Fancy Hair

My neighbor Julie was kind enough to highlight my hair this afternoon. It's only been over 6 months since I had any sort of color done. It's easy to get away with that in the winter as nobody gives a crap what you look like as they're all too grumpy about the weather to care. But in Spring, you gotta be fresh.... (okay, it's not exactly spring yet, but Vince Condella said meteorologically, it is...)

I've always gone to the salon to get it done with my girl Megan and since I've found her, nobody else is allowed to touch my hair (see previous post regarding haircuts). However, tough economy calls for tough measures, and the $70 or so it would cost for highlights just isn't in the budget. Thank God for beautician friends!!!

Anyhoo, I never brought Braeden with me to the salon when I get highlights as it just takes too long. He's seen me have hair ripped from my face by way of hot wax, but never with a head covered in foil. Part of the greatness of the neighbor situation is that I can get the process done at home...how cool is that?

As you can imagine, his reaction when she started wrapping my hair in foils was pretty gosh darn funny. It was like his little mind was working on this, wondering why something that is usually used for food is being put in my hair. We explained, many times, that I was getting my hair lightened. He knows the difference between light and dark, so this seemed a logical explanation, and he actually accepted it.

When I took him up to bed for a nap, head wrapped in foil, he said "when I get up, then I'll see your fancy hair." Fancy hair???? What does this mean? Does this mean that Mommy needs to take more pride in herself, as her normal hair is not "fancy"? Does it mean that any time I put even 5 minutes worth of time into my hair that I'm going above an beyond? That I normally look dreadful and a new hair color would make me, once again, presentable?

Or does it just mean that he loves me and knows how excited I am to be having this done?

I hope it's the latter. Unless, of course, he didn't understand the concept of lighter hair and just thinks from now on I'll have foil in my hair. Foil = Shiny. Shiny=Fancy?????