My New Name is Penny Le'Pew

Gordon and I are on the road to Taylorsville, Mississippi, to give a program this afternoon.  In follow up to yesterday's Permeating Perm Saga, I dug down in the computer to find this old silly that I wrote after another hair adventure right at two years ago, May 2, 2006.

The little salt and pepper skunks I photographed awhile back just to share with you when I shared this hair story. Daddy brought them back to me after some business trip.  I am told that I was mad for skunks when I was a little tyke. There must have been a skunk- related movie or cartoon between 1965 to 1967... an estimated time frame for my Skunk Obsession.

Oh, and I am still with the same beautician. She is an artist with hair, and I treasure her as a person. The story below was just her "Picasso Period", I guess.

My New Name is Penny Le'Pew!
May 2, 2006

Remember the cartoon character of  Peppi Le'Pew, the little skunk with the thick French accent that constantly chased black female cats that had accidentally been painted with a white stripe down their back, making them look like a skunk?

Wellllll..........

My long-trusted beautician suddenly, without provocation,  put in ALL blond highlights in my hair today, and she did not tell me until after the deed was done!

Either she lost her memory...... or her mind.... because her three year old was underfoot tearing down the beauty shop piece by piece....or she was out of auburn/red highlights, and she figured she could bluff and con me into the Striped Skunk look!   Maybe she was retaliating because I had to unavoidably cancel and reschedule my last appointment.

She told me of this drastic, dramatic, impending change in my life as she was rinsing me out.  "I have a surprise for you, Miss Penny,"  she brightly said.  "You look so cute with highlights, and you are so sassy and fun....that I decided to put all blond highlights in your hair.  You are just going to LOUUUVVVEEEE it !!!!

Gathering the courage to look in the mirror, I discovered that I look just like a multi-striped skunk!!!!  It makes me envious of Cruella DeVile's straightforward black and white "do"!

Some of the highlights are platinum blond to white!

The beautician even had the nerve to say that this camouflaged my gray hair!......HECK YEAH!!!!!.....It makes me look like I have three times as much gray hair!  Ya can't see my "real" gray hair for all the new fake gray hair!!!!!

YIKES!

We have laughed at it a good bit today.....laughed because I think I can salvage the situation with an all over auburn hair color that will at least turn the platinum and blond into light to medium auburns.....HOPEFULLY!....I did notice that Mama, Unc, Gordon and Dollie did more laughing than I did.... Hmmmnnnnnnnn

Now, I've seen some runway models and TV Talking heads pull off the strong contrast of blond/platinum highlights on average brown hair.....but not this 44-year-old-conservative-rolley-polley-skunk......At least a "dirty blond" job has layers of color over time that blend together nicely.

Think of well-defined brown with WIDE white and cream pinstripes...like wallpaper, and you have a picture of my hair!

Contrast this to what the hairdresser HAS been doing with my hair the past few years....
artfully blending some dark, medium and light auburn shades into my hair in a subtle pattern of little tiny highlights as if candlelight were flickering over the "natural" highlights of my hair...LOL..
At least that is my story, and I am sticking to it!

Friday and Saturday are DAR-do's, so I will let my hair rest until Thursday and then try to salvage the situation with a home all-over color job. 

Coming back home this afternoon, I called ahead to prepare Mama, Unc and Gordon.  This is the same mother who warned me against piercing my ears my senior year of high school because I was mutilating my body.  Hair color, she was convinced, was surely the creation of Lucifer himself!  Makeup was achieved one category at a time after serious negations over months....AFTER I graduated high school!
This afternoon, I knew I had to spend the 20 minute drive back home preparing Mama for what she was about to see on the head of her only child!

The dogs were not sure whether to greet me or chase me...but they sure did a lot of sniffing!  I guess Penny Le'Pew is a bit more odoriferous that plain Penny!

Ahhhhh, LIFE is never dull.....This is another one for the silly memories I will remember and chuckle over one day.

Let me hear your Beauty Shop Disasters and how you survived......

Penny Sanford Fikes  AKA Penny Le'Pew
(laughing at myself in Mississippi)

Comments

[June]

What a funny story but I am sorry about the unwanted hair color results. And I do indeed remember that cartoon; it always made me laugh. As for my hair, I've decided to just let it be whatever it wants to be--which is decidely an interesting effect, multiple-colored shades of gray.