To say nothing of the clowns

[naomi_jay]

So, I split my weekend evenly between burlesque and writing, which seems to be a fair way of going through life. Salon Rouge was on Saturday night, so everyone got dolled up in their finest corsety wear (except the men, who wore suits instead) and hit the cocktail bar (I was restrained - one French Martini and two Fruit Pastels). Lots of photos were taken, but I could only find one of myself that I liked, so:

 

(In real life, I have no head)

It was awesome fun! There was clown burlesque, which I'm not entirely sure I approve of, (where did the balloon go?!) but it was still fun. I'm classing it as part of my birthday celebrations, since why the hell not? I was tempted to keep the dress on all week to signal to the world that the birthday celebrations are a-happening, but then I realised I couldn't go to work like that. Just one more reason I need a new job!

 

Also in honour of my birthday, I'm going blonde again. I know! Kate Johnson will totally think I'm copying her. But I've decided, as much as I like the red hair, it's too much effort in terms of upkeep. When my roots come through, they're pure white so I look like a skunk, and who wants that? With blonde hair, the roots don't show as much, so I won't need to spend quite as much time and money redying my hair. This will also lead to a bathroom that isn't covered in streaks of hair dye, one hopes.

Anyway, on Sunday, once the cocktails had worn off and I'd consumed nachos, I hit Wild again to carry on with those final tweaks. I was amused to discover at the end of the day that, having cut the manuscript down from almost 90k to 69k over the past few months, I added 5k back in yesterday. Editing - I'm doing it wrong? I'm nearly done with the tweaking - just need to add a couple of new scenes and probably two new chapters, so I'm hopefully that pretty soon this beast will be out on submission. I wanted to write more than I did yesterday, but of course my arm started giving me problems, so I had to quit a lot earlier than I planned. But no matter! The end is nigh!

 

Comments

[dwg.livejournal.com]

That is one sexy corset dress. I would want to wear that everywhere, too. This is one of those things that I hate about office jobs in that turning up to work in a tiny skirt and thigh high stripey socks is not suitable business attire. EVEN IF IT IS FUN. You should wear something sparkly just to rebel at work.

Hope your arm gets better, and your edits aren't murder for your brains!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I've rebelled by keeping on my glitzy nail varnish! The dress was an amazing find at Buleska - http://www.burleska.co.uk/shop/ - only twenty quid. Win!

[dwg.livejournal.com]

\o/ I love glitzy nailpolish. Also, am bookmarking that shop for a later date.

[etaknosnhoj.livejournal.com]

Brunette, then redhead, then blonde? Copycat!

Seriously though, I came to the same conclusion. It took so much effort to get me to red, and even more to keep it that way. Once my hair has been, er, blonded, it doesn't fade out with every wash. Sure, there are roots, but since they're dark blonde it's not as bad as with the red hair, where my roots looked unappealingly khaki.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I'm worried about the effort from going to blonde from red. I've got images of my hair falling out or turning orange or something.

[etaknosnhoj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a bit worried too. Hairdressers being very cautious with my hair. In the last twelve months it's been dyed dark brown, then red, then had the colour stripped and redyed, lather rinse repeat, before being stripped again and bleached. Bad!

But I did ask if there was anything I could do to strengthen it and my stylist recommended a Body Shop treatment (Brazil nut hair mask) which has actualy made a real difference. The next time I went back they all commented on how strong my hair seemed. Give it a whirl, it makes your hair all soft and shiny.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Oh cool, I'll treat myself to some! Thanks.