Christa's celebrity makeover was awesome. Two tons of fun. I was a few minutes late and by the time I got there, "the Antonio" had already started cutting her hair and there was a big crowd in attendance. Our little corner of the blogosphere was well represented with Lisa, Pinky, Ruby, Phil, and probably others I'm forgetting. I and several others tried to peer pressure Shayne to start a blog, but she's reluctant due to being a school teacher and not wanting her students to have easy access to her whole life.
I didn't take my camera because I assumed they wouldn't allow photos. Only to find that photos were allowed, nay welcomed. Ray was snapping photos constantly and no one seemed to mind. I was kicking myself for not bringing my camera. But then again, without the camera I could enjoy the party and not worry about photos. And I did get a couple of decent shots with my camera phone.
In fact, the first thing I did upon arrival was snap a photo of Christa's haircut and upload it to my photolog. At which point several people took photos of me uploading my photo, which they then uploaded to their blogs. It was dizzyingly self-referential for a minute there.
The publicist for Curl Friends (the product line sponsoring this shindig) got all excited and offered me a press kit when she overheard me tell someone that I was uploading photos live to my website. I told her that it was just my blog, to which she replied "We love blogs!" I told her that I'm not anybody important, but I took the press kit anyway. Also I bought a sample pack of Curl Friends products -- only $10 for all 10 products. My hair is naturally quite curly and although I am still digging my straightened, mod 'do, at some point I will go back to a more current, less helmet-head style. So it would be nice to have some good products for curly hair.
My big disappointment of the evening was that, while Christa's color was setting, "the Antonio" did some quick styling on everyone present who had curly hair. I had straightened my hair and put on a ton of product, so I couldn't participate. What a bummer. If only I hadn't done up my hair tonight, I could have had it styled by a celebrity!
Speaking of which, the whole point of the evening was Christa's hair, and it looked fabulous. Not that her hair doesn't always look nice, but this style was just gorgeous. They did her makeup too and she looked so glamorous, like something out of a movie. I saw David (the host of the evening and my regular stylist) carefully watching "the Antonio" work, which is good because I may ask him to duplicate the style on me sometime soon.
Everyone went to the wine bar down the street to celebrate, but I bailed because we're getting up early tomorrow morning to go the Raleigh farmer's market and shop for herb plants. Also because I don't drink wine or go to bars, so a wine bar isn't much of a draw for me. And also because I'm a poopyhead.
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