Wednesday, January 26, 2011

messy hair

All the cool girls have messy hair. Seriously. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not talking "crazy-trashtastic-dirty hippie-Taylor Momsen" style locks. I'm thinking more along the lines of "flirty-fun-just got back from the beach in Rio-clean hippie-J. Crew model" style hair. But here I am with tangled tresses that won't hold a curl for 2 hours. It can be pretty frustrating.* Honestly, the only time I ever need to use a hair straightener is to iron an unruly shirt collar. 


When I saw this print on A Cup of Jo a few weeks ago I fell in love...
And I have spent the past few days fully committed to making messy hair happen. This is what I'm going for...
[1,2,3,4,5]
But this is what I ended up with...
1. Why hello nappy little dreads, I didn't see you back there! Fail. But it did inspire me to call and schedule a trim. 
2. The fishbone braid was significantly more successful, but by 5:30pm all of my shorter layers had worked their way out of the braid, so I ended up looking like Posh Spice with a braided rat tail peeking out. Barf. 

If only I were as committed to my studies as I am to this holy grail of hairstyles I would be set. (Ha... set!)

*isn't there a country song about this? "The straight haired girls they all want curl and the brunettes wanna be blondes..." oh gosh I'm probably showing my southern roots (ha... roots) a bit much...

3 comments:

  1. Cute! I love the messy bun look, especially when paired with the chunky scarf. Cozy, yet somehow elegant.

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  2. Girl! Your hair is beautiful as is!!! But, if you really want the messy look, I think you need to concentrate on the front of your hair b/c the back will fall messy naturally. Well, mine always does. For the beach look, I take a waver to my roots (to add random dimension and waves), a curling iron to my ends of my hair and then the waver again to a few sparatic pieces throughout my hair to add random wave and dimension. And poof - awesomely perfect messy hair - I swear! Try it...

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  3. I think your hair looks gorgeous :) I am trying to grow mine back out to that length, but right I have the same trouble - It won't hold a curl. I hate shampooing it every day, but to get anywhere with it I have to squirt a lot of product into my tresses. *sigh* This is our battle. hehe. Sea Salt spray does wonders for my hair, it texturizes things quite nicely. You should try it out :)

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