Happy Saturday

I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far. I am working on the thesis, I am really lucky to get such great feedback from my thesis chair. My literature review is almost done, I've found a lot of great stuff on mashups.
In other news - I finally got a haircut! My hair was getting totally crazy. I wanted to get a lot of layers but still keep the length. People have been saying how much they like the result. I really like it but Garrett says it looks sort of like a mullet.  Oh well, I will just make mullets cool again. I had a really great experience with my new hairdresser though, if you live in Gainesville and are looking for one try calling The Tease. I went to Amber but I actually have a friend that goes to Courtney so I can say both are great.

I love this picture!

motivation to keep growing my hair out...

colorful hair

Ask for what you want.

I'm feeling scarily optimistic. Is it the end of summer calling? Summers always leave me feeling dried out and ill. Florida is so pleasant most of the time. I think it's a magical place if you know where to look. But even I cannot bear the swamp heat. This heat is oppressive. I hate being this far away from the ocean. I feel like their is seawater in my blood.
Or is this just the signal that something utterly awesome is going to happen. I know I'm already blessed but I cant help thinking maybe magical stuff is just around the corner. I could use good news. I want all the best for me and my friends and family.
Or just having my hair cut? Sometimes having the outsides changed can cause a shift on the inside. I remember certain decisions about how I look starting to shape my identity. It's funny how much clothing and appearance can factor in. It's also funny how little I sometimes pay to my appearance. I sometimes wear makeup and I've never owned foundation.
But, it's tricky. I also adore clothing. I look at high fashion as another form of high art. I also love creative people making their own stuff. And I don't wear much jewelery but I love the stuff I have. I see nothing wrong with beauty just for beauty's sake. That's probably a flaw on my part but I can't help falling in love with something exquisite. It's like when you see certain paintings and can't even articulate why you like them. As an artist I feel like I should question this beauty and the pleasure from viewing but as a pleasure-seeker I just sort of want to let it exist. It's like a fabulous meal at a restaurant --- maybe you don't want to know how it came to be. Maybe you just want it to appear, gorgeous and complete on your plate.

i wish i was french

The one good thing about not being able to find a job is all of the free time I have had. In this time I have been reading. I just got done reading Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes. It was supercute. If you read as many fashion magazines as I do, you’ll recognize Sykes as something of an It girl. She used to work for Anna Wintour! She’s witty in a sort of Oscar Wilde way, making fun of society without a mean edge. In this novel there is a lot of discussion about what the perfect blonde is. I have no interest in blonde but I understand the main character’s issues. It’s about a cool factor.
For the Park Avenue Princesses it’s a shade of blonde. For me, it’s more of a European mystique thing. Since I am from Florida, I have no mystique. What is it about French girls that make them so cool? I’m talking about Eva Green, Lou Doillon, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Also includes Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp’s longtime partner. They are effortlessly chic. Bridget Bardot cool. They all have bangs, which is something I CANNOT HAVE. I have curly, not wavy hair. It’s untamable and unruly. It does what it wants.The summer is especially hard. It makes no sense to flatiron if it is going to be all humid and possibly rain. Bangs would be a mistake. The French girl hair look is that “im so sexy I don’t even HAVE to do my hair”. It’s like artfully mussed yet looks chic. That does not work if you have curly hair. My good friend Jill also wants to be French and has the same problem. I have to mention that Jill looks like a petite Sophia Coppola which is probably even better than being French because all of the cool French girls want to be in cool movies anyway.
The other thing that makes the French girls so cool is that they are muses. Fashion designers see them and are immediately inspired. No fair! I doubt Karl Lagerfeld will be calling me anytime soon.
Note: I have to mention how much I love old pictures of Bardot. She’s the coolest. I also have to mention all of the older film stars and models including Catherine Denueve, zouzou, and too many others to mention here.