Just for Jay Leno.

[theweaselking]

My hair displeased me, and needed to be killed. That's why.

Picture by the lovely torrain, who makes me look all skinny and emo. Which is hilarious.

Comments

[bon-homme-dane.livejournal.com]

that's actually a great drawing..

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It is. She's *amazingly* talented.

She's *amazingly* talented.

[bon-homme-dane.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a loaded statement.

Re: She's *amazingly* talented.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Pure flattery on his part, I assure you.

Re: She's *amazingly* talented.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

LIES!

Re: She's *amazingly* talented.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say so. When I draw with such clean lines, what comes out is stick figures. When I draw with such expression... what am I typing, I flat out cannot draw with such expression.

Great job.

Re: She's *amazingly* talented.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Okay. *Honest* flattery on his part.

I took a quick pic, did a pencil sketch on the postcard with that for reference (love the digital camera!), and then inked over it and erased. It helps a lot to figure out where the line weight should be. :)

(Mind you, years of staring mournfully at Will Eisner and pining for one thousandth of the expressiveness *he* could put into a line probably help, too. OhGod. You want to talk talent...)

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[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No loading. She's damn good.

[plantyhamchuk.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Head tattoo time?

Absolutely.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Re: Absolutely.

[wyatt1048.livejournal.com]

Well, you've got his favourite hand signal down already.

Re: Absolutely.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

After seeing that first picture, I was indeed going to ask how many people you'd beaten with a chair leg of truth.

[misanthrope-mom.livejournal.com]

Hubby says bald is the new combover.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It is untrue. Bald is the new wash-n-wear.

(I've been vaguely contemplating it myself, actually, since seeing Aisha Hinds in Mr. Brooks. But I don't think I'll go for it. If I had no hair, I could never dye it again. :) )

[jerril]

I've been toying with it off and on for years.

At first I couldn't do it because I lived at home - house rule, the people who have to face you over the breakfast table get to vote on your hairstyle to avoid pre-coffee trauma.

Now I don't, but my current manager thinks shaved in MEN is extreme and unprofessional.

And it would probably break my partners heart, though he clips his hair to within a few millimetres of its life as it is (sulk).

[torrain.livejournal.com]

If you want to just give it a shot and avoid getting any grief from your manager, tell them it's a medical issue and you expect it to be a one-time thing.[1] (The correct response to any follow-up questions about the issue is "I'm sorry, that's private." If they push it, you can drop the "I'm sorry.")

In fact, if you show up with a shaved head (especially if you wear a head covering), that will likely be the assumption anyway. I wore scarves over my hair at work when I had the purple mohawk, and the number of people who kind of sidled up to me wide-eyed and asked me how I was feeling in the first few weeks was a little unnerving. I think they thought I was undergoing chemo.

(To the partner, I merely shrug, and note that I coped when John cut all his hair off.)
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[1] I wouldn't normally expect to need to explain this to anyone, but your manager thinks shaved in *men* is extreme? Good god. All bets as to behaviour are off.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

A brief additional note: the correct response to any ollow-up questions about the issue is "I'm sorry, that's private." unless the questions are (reasonably) about whether it will affect other employees. At that point, some variation of "There won't be any problems affecting my work or anyone else's." can be trotted out.

And yeah. I thought about dying my hair on and off for four years before I did it the first time.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

my current manager thinks shaved in MEN is extreme and unprofessional.

I'm always glad to disappoint!

(Seriously. THAT DUDE is not one to talk about "unprofessional")

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

This is so true. I went from nearly two feet of pony tail to buzzed. I had to tell the woman who cut it all off four times that yes, I really did want a 1/4" buzz. Love my no-care hair.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

When I went in to cut off my ponytail, I braided it nicely and stuck an elastic at each end, so I could cut it off in one piece and keep it. It was down to my waist, after all, so I figured this would be cool. Once the braid was done, I went over to the local barber shop and walked in.

I had a little old asian lady *shove two other hairdressers out of the way* to present herself to me and say "You! You will sit here! I will cut your hair!"

She then paused, cocked her head, and said "You *are* looking to cut it all off, right? That's why it's braided like that?"

[misanthrope-mom.livejournal.com]

Oh, you should do it! It makes life so much easier. I kept mine between 1/4 of an inch and 1 inch for like, 2 years - and I kept dying it blue the whole time - my Drivers' License picture is proof.

(And yes, I did consider and then dismiss wigs)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Mine's currently between an inch-and-a-half and four inches long[1], and while I really miss my purple hair *and* my floppy Mohawk[2], currently having a job that requires me to represent the branch Director on occasion means that there's a limit to what I can go with.

Curse you anyway, job hunt. Mind you, reds and purples and bleached hair are showing up around the office, especially in streaks. If I can find a hairdresser to do a decent/fashionable/expensive-looking enough job, I can probably get at least *some* proper colour back.
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[1] Mohawk recovery. This has been the first year in a while where I didn't deal with January by shaving off two-thirds of my hair and/or dying it some colour from the GBIV end of the spectrum. *sigh*
[2] Is there a proper name for that kind of thing, aside from floppyhawk?

Re: (And yes, I did consider and then dismiss wigs)

[misanthrope-mom.livejournal.com]

Awww. We need a color loss support group. (I just dyed mine brown for the same reason.)

[nubule.livejournal.com]

Baldness is about owning it instead of hiding it, though.

[dolston.livejournal.com]

John as Spider?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I need the manic grin for that to work.

But yeah.

[dolston.livejournal.com]

You even have the two cats to glue together if need be.