Flashback

For a church activity Kelsey had to dress up like me when I was her age. She had no idea what she was in for.....she first showed signs of concern when I put 3 pairs of socks on her and spent 10 minutes making sure each sock was scrunched just right. I mean proper sock scrunching is really important and a life long skill. Then came the pegging of the pants. She did not think this was a super cool way to get skinny jeans nor did she appreciate wearing jeans that have ZERO elasticity. Just plain old, high waisted, no stretch jeans. Too bad I don't have any acid washed jeans.....that would have been perfect.Next came the hair and we are talking totally rad bangs! She was reluctant about the hair but that soon turned to panic when her father joined in the bang construction process. I had curled her bangs with a small barrel curling iron and was plastering them with hairspray. They are way too long for this kind of style (if you can even call it a style) but with large amounts of hair product I won the battle.

Kenny: I think you need cheap hairspray like Aqua-Net to do bangs like that.

Me: Do they still make Aqua-Net? *continuous stream of hairspray*

Kenny: Or you could use sugar water....

Kelsey: *coughing from the hair spray cloud*

When I was in Jr. High my sisters and I would take our Rave- Super Mega Ultra Not Going Anywhere- hairspray bottle (the pump kind) and fill it with sugar water. We were poor and had to improvise but I am telling you that is the strongest hairspray known to mankind!

I had sufficiently plastered the bangs into place when Kenny suggested I go for the straight up in the air, wave to the side look and then asked where the scrunchy was to cover her side pony tail....Ummmm...okay honey, you are a little too into the whole 80's hair thing.

I crimped her pony tail and I curled the side wispys into ringlets. It was pretty much a work of art. She was mortified and worried about what everyone was going to think. I assured her there would be much worse when we got there. While secretly thinking hers would be the worst, I mean best hairdo there....that's right moms bring it on! No one is beating me unless they have a banana clip!

The whole outfit is kind of a mix of years. I mixed the late eighties and early nineties because I was not about to go buy anything for this so we were working with what we had at home. So we have the eighties hair and pants/socks and the nineties grunge/huge clothes/plaid thing. I remember wearing my dads shirts cause they were so big on me and that was cool for some reason. Kelsey about had a heart attack when I told her to tuck in the shirt. I don't think she has worn a shirt tucked in...EVER. Over all the look is awesome. Notice the look of extreme joy on her face.
HANG TEN

Seriously those bangs are awesome. I can't stop looking at them.

The car ride to the church was hilarious. As soon as I backed out of the driveway she ducked down to the floor because she didn't want anyone to see her.

She was very relieved when we arrived and there were other girls wearing similar hair styles. But NONE of them were as tubular as hers.