thanks to all for the well wishes on my 34th birthday. there is nothing like a baby to make you feel every year of your age. my body is just plain achy... i have come to accept it as part of parenting... *sigh* i wouldn't do anything differently regarding Thomas except for the age factor. sometimes i think it would have been nice to have the baby when i was younger simply because your body tolerates the abuses so much better when you are younger. anyways...i wanted to change my hair up a little b/c it has been over a year since i have had it cut. so i got a perm today! :p the last time i got a perm was 1988 when perms left you smelling like sulfur for days afterwards and gave you slight burns wherever it got on your face. they were also really frizzy.
it took 3.5 hours and half way through (with my head full of rollers and a plastic shower cap over it), i started to get really nervous and thinking "what am i doing?! this is nuts... i am going to end up looking like my horrendous 10th grade picture!" by then it was too late - i was sitting under a heat lamp playing music like the kind you get on baby mobiles. the hair stylist kept reassuring me that it would be just fine. yeah easy for you to say. you are not the one that is going to end up looking electrocuted.lucky for me, times have changed and when she started taking the rollers out, these nice loose curls dropped down one by one - almost like they had been done on hot rollers. wow! plus it doesn't smell and there was no burning tingling where the solution got on my brow and ears. big difference. and i get a new hair-do that is flattering and not high maintanence. thomas doesn't seem to mind either. whhew...
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It does look fabulous. You should post a pic of it - and your 1988 perm too :D.
Your perm looks really nice, nothing like the old days where it looked all "kinky"!
that is... perms where your hair looked all "kinky"
Post a pic! I was considering one but didn't want to repeat my little orphan Annie look unless the technology had improved.
hi gals - per regina's urging, i dug up my high school perm picture. isn't it horrendous!!! :) they are much better with perms now. the curls are a lot looser and they cut in a lot of layers so you don't end up with the triangle hairdo of the 80's...
wow your old 1988 perm looks so much like an old friend of mine
You need to come visit me in person! You look fabulous!
I can't get over how much you look like my old friend Jennifer Fong. I showed the picture to my mom today and she thought that it was her!
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