Plot Monkeys

We’ve talked about this before. I’m a hair junkie. I love changing colors, changing styles, looking for new products and goop to slap on and hope it will transform me into everything I want to be. Okay maybe not that life altering, but the fact remains, I like change. The problem with this change is that as a published author, I have a public persona. My website is the ME that the world sees. I like to keep it current and up to date. I like to make sure I keep you coming back for more.

Hmm. Could that be behind my chameleon like appearance? Who knows. I just know that I make my family and my web mistress (who doesn’t know this yet because she’s a new webmistress at least new to me) insane.

I must admit the “new” me is really more the original “me”. I have naturally dark hair although this is isn’t completely natural because you see I also have a thing for shine and gloss which you can only get out of a bottle. So even if I go dark (a la more natural), I still like it professionally colored. Then there’s the new red highlights. I hate hate to be boring so those are a must.

Let’s see. What else? Oh, I know. Style. I have naturally curly hair. Many times in my life, I hate my curls and other times I embrace them. Last year, the blonde me, wanted straight hair. This is easier to do with blonde coloring because it gives the hair texture and it’s easier to straighten. Unfortunately after months and months of both, the result is fried hair. Not pan fried, just fried. As in ick. Nobody likes icky hair. So with the blonde, I started to go curly. The word unfortunately comes into play again – because the hair is so chemically textured, it doesn’t want to curl softly the way it does when unprocessed. Again, it’s hard, it’s frizz prone, and it’s ick. Icky hair.

That’s the point when I knew I was ready for a change. Thing is, change isn’t easy on chemically swamped hair. Soooo …. We slowly eased the hair back to color and not bleach. AND we cut. A lot. My family HATED this in between stage and I have to admit, so did I. I couldn’t blow dry it straight b/c darker hair for me won’t straighten and I couldn’t curl it b/c there was still bleach in the hair frizzing it.

But time passed and really it’s only been a few months, and I am finally where I want to be with style and length and color. At least for now.

So here are some THEN (oh about a year ago) and NOW (last Sat. night) photos.

My website still has the then. Will it/should it have the now instead?