Frrrrrrrr-RIZZ!

[vilakins]

The weather's so humid I decided not to even bother trying to tame my hair because it will only curl and stick out anyway--and it went wild and out as far as my shoulders. I looked like azdak's default Music II icon, which I'll try to show you here. LJ's fiddling with Scrapbook and userpics, so this may not work.



What was much more upsetting is that I looked disturbingly like my mother. DO NOT WANT. So I gave in and straightened it just now and I look like me again. I know kerravonsen thought I should let it do its own thing when she was here, but not when I see my mother in the mirror. :-P

Comments

[bigdamnxenafan.livejournal.com]

Yay for looking like yourself again! :) When I look in the mirror I want to see me not mom, so I understand.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

My sister looks most like our mother, and she even has some mannerisms. I don't usually see any resemblance in my face, but with all that hair waving around it... just no.

It's usually pretty well behaved, staying nice and sleek, but this weather's really bad for it. And me; I feel wrung out like a dish rag if I do anything remotely physical.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

"My friend Vilakins is so beautiful, she looks like a Klimt painting!"

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I wish!

I even had the flowers in my hair! Well, tiny white petals, from pruning some branches which were hanging over the rubbish bin and trying to whack me on the head.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

You see! Life is trying to show you how beautiful you are. Only you can't see it because you're a little lacking in self-esteem at the moment.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I always am (esp. having grown up with a beauty queen sister), but it's particularly bad in other ways now.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I have grown up looking alarmingly like my oldest sister, who is 19 years older than me... I mean, I love her, but who wants to spend their whole life knowing exactly what they're gonna look like as they get older???

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

My sister probably knows; she looks quite like my mother these days and even has some mannerisms. Maybe they go with being a mother, or she thinks they do. :-P

I am reassured now that my hair looks fairly normal again, if thicker than usual. It was really only the way it waved that reminded me.

I know a family were all four kids look like one child at different ages. I've never seen genetics so strong. My sister, brother, and I are really quite different.

[kerravonsen]

Well, you didn't say you hated it because it made you look like your mother! Now I am un-baffled.

Not that I hate looking like my mother, but I can understand why one might. My non-dislike is just as well, since I am the one child in my family who looks like my mother. All my mother's old friends who knew her when she got married would say, as soon as they saw me, "She looks like her mother!".
Not that I look like my mother now; she never had a fat face. (sigh)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's not the only reason' it's just plain unruly. If it curled attractively instead of sticking out randomly, I might encourage it. The only time it looked all right was when it was long; then the weight made it merely wave and behave itself more (if it looked rather 40s). I recently found a charcoal portrait of me done when I was in Rome, and I didn't recognise it at first. I thought for a moment that I'd done one of Jenna! My face was thinner then, but the artist must still have flattered me. :-)

[kerravonsen]

So what you're saying is that you have Harry Potter hair. ;-)

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

My hair goes all flat and lifeless when it's humid - it was worse when it was long. :o) I can see how it would be disturbing to look in the mirror and see your mother staring back at you.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't quite that bad (it's my sister who really looks like Mum). But the hair looked like how she had hers (apart from the colour) and somehow I looked older. :-P

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I think that the woman in the icon looks fantastic.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She might--she has the face for it--but I didn't. :-(

And now we have a cold southerly and storms, so I'm wearing jeans and a fleece. Stupid weather.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. hey, my hair looks like that everyday. If you've ever seen the film of The Princess Diaries when Mia has super frizzy hair (which is actually a wig but hey) and the hairdresser tries to brush it and ends up breaking the brush - well, that's happened to me. So now I cut it myself now and it's rather fun and less embarrassing.

Yay for looking like yourself. I would be super freaked out if I thought I looked like my mother too.

Also I think you have really pretty hair.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought your hair was lovely and sleek and black! I've only seen one photo though. Have you seen photos of me, then? I have red-brown hair with streaks, just short of chin-length, a bit Christopher Robin, but I do actually have a wild, dark, ringletty wig which I use for dressing up. Here it is (http://vilakins.livejournal.com/349883.html), mostly pulled back, when I was a Greek woman at a party. :-)

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

That's because it wasn't properly dried. It's nice and ringlet-y when half wet but incredibly frizzy dry. I have seen the photos on your profile and the older ones on the website and with MK.

wow. I love the wig - v. Greek. And that necklace is gorgeous. There needs to be more fancy dress parties in this world. The last one I went to we pulled what-we're-dressing-up-as out of a hat. I got to be a smurf XD I still have the blue tights somewhere.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Eep, me looking with MK, looking all shy and dorky!

I mainly wear the wig at Roman feasts and medieval ones, where it's out loose and all wenchy. Not that there have been either for a while. I am out of touch. :-( I bought it for $30 from a second-hand place; excellent buy!

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

At least you're the right gender. I'm more like my father, I have his nose and hair.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I resemble my father more, probably, with his dark eyes, lack of eyebrows, and nose. I think that's why the hair looked so strange on me. I haven't seen it looking like my mother's for years.