New Do

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Jenni Elyse

I decided that growing my hair out in the summer without air conditioning in my car is for the birds. Not only am I extremely hot because my hair’s on my neck, yet not quite long enough to pull up all that successfully, I’m also dealing with it becoming snarly each and every time I go anywhere because of the unrolled windows. Snarls and a soft head don’t go together.

Also, you can call it laziness, but I’m not one to spend a lot of time on my hair. I like to sleep as long as I can before I have to get up and go to work, and I could do so much other stuff during that 45 minutes of hair-doing time. (Yes, it takes me 45 minutes to straighten my hair. It takes a very long time to dry and I have to flat iron my hair in a bunch of layers because my hair is extremely thick. Waah, right? ;) )

Anyway, I decided to cut my hair. I was considering, for a time, to chop it all off again, but I decided that I do like the versatility of being able to do different styles. After a lot of consideration and help from my niece Carlee, who actually did my hair, I decided on a very short a-line cut in the back and longer sides to frame my face.

The best part about my do is that I only have to style the sides and top. No back! :D And, I can even do it messy still.

PS–I hate posing for self-portraits. They’re so annoying and I think I look hideous.

Fun with My Nieces

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Jenni Elyse

Last Friday, Corey and I went up to my niece Aymee’s place so her sister, my other niece Carlee, could do our hair early Saturday morning. This happened to coincide with the release of the New Moon DVD. I wasn’t planning on going to a release party because the movies don’t interest me that much. However, Aymee’s friend asked if Aymee wanted to go so Aymee asked me if I wanted to go with them. I told her I was fine either way; I just wanted to spend time with her. At the last minute, Aymee’s friend decided not to go because she was too tired to stay up that late. (She’s pregnant.) Because Aymee and I were still up and already planning to go, we still went.

We found out that the Walmart we were going to was the same Walmart three of the actors–Michael Welch (Mike Newton), Justin Chon (Eric Yorkie), and Christian Serratos (Angela Webber)–were coming to for the release. When we got to Walmart about 30 minutes before midnight, the parking lot was completely full! 8O We should’ve known better with the craziness of the fans. The autograph line was so long we would’ve been there until at least 4:00 am so we decided just to get in line for the DVD.

When the actors came out, I decided to see if I could get close enough to get a few pictures of them. Thanks to the awesome zoom on my new camera, I was able to get a pretty good shot of each of them.

The next morning, Carlee came over to do our hair. When the doorbell rang, I heard Aubree, one of Aymee and Dave’s daughters, yell, “Aunt Cha!” and then run down the stairs to get the door. It was really funny and cute. (Aubree’s almost three. If you ask her when her birthday is, she says in one breath, “I’ll-be-three-May-8th-I’m-going-to-the-beach-for-my-birthday-to-swim-in-the-water.” It’s so funny because she gets so excited about it!)

The last time Carlee did my hair, she cut it in a way that I could scrunch it enough to give the illusion that I have naturally curly hair. Unfortunately, that ability didn’t last very long because my hair is very stubborn, straighter than straight, and became heavier and less willing to scrunch as it grew. (See picture of Aymee and me above for verification.)

I asked Carlee if there was a perm that would let me have nice curls without looking like a poodle. She told me a new perm had just come out. It’s called the beach wave and it uses foam blocks instead of standard perming rods. The result is a natural, very loose curl. Aymee and I volunteered to be Carlee’s guinea pigs so she could try it out. You may think I was brave to be a guinea pig, but I knew it wouldn’t turn out badly. In fact, the worst case scenario was that it wouldn’t work at all. Luckily, it did work and turned out great! I think it’s the best perm I’ve ever had because I don’t look like I have perm at all.

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Simplifying

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Jenni Elyse

I think I’ve only gone more than a week between posts once, maybe twice, in the entire two and a half years I’ve been blogging. That tells you how busy life is right now!

My typical day starts with me getting up at 5:00 am if I decide to make myself presentable by doing my hair. Otherwise, I get up around 5:30 am. I’m at work by 6:30 am and I stay there until no later than 3:15 pm. My first class–Japanese, which is an everyday class–starts at 4:00 pm. On Mondays and Fridays, Japanese is my only class. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I also have an English class that goes until 6:30 pm. And, on Wednesdays, I have my Doctrine and Covenants class until 7:00 pm. I usually don’t get home until around 7:30 or 8:00 pm. Then, I do homework until around 10:00 or 10:30 pm and go to bed after that.

I’m thoroughly enjoying myself. I love class and I love having something to look forward to each day. Even though I’m not getting much sleep, I’m thriving.

With this being said, however, I wanted a way to simplify my mornings. I want to look presentable but not take the extra 30 minutes to fix my hair. I almost chopped my hair off last Friday, even though I’ve been growing it out for about a year. My niece Carlee gave me an alternative style, however, and I love it!

My hair is straight, thick, and coarse. The only curl I have is just a few waves, if you can even call it that, when my hair air dries. It’s not enough to look good curly and too much to let my hair air dry and still look nice straight. But, Carlee cut my hair into choppy layers and then showed me how to scrunch my hair so it has the illusion of being curly. It takes me literally 5-10 minutes to do! :D

New Hairdo

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Jenni Elyse

I’ve had my hair short for two and a half years now. About a year ago, I decided to start growing it out even though I didn’t really start the growing-out process until around January. It’s been and continues to be a long process.

I’ve grown my hair out before so I know I usually get to a point when I want to chop it all off because it becomes so annoying. I’ve been at this point for the last couple of months. I feel like my hair’s always so bushy, shaggy, and almost mullet-ish. :| I was going to chop it all off today when my niece Carlee and I discovered my hair was just long enough to start shaping it in an A-line-wedge style.

I really like the style a lot. I just hope I can keep up with it since I think styling hair is so monotonous!

A Busy Day

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Jenni Elyse

On Friday, I realized (or remembered) that my driver’s license expired on my birthday this year. … My birthday was three weeks ago. :oops: Luckily, I haven’t driven all that often since my birthday. I’ve had one decent driver’s license picture–my very first one. My last two were horrid because my hair was always in a bad cut or whatever. I wanted to try to avoid that this time around so I got my hair done yesterday.

I haven’t colored my hair since my niece Carlee left for England because I didn’t have anyone else to do it and I couldn’t afford it either. I decided to grow my hair out with my natural color. I still want to grow my hair out, but I love coloring my hair because it gives it so much more depth. Since Carlee’s back and I get a phenomenal rate again, I decided to color it even while I’m growing it out. Carlee also shaped it since it had lost its shape and spiking ability about four weeks ago. I’m pleased with the style and color, but I don’t think it’ll ever look as good as Carlee did it again. But, isn’t that the way it always is? :roll: Hopefully, my driver’s license picture will still turn out okay.

I also spent most of the day reading City of Glass and I finally finished it around 9:00 pm. I’m so glad I finished it because I needed to know what happened and I needed the stories to release me from their spell so I could sleep and have a normal life again. ;)

Corey also took me to see the new Star Trek movie. The movie was phenomenal! :D Matt, one of my co-workers, had changed his Facebook status to: “Dear George Lucas: that’s how it’s done” after he saw the movie. I chuckled when I read it. But, after seeing the movie, I completely understand where he’s coming from. The actors were fantastic. They had the same mannerisms as their counterparts in the original series and movies. And, they even looked like younger versions of them. The storyline was great too and there weren’t any continuity issues like a lot of prequels end up creating! I’m so glad we saw it last night and would love to see it a second time.