Saturday, August 16, 2008

Staging your Comeback

Book 10 of 52

Staging your Comeback: a complete beauty revival for women over 45, by Christopher Hopkins

OK, I'm not yet 45. But this is my sister's new favorite so I had to check it out. What I learned:

1. Never wear dark top with light pants (for my body type)
2. I only need one or two colors of eyeshadow (which is good because I always come home with the same few shades anyway)
3. I should biff my turtlenecks.

My sister is on a campaign to get me to return to my (childhood) natural haircolor. She even roped in the author of this book to bolster her claim that losing the warmth of my current base color and ditching the highlights will make me look more dramatic and younger. I'm thinking about it.

For fun, here are two photos showing the difference:

My last known "natural hair color." I think the suggestion is to cover the grey with the dark.


My current hair color (warm brown with ash gold highlights).


Something in between...

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Rebecca said...

You are right about the suggestion being to color the gray with dark brown. And I still feel the same after seeing these pictures.

Can't wait to see what others think! Have you ever discussed the possibility with your hair colorist?

BTW, I told you that my favorite hair cut you've had is the one you had at your 20 y reunion, didn't I? I don't remember exactly what it was, but I remember vividly thinking you just looked so cute and stylish, really perfect IMO.

8/16/08 2:27 PM  
Blogger Beth said...

That's very funny. The first photo here, my natural color, is from that reunion.

8/18/08 7:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The in-between really brings out your lovely eye color. The natural is a great color and much easier (and cheaper) to keep up. Please, show us what you decide.

8/23/08 5:41 PM  
Blogger The Makeover Guy said...

STUNNING!

1/20/09 3:00 PM  

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