I dyed my hair for my upcoming trip. L’Oreal Feria in #74 Copper Shimmer
I never dyed my hair consistently until last year, when I chopped my waist-length hair off and went short. For 6 months I was having trouble styling it, and finally I found this really awesome stylist last February who suggested coloring my hair, to plump up the hair shaft and damage the follicle a bit. Apparently damaged hair holds style far better than virgin hair – which is what mine was, being that I never dyed it because I liked my natural color so much. But my hair is thin, limp, and has no body or volume – and won’t hold any style (no matter how little or how much) styling products I use…everything would fall flat after about an hour or so. So my stylist gave me the same color as my natural color, just punched up a bit to make it brighter. She also gave me lovely streaky platinum-blond highlights.
This is about $200 and 2 weeks later – after the red faded. Red shades (both natural and from the salon) fade very quickly, so again this time I chose a super-bright shade that will fade to…well, back to my natural color over the course of a few weeks.
I’m also playing around with makeup a little; normally I wouldn’t do such a red lip, but I think I kind of like it with the punchy hair and eyeliner.
In other news, my trip to New York for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (as they require all us journalists to refer to it) is so close I can almost taste it!
Tuesday we head to Hawaii first for a wedding we have to go to, then Friday I hop a plane from Honolulu to New York, leaving my family on vacation in Hawaii! (I’m now super-scared of flying, thanks to Hub who has these past 4 months, been watching every reenactment of every flight crash in the history of aviation, for his pilot training. I wasn’t always jittery about flying, but after months of me sewing away diligently on my machine, with “And the passengers of TSA Flight72 never knew that an even greater nightmare awaited them in the murky waters of the Florida Everglades below, as the plane barrelled into the swamp, the fuselage breaking into strips and the nose of the 747 crumpling upon impact”….and screams and sounds of crashing and burning going on behind me….literally for hours on end as Hub watched successive videos on Youtube and whatnot…I’ve become a little paranoid! At least when I ask, “um, when was that crash?” usually it’s like 1972, 1994, 1989, etc. Apparently the vast majority of air disasters are attributed to human error, and/or mechanical failure. But mostly human error. I’m not sure if that makes me feel any better.:-/
So, switching gears…
Does anyone have any suggestions for great places to shop (cheap, trendy) – yummy cheap places to eat – must-sees in the Big Apple?
On my list of cool spots is Century21, Metalliferous, Albertine, M & J Trimming, Opening Ceremony, Bird, TG-170, Pixie Market, What Goes Around Comes Around, Seven, and Patricia Field. Any place you gals would recommend?
And I plan to bring my camera and get some cool boutique shots for the ol’ blog!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
And here’s a little budget travel tip I found out today:
I’ve been requiring sample-sized products for my trip – but Target and other places only sell small-sized products I don’t want. Some of the products I use regularly are in large, pressurized canisters and I don’t want to chance taking them on an airplane lest they burst, and squeezing them out into smaller bottles will cause them to break down. (Like my Olay Definity Deep Penetrating Foaming Moisturizer
xoxo
Carly
love ur hair, carly! i can't wait to see ur pics from fashion week:) wow, ure going to hawaii, too?? i'm so envious hehe have a great time!
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You should check out Colony Records; it's located in one of the corners of Times Square (1619 Broadway), and while it's really a place for music aficionados, they've got a HUGE collection of vintage collectibles. Last time I was there, they had on display a bunch of old Twiggy lunchboxes!
wow that colour is fabulous on you
lovely hair!
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I love the hair color and the make-up on you! Bright red lipstick suits you well!!
I agree with the stylist limp, virgin hair is just blah! so hard to style with. I started dye-ing my hair alsi last year but now I am just getting tired of having to color it and catch the roots. I wonder if there's anything else to resolve this.
I love Copper Shimmer! That used to be My color, dyed my hair that color for a long time. It looks great with your skin!
NYC- Christian Louboutin store!!! And if that's a little erm, “expensive” then Aldo's pretty cool. I want to say they usually have their “clearence” stuff up front that actually is made up of a ton of really cool stuff and the expensive stuff is in the back lol. And, going cheap, the street vendors were selling scarves evvvverywhere when I went, as well as handmade jewelry and hair fascinators. (I specifically remember those around Central Park) lol That's about all I know, I didn't get to do much shopping
PS- the color looks great, the red lips look great too 😀
And, I totally know what you mean about flying- I've got a pilot in my family and that's all they do is youtube crap like that! haha The only reason I'm able to fly is because they are able to trust it enough to have it as a career lol (but even then haha)
I love your new hair color!! SOoo perfect with your skin tone, your make-up looks fantastic 😉
The fabric stores on 39th street between 7&8th ave are GREAT!! I am in NYC for the semester and I am having a wonderful time finding all of the stores! There is this great trim store that is SUPER cheap on this street but I dont know what it is called. There is also Fabric Garden on this street which is where Project Runway shopped one time… and Leanne (the season 5 winner) shops… (or so I saw in the magazine “Time Out New York” 😀
Maybe I'll see you around!
Thank you for the award, hon! I'm honoured! I hope you have a lovely time at 'Mercedes Benz' fashion week (ha!), I'm off to London next Thursday for the shows and I'm very excited. The red looks great on you! I used to do all kinds of red shades and it killed me when it would fade considerably after a week. The flipside is it's extremely tough to remove completely if you want to do blonde!
My brother is a pilot and I've heard that as well. You want an experienced pilot or at least someone who keeps their cool. My brother has been flying for only four years but has gotten himself out of a few near-disasters by not panicking. The problem is, you don't know what you're going to do unless you're faced with it. His first job was flying small planes for tours in Niagara Falls, Canada and one day they sent him up when there was a thunderstorm in his route! He was a complete rookie and saved the lives of himself and four French tourists because he kept his cool, even when the plane rolled. I won't ever fly small planes!
Have fun!!
Denise ♥
LOOKS SO GREAT!!
You should go to this place: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/nyregion/11sales.html?scp=5&sq=japan%20street%20boutique%20fashion%20new%20york%20city&st=cse
xoxo
Meghan
I like your new hair– way to go red! Are you happy with it?
Have fun in NY. I'm so jealous for not being there! I can't wait to see your pictures from there
~Robyn
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