
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I so want a fruit helmet now. Do they come in cantaloupe?
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You could make your own … a fun activity for you and your son 🙂
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We do have some pumpkins.
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Ooh, that would work, but might be a bit heavy 😉
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It looks better now than ever, Marie. 🙂
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*blush* … thanks 🙂
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Love these, Marie! You are a beautiful woman inside and out . . . now about that fruit helmet . . .
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Oh, Candace, thank you! Yeah, I think the fruit helmet will work to keep me from messing with my hair … well, except for the occasional flash of color 🙂
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Short hair, long hair…you’re beautiful any way, Marie! Have you reached your word count? 🙂 I’m going to be your worst nightmare this month. xo
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Go ahead, Jill, I’m up for the challenge. Wrote 9,050 words this morning. (Needless to say, my brain is dead now.)
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I just read the news…well done, my friend! You’ll sleep well tonight. 🙂
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Indeed. Though I know I won’t be writing like that every day. It definitely helped being a Saturday and not having to go to work 😉
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HA! If it wasn’t so hot here, I would shave my head and wear wigs. I have tried every detangler known to womankind and every wet brush/detangle brush and I absolutely HATE brushing through my wet hair. It is so fine and thin that I look like a grumpy old man with it cut short. My long hair is about the only feminine thing I have left since all my curves left me a few years ago. 😦
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Who put that picture of Annie Lennox on this post?
(Seriously… you really pulled it off, lady!)
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Thanks, Kevin. Even my husband liked it at first, but he was disappointed when I did it a second time 😉
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You look great, no matter the haircut Marie! Your husband is a lucky man! I’m also thinking I should dress Angus up as the “fruit hat cat” for Halloween next year, so thanks for posting that. 😉
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*blush* Thanks, Philip! I think Angus would look adorable with a fruit helmet 😉
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If my head wasn’t so battered I would love to do the same. This was a lot of fun. Over 9,000 words? my goodness lady you’re going to break something.
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Even with my glasses on, I didn’t see that Pages was counting characters and not words. Still, as of this moment I’ve got just over 3K 🙂
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Oh, I SO want a fruit helmet! I think I would ROCK that look 🙂
You look great too, by the way 😉
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Thanks, Linda. I think you would rock in a fruit helmet too 🙂
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And in Berlin, nobody would give me a second glance 😉 I saw a guy in a pointy tin foil hat the other day. I think I was the only person who did a double take 😉
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Thanks for the inspiration! You look fantastic.
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Thank you!
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