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dear kendra, you are cute. xo, laurie

AWE SOME.

i am a big proponent of bangs, especially as someone who may or may not also have a "large" forehead.

i find my bangs to be delightful. they're not for everyone, but they are most certainly for me.

and probably for you.

Purl Honey, if you want bangs by golly, you should have 'em! We have ways (cue ominous music)of making Hair Stylists cooperate.....

And if that doesn't work, come to Baltimore! My friend Trish owns two hair salons in Charm City, and she will be more than happy to give you bangs.

I dunno...think how bangs will look sticking out from under the chapeau Brangelina!

Having had the same thoughts myself this morning, looking at my wide expanse of forehead,I'm just saying.... It's a slippery slope! ;-)

Laurie - you look so cute in your new hat! MUCH better than fishface Angelina. I wish they'd put your picture on magazine covers...you're WAY, WAY better looking!!!

Love the hat. Can't wait to see the final recipe so I can decide whether I can handle it or not.

I have had bangs since I was 11 years old and I can't live without them. As I say about myself, I don't have a forehead, I have a five head. It is bad. So if you want bangs, go for it. And if you don't like them, they will always grow out. It will be a pain to do so, but they will.

oh la la, bangs, tres chic! Would be perfect for gay Paris!

Aharon is a trained professional, so I trust his judgement. Most of the issue seems to be my ginormous chipmunk cheeks. Apparently, a round face can look rounder with ze bangs. (french for the day!)

I'm going on Wednesday. maybe I'll be a redhead! who knows!

Try this...get a few wispy bangs cut in that you can either pull down and utilize or comb back and hide. That's what I do and then I can have bangs one day and none the next, voila!

I thought I needed bangs last year when I approached the near end of my 40's. Unfortunately, I just looked silly rather than hip and young.
I don't see that being a problem for you, being you are hip and young....trust Aharon, he knows best.

I believe in banging, but bangs and hats do not mix, IMO, so I don't do hats very often, but I love hats so I headband the bangs back when necessary.
You look great in hats. BTW

I have too demanded things from my hair stylist.
AHH the drama.
I went in to have a hair cut and he refused, and threw a fit like a five year old
"I AM NOT CUTTING YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIIIIRRR" (done in the best Jack tantrum (from Will and Grace)
Lucky for me there was an evil imp hiding in the back (probably just finished her certificate for "Hair Dresser") and she kindly chimed in
"I'll do it!"
The over excited tone should have been the first clue but when I get my hair done I usually tell them "Just surprise me" It has lead to many a bad haircut, but it grows back right! (so what if people will not be seen with me in public) I am adventurous like that.
I digress.
She cut off my hair (13 1/2 inches which of coarse was sent to locks of love)
and she gave me BABY BANGS!
Nuff said

ps. Probably not the best idea to tell someone at a hair salon "Just surprise me" I do this all the time, In my defense I am crazy some times and it has also lead to a bunch of really great styles that I would have never ventured out of my shell to try. Hey its only hair.

"five-foot-almost-four inches of nothing but pure Southern quirkery!" You actually made me snort.

The hat is truly gorgeous.

I look 5 years younger when I have bangs. They soften my somewhat angular face. As I am 41, the 5 year bangs discount is very welcome.

Oh and my mom has still not forgiven me for shaving my head bald in grade 8 right before graduation.
A good friend had cancer and had lost all her hair and was affraid to go back to school so 5 of her closest friends got together and shaved our own heads bald. With a bic shaver, raser burn and everything. You should see the pictures from Grad.
My mother still brings it up in coversations

A variety of outdated ghetto slang. Ha! I can just hear the range of replies now.

Your hat looks so cute! As do you!

I too have dealt with trauma by getting bangs. But, like fast food or cigarettes, it feels great while you're doing it but once it's over you reallize why it's forbidden. This is merely a cautionary tale.

I'm waiting for the Brangelina hat pattern! You're just too cool, making up your own pattern. I'd say submit it to Knitty, but then we'd all be all sad because we couldn't have it right away (but we'd be really really happy when you actually made the next winter issue!)

The redhead idea isn't bad. Personally, I think your blond is gorgeous and suits you. However, my sister, whose natural color is "mouse," has alternated between blond and redhead for years and reports that, apparently, her IQ increases dramatically when she's a redhead and men seem to realize that she has lovely blue eyes as well as knockers when she's a redhead. Plus, isn't LA pretty much Blond Central? Redhead might be a distinction out there.

Mmmm.... not touching the hair within 6 months of a breakup was advice I recieved much too late.

I decided I needed bangs and layers a week after a breakup once, and I walked out with a fe-mullet that took me a year to grow out. It was horrible.

But, now, emotionally stable and happy me decided I wanted bangs and went conservatively about it and I LOVE THEM. BANGS ARE THE BEST THING THAT'S HAPPENED TO MY HAIR IN YEARS.

Just do it in a calm, happy place. Trust me. ;)

I cut all my hair off when I was 7 months pregnant. They warn you in baby books not to do it, but I did it anyway. I looked like a huge q-tip. But I think you would look great with longer, sweepy-type bangs. None of that babybang (1/2") sh*t for you. What would your peeps and shorties think?!

AhhhhhAHAHAHA! I have had the Same. Exact. Conversation. about bangs with my beloved Hair Guy Jason as well.

I agree with MonkeyGurrl -- I think long, side-swept bangs would look good on you. You can always try out bangs by combing part of your hair the way you want your bangs to lie and squinting really, really hard to imagine what they would look like. Or maybe that's just me.

bang she bang bang! I too am contimplating some big forehead coverings - aka bangs! (But I know as soon as I get them I will want to let them grow out & that is just yucky!)

Red, do the red. And long wispy bangs...yeah! but, I believe in radical hair change.

Maybe you can convince Aharon to give you bangs if you ask for the Charlie's Angels bangs. There's even a website dedicated to their hair!

http://www.libreopinion.com/members/charliesangels/hairstyles.html

Oh wait, they all have wavy hair. Back to the drawing board...

I plan to walk in and say, "Aharon... do whatever you must to make me purtyfied!" and hope it includes red hair and bangs. heh

Also: IT MIGHT RAIN TODAY. So exciting! I got to wear my Uggs to work in case of rain. I am a fashion don't.

OH! If it rains on the commute home, I could have a finished Brangelina For Real hat by the time I get home! Lots of knit time in traffic. And last night I had an idea for a felted bag to take to Paris, I'm going to try to knit it this week and if it looks good it may be my first ever non-hat non-scarf pattern! Or we could just be making jokes about the time I tried to make a felted bag and got a cat toy instead. heh heh

I have to go do my actual job now. so sad.

I've been thinking about changing my haircut - or getting one, really, since right now I'm all about the shaggy long black hair. Long layers might give my hair some movement.

Long wispy bangs are a good idea, too. I don't want those straight-across, cut-with-scissors-and-a-ruler bangs that end above peoples' eyebrows. I want to look *hot*, not like a 13-year-old who's late for study hall.

Can you photoshop yourself onto the mag cover with Brad? You two would be adorable!

Okay, I'm a guy and I cut off all my hair about 12 years ago with a cheap set of clippers because I felt $6 was too much to pay for a simple haircut. Still have the clippers, still use 'em.

So, I have nothing to offer re: bangs.

But, a report from my commute, which begins in a small Florida town that's a haven for SNOWBIRDS ... those are creeky old people who drive giant cars very slowly because they have nowhere to get to except back to their tin palaces where they live in giant trailer park communes until the ice melts in Quebec (the lic. plate reads: "Je Me Souviens" which translates to "I drive like shit")

So, this morning, driving through downtown on the first mile of my 60+ mile commute to St. Petersburg, this SNOWBIRD pulled in front of me, without looking, in his giant SNOWBIRD van, then proceeded to drive 15 mph .. I'm not making that up. He probably though he was flying because his speedometer is in kilometers.

So I wailed on the horn (which only made him stop and peer into his giant, oversized rear view mirrors to see my tiny car) and continued to honk until he made a glacial turn (without a signal, of course). As I pulled around, I could see him staring at me, trying to form a thought inside his calcified brain.

AND I GAVE HIM THE FINGER.

.. jerk.

Later, I got stuck in a giant traffic jam in Tampa.

Girl -- you are WAY TOO CUTE to need bangs!!! There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with your face! What's wrong is you married a fuckhead. HE'S the one who needs bangs, and I don't mean the kind on the forehead, unless, of course, it's with a big, giant, heavy-ass hammer.

When are you shopping at Trader Joe's again??? It's Friday, after all. :D

Peace,
Suzanne

What is it with hair people and bangs? I have an appointment next week to get a thin fringe o' bangs out of my trying-to-grow-out-my-bangs hair. I felt compelled to tell the appointment maker to tell Liz that I just need thin bangs, not thick bangs. "I don't want her to be disappointed in me."

I say go red and maybe some long layers/wispy bangs around the face. That would look hot like this http://www.britain.tv/images/model_pic/lauraprepon.gif

I have such a girl crush on Laura Prepon.

trust Aharon - he's a beauty professional and he loves you from the sounds of it. have fun all the same!

If you go to Google and type in booga bag pattern up comes a pattern for a felted bag on the Black Sheep Bags site (free!- they have patterns for sale too though). It calls for 3 skeins of Noro, but you can use other yarn. It's not real big; I haven't felted mine yet but it seems to be about 10" x 6" or so on the bottom. I made great use of your felted join to meld the Noro ends together and yeah, I obsessively color-merged from skein to skein when the ends didn't segue in sequence. If I make one again I think I'd use a solid color for the bottom & for the handles and could easily get by with 2 skeins of Noro. There's also a gallery of completed Booga Bags that people have sent in, see Google for details.

i love you l. i really, really do.

but bangs.

(pauses for breath)

bangs are the hair equivalent of dating the guy at the convenience store. it's a nice change from the regular, a little exciting...and then a month later you look back on it and realize that you'll be living it down for a year.

i'm just sayin. and i'll love you, no matter what you do to your hair.

I had long hair and grew out my bangs. The picture on my PERMANENT school ID convinced me that I am a woman with a need for bangs and I will never, EVER get rid of them again.

P.S. That Frankie is SOOOO the pretty one! What a GORGEOUS cat!! *smooches to Frankie*

*friend smooches to Laurie* You're pretty no matter what!! You, my dear, are a looker!!

Purl, I'm a redhead with long wispy bangs. You could get the same do and we could be all 'single white female' & shit. With matching Brangelina hats! Seriously, though, my local craft shop has lots of Wool Ease Chunky if you want me to mail you some. Tell me what color & I'll send it your way.

Peace out.

Word to ya mother.

abby, you crack me up :)

Hey, Sue F. -- I found the booga bag (I love the girl who made it, she has a great website) and it looks so pretty! But the bag I saw in my mind in a fit of inspiration (and, um, wine) is ... uh. Unique? hehehehehe If I can make it over the weekend, I'll post about it next week sometime. I have a dream. I have a felted dream.

Also, Sue, how much do I love you that you are as crazy with the noro color joining as me?? You and I should get together and bring our noro and felted join our little hearts out!!

Absolutely, go with the long wispy bangs first, and then if you want more, go gradually. I once told a stand-in stylist (when my own stylist) was out sick that I wanted my bangs trimmed. She thought trimmed meant cutting them to almost the top of my forehead. Traumatic!

I always had bangs until my 20s, and then I grew them out because I was hooked on "Rhoda" reruns that were then running on Comedy Central and I loved her bobbed hair. Then when I turned 30 I had bangs cut in again. Bangs = younger looking.

A friend of mine once told me that when her sister went to hair-cutting school, her teacher asked all the students to draw an inch on a piece of paper. It turned out that everyone had widly different perceptions of an inch. Interesting!

thanks jenny! I already started with the thick 'n quick, though... I hope people don't hate it. But the hat on Us Weekly did look thick, didn't it? kind of? maybe?

also, mctwin... frankie says: Happy St. Frankie Day to you!

Yes. Brangelina's hat was pretty thick. And like you said, once you've had thick, how can you go back to chunky?

Ya'll are so smart, because I never considered this wispy bang of which you speak. I will tell Aharon. And do bangs really make you look younger?? Or will I look like I'm *trying* to look younger? hmmm.

OH!! Chase. Come to Umberto's. For $6 you can get... ah...? A coffee maybe. I can only afford to go to Aharom in six-month increments. IT COSTS MORE THAN A CAR PAYMENT. On a nice car.

Thick girls unite.

I haven't had bangs in about 10 years. I just stick my fivehead (good one, I'm gonna use it, hope you don't mind) out there for the world to see.

In fact, to the despair of my former hairdresser, I have not had any haircut in, oh, 8 months or so. When I do (at the local barber shop, where they make me stand up so they can reach my hair) the people at work can't tell because of The Bun. The Bun says "this tight-assed environment is SO not the place to let my hair down." The Bun also conceals all manner of bad hair. The Bun is my friend, although I do let it all hang out, now and then.

Perhaps if I had Aharon I would change my ways.

More than a car payment? That is INSANE - not just crazy but INSANE! You better listen to Ahron at those rates... (no talking back either!)

Word to your mother ;)

Laurie!
If I may be so bold as to offer my humble opinion (IMHO, as I learned yesterday...thanks ro), bangs would be adorable on you, as if you're not adorable enough. I think change is great for everyone once in a while. It helps us feel like we have control in our life. Sounds weird, but it's true. I say, go for it, despite what Aharon says. Tell him, "Sister! I need bangs now!" in your Southern ghetto voice.

Love the Brangelina hat, too. Definitely better on you than on Pumpkin-lips Jolie.

It's funny, you seem to work in the same atmosphere I do. A creative person in a corporate environment. When I wear my Roger Rabbit bowling shirt, I get what I call the "Pole Up The Butt Stare" from conservative drones in their Dockers and Polo shirts. As I said to an advertising class last night, "You are different because you're creative. Other people won't get you. And that's not always a bad thing."

Thanks for making me laugh again today, sweetie! And I think thick is beautiful! (especially on you!)

Wink!

ooooooh, the hat! is so cute! I'm secretly hoping it rains so that you're trapped in traffic long enough to finish the real brangelina hat. Perhaps in time for their wedding in Italy? This weekend? Maybe? I read too much US Weekly, it's a sickness.

I get these urges...bang urges...once a year or so. I've always had long, non-banged hair. Then, I get bangs or layers, and I cry. It seems that I always do this right before an important photo needs to be taken, though, so two Driver's licence photos, my passport in the 80's, my college ID, and my sister's wedding album are all evidence of my inability to pull off bangs. But red, especially a nice red (not Lucille Ball red) will get you laid every time. No kidding.

Your cat looks like it was originally two cats that were stitched together. Isn't genetics grand?

Love the hat, very cute!

By the way, I don't think you're very thick at all.

Dear Laurie Ann,

THAT WAS ALL I NEEDED TO HEAR. I shall beg for red.

j'adore,
Laurie (not Ann)

Frankie is a cutie.

I would trust a professional on the issue of a fringe.

I just had to post to tell you that I love your blog! It's always my first stop in the morning because I know I can wake up with a laugh. I'm also another southern girl....who just moved to Utah, where my accent is not appreciated.

BTW....stay away from the bangs! Your hair looks fantastic without them!

I don't have bang urges (well, not hair bangs anyway) but after a traumatic event (guy dumps me the day before my birthday, guy calls off wedding) I always had this urge to chop all my hair off. Completely. Like 1" short hair. And I always did it.

Except after this last traumatic event (DIVORCE), I didn't have the urge to chop off my hair. Not one yet. So now the urge is to grow it long like the insane red head in Wedding Crashers. I only have 4" to go. Is that crazy?

I just sent you a picture in your e-mail of a haircut, might want to check it out ;-0 And Frankie, I love you, and your kissable nose.

Whenever I'm going through some emotional turmoil, the first thing I think of is to cut off all my hair. I think it has to do with needing a drastic change to get over whatever is i'm getting over. don't know why i immediately think about the hair. But when I wait a while, I realize that I would have been kinda pissed.

When I look at your cat, I think about those performers who have half of their faces dressed up like one character, with the other half dressed like another...and they're constantly flipping around depending on which personality they're portraying.

I want your cat.

BTW I think you'd be adorable with bangs. But I'm with Aharon on the blue frosting.

Laurie Ann is right. I used to be a red head, and it is the biggest reason my husband asked me out. He was so sad when I let my natural color grow out (fugly brown), and is even more upset now that I dye it blonde. He begs me to go back to red. Maybe I will some day, and I know if I do, I'll be more than happy in the sack. Which begs the question, why haven't I gone back to being a red head?

Laurie, I think you would look very cute in bangs but I'd keep the blond if I were you.

Hurricane Chase - those are the people we send on EXILE every winter because we could not stand to have them around all year long. They are not representative on the population in general, thank God!

Go red. Do it. Don't look back.

Miz Laurie iz hot, hat or bangs notwithstanding. Word. Don't make homie Aharon wack, he's worth da Cheddar. And make sure to let us peeps know da game when you play it.

Can't wait for the Brangelina hat, but woe is me! I'm only just starting my first (though modified) Easy Roll Brim Hat! Thanks for all your MATH wisdom.

He was right bangs are not a good solution. Love the hat and just in time for the Branjelina wedding!

Don't do it, don't do bangs! I've been holding out for 6 years now against my mother's insistence that I must have bangs. (I gave in once just to have some peace during a family vacation - but never again!) Once the bangs start, then you end up with that little roll curl that is so popular in the South and from there we may end up with big bangs again and I honestly couldn't do that again.

I'm still recovering from my all the hairspray in the early 90's.

I think bangs do make folks look younger, and Aharon was remiss for allowing you to look oh so fabulous for your divorce court appearance. Let's see if he can redeem himself with a knock-me-down-and-eff-me-in-Paris haircolor (perhaps to match all your knitwear and the felted dream bag?)

Actually, I think you should go as blonde as you possibly can without bleaching. So you can look even more like that Celtic Woman, Mairead.

That first photo of you looks quite surreal, by the way -- sorta like Laurie, the Brangelina-cap-wearin' angel floating above the rest of us mere mortals....

I have a genormous forehead and used to wear bangs but also have chipmunk cheeks. Years ago I grew my bangs out. Everytime I think about bangs, I remember the hell of growing them out, and then I settle down. Say - aren't you going to Paris soon? Have a great time and say "hi" to Brangelina if you bump into them. I would love your hat recipe when you post it. Au revoir

Anglo, thanks for the note on those snowbirds .. I had long suspected that ;-) .. chase

Hey chase -- or anyone who loves teevee-- was CSI on last night? My tivo did not record anything. I was so so sad.

Oh! and Kimberling the trip is coming up!! so soon, just a little bit longer. I hope to have the final brangelina hat recipe posted in the next week.

But now I'm afraid people will knit it and think, "This hat adds seven inches of bulk to my head!" LOL

Laurie, I love the hat! Can't wait to see the final "recipe". As a cook, I love that you call patterns "recipes". I now call them that.

I grew my bangs out 3 years ago as I got tired of being a slave to them in between hair cuts. My hairdresser said that it was ok to chop at home but not to give her credit for the job. But...if you want bangs, by golly you should. A bit of change can be refreshing but remember that you can become a slave to them. My own mop is going in for servicing tomorrow.

I have a big forehead, a round face and bangs. The key is to keep them long and to have the correct ratio of bangs to rest of the hair. If the rest of the hair is too short, my face looks really fat.

The bangs do keep me young though. People often think I am in my mid twenties when I'm really in my early 30s.

Having just spent the past 2 years of my life growing out my hair from a REALLY short style, I say DON'T DO THE BANGS! They are such a pain in the a--, they won't stay in pony tails, they look silly pinned back, etc. etc. Think Jennifer Aniston on the last season of Friends - BAD IDEA! Red is cool though - it definitely attracts attention. Maybe do the red and wait 6 more months on the bangs??? Just sayin' . . . .

She really is the cutest kitty.

I can't wait for the Brangelina hat pattern! So excited!

You know, since we have 3 more months of winter here ahead of us in Ohio....

Laurie, do you have Hobby Lobby in LA? The ones I've been to frequently, if not invariably, have some Wool-Ease Chunky. Next time you need it. Of course Lion Brand has come out with a bunch of new stuff recently (worsted weight 100% wool... reasonable price... it's FELTING TIME!!... ) so that stuff could have displaced the Chunky on the shelves.

Somewhere I heard the advice that if you pay someone for advice, you should follow it. Presumably the idea is that if you don't want to follow it, why are you paying for it? On that theory, you should trust Aharon. But then, *this* advice was free, so...

I've been going to the drugstore and standing in front of the hair color for 30 minutes at a time because it takes that long to remind myself enough times that every time I have changed my hair significantly from its normal dark color, I haven't liked it. I think you could do a light red though. But doesn't this freak you out having random people you've never met who have looked at your pictures enough times to have an opinion on how you should wear your hair? :)

Red is great. My natural color is darker than yours, but I too am fair skinned with pink undertones, light eyes, and I must say, red looks pretty damn good on me. It's my fallback color. Plus, once you get it professionally done, it's very easy to touch up at home with the much cheaper box hair color to be found easily at Target. i know, box hair color... But I'm telling you, I have gotten amazing results from a box - I usually use the Natural Instincts stuff. I can show yuo a pic but I don't know if it's bad form to post a link here...

I have bangs for the very simple reason that I can't stand my hari in my face at work. So practial. But my hair is also short to begin with... You'll look great with those sideswept bangs too!

I want a felted bag, but never made one, so I am depending on you for the recipe!

Okay, seriously, your post made me cry. I had a stylist who gave me tough love. For example, cut my hair because he didn't think it looked good long, wouldn't give me bangs, etc...
I had an appointment last Thursday and he died of a heart attack on Tuesday night. Treasure your guy..... :)

Careful. With bangs you could end up looking like Suzanne Sommers.... I'm just saying...

"Come and knock on our door...."

I say do what you want with your hair. It will grow out. Nothing like a new 'do to make you feel great!

I've gone red before and I always got compliments. It's a good color for us pale, blue eyed gals who are height challenged. (My mom used to say I was 5 foot 3 inches and almost 4 quarters.) Just make sure it isn't an orangey red.

Can't wait to see the results!

I think the NCAA tourney is taking over CBS for the next couple weeks. No CSI on my tivo either. The previews for the new Survivor episode said "in two weeks, all hell breaks loose," or something like that.

Thanks, Jenny. I have a Warrick fixation... ned my fix LOL. And I'm REALLY starting to get into Survivor this season, even though at first I thought it was way blah. I like sally, the social worker.

sunflower... I'm not freaked out about it, I think The Great Bangs Discussion happens in my life on a daily basis. Seriously. I told drew I wanted to interview him... my interview question was "Drew, do you think I need bangs?" hehehehehe

dang it, reading all of these comments is making me want to dye MY hair red and to get bangs...

Oop, sorry, just getting back to you ... No CSI .. CBS carries the NCAA Tourney (as others have noted) ... next week will be no CSI either, then the week after, there will be one, but CBS hasn't told us if it's new or not ..

but everyone knows, CSI: MIAMI is waaaaaayyyyy better than regular old CSI ...

David Caruso is a hunka hunka red haired sex-in-a-suit! Meeeooowwwww.

Just say 'NO' to bangs. Seriously. There's only one person on the planet who EVER looked good with bangs, and I *think* she's dead. And just because you have bangs does not mean you will look anything like Betty Page.

I once met a girl who had bangs that made her look like a squirrel (and not in a good way.) Then she started showing me her old driver's license and school IDs, all senza bangs, and I kept thinking, "you were SO cute, why the hell do you cut the front?" I even asked her out, in the hopes that she might eventually give up her grebo haircut and go back to her cuter self.

Seriously. Bangs make you look like a cretin.

No bangs, trust me just don't do it. I am a recovering bangsaholic, there is a really ugly period that you have to go through to get rid of them, it's not pretty, please learn from my mistakes, all of them. I used to think getting a new hairdo was the key to all of my life's big issues but it's not.

BTW no perms either...seriously.

I was so sad CSI wasn't on last night. So sad I just went to bed. Went to bed at 9PM! That is unheard of in my household. I'm going into Warrick and Stokes withdrawls (I'm still holding out that the producers have come to their senses and removed Nick's manbangs - he looks like a 70s porn star. Thank goodness they got rid of the moustache a while back - that was even worse than manbangs.)

I concur on the wispy bangs, very pretty on you, methinks. ;)

I'd love to do bangs again someday. But I wear my glasses 24/7 and think they look silly with all that hair and glasses... too much!

David,
Don't hold back. tell us how you really feel!!
heheheh

Chase. I'm coming to visit my folks sometime in June and I HAVE to show you my Horatio Caine impression!! It's awesome!! I love CSI Miami.

Dee... I have so many perm horror stories. It's sad, really. My poor hair. It's a miracle I have a strand left after The Great Perm Fiasco of 1997 ...

I think I have been at work for one million hours today, this day is soooo long! bleh. I do love my job but I'm so ready to go home. Maybe it's the Brangelina... need to knit... need to knit...

CSI VEGAS BABY!!! Bruck Heimer!!!!!That was a bummer last night.I was all jacked up for some Warrick action myself....I had a hunch that he might be musical and he is..I was scoping out his info online last night....It's the only show that matters...even re-runs on Spike..love to guess what season by the hair-dos....

Forget bangs. You want a new hair color.

you mentioned needing to find the wool ease in non-thick and quick...if i remember correctly, I got some at the jo-ann's in glendale. Have you looked there?

Jennifer... no, I haven't been to Glendale. I went to the Jo Ann's on riverside/fulton in Sherman Oaks, and then to the Michael's on Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana... no chunky!

I started the hat with thick 'n quick already, seems like poeple are able to get that pretty easily in the stores. But dang this is going to be a warm hat!!

Check out Clairol.com- they have a "try it on" feature that lets you try different hair colors, styles, etc on-line before taking the plunge. If you go red, it needs to be the right shade or it can look really bad. You look as though you have that really fair skin that can handle pretty much any shade haircolor (except for Goth black). OR you can wait & get your hair done in Paris! Ooh la la!

I like bangs.. I have bangs - they are crooked and I like it. It always confuses me when they refer to them as "fringe" though.
Thanks for all the Poland tips - you've made it sound ever so slightly less scary.

Frankie, you are SOOOOO the pretty one.

Ang... sorry I posted AN ENTIRE NOVEL in comments. But I hope it's not so creepy now, I liked it there.

de-lurking here...20 year hairdresser talking here, you do NOT want bangs with your hair that long and thick! It will seriously look like Bonnie Hunt, very conservative and soccer mom-y. If you wanted to get LOTS of layers in your length, then get long, shaggy bangs. Then it will look kinda like Sienna Miller before she cut it short. Just get a healthy trim, like an inch, more layers, and go from there! Apricot blonde pieces in your hair would be cool in your hair, too! Food for thought!!

No bangs. I like the blonde. And can I have first dibs on the beta hat?

I'm a sucker for girls with red hair... it's borderline obsessive. Kind of sad, to tell you the truth. Go through my photo albums, the preponderance of past girlfriends with red hair is disturbing (like 4 out of 5.)

But don't dye your hair red. You'd be fooling no one (Curtains have to match the drapes, know what I mean?) It has to be natural or nothing! If you absolutely MUST do another color, do something completely off the wall. Like blue. Or green. But if you absolutely MUST do red, make it fire-engine red.

Oh that was me, btw.

Laurie writes:
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::::::perk?!:::::::
Yo, yo...
Word up if you gonna be in da' hood, fo'shizzle.
JoAnn's PA system: "Crazy. Aunt. Purl. IN DA HIZZOUSE!"

(k, I admit it...I googled gansta slang and that's all I could come up with)

Seriously, I'm a local and just waiting for the day that I run into you at Unwind or some crafty event. Even considered hanging out at Umberto's, but it sounds like the place that may frown upon stalking....or perhaps they'd charge me by the minute to hang out in their sitting area. Hmmmm....
=-)

Hmmmm...server didn't like me pasting part of your post into mine...I think the brackets made it scared I was posting html...sorry...

I was referencing the comment about visiting Joann's in Glendale.

I wud wear the gangsta hat, true dat!

I will put my 2 cents worth: No bangs! I am a big forehead lady and I have learned to love the way it looks. When I was younger I would try bangs every 5 years or so and they just dont look right. I finally learned my lesson.

PS--You crack me up with the ghetto speak.

honey, if you still need/want some woolease chunky, i have several balls of charcoal floating around. if you want other colors, it's available here in (whisper) nebraska

i think you would look great with a cinnamon color for your hair. and what about bangs that softly swoop to one side? (thats what i'm thinking about)
love the hat!

Be careful! If you go with soft bangs that taper into the rest of your hair great. Don't do the "Lifestyles of the Tragically Hip" harsh, short NY fashion editor bangs. They don't really look good on anyone!!!! Love the hat. Will probably have to have one too. I can't add another project to the list right now though!

Go Red! In my mature years I decided to change from my natural gray to bright red! Did it for years. I let Rubin, my beloved hairdresser, have his way with the color. We had such fun. Now I'm back to aunatural. Cat

HAIR CUTS ON BASE WENT UP FROM $5.50 TO $6.50. I AM SO CUTTING MY OWN HAIR NEXT MONTH!!!

(did all caps on purpose...who's gonna read comment 111??????)

What's a hair 'bang'?

I was a bottle redhead for ten years in LA. Don't get me wrong. I loved every minute of it. However, you must know:

1) That it is very hard to get a natural looking shade of red. I've been Carrot Top Red, Chucky the evil doll red, Ronald McDonald red etc. but I have never achieved the perfect natural shade of red that my best friend from high school had (that bitch).

2) Red hair takes a lot of upkeep. Roots on a redhead will turn the classiest looking dame into a trailer trash bimbo in just a few short weeks.

3) Red hair fades. You achieve close to the perfect color of hair. You are happy until you wash it a couple of times and see that it has faded into a dull dingy rust color.

Purl:
Love the hat. Will love the hair whatever you do (even the same as it is). Want to know about the beaded item on your right - um - chest? in the hat pictures.

Kathy in NoVA

Laurie, I think you would look lovely as a redhead! If we're talking about, like, strawberry-blond red. Don't do, say, Stoplight Red. I tried it. No one stopped for me.

Laurie, if you're looking for a major change, I think you would look lovely as a redhead! That is, if we're talking about strawberry-blond red. Don't do, say, Stoplight Red. I tried it. No one stopped for me.

Oops!

Hi Laurie - you look so gangsta, you could make it in Oakland! And if you need bangs, come see Chris at DiPietro Todd in SF, curtesy of me. He only says no to PERMS. :)

The problem with bangs is that they are such a commitment!!! Once you have them you are stuck because the growing out phase is such a pain....then you give in and cut them again... it's a vicious vicious circle.

I say unto you...don't get bangs under stress! But it's been 6 mnths so call and ask again and do what he says because the hair Gods speak through guys like Aharon.

Oh my god. I can't stop laughing at the bang conversation. Is it cake?? How damn funny.

I can not wait for the Bradgelina hat pattern.

I've managed to save up roughly $66218 in my bank account, but I'm not sure if I should buy a house or not. Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?