Keep It Simple.

It's like a sauna outside and here in Massachusetts we're conducting a special exercise in water conversation... my advice to you all, keep it simple! The classic beauties above didn't spend hours laboring over their hair - they likely let it air dry or even (gasp!) didn't wash it for a few days. Just think of all the water we could save nevermind the energy minus the blowdryers and flatirons for a hot second! With products on the market now including dry shampoos (love the Bumble and Bumble powder spray for taking your blow-dry long term) do yourself a favor and give your bed head a rest. Simple is chic and conservation is classy.

FIERCE.

That is a fine head of hair right there. My dear friend Joseph Gordon Cleveland from Style Boston TV and host of Fashionably Late tonight might have the hottest hair in Boston at this moment. With a cut by Patrick McGinley and color by Iris Moore both at Mizu Boston, this boy is taking over the city Godzilla style (with less albeit more tasteful hair)! Join us all tonight at the Liberty Beacon Hotel and watch the madness ensue. With hair like his you know it's gonna be good!

Blonde Bombshell!

Do blondes have more fun? Well this one does! In the evidence of the blondes above... this is not a one size or one shade fits all kind of situation. The blonde at the top (one of my best friends Samantha, a stylist at Marc Harris in Boston) is the straight blonde bombshell we all wanna be. Her blonde suits her skin tone and is the most natural, shiny, healthy head of golden beauty you'll ever set your pretty eyes on. For me, a Kate Lanphear (second from top) white ice deluxe is my blonde of choice. With so many blondes to be ,pay attention, cause bleach is the new black. Even if I did hear about the blonde who put lipstick on her forehead because she wanted to makeup her mind I say.... the blonder the better!

Cuts for the Cause!

It's finally here!! This Sunday April 25th, HAIRraising month kicks off with the biggest city wide cut-a-thon Boston's ever seen. With almost ALL the top Newbury St and surrounding area salons participating in this amazing opportunity to get a luxury hair cut for just $40 with all the money goeing to charity! For a full list of participating salons check the link below and I hope to see everyone out on the streets with a their new look and a spring in their step. What could be better than crisp cut for a cause!

Sex Bomb, Sex Bomb.

Now that we've got the winged eyeliner trick down (Thanks J.V. and New Brahmin!) It's time to hone our inner sex kitten and here's how: Blow dry hair as usual. Flip head upside down and tousle. Lightly mist with hair spray underneath towards root. (I said lightly people!! Stop depleting the ozone layer with ya aerosol-less selves!) Now organize some bangs across your face. Shake it out a bit. Strike a pose as seen above and work it hooooooney.

Fresh Cuts.

I had the pleasure this afternoon of hanging out with these two fine females - Miss Stacey Lu and Miss Rose Fortuna and frankly this post doesn't even needs words - the proof is in the picture. Ah-Mazing. As discussed, a little shaved style doesn't need to just speak to the punk rocker, or the tight fader... it can wind up on even the classiest, most stylish of females. Love to you both and anyone rockin' a fresh cut.

Kibble and Curls.

Jeannie Vincent. How I love you and your mad makeup skills. How I also love your story telling abilities and your harrowing experience at the groomers. Wait, the groomers? You heard it boys and girls, J.V. is a dirty dog. Alright, so she's not. But she did go to town on her mane with a bottle that isn't only tested on animals, nope that's right, it's MADE FOR animals. And I would say, the results are nooooot too shabby. As much as I'd like a shiny coat, I mean uh head of hair like the one above, i'm gonna pass on Fido's brand and go with some Bumble and Bumble I think. Anyway, makes for a good tall "tail" (yeah, i'm using the tail joke again, so what, it's my freakin' blog)!
Full disclosure of the deets of this event can be found at one of my favortie blogaries linked after and with the necessary disclosure, the ending isn't as tearful as Lassie but it ain't Lady and the Tramp eitha!!!

Tease Me.

With respect to a stylist I shall not name, I've always been a bit adverse to the art of teasing. This particular fellow could tease 6 strands hair into a birdsnest and that's necessarily a good thing. In regards to the big tease, I found myself wondering, should the technique be limited to the runaway or can it be adapted to the ready-to-wear girl or guy lifestyle. In my extensive research (which I like to call my hours transfixed by style blogs) I found the above image that only goes to show.... tease it up and take your mama out all night!! I'd love to see some ladies take this look to the streets... arrrrre ya with me!?

I Love That Lavender Blonde.

After my debacle in 6th grade when my untamed mass of curls was ceremoniously dipped in red kool - aid (I just wanted to do a strand!) and I was subsequently called Ronald (as in McDonald) for months I have now been pretty much been every color under the sun. Having run the gamut on color spectrum it is now apparently clear.... I WAS MEANT TO BE BLONDE! Thanks to my love Justin Woods (now at G2O) I was able to return to my formerly blonde self in a flash...

Before the blondification I was just your average brunette:







and after I was back to my my ROOTS..... yes I'm naturally a platinum blonde... helllllo!!!

XOXOXO JUSTIN.

Shortcuts!

Of course because my hair is in an awkward stage of a mullet right now (i'm growing it out peoples!!) I have been scouring the internet for tips on the evolution into my next look. Stumble upon one of my favorite blogs (http://www.theglamourai.com/) and find that my muse has cropped all her hair off! Now don't get me wrong - I love short hair. It's easy and striking and unless you've got some big ol' ears I reccommend that at least once in your life you cut all your hair off and run free with it! Then, after you've been liberated from the blowdrying, flat-ironing and styling of a big head of hair.... desperately will your hair to grow so you wear it different ways again like you once did in your younger years. It's freaking hard to grow your hair out and I do really like that haircut above..................................

Hat Head.

So I happened upon this vintage photo of my mother and it made me realize... we all have bad hair days! Let's face it - not everyone is secure enough to wear a hat like the one seen above.. but why the hell not!?! Today for instance, it's raining and my hair is being less than cooperative. Maybe instead of the 86 bobby pins and copious amounts of gel i've secured up in there I could kick the dust up and off one of my dad's cool caps and look at out the world before me from under a brim. Who says I can't!?! Thanks mom for the inspiration!

Twin-zees.

I love my twin sister. I wouldn't trade being her twin for anything in the world. Except maybe to be triplets with the Olsens. I mean, I have a starbucks addiction, a desire to be decked out in designer and more than anything the wish to stomp around the world in giant sunnies with my tangled mane all over the place. I have to say that is a fine extension of fabulous you got there MK ... wink, wink.

Drive it like you stole it.

I'm not a stylist in any sense of the word. I just watched some really talented people do some amazing hair and what can I say --- their passion rubbed off on me! That being said, i'm not naive anymore in the sense that I think this hair was just simply "tied back" - it was likely painstakingly picked over, tousled, done and undone. Whatever, I don't care, I LIKE IT! If I can ever grow my hair past my shoulders again (go go gadget biotin!) I am going to loop it messily, swoop my longish bangs to the left and right and pretend like I am as cool as the girl above. In the meantime I will still rock a denim button up and drive it like I stole it!

She bangs! She bangs!

Classic and disheveled! Bangs don't always have to be perfectly aligned across your forehead... when I had them I used to obsess over their whereabouts. I'd whip out my comb anywhere and everywhere in hopes of returning them to their freshly blowdried state of being... hopeless!! My old roommate was famous for 2 and 1-ing her bangs which meant a ritualistic bangs bath before we went out on the town. Nevermind doing her whole head... it was all about the bangs baby. Anyway, this girl proves you can let go... let your bangs fall freely and live a little ladies!

If you got long hair put ya hands up:

Totally style stalked this girl's effortless look.... especially the hair. Makes me want some long locks so I can rock a messy bun up on my head top. Long hair and late to work - throw it up high!

Tight Fade

I would love to be able to rock this look! Hair inspiration at its finest. Three cheers for close crops.