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Wholey heck! The internet is a spaghetti pot of nonsense!

So I am exhausted!... It is Sunday, early evening and I have spent the last hour (ok two) in a whirlwind of wondering aimlessly in a dizzy brain spin of halfhearted (severed) emotions... Yikes, this place in weird. It is So fucking WEIRD! I set out with a direction, I promise you I did... It was to find something interesting and perhaps even useful and if relayed correctly, it would ultimately INSPIRE you??? >>> What I have arrived at is overwhelm. I am completely depleted from admiring and judging and comparing and delving and longing and involving myself (emotionally) in affairs that are not mine to ponder... There was even a point at which the beauty and inspiration looked somehow ugly and diluted, it felt like inspiration torture... Just as people have become progressively desensitized by violence on TV, I feel as though I am being a little bit desensitized by beauty, design and cool shit on the internet. Meanwhile, the affairs that ARE mine, and the beauty that IS mine, I have neglected entirely... No, dinner is not on, laundry is not switched, clothes are not put away... My grubby little kid is not in a bath! And now I am sitting here writing this... My word I am a lump at the moment? Seriously, I fell in to a black hole and I feel yucky. Who cares about Tom Cruse being an alien mind reader (scientologist) or Nicole Richy when she was haggard (she wasn't always so stylish you know)? Who cares about some random, abandoned, craft blog that hasn't been written in it 7 years!? Who cares about beautiful pictures of rope or the trajectory of Kate Moss' career. I don't know these people, why am I investing??? I don't know it just happened! I could not guide you from point A to point Z (nor would you want to go). On the positive note I am pretty sure I did something completely unique tonight that can never be replicated, in it's exact contents at least, you know, the plethora of garbage I just filled my head with has most likely not ever been shoved into any human's brain in that precise order before.. By generic act however, this type of nonsense happens on gazillions of computers, everyday, around the world... Perhaps you are doing it now, sorry you had to land on this rant. Well I wanted to inspire you... I am pretty sure I can mark "F" in that box... But I am hoping I have said something you can at least relate to... I know for me this feeling is not new, in fact every time I hop on the internet at 9:pm and and not off till 1:am and I have spent another night without connecting to my husband who is, himself, wandering around in a totally different world on his own device, I feel this disappointment. Maybe I am just sensitive or maybe I should make a shift in my ratios... This all sounds way more ranty and dramatic than it is. And perhaps I've gotten it all out now? Really I just wanted to write... That, I HAVE done and what came out is more authentic than a picture of a waify model in bad 90's clothes with a face to counter act the hideous outfit and a hair do situation that looks fucking awesome on her but would be just plan old plan on you or I... But here's that picture any way... Because, of course I need a picture... (I don't have that picture yet... But watch! I will go find it... If I ever make it back to this post again, you will see that I am a fortune teller… Oh it is out there, and I'mona get it...

Ah-ha! Found one and it only took about 3 minutes! (that is a millisecond in internet time)

Coastal Shoot

Here are some pictures of a shoot from last year on the Oregon coast. Wardrobe by a dear friend and an amazing talent--one of my favorite Portland Stylist, Sarah Van Raden for Swanson Studios shot by Tyler Ashlock

DREAM client, meet hair LOVE!!!

Calling all dream clients... Which I do currently have MANY of, but as I build my client base I want to fill my entire books with JUST you lovely ladies... There I said it, my dream clients are LADIES, and yes, they are lovely. Who are you exactly? My dreamies??? Well... YOU are fun!!! (<<-- as exampled by the exclamation marks) YOU may be a little funky... But you also like to express your natural beauty. YOU are creative in your style and are current with the trends... But you don't just hop on any old fad... It has to make sense to you, and you dig it because YOU dig it! YOU are easy... It is not that I am lazy and I want to sleep on the job, but it's that I enjoy a light heart, and someone who is into trying new things, to me, that is easy. YOU are interesting... I love hearing about the lives of my clients! If you are shy, that's ok too, as long as you are nice. When it comes to your hair you are willing to do a little bit of work to make it look awesome but you are free enough to let the cut work for you, all on it's own, from time to time. When it comes to color, you are looking for someone to copy cat nature, like you wintered over Down Under and came out looking like a 6 year old (golden and sunkissed). YOU are regular (we are not talking bran muffin regular), you come in often enough so that I don't have to scream at you, intervention style, for the wreckage we have to deal with during your yearly visit (really though, I just hate to miss my favorite peeps--a year is a long, long time). YOU will do the outside work, meaning if you sizzle-fry the bejeezus out of your tresses on the daily... Please use a heat protectant... I know this sounds like I am your gym teacher telling you to practice safe sex, but seriously... You will thank me for it later. I get giddy when I see you on the books because you are super awesome and I love to play with your hair. So there it is, you are my dream... And if you posses even three of these traits, well, I think we will get along great! Now a little about me... ME: I am fun too!!! I am skilled, experienced and passionate about hair styling. I love my job and I truly value my clients. I love nature and art and to me hair is a mixture of these things. I am creative and sculptural, and use your natural assets as my inspiration. I see hairstyling as a three dimensional art form, and each head of hair as my unique art piece. I am a pretty good listener, and am all about the consultation. I offer a complimentary bang trim between appointments... So you don't murder your fringe in the meantime. I appreciate your support and your confidence in my styling abilities

. I look forward to meeting you!

More Aggy

This Weeks Crush: Agness Deyn

Is there a them here? If so it may be tomboys, or androgeny or boy hair on girls. My last few post have had some reoccurring characters... I get on kicks is all, you may notice that. Well it is time for another girl crush, this week it is Agyness Deyn... It seams like all my girl crushes are kinda have a tom-boy appeal... That is probably because in rael life I do like the fellas, but also because it take really beautiful women to look so stunning when you take away all the frill. I think it is the simplicity and bare bonsiness that usually make things striking.

For my curlies... YOU will love this!

This is so funny I was LOL-ing, for real, when I was this. I am sure if you have curly hair and have fought the frizzies and fly aways you will be able to relate. Even for those not so curly haired this video is super funny, I think you will like.

Buns and Bangs

Ok! One more time with fringing!
Here are, yes, MORE top knots or buns, whatever, this time with the addition of fringe or bangs, whatever.

By the way, how awesome it that radical gray sweatshirt with the mustard boots? I want it!

Hair I heart...

Business Class...

Tonight I went to a small business class in preparation for my...Well, Holiday, my small business. So that I know how to take good care of her, and I can insure her future for when all of you fall as madly in love with her as I am.
Yes, yes, my first business class, it was the BEST... And terrifying! It was yet another stage for me to be cute and funny and interact with the people ;)... All of which I love and, quite modestly, am fairly good at. But the content of the class was, overwhelming and was all the nitty-gritty about being a REAL BUSINESS! The part I have always insisted I am lousy at! The stuff that paralyses me and makes me cry... Or really maybe it is just boring so I choose not to make it my priority, then cry when I screw it up? whatever the case, I have been saying, "I'm an artist" (in the tone of "I'm a blond") for so long now, that I actually believe it! But really who am I kidding... I am smart! AND I can totally pull this off! More then pull it off even, I think I will actually be really good at it. I AM organized... So why am I holding on to my cutesy, double right brained, glitter tornado,artist act???? Do I think it is easier being flaky (and feeling guilty) and just smoothing it over with cute, sweet ownership all the time? 'Cause I actually don't think it is easy, and I am sure it gets old for the people around me. It surely doesn't work on the IRS... It actually has been the source of my biggest insecurities... this behavior has kinda always been like a fat person just accepting that they were fat, well I have seen the biggest loser, and that is not how it works. People can change, and me too. Basically, I am not willing to use my art or whimsy as an excuse any longer. So guess what? This year... I am owning the entire left hemisphere of my brain! Just watch me rule it and you will see that 90% of everything is only what it is because you THINK it is what it is! I THINK I am organized! I THINK I am smart! I KNOW I AM GOOD BUSINESS WOMAN! So watch and see... If I can become this organized person that I know I already am, then YOU can be whatever you want to be too!

(above, representing this post, is one of my paintings from my other job entitled "all grown up")