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The Last Week of July

The last week of July is always an exciting week because several of my friends have birthdays and it is also preparation for my birthday in August. Since working from home I have been able to do a weekly catch up with my mentor. This week we decided to meet up on Friday. She shares a birthday with my friend El Momma so I planned on celebrating her birthday on our Friday meet up. On Friday morning, she texted me and asked if I wanted to get my hair done. It was sort of unexpected as I don't normally go out and get my hair done with friends but I agreed. So I met at her house and we drove over to BLO at the W Hotel in Hollywood. I didn't even know that place existed but apparently Gwyneth Paltrow is a backer of this popular updo place.
Apparently, my mentor bought a package and used two of her hair do's on our visit. Upon arriving I was given a book of hair do's. It wasn't very big but had some fun options. Most of them were with your hair down but I wanted to be different so I choose the totally different "High Society" updo. It was different all right. It was a big bun on my slicked back hair ala "Breakfast At Tiffany's." I felt like a different person. I ended up wearing it two days because I didn't want a good hair do to go to waste. But man, oh man, did they ever put a lot of product and bobbi pins in it! It took a while to get the pins out and to actually wash the hair spray product out in the shower. I am not sure hubs and Miss P liked it much as they both said they liked my hair the regular way two days later when my hair was back to plain jane me. But it was fun to experience something different even though it wasn't the most flattering look on me.

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