Jul 18, 2009
The Daily Poverty Post.
Love her or hate her, after much experimentation, Bossy decided highlights are something she needs to get professionally done, by a known factor.
In the scheme of things, Bossy wasted time and energy and money fixing her many hair disasters. Bossy buys into the theory that it’s better to have one nice thing than a bunch of cheaper not-so-nice things, and in this way she has chosen her highlights to be the nice thing compared, for instance, to her closet of ratty clothes, most of which she has literally owned since high school.
Bossy is sorry to let down those in her Poverty Party who challenge Bossy’s commitment when she won’t give up certain aspects of vanity, and in this way her Poverty Party council may be correct. But Bossy has a pretty clear conscience in other ways, never being one to drop too much coin perusing the beauty aisles of the drugstore or Sephora, because boy does that stuff add up.
Bossy would rather nurse her few products using microscopic amounts stretched over a year until the product she is coveting has nearly expired. Bossy would rather use cheap shampoo, and only shampoo every few days. Bossy would rather wear the same mismatched and discolored hoop earrings she’s been wearing every day for three years than buy a new pair even if they are on sale at a discount department store.
All this to say Bossy had her hair highlighted yesterday, and she feels like she was kissed by the sun.
This is sound logic and I intend to follow it. I will professionally cover my gray hairs while using my “Oil of Beauty” lotion from the drugstore.
Ignore them Bossy. Everyone has their own budget item-highlights or underwear or scotch or whatever- that they won’t compromise on. With highlights everyone else gets to enjoy them as well (as opposed to scotch or underwear).
Photo?
I will never give up having highlights professionally done. Every woman I know feels the same way, so no more guilt! My hairdresser says she was taught in beauty school eons ago that during the Great Depression, the two “industries” that did NOT suffer were shoe-shining and hair-dressing!
This post is useless without photos!!
I will not judge. I pay a professional to paint my toenails.
I’m with ya! The thing I will not ever do myself are my cut and color. I will sell my first borns spare kidney before I don’t get my hair done professionally. I know, I keep it real. At least it’s only a spare kidney. I’ll let him keep everything else.
God made hairdresser’s for a reason.
After too many hair disasters to count, I am firmly in Bossy’s corner with the highlights.
However, I do save a bit by getting just a partial foil and not a full head of highlights. Plus, I’ve been going to my hairdresser for over 10 years, so all that loyalty pays off in discounts and 1990 pricing
Paying for good hair is SOOOOO worth it. It’s my big splurge too. Can’t wait to see what it looks like
Give me professional highlights or give me death.
I colored my hair yesterday…nice n easy #108…$5 a box…I look FABU!
AND I had it cut yesterday too…for FREE! $5 tip to my favorite stylist at supercuts!
so for $10 I got me a suh-weet look!
(don’t hate me because I’m beautiful) LOL
amen to bossy. just because we are poor doesn’t mean hide our light under the proverbial bushel basket.
I’m putting two and two together and guessing you went to NYC to get your hair highlighted by a gay. Am I write? Because I’m thinking that I should probably apply to MIT with my mad math skillz
And seriously, if highlights are not done by someone who knows what s/he is doing? One ends up with orange (ORANGE!) hair and then spends $200 undoing that disaster, all to “save” a few bucks. I’m sure some people can do it themselves at home but those who cannot become blonder and brassier each time they highlight – which is fine if you’re going for the hooker look.
A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! I think even us poor people are entitled to one splurge. I get my hair professionally cut too every 6 months. But I get a lot of thrift store clothes, shoes, etc. and freecycle lots too!
My husband said he would take lunch to work every day as long as it meant I got my “salon time.”
My hair vanity of choice is Aveda shampoo and conditioner. With the liter bottles, though, and washing my hair maybe twice a week unless it really, really needs it (like tonight), one of those bottles will last two years or more. The nice thing about being a boy is that I can give myself a clipper cut, and the fact that it’s becoming less pepper and more salt is kind of hot.
I don’t color my hair and it rarely gets split ends. On that note, it means I splurge on lotion. I’ve been told my entire life (even by people who randomly bump into me) that I have unusually soft skin. I hold onto that vanity!
A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Knowing what’s worth spending money on and what’s not is a big part of successful financial planning. Enjoy those highlights!
Hair is a very worthwhile thing to spend money on.
Using this logic, I paid around $200 last week to have my hair highlighted. It has been a couple years since I’ve dropped that kind of money on my hair. Unfortunately, the color job is so subtle, you can’t even really tell I had anything done. I’m super disappointed about it. The most annoying part is I did it while out of town, so I can’t go back and ask for a re-do. So, if you’re happy with the results, I say consider it money well-spent.
Hair is our crowning glory, and no would should look like my former boss, who took on the look of Jane Russell in her Playtex years. A color I shall call, “Contessa Black”.
Go for it, Bossy! Glamour hair is worth the expense. I have a friend who colors her own hair; I sometimes worry that I’m being a spendthrift by getting mine done professionally — and then her hair takes on an ever-so-slight green tone. and then I skip to the salon.
And hey –! Aren’t you the one who re-uses paper towels, for God’s sake?? You still have frugality cred!
Bossy is giving a great example of spending you money on something you value while scrimping on other things. Case in point: I will keep my family out of restaurants for an entire year to save money, but must, MUST buy one (just one) pair of nice jeans for myself every 18 months or so. For the booty.
Can I just say that there are MANY perks to being married to my husband. Who, have I mentioned is in the Army? Well I’m not sure about everywhere, but here at Ft. Polk, the girls at the PX Beauty Shop are AWESOME, I got a cut and color for $60… and the best part? I live like five minutes away. The even better part? They will fix my hair for free on bad hair days because I’ve befriended each and every one of them. I heart those girls!
Bossy, I cheer you on your highlights! Your Poverty Party gave me the courage to step off the Highlight Bus. (That, and the simple fact that my hair turned into straw and kept falling out, but I digress). My point is, I was ready to make that change and just needed a little support, so thanks. Go Bossy!
Well — you asked us to report to you, detailing our anti-poverty efforts, but this is embarassing!
http://twenty-firstcenturyhousewife.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-say-tomato-i-say-feh.html
Yay!