Today's family post; me, myself and I.

All right, so I believe I've made the decision to do the hair coloring thing.  But I'm still at a bit of a crossroads about what color.  My thoughts are:

1) Color it back to the way it is when it's not going grey
2) Color it back the way it was when I was a bit younger (which was much redder; copper red, though)
3) Color it a darker brown, which would be a little richer, I think
4) Go for the anime red.  Or green.  Or blue.  Or maybe all of the above.

I went to Sally's Beauty today and the woman there had a lot of good advice (and new what anime red was; in fact, she's the one who first called it that so I knew i was in good hands), but I wasn't able to decide on the actual color while I was there.  It was good for recon, though, and as I said, she had good advice.

The first part was to take three towels - one white, one gold and one silver - and hold them up to my face, and see how that looks with my skin and eyes, etc.  If white looks best then you can go white blonde (which was not one of my options, actually); if it's gold, then a warmer, lighter shade would work; if it's grey, then a cooler or darker shade is okay.  I don't have towels in those colors, but I do have photoshop!  So here we go:







This is very similar to the thing I've been trying to figure out re: do I have warm or cool skin tones for makeup?  And the answer there seems to always be 'neutral'.  Which is unhelpful because it means you can sort of wear anything, only I know certain things look like ass on me (pale greens, yellow, orange-reds come to mind) and they cross the 'warm/cool' barriers.  So I think it's trial and error for me.

In any case, I think the white looks best?  But I dunno.  And I'm not sure I want to be blonde?

I decided, whilst photoshopping, that I'd just go ahead and try on some colors.  So here we go! =D


Coppery



Slight Darker Brown


Black


Malfoy


McDonald


Sailor Mercury


Sailor Pluto

Anyway, after talking to the girl in Sally, I have an idea of what I'm going to do.  But I'm open to comments. o_o

Well, hell

I took some pictures to put up here today, but I don't like any of them.

So instead, here is a picture of a delicious cake.  :9

That's a keeper, right?

Suitable for framing, isn't it?

I have a bunch of pictures on the camera right now like this.  Basically just the top of my head.  Why?  Because I'm trying to figure out what my 'natural' color is, in terms of hair colors.  It is surprisingly difficult, though I think this is partly due to the way the pictures hair color companies have on their websites just stink.

Avast, havarti!

I bought this (some time ago; it's long gone now) specifically because it had Jack Sparrow on it.

Scott said the combination of Disney and my parents created a good little consumer.

I could get those at Walmart.

This was my favorite Christmas decoration at Disney - The Lights of Winter in Epcot (circa Dec 2007).  They were these huge arches you passed under going between Future World (er, "Future" World) and World Showcase.  They changed colors and danced to the music and were generally very pretty and serene and festive, and when you took the monorail to Epcot from the TTC, you'd pass between them.

Disney did away with them in 2009, citing 'outdated technology that they couldn't fix'.  So ... Disney ... saying that they didn't have the technology to make lights dance to music.  Never mind the fact that the huge Christmas display at MGM is - wait for it - lights that dance to music.  On a much bigger scale, in fact.  Never mind the fact that you can rig up your own dancing lights with a package you buy at Target.  They can make a fake Johnny Depp and blow off tens of thousands of dollars worth of fireworks every night.  But no no.  This was a problem too complex for WDI.

*grump*

This whole place was strange

A World Trade Center I-Beam, which was the only part of the Atomic Testing Museum that they let you take pictures of.

Why there was a World Trade Center I-Beam in the Atomic Testing Museum is still something of a question mark to me, but the whole place sort of fell under that category.  I realize the subject of the museum needs to be approached... carefully?  Maybe?  We ended up going there because Teller said it was one of the most interesting places in Vegas, and it was.  But the tone they took struck me as odd.

It started out pretty much like you'd expect.  Manhattan Project and all?  But things started to go a little weird when they declared Harry Truman was not only the best president ever, but also just ... basically nature's greatest miracle.  And then they went on to say, more or less right out, that Japan was happy to have been bombed.  I can almost understand where they were going with that.  But not... not quite.

They did have a lot of interesting artifacts, however, including this really fascinating book - produced by JC Penney - of the effect of the nuclear testing on their various items of clothing.  It had a series of before and after pictures of mannequins and their ... y'know, Sunday best or work clothes or whatever, and descriptions like "Slight melting of tie.  Shirt singed around edges.  Torso collapsed.  Arms gone.  One leg missing."  Priorities.

Anyway, at the end of the self-guided tour, they had this I-Beam, with a note saying you could take a picture of it.  So we did.  And I still don't know why they had it.  I mean ... what is the implication?  That 'The Bomb" keeps the country safe?  'cause I-Beam seems to indicate otherwise.  Or that eventually they'll nuke someone else and they'll be happy about it too?

Perplexing.

Cherokee's Thought of the Day

It's wise to put your best foot forward when you're trying to make a good impression, or get a cookie.  It particularly helps if you can make pretty feet and cross them in a confident but appealing manner.