"I threw the September issue!"

I went to see Jewel-Lee, my favorite hair girl. I was having a bad day.  I know the rules about getting your hair cut on a bad day - don't do it. You are not in complete control of your faculties so you may end up shaving your head.  Which is kinda what I wanted to do.

Jewel-Lee was all excited to do her thing when I said, "I can't stand it. Cut off 3 inches."

She stopped in her tracks.  Her assistant sucked in her breath and looked at the floor.  Jewel-Lee left the color room for a moment.

I said to the assistant, "What, does that ruin the whole concept or something?"

The assistant said, "Yes."

Jewel-Lee came back and had a solution. First she whipped out her scissors and cut off a big chunk

of my hair and said, "See, now it's just a long bob."  That's okay, I was tired of feeling like Cousin It.

Then we started talking about clothes and she asked me if there was anything new that I was liking. I told her about Eliza Parker, from whom I just ordered a dress for some weddings. I found out about EP from my tweet pals and then this blog.  Then I said, "I kind of like the new Talbots line..."

"WAIT A MINUTE." Jewel-Lee said, while painting pieces of my wretched hair with new colors.

She yelled to her assistant, "BRING ME THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE!"

And so the Vogue was delivered promptly to my lap. "Go ahead, flip through it. Try to guess why I threw it across the room, against the wall, so hard!"

Okay....

I paged through. We ooohed over the color palette of Etro.  A girl can dream. I reflected on my boring all-black wardrobe.

Then I saw this:

 
"THROW IT!  THROW IT I DON'T CARE IF IT DENTS THE WALL!" She yelled.

"But it's heavy..." No I tell you I won't do it!

"Linda Evangelista for TALBOTS? What is this world coming to? It's unspeakable. I can't even..." she almost threw her paint brush.

She was so upset. "She's not a has-been, she's the world's first supermodel and she's doing Talbots?" saying it like doing Talbots is a horrid disease. "I mean, I understand the whole high-low thing, but this is just so insane. Ugh, turn the page! Turn it away!"

Alright, I said, it's a weird coupling. And Linda kind of looks like the 40+ cougar she may be in this jacket. But it kind of makes me want to check out Talbots a little more. I already was attracted to their fall line as I want to dress more like a grown-up and less like a whore to Target.  I'm a sucker. 

 

Comments

[Robin]

Most disturbing thing about this post: your hairdresser has an asistant?

[lg]

So............ how does your hair look?!

[blaugra]

Robin, LOL, yes. You know, the hair-wash girl, the "can I get you some lemon water?" girl, the girl who will apply the color when it's just a root job.

LG, I would call this hair "transitional" for fall. And I got bangs. Love the color but it doesn't look that much different than it always does. :)

[KtP]

Dude. Didn't you have bangs in NYC? Also, I checked out EP - some cute things. I just orded some cute dresses from Macy's for a wedding next week.

Also, I will check out Talbots since I haven't in a while. Thanks for the reminder. :)