Wiw: bruisin with my new hair

I finally hit 100% on wearing all my planned winter outfits. This is the last one I thought up with cobalt jeans and a long tux like jacket. Feeling love!

I will now start over reusing my outfits until spring comes around.

One thing I noticed after finding a style and really keeping to it, was that although the clothes did their best to make me feel great, I often looked in a mirror later in the day and felt blah. I decided it wasn't the clothes but just blah hair and makeup. So I took the Angie advice from her recent blog and did the hair. I hope having a cool fun and stylish cut will help me feel fab. And I have bought new makeup I am keeping in my purse to refresh during the day. This is new to me since I have been a wash and go girl all of my life.

I think it is partly age which makes this no longer possible, the bloom is off the rose, and I need more maintenance to feel pretty and fresh. Have any of you others experienced this?

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12 years ago

Veteran

Congrats on wearing all your winter outfits!

The hair is FAB! Does it change your style descriptors? Ha, you still have plenty of bloom in you yet, Jayne!

I've found that I feel blah if I don't fill in my eyebrows and wear some lipstick.

YLF!

jayne

thanks aj. eyebrows, that is a point..I have been considering getting them done. they are still natural but I feel that they don't suit my more considered style. wild was ok for a tomboy. I am nervous though, once you pluck you can never go back right?

ramya

Jayne!!!
You are a rockstar.... Wow!!!! Love cobalt and black
So copying it tomorrow
And about the eyebrows, hats off for resisting the temptation, I cannot shape it by myself even if my life depended on it . And waxing brrr creeps me out
I have found a guy (middle Asian from Iraq ) who threads it for me.
Go there once a month and pluck between appointment.

Hmmm you can grow back your eyebrows but I never like mine unshaped . I feel blah...

That's one thing I cant skip

Deborah

Wow Jayne! I had to log in specially to say just how incredibly fabulous and gorgeous you hair looks! Wow

thanks for the advice ramya. I will ask a friend for a recommendation.

you are sweet Deborah

Hil

(website)

Your hair looks great!

merwoman

You look fantastic Jayne, LOVE the haircut!

Anonymous

I love the hair Jayne -- you look great!

Thistle

Hair looks fab!

Jayne, what a difference a haircut makes! Wow, you look so chic. Congrats on wearing all of your winter outfits. I suspect you are just feeling the winter blahs, so hang in there.

thanks dear ladies. Ok Claire, will try to hold out for the sun and a little natural color that always makes me feel prettier...2 months should be about right before our snow melts

Claudia

Love the new haircut!

cinnamon fern

That haircut is fabulous on you! I see plenty of bloom, too.

Transcona Shannon

WOW Jayne! The haircut is gorgeous on you.

MNsara

Had to log in to say how fabulous this cut is on you!! Now your sassy hair will keep up with your stylish outfits!! Wise of you to recognize what you personally needed from Angie's advice

Re: the hair and makeup as we age -- um, YES!! I was an 'all natural' type of girl until my thirties when I noticed that blowdrying hair and a little mascara and liner helped enough that I was willing to do that every day.

A couple decades later and the maintenance continues to grow BUT the improvements in how I (think I) look and how (much better) that makes me feel are worth it enough that I'll go that extra bit every day.

I think this is why we 'mature' women want to look polished and put together -- to make up for the missing youthful/natural beauty

texstyle

YES! Your hair looks so fun and fresh. And your outfit is great. I personally love thick eyebrows and envy them. Mine are a bit thin due to thyroid disease and I only pluck ever so few strays but I do trim them with small scissors to shape them better (using a wand type "mascara" brush to brush them up and just slightly trim the hairs that seem too long).

thanks for the eyebrows tip, ts.
I am still on the fence<p/>and thanks to everyone else for loving the hair. I have never had it so short but it is end of day here and I feel fab!

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