How would you like your hair today Madame?
(the usual prelude to hours chez le coiffeur)
Subtle? No way, I want it vivid.
Trim the tips and split ends,
gently comb through with number thirty-two mix
and leave to fix under that lamp thingy.
Would you like a coffee, Madame?
Hello Magazine? Or Country Life?
Hmm. I think Hello goes with this hair colour.
Hours later…
Voila, the silly old biddy drifts out,
her sparse red waves tinted
with insidious highlights of purple.
The Wordle words were: tip, fix, tinted, preludes, vivid, tinny, drifts, nick, waves, gentle, limbs, insidious, split. I used all but three.
Love where you took these words!! So fun and easy to visualize, Viv!!
Viv, purple highlights on red hair. Sounds rather like a drag queen, no? (wink) Loved this! Amy
http://sharplittlepencil.com/2012/08/22/diva-heart-in-denial-whirl-trifecta/
I’m glad it wasn’t anyone I know!
Lol! My tax person is very fond of purplish hair and she is in her 60s ! Great poem
A no-less vivid Vivienne! Your writing remains as colourful as ever. A masterpiece.
LOL, loved the entire wordl, and often wonder though I’ve never tried purple or red or blue, if that’s what they think at the salon as I exit with blonde highlights.
Viv you brought to mind a childhood memory. I had three plastic wigs, like bathing caps, one white, one ‘old lady blue’ and one I guess more silver grey. I barely paint my fingernails…not sure if I’d ever add an odd color to my silver, white, thin mousy brown locks. Might be and improvement.
I’m here:
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/08/sw-70-feathers-flights-and-foundlings.html
Hair today.
Gone tomorrow?
Viv, thanks for the smiles with this one. Purple hair indeed
Pamela
I’ve seen everything here. Mine is dead easy – white, and staying white, curly by nature and kept short. Wash and go.
Yes, wash and go. I am a strong advocate of that, Viv. My hair is also curly throughout, but tends to be straight toward the crown.
Good morning, Viv! this was fun… true story? Either way, it was a fun read and a fun picture to carry in my brain.
No, fiction from start to finish. It’s just what those words in combination said to me.
Used to occasionally go the salon route as a treat to myself and was never really impressed. Prefer my comfortable casual what you see is what you get fashion. However, I love your poem Viv and the laughter and smiles you generate. I’m wondering if these wordles have any affect on our hair. What do you think?
Elizabeth
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/only-an-attempted-wordle-murder/
Perfectly Viv-id.
I’m jealous of your hair coloring adventures, I must say.
Not mine, Joseph. Observed!
Bwahahaha! This is great, Viv! I am letting my hair gray naturally…it’s slow, but I haven’t colored my hair for years. But when I am a really old lady? I’d LOVE purple hair. LOL
I like my salt and pepper, but it’s fun to think about trying electric blue, or purple. Maybe with one of those rinse out dyes, just to see.
You see, even willful, you end up with a wordle. I’m going into week three of my drought.
Poor Margo. Relax and let it happen. Even if you only use two or three words. Or do like Daydreamer and use each one in a haiku.
Yikes.
Love this, Viv…
What a treat! I enjoyed your write.
This made me smile, Viv. Actually it made me reflect on what I see here oftentimes. After a ‘certain age’ it seems all women who enter a beauty salon walk out with the same old lady hair style, one I will not have for myself EVER even if I live to be 105!
I am well past un certain age, but my hair (though white) is the same shape it’s been all my life. But I agree that there is a particularly grotesque permed and dyed to within an inch of its life that you see an awful lot of here.
Ah – This calls to mind the delightful tale of ‘ladies of a certain age’ wearing their hair purple and red hats that didn’t quite match at all… Thanks for the smiles
That Jenny Joseph poem is up on my wall as encouragement.
Pity she didn’t get a perm with one of those ancient Bride of Frankenstein machines. (do you remember those terrifying things? like Medusa in a hood) Wrapping the curls in foil could have used “tinny” and the electro-shock would take care of “limbs”.
Lol…. I used to smile at what in the UK we call the ‘Blue rinse’ brigade. Some of those women had hair which was bluer than blue.. Loved this playful read Viv
A little scathing and great fun, Viv.
I love the ending, Viv:
“Hours later…
Voila, the silly old biddy drifts out,
her sparse red waves tinted
with insidious highlights of purple.”
This was fun … and now I wish I could go to the salon.
It never ceases to amaze me how many elderly, lined and sometimes toothless French faces are crowned with crudely garish hair. White is OK for me!
Sometimes toothless. That is priceless. I can’t say what I’ll do. But it might be outlandish.