Not Afraid of Color: I Like Thursday # 494 best/worst haircuts... and a poodle

Thursday, March 5, 2026

I Like Thursday # 494 best/worst haircuts... and a poodle

welcome to this week's list of likes... starting with we got a bit of rain, and the mountains got a bit of snow, nearly the first all winter. Check out that golf course grass... brown and fragile

so in keeping with the non winter we had, the winter that never was, it's hot walking...

pant, pant, pant and that's both of us!

Dewi/Arlo/Theo (We can't settle on a name) is settling in just fine, played with a toy this week, finally slept like he was safe, on his back with 4 poodle legs in the air, and became my studio helper allowing me to work again

St pat's day hexie spiral

and paint again

He helped in the kitchen when I made him treats

rice applesauce almond butter logs

and had fun watching the neighbor's dogs playing fetch

fun to see as long as I don't have to deal with them

He is interested in all wildlife, from a distance, and content to be just us for a while. (it's been hard to keep people from reaching for him, but he just hides behind me for now

Our conversation starter this week is: what is the worst haircut you ever had?

Let's see, starting with my 2nd baby picture at a few months old... they wet my "baby bird fluff" hair and pulled it into a curl on top of my nearly bald head (I don't have baby pics of me)

kind of like this, who isn't me but looks like the pic I saw

I was adopted and the doctor told my Ad. mo. not to get attached since I wasn't going to make it

She had a big oil painting made of that baby picture. Next hair misdo was when I still had straight baby bird hair, that the mother pulled into the tightest smallest pigtails making me cry.

Again not me but the hair is similar

then all elementary school pictures tried to be the MOST hideous . I actually asked for a bob wig for my birthday and got it, and I looked like agent 99 from Get smart

Next I asked for electric curlers, and they had little plastic spikes which immediately got horribly tangled in my thin baby bird hair... needing to be cut out... oy vey But by high school I was in!

Long straight hair was in vogue while I was in high school. Parted down the middle, and I was finally in my heyday! Au natural, long, straight, with no effort at all, no sleeping on big rollers.

which I kept til mid university when I got a shag style.

In the 80's I spiked the top of the shag then... every time some hairdresser suggested a perm, it fell out straight before she could even wash it. They always wanted me to cut it short, which looked wrong on my round face.

Nowadays I cut my own, and it generally looks flattering til the last one.... it went from bad to worse when I kept trying to layer it and now.. only the gracious few get to see me til it grows out a bit!!!

I just wish I hadn't become allergic to hair dye as it's at least 50/50 brown and grey now

reading the next museum mystery by Sheila Connoly,