Hey, David: got any long hair advice for Susan?

I liked your suggestions. Which parallel what I think of as "Scrappy hair." You're absolutely right that longer layers can add a lot of movement and interest to longer hair. You do need a stylist that will actually cut the hair to your face and frame it properly instead of somebody who'll just cut the layers in generically. The rule of thumb is that wherever you're making the cut (either for a blunt line, or adding in layers) is where you're going to draw the eye. So make sure the length is flattering your best features (cheekbones, eyes, mouth).

Use your talents for more than short!

Dude, you should've seen all the updo pictures I sent to Jesse.

I have no idea what Paul is doing. He's obviously still up, and there are weird thumping sounds from the basement.

RoboWife 4000 series.

It's like she sat in seminar with me...

She wishes, I'm sure.

Btw, you'd really love JZ's haircut. The stylist spent a lot of time scultping it with thinning shears, doing that dry after the basic cut was done. It just moves so nicely to the shape of her head. For example, the length in the back is about an inch and a half to two inches, which allows her hair to be rucked up with product for sexy club chica effect, but since it was thinned out so much, there's very little bulk and it shows the shape of her skull to her neck in this lovely subtle way.

Also, the color came out really nice.

RoboWife 4000 series.

We totally need one of those.

One of these days, I'll go somewhere other than a barbershop for my cuts, but for now, the cheap walk-in factor outweighs the rest. But a good, good cut is so tempting. Hmm.

My mother keeps asking me what I want for my birthday...

I'm thinking day spa. (Of course, that won't fly with the woman with hair that could be improved with a Flowbee, but, what-ev.)

I think you are very deserving of a day at the day spa. It's been a while since you got to wallow in an entire day of indulgence and pampering and primping.

Incidentally, did you get that LJ link I sent you the other day about Vintage Hair?

Oh yeah - it's June. We've got wall-to-wall Buffista birthdays this month.

Short bath. Mal wanted elevensies a little early. Poor kid had horrible gas last night - I jounced him over my shoulder for about an hour while he burped and burped and burped, and other ways of getting rid of gas. Finally his tummy got less tight and he fell asleep, but he didn't keep much milk down, I think.

That's twice that I've eaten chile and he's had gas, so I guess that's a definite. Pooh. Or poo.

Sorry about the fire alarm, Hec. I think that's primarily what they are for, since they seem to flip out only when you are indisposed.

Incidentally, did you get that LJ link I sent you the other day about Vintage Hair?

I didn't. Curses! Do you have the gmail address?

That's twice that I've eaten chile and he's had gas,

Can you knock him out by drinking wine?

Sorry about the fire alarm, Hec. I think that's primarily what they are for, since they seem to flip out only when you are indisposed.

Fire alarms are in such deep karmic debt to me that they're obliged to actually save my life at some point now. I cannot begin to describe the misery of the one that went off every half hour one night and was hooked into the electrical system so you couldn't turn it off. By the fouth hour you'd just be nodding off to sleep and jerked back awake again and again every half hour. Genuinely torturous.

I didn't. Curses! Do you have the gmail address?

Probably not. Is it in your profile? It was just the LJ community for Vintage_Hair reminded me of you because (a) so many of them liked to get dressed up in full-on makeup and ensembles and take self-portraits and (b) most had hair about your current length and were doing fun/fancy 40s style rolls and pompadours and pincurls and such. Also there were some voluptuous blondes of the type you favor.

I'm thinking day spa.

It's been a long year, a little pampering is in more than order.

I am not going to join the dissing of the fire alarms though. I have too accute an urge for candles. Lots and lots of them. So I honor my smoke and fire detectors and give them fresh nummy batteries when they chirp. It was the deal I made. I could have much live flame, I just needed something to watch over me.

Probably not. Is it in your profile?

Nah, but it's mohmlet at.

So, you know. Now you have it! I'll have to check out Vintage_hair. Sounds extra-keen.

Sigh... Day spas are one of the true June gifts for birthdays.

Word!

I'm mildly cranky because this year, my b-day is on Father's Day (my in-laws make a Big Deal of the Hallmark Days, which still baffles me, so there's already Father's Day stuff in the works), and my parents are going up Island again that weekend, so they won't even be in the same country as me. Bastards. And I say that with LOVE.

I'm mildly cranky because this year, my b-day is on Father's Day

Is it okay if we make a little extra fuss over you then?