ever since i can remember i have loved hair. long hair, short hair, i love it all. when i was going through cosmetology school at paul mitchell i tried so very many different hair styles. when i first started, i had shoulder length hair and by the second month my hair was as short as camden’s. i have had pink, orange, blue, red, and almost every color in-between somewhere on my head at one point or another. in the years post graduation, i have eased it down a bit and gone for a much more natural approach to my now long locks. however, i am always finding new hair styles that i want to try and experiment with. 

when i was young, i used to play “beauty shop” with my sisters. we would line the hallways with different shampoos and bowls full of warm water. we had a few shampoos that were “off limits” to us kids, but for some reason i always wanted to just try them, just a little. one of these was aveda red shampoo and conditioner. i decided during one of our hair styling adventures to wash my extremely fine, blonde haired, little sister with this particular shampoo. “you will look just like madeline”, i said. after leaving that red conditioner in her hair for about ten minutes i was startled with just how red her hair actually was. i blew her hair dry, all nice and pretty and somehow got the courage to go show the parents, who were unaware of our little adventure upstairs, just how extraordinary (in a “they left the house at half past nine in two straight lines” sort of way) she looked. i for some reason thought they would be pleased with her newly brightened hair, that they probably had always wanted a kid with red fluff anyway. well needless to say they were slightly horrified and her hair stayed that color for over a week thanks to my curiously terrifying “mad skills”. 

here are a few more photos of lovely hair styles to add to my hair love list. some i have tried and some if i ever find some braveness buried deep down inside, i might muster up the courage to try.

– have a marvelous weekend, and don’t forget to enter the giveaway here.