A stylist in Paris tried to explain this to me ages ago when I first wanted to cover my greys. But, I had always wanted my mother's auburn hair, so that's what I chose. When I finally did color analysis last year and switched to ash brown, it looked so much better.

I have cool coloring, and I love having red hair. I think there are so many shades of red, that there is one that will work for every coloring.

I liked having red hair too. It's just not the most flattering shade for me. I could go in an eggplant direction, which would work better, but that's not the red I think of when I think red.

I saw both the slutty mom episode and the ring episode of Tim Gunn's new show as well. Sadly, I thought that most of the show fell a little bit flat. I still love Tim. Soo cute. I'm planning to use "I'm feeling woeful." whenever things go wrong from now on. And Veronica Webb managed to grow a little bit of a personality between House of Style and today. But so much of it felt like retread . . . and the life coach has got to go. The best parts of the show were the snarky Tim and Veronica outtakes. I think what I really want is just a show where the two of them sit around and bust on the badly dressed. It would be like hanging out with your catty girlfriends.

I think there are so many shades of red, that there is one that will work for every coloring.

As someone who spent nearly 15 years trying to find that shade before seeing the light and switching to blue, there's really not. I spent my entire adolescence looking mildly jaundiced before finally admitting to myself that no, red hair was not a good look for me. (There are a few deep deep jewel-toned reds out there that will work for about three days, but then the purples wash out and I'm left looking brassy and orange again.)

I haven't seen the ep in question (I thought I loved Tim Gunn, but apparently I only love him on PR because I watched about 5 minutes of this show and it was just so mean I had to turn it off). But I think there are very few skin tones that really look good with red hair.

Having access last night to all the fancy TV channels I don't have at my house, I somehow found myself watching Big Brother After Dark last night. I could not turn it off! For minutes I was watching people just sit. Mostly they were talking, and it was kind of interesting, but STILL. The shame.

What was interesting was they were talking a lot about the logistics of the game -- when the last day was, how much money non-winners would get (it's apparently about $3K/month?), and a producer told them to stop, but not in scary Big Brother voice or anything, just conversationally, which they noted as being unusual.

I believe the sequester people all get $9000, so, whatever that works out to a month/week.

Ah -- that's what they were saying, that if you stay three months you get nine grand.

Random BB thought: they didn't show Daniele's bday party, did they? And did anyone care that she lied about her age the first day?

They showed her getting a b-day card from Nick, no? And I'm not sure that anyone ever found out that she lied about being 21, but really, why would they care?

Yeah, I was just curious, because usually a birthday is a nice happy filler thing for BB. I guess they were too busy showing Jen get BURNED WITH CIGARETTES.