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New hairdresser, new hair! I really like her and the color looks great - still a lot of warmth, since I wear so little makeup, and nice highlights just at the crown of my head. I do have some grey to cover, but it's really more that I find the natural medium-dark brown color of my hair a little flat, a little uninteresting. I just feel like I look better in general with really good depth of color, and when the color looks great I feel great wearing no makeup. I have a complicated relationship with makeup, actually - I love to play with it but I really get irritated with it for everyday. I don't have the patience to keep fiddling with it, I don't like the way it feels on my skin, etc. It's much easier for me to just keep my skin in reasonably good shape (sunscreen & moisturizer & good hydration) with well-groomed brows and a great cut and color combination.

Anyway.

Also, why the hell can't I knit? Actually, I know why - every time I fool around with it I get really frustrated and put it down and don't pick it up again for months. The big problem is that I stitch too tight - I am a freaking PRO at casting on now because I've done it so many times, but the stitches are too tight and then the knitting is tough because I have a hard time getting back into the stitches to knit them. *throws the whole mess across the room* I read somewhere that I could cast on over two needles together - doesn't that leave them TOO loose? Anybody have any other tips for me?

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There's a place in South Austin, and REALLY south, not SoCo, and this might be it. My friend Mia used to go all the time and loved it. Austin's the right kind of town for this sort of thing!

And my hairdresser and I were talking about Dallas today and its perfectly coiffed and made up women. :P

Alas, for my mom is from Brooklyn and never wears makeup and cuts her own hair, and thus was useless in teaching me the ways of big hair and artful-yet-trashy makeup, leading to a bit of time looking like a raccoon there while I learned. :p