shoe advice

I am all for wearing cute shoes. Yesterday was a particularly cute pair, my favorite stripe wedge sandal. This is my advise too all us girly girls out there wearing those cute shoes. Keep an old pair of sneakers within reach in your car. I found this very helpful as I was surrounded by broken glass trying to climb out of my vehicle that was tipped on its side. I was able to chuck those cute sandals out the window and pull on my New Balances which were much better in glass and a pool of gasoline. A bonus too that the hot firemen were impressed with my preparedness. I did not tell them that I had accidently left them in there the night before.

comic hair

I have not read the Cathy comic strip by Cathy Irving in a long time but could not help but post this one when my sister sent it to me. It was particularly funny to me as I have had this client. Note to others: they usually do care by the end of the haircut.

fun new product alert

When the sales rep brought in this little bottle of powder and told me what it did I just gave her a skeptical look, smiled and nodded. Then I put some in my hair. Hmmm, I bought 6. The first day I had 1 for my use and sold the other 5. It is some awesome stuff. It gives you lift at the scalp. It is a dry powder so it does not look greasy. In fact if your hair is a little dirty it takes that right out. If your color is grown out it boosts the hair up enough to help hide that. It is the closest thing to a miracle in a bottle that I have found. It retails for $19, but the plus side to that is if I do your hair you automatically get 20% off. Who can really put a price on a miracle though?

back to school

Every year I get a little sad at back to school time. It is a busy time of year, which I am glad about, but it is another set of kids that are grown and usually gone. College. It is a wonderful experience and all that jazz, but that is when my kids decide they can do without me. They get busy. They find someone new. Someone cooler, hipper, what ever word they are using this year. Anyway they outgrow me. Like the many prom pictures I have been promised in the past, I hear all about them but don't see them. I am not bitter. Just sad. Luckily for me there is always a new crop of fresh faced clients to see. So as I send kids off all over Kansas, Missouri, and else where, I start over. I got a great starter with this one. Seth is about to turn 1. He loves me. He thinks I am cool. Sure that is mostly from the promise of a treat but I will take it. The next few years will be full of wonderful new adventures and experiences. I will see Seth go to his first day of kindergarten. He will sulk in my chair full of pre-teen angst. Then one day he will be in for a hurried trim and tell me where he is going to college. I will smile and nod, and think....... Honey, I know you are going to K State. I gave you your first haircut there isn't much I don't know about you. For now I am just going to enjoy him thinking that with a haircut comes a sucker and that makes me the most awesome person in the world.

i am so over the toes

At least I am trying to be. Oh well and life goes on. Especially when there are new nail polishes getting ready to come out. Oh so very exciting indeed. I love OPI. Sure they discontinue colors, rename them, and then reissue them. The new names are always fabulous though. This new line is called Coleccion De Espana promises to be full of passion and drama. I personally could use more passion and less drama but beggars can't be choosers. So check out this site it is full of OPI eye candy. www.nailpolishdiva.com

once bitten

twice shy. Friday night when I got home from the art crawl downtown I had 3 nasty looking bites on my leg. Weird. They didn't itch and I did not remember feeling like I got bit by anything. Saturday morning I had 10. Son of a gun they hurt. Saturday night I realized they were not bites, but a lovely case of Mycrobacterium Fortuitum. In other words a leg infection most commonly gotten from unsanitary pedicures. Oh I was mad. I paid good money for that pedicure the least they could have done was clean the jets in that basin. I had an antibiotic prescription at home that I started on and by Monday they looked better. I called my doctors office and most importantly emailed the Kansas State Board of Cosmetology. This is exactly what I was trying to keep my clients away from. This will take a long time to heal. I have to be on anitibiotics till it does heal. I can't swim. I can't shave over that area. When they do heal enough to shave over I have to throw away the razor after each use. It will be a while before anyone touches my feet again. I know not all nail salons are like this but it sure makes it had to want to get another pedicure.