Meet Bob

I had no idea everyone would be so excited about my new hair-do.  Thanks for making me feel important friends. 
Whithout further ado, please meet Bob - aka my new do.

A pre-bangs shot (or two in this case)



As my stylist put it, we took some weight off the ends, I think this will work out well.  Plus I'm super excited about my thick, yet wispy bangs. 

Hoping everyone is enjoying a good hair day. 

PS- I'm so glad I went back into my stylist to ask for this slight adjustment.  Although I am far from timid, I was a little nervous, but she was very happy to ablidge.  Why is it so hard to ask for what we want sometimes?

Buying into the Bob

Last night I went to get what has turned into a biannual hair cut.  My hair grows as slow as molasses, so it's just so hard for me to get it cut right when I get it a length I like. 

For most of my life I have kept it right around shoulder length-which works, although I always dream about having fun long hair.

I went in to the beauty parlor with my hair a few inches below my shoulders and left with it a few inches above my shoulders-the exact hair cut I wanted, just two inches shorter than I wanted it to be.  Needless to say I was upset.  I spent last night and this morning trying to convince myself that it was ok-this would finally get me to take my prenatal vitamins everyday, but it just wasn't working.

I didn't want a bob, but I have a bob.  So I just had to decide to embrace it, and make it the bob I want it to be-I had to buy into the bob. 

I'm going back to my stylist and getting bangs to go with my bob a-la 2 of my favorite bloggers:

Kelly

and

Caroline

Here goes nothing!

Time to face the music

Despite my best efforts, it's time for me to accept that I am getting older.  I haven't noticed too many grays in my brunette locks or winkles on my face, but the sands of time beginning to take their toll on my appearance (in what I feel are very strange ways). 

So I was wanting to chalk these changes up to the dry and bitter cold winter air here in DC, but I'm really starting to think that is not the case, and that it is in fact that I am getting on up there, and it's starting to show-ha!

Weird change #1-my hair has turned into a hot mess.  When I wake up in the morning my normally stick straight and very fine hair is completely knotted and sticking up in every which way imaginable.  I am talking CRAZY.  I made some adjustments, deep conditioners, balms, and even a silk pillow case to no avail-I don't know what I'm doing in my sleep, but when I wake up, it the equivalent of if I spent the evening teasing my hair beyond Snookie heights.  I'm going into my stylist tomorrow for a new cut-if that doesn't do the trick I don't know what I'm going to do. 

Weird change #2-the texture of the skin on my eyelids has changed (I told y'all weird stuff was happening).  Now it's bumpy and almost dry (if that's even possible).  I do not like it one bit.  I guess it's time to bite the bullet and start applying eye cream every morning and night.  Any recommendations?  I haven't found an eye cream I just love quite yet.  I've really been digging the new skin care products by Mario Badescu I picked up at Ulta in January. 

The Enzyme Cleansing Gel is my favorite cleanser EVER!

LOVE the Alpha-Grapefruit Cleansing Lotion

Also I adore the Honey Moisturizer although sometimes I feel like a need modern scientific advancments to truly mouisterize this face of mine and I go back to old faithful 

Lancome, why do you work so well, but make me so angry to spend $130 for 1.7 oz

Does anyone else have random signs of aging, or is it just me?  Any tried and true skin care items that can maintain what I have left of my youthful skin?