Sorry I haven’t posted about my wonderful day yet. I have just been sooo overwhelmed by how much love I get from everyone and I needed a day to soak it in. All day yesterday I had this jaw dropping WOW feeling – my family of course loves me but wow you guys really make me feel wonderful. And then the replies to all of the short posts I did were all love and compliments. I have gotten so many “good luck” and “that is awesome” posts from people I don’t know. How cool! All this was just what I needed before the scary brain surgery.
The day started out with Miss Judy (a very sweet person at work who does makeup professionally) doing my make up. I’m not normally big on makeup but since I was having pictures taken I figured that I should go all out and do everything. I told Judy that since my hair was going to be wild then she could do anything she wanted with my makeup. We decided to go with Purple Hair first so she based the make up on that (hence the purple around the eyes). Here are some of the pics for that.
(Notice the long blonde hair)
Then Miss Kelly went to work on the coloring. Wow what a great job she did with the colors. She had obviously done this before so I basically let her do what she thought was cool.
(I can tune in radio with this)
And now for the moment I have been excited about for a month or more. YAY PURPLE HAIR!! Purple hair is what started me thinking about changing my life so that I wouldn’t be afraid to try things in life in the future. So when I say “YAY
PURPLE HAIR”, there is more to that statement than just color.
Any of you who know me well, know that I squeal every time something awesome excites me. This look made me squeal. What a beautiful color!
And then they decided to cut my hair shorter for pics and coloring. A lot of people said that I should have shorter hair and that I looked cute.
(I love my friends that make me happy)
Then we decided to add some bright red.
And again we achieved an absolutely beautiful color.
(wow)
(Aaron, my husband, says this is a typical Jeannine pose)
(This is Akeim making me beautiful for all of my friends who are fans of Anime)
Now the real hair cutting started.
One of my best friends Alex really wanted me to have a Mohawk. And the whole party sort of developed from this idea so the only hair style that I guaranteed was a Mohawk.
(This was the first look that shocked me)
And now for the real shaving …
(Here’s a typical Jeannine look eh?)
This next picture is my favorite so far. What's cool about this picture is that I knew Kelly was standing behind me and shaving the final hair off. But what I didn't realize was that she was done, until a half-a-second before this picture was taken.
And we decided that I could go European and have hairy armpits …
(My friends make me happy enough to make me cackle so much that you can see my tonsils)
And now for the “We REALLY love Jeannine” part. My friend Michael was thinking about shaving his head and decided to do it during my party to make me feel better. After him there was a line of people.
First was Akeim who has had hair since I knew him and told me, as he was being shaved, that he really LOVED his hair. Then the sweet Miss Kelly who spent hours on my head and then let me shave her head. Then there was Mark. I even got to shave a little off of the back of Tonya’s head. Wow that’s love.
Michael
Akeim
Kelly
And now the group picture of all the bald people…
As I look back at my first 35 years of my life, this is one of the best days that I have had so far. I am overwhelmed by how wonderful you all are. What a great day. Just making this post and looking through the pictures, I’m smiling so much that my cheeks hurt. When I am knocked out and they cut into my head, I expect that I will be dreaming of purple hair.
The same. Good luck and the divine bless you with a swift and nimble surgeon and a full recovery.
Posted by: Beth | June 23, 2004 at 01:34 PM
Great way to go about this´, and you look rather good with the skinhead :-).
Best of luck!
Posted by: HD Schellnack | June 23, 2004 at 03:35 PM
Looks like it was both a wonderful ide and a wonderful time! BEst of luck with the sugery and recovery.
Posted by: philip shade | June 24, 2004 at 11:54 AM
my goodness... you look INCREDIBLE without the hair... i hope you realize that. Nothing sexier than a bald woman. Warren is so lucky.
lots of good thoughts are headed your way.
cheers~ micah
Posted by: Micah | June 24, 2004 at 01:35 PM
hahaha... THAT is why i never write anything after waking up...
somehwere in the above message, it should have said that Aaron was lucky, and i was referred to your page by Warren... got a little to happy with the backspacing... goodness.
Posted by: micah | June 24, 2004 at 01:39 PM
Oh those colors are GORGEOUS! I found you from DPH, and just wanted to wish you best of luck with your surgery and recovery.
Posted by: Ann Marie | June 24, 2004 at 09:54 PM
Found you through Die Puny Humans. Have to say that I think the hair party was a great idea! You look absolutely gorgeous with or without hair, and I wish you all the best. Luck and love and get well soon.
Posted by: Amber | June 25, 2004 at 09:40 AM
a Dear Friend sent me to your Blog. I wish you a sucessful surgury,swift recovery, and a long and wonderful life full of those wonderful friends of yours!
Posted by: Skye | June 25, 2004 at 10:31 AM
You have a bald friend now in Norfolk VA. I Love you Neener and Wish you the best!!!
Posted by: Scott | June 26, 2004 at 08:32 PM
Wow....you all took what most people would have thought as a terrible experience and turned it into something very happy, fun and very memorable.
God bless you all. You have wonderful friends to be willing to shave their heads for you.
I'm a very good friend of Patti's and she told me all about this, and I'm glad I got to see it with my own eyes.
And I'm VERY glad that all went so well for you. We were all praying for you!
Hugs and smiles,
Renae
Posted by: Renae | July 01, 2004 at 07:00 PM
Wow....you all took what most people would have thought as a terrible experience and turned it into something very happy, fun and very memorable.
God bless you all. You have wonderful friends to be willing to shave their heads for you.
I'm a very good friend of Patti's and she told me all about this, and I'm glad I got to see it with my own eyes.
And I'm VERY glad that all went so well for you. We were all praying for you!
Hugs and smiles,
Renae
Posted by: Renae | July 01, 2004 at 07:00 PM
Wow! It brought tears to my eyes to see what friends will do for each other. I wish you all the best! I hope that when I have surgery I will have as much support as you do!!
All the best, Donna
Posted by: Donna | July 26, 2004 at 03:35 PM
You look 'GREAT'! God Bless You!
Posted by: Terri | July 27, 2004 at 12:23 PM