Who Knew???!!!

One of the great things about going to Blissdom was rooming with a bunch of fabulously stylish girls.

Girls who you could borrow all of their amazing jewelry and have fun accessories for every outfit.

Free of charge.

Another perk?

Being roommates with Jess and her gorgeously curly head of hair.

And having the following conversation with her:

“Jeannett!  You have curly hair!”

“No…I don’t.  It’s only partly curly.  Parts of it are stick straight.  Parts are wavy.  Some parts are curly.  It’s a disaster.”

“Girl.  Your hair is curlier than mine is straight out of the shower!”

“Huh?”

“Yes!  You have curly hair!”

“No.  Really.  I don’t.  It dries all weird and inconsistent.  I wish it were curly.  It would save me like 20 minutes getting ready…or the perpetual ponytail I wear during the week when I’m too lazy to flat iron it.”

“That’s because you have to put PRODUCT in it dork!  My hair would dry all weird if I didn’t do it too!”

“Really?”

“Can I do your hair today?”

“Um, sure.  But I’m telling you: it’s not curly.  This won’t work.”

Oh.

That’s not just curly.

That’s CURLY.

Yes, the camera is in my face.  It was awkward to take a picture of myself.

No, I don’t know why I am wearing sunglasses indoors.

Just focus on the hair people!  Quit asking so many dang questions!

{darling ruffled camera strap by eclectic whatnot.  awesome aqua flower ring by funky vintage kitchen.}

When I did my hair at home (translation plopped some gel in it while it was still wet), Andy’s response: “Whoa!  I didn’t know I was married to the brunette Lisa Leonard!!!”  (we are friends in real life…so that’s  not as random as it may sound.)

So, apparently I have curly hair.

And I didn’t even know it.

I do, however, have a double chin.  Gross.

I guess I always thought that girls with curly hair had really obviously curly hair when it was DRY too.

And they just put gel and whatnot in it to define and separate the curls.

Oops.

I knew that.

No, I did not have to travel 2,000 miles to Nashville to figure out I had curly hair.

Man, I wish I knew this years ago…

To think of all the time I would have saved.

Boo.

These are the magical curl inducing bottles.

Interestingly enough, the longer I do this, the curlier my hair is “getting”.  Something about me stretching out the curl all these years.

Clearly I’m not the sharpest tack in the shed.

And you wanna know what’s hysterical?

For months Andy and I have been saying “WHERE on earth does Lucy get that curly hair????!!!!”

Because you know, it’s super curly out of the shower and then dries fairly straight.

Good thing her mom has curly haired friends.

I’ll let her in on the curl gel secret before she spends 30 years of her life with a flat iron.

Good grief.

Try to not make too much fun of me.

I know it’s ridiculous.

You know how many times I’ve heard “How did you NOT KNOW????!!!!”

Yeah.

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I'm a mom to four. A wife to one. I believe in story. I love telling you about mine and would love to hear yours. There's really no sense in wasting our suffering and not sharing in each other's joy. We're all in this together...even if it doesn't always feel like it.

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