Bringin' Back the Do-Rag

Okay, here's a little hair history. I grew up with stick-straight hair. Both of my sisters have beautiful curly hair, and I was always jealous of them. It took me 24 years to come to love my straight hair, and just when I did, it started to grow curly. Being pregnant with Ethan affected my hormones in huge ways, and my once-straight hair had cute little wavy curls in it. I loved it...for about a year. Marcus's pregnancy decided to mess around with those hormones a bit more, and the end result (I wish I would have gotten a before picture) was a short, feathered, not quite curly, not quite straight, but not even wavy kind of hair do. If I didn't curl it every day and clip it back, I looked like David Cassidy from the "Partridge Family," but with not quite such a big smile. It took a little bit of thinking, and I decided that getting a perm is not just an 80's thing to do, so I headed to the salon to get back those slight curls that Ethan had given me.

The lady said that the biggest curler would give be "body" and "volume," so I opted for the second to biggest, because my hair's body was the problem I was trying to get rid of. So now it looks like this:

These pictures were taken right after we got home, and I was on the phone with my sister, telling her I look like a poodle. And I purposefully didn't do my make up yesterday, because I wanted to do a dumpy, gloomy before picture (why don't they ever smile?) and then later do a made up, happy, glowing after picture with my new do. The thing is, I never got around to doing my make up, and Brian followed me around the house with the camera the minute I stepped through the door. The phone conversation went like this:

Carrie: I look like a poodle! It's so curly! Brian, stop taking my picture!

Christina: No, post the pictures so I can see what it looks like.

Over the past 12 hours I have evolved from thinking that I look like a poodle. I can also compare myself to the kid on "Boy Meets World" or Screech from "Saved by the Bell." But overall, even though it's curlier than I expected, I think I'm going to like it once I get used to it. I might wear a scarf or handkerchief on my head for a couple of days, though, just to ease into the transition.