This cool-gray cotton sweatshirt, with a solid navy trim, is the perfect thing for an occasion that calls for something simultaneously casual and cool. Pair it with pointy-toed flats and relaxed denim for a comfortable and polished look.
This story was written and performed by Allison Hatfield for the live, personal storytelling series Oral Fixation (An Obsession With True Life Tales) at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, TX on December 16, 2013. The theme of the show was "When In Rome."
The piece: Elizabeth and James Vogel Pave Crystal Pyramid Spike Screw-On Stud Earrings
The price: $150
"Just sleep with it in a braid," friends have told me. "Just use some mousse and scrunch it with your hands," others have suggested. "How about a curling iron?"
Nope, nope and nope. As any girl with fine, limp hair like mine knows, the easy fixes that work for wavy or curly hair won't do their magic on volume-less tresses. Getting bounce takes a careful series of steps as well as non-steps, aka things you should not do. Here are the tricks women with straight, fine hair should know, based on my own hair journey.*
This week's episode of The Face was centered on modeling a new hairstyle. The challenge was a shoot to impress the one and only, Frederic Fekkai.
But you would be forgiven if you thought the episode was about skin: the bareness of it, the colour of it, the thickness of it.
