no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I have the waves, tbh

beach hair is the first step on the short road to dreads for me!
(i have never let it get there tho! always break down and comb/wash after day 3 when camping/at a cottage w lake or sea).

my friend who is a hair stylist digs the salt-in-water 'hairspray' too

Seems like it would be awfully drying?

yeah it probably is which is why my hair feels sooo soft and nice when I wash it the day after the beach.

My hair is so gross at the beach! I have naturally curly hair and the beach makes it frizzy. I look like little orphan annie the second i step out on the sand.

i look like a sad drowned rat at the beach. my hair gets mad stringy and looks awful.

D:

Yeah so does mine but for a certain type of hair salt water can make it look pretty great.

I mean, I might have that certain type of hair but I also might think my hair looks better than it does. Someone looking at me strutting around after a beach day might say "that girl is a mess, why doesn't she do something?!"

nij, salon selectives makes me nostalgic for YOUR high school days

i was looking for some just a couple days ago and was sad to see it was not made anymore

i remember the jingle - like you just stepped out of a salon, salon selectives!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vD5XpKSKhI&feature=related

lol late-80s/early-90s no-layered wavey bobs... i knew thee well...

Ha, yes. The quest for that hair style is why I kept getting terrible perms.

I get nostalgic for Revlon's Aquamarine shampoo sometimes, and once dear Julia bought me a bottle! I used it sparingly over like a year to make it last. :D

I always used to beg my parents to buy Prell (because it came in a cool tube and was GREEN!) and my mom always refused, citing its similarity to dish soap. I do remember Agree. I also remember when people called it "cream rinse" instead of "conditioner."

oh cream rinse!
this makes me miss my mom

Cream rinse and conditioner are two different things.

speaking of 90s
i am wearing a skort i bought at h&m for $5
the last time i even considered wearing a skort i was in high school
having a "can i get away with this at my age" dilemma

when in doubt though, my answer is usually yes until i decide no
would not wear it to work obvs , but i am on vacation so fuck it
i'm wearing a skort

Saw some girl wearing a coral/orange skort with side buttons, on the subway yest. You'd think I would have done more of a double-take but I guess I'm getting used to hipster fashion repurposing, what with living on the L train now.

The way they're going lately, they'll be into quilted calico by fall. I mean it's too bad I got rid of any of that Little House on the Prairie stuff from junior high, I could sell it to Beacon's Closet for a mint.

like those bags i always see certain people carrying? they have a name, but i forget what it is

OH, you mean the Veronica Bradley or wahtever her name is. That's not exactly what I was thinking of -- for whatever reason the VB line is a favorite of upper-middle class Long Island/Upper East Sidey girls who go to their family's summer cottage on the weekends. The same kind of girls who always have Elsa Peretti-for-Tiffany's necklaces. Whereas the hipster thing I'm anticipating is more of the straight '80s mauve-and-"country kitchen blue" stencil motif.

hahaha omg that would be hilarious
bring it on

Like this but with more kitch:

http://static.artfire.com/admin/product_images/thumbs/7941_product_1516315646_thumb_large.jpg

More Laura Ashley than Vera Bradley?

x-post lol

In Jr High I had a corduroy blue and mauve floral print Laura Asley pants jumpsuit. It was God awful but I could actually sorta see some hipster fashion girl reclaiming that sort of thing.

SEE?? lololol

Which would N be AGL imo. Just felt the need to clarify that.

I think that "laura ashley" style has already hit central fl.

or maybe it never left?

i saw classic pleasted momjeans on modcloth recently

i mean pleated

lol I was just going to say that based on what I know of central florida I'm willing to bet that it never left.

oops lol

Yeah it's already sort of back, what with the tan/brown lace-up boots everyone's been wearing for a year or two already. I just have this allergic reaction to them now, but I had a black pair in jr high that I thought were very Euro and sophisticated at the time. OH YEAH. But following on the heels of that existing trend, I can see the yoked jackets and quilted flannel calico making the wider scene this fall.

lol cannot believe this style has made a resurgence amongst the youngs
i am glad to be old enough to laugh in a self-reflective way at the peaks and troughs of their journeys of self-discovery through lol fashion

and hahaha i had never even heard of Veronica Bradley until i became friends this year with someone from a posh(ish) town in Long Island!

Oh I stand corrected, it's VERA Bradley! ENBB for the win.

I bought my Mom one last year at her request that's how I know it's Vera. They're everywhere on LI and also in Boston among the girls of the type Laurel described. The bean necklace thing made me lol because it's SO OTM.

;)

My mom and grandma LOVE VB.

i have that salon selective ad lady's hairstyle - except with bangs

No more Strawberry Suave? Oh noes!!

I bought a Laura Ashley nightgown for the summer.

also, i don't understand "beach hair" but maybe that's because i grew up near the Pacific Ocean, as opposed to the Atlantic?

I got to know beach hair last week; rest assured it exists in the Mediterranean along with JELLYFISH.

suzy, you have such a glamorous life - you're like the Miss Jean Brodie of this thread.

LOLLLLLLLLL, you can't be serious. Three-day press trip to Malta = most glam thing I've done all year.

most glam thing i've done all year = wear a leopard print sequined jacket i inherited from my grandmother to a speakeasy-themed bar where the cheapest drinks cost $11, then realized that my bar tab was not only more than i've ever paid at a bar, but more than i've ever paid for a meal.

Gah. Besides, the character of Jean Brodie was three things I'm not: bitter, old, a fascist. This is a book people toss around references for and I'm never quite sure if they've bothered to read it.

i don't know squat about jean brodie, but your life seems pretty glam to me

xp - yeah, i think i was thinking of the author, rather than the character.

Had first experience with hair dye last night and now my shower is all purple. I tried cleaning it immediately and it didn't come out. Will it ever go away?