Showing posts with label Vacay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacay. Show all posts

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Days Spent

I recently went away to the US Virgin Islands and had the time of my life. I was trying to hold out on doing this post until I got all of the pics loaded onto my laptop, but i just haven't had a chance. I intended to do a fabulous pic by pic, blow by blow recount, but at this point i don't even want to relive it. That's all a memory. Clearly once again everything has changed and nothing has changed. So, I'll just let it fly with what I've got on my phone...


Upon arrival...



Lunch on the water...



Dinner on the doc...



The majestic cruise ships passing right outside the villa...



Iguana stick up...



Beach bronzed...



There are tons more, all of which I'm sure are better; they're simply not in my possession...


Sorry Voyeurs.


Nonetheless, it was fabulous and relaxing. Its also over so lets get back to reality. Forgive my pessimistic approach to such a seemingly wonderful trip. Its just that everything has changed. And nothing has either.


Love, Lola.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Vacay Hair?

I am having a very hard time deciding what i want to do with my hair for this impending vacation. My fellow black girls, i know you are quite familiar with this dilemma. My hair gets very curly when it gets wet. The thing about it is, it doesn't stay as cute and curly when it dries. I absolutely don't want to deal with a mop of bad curls when I'm supposed to be looking like a tropical bronzed goddess.

I did my hair yesterday to see how long it would take and determine whether i should just tough it out and bring the blow drier/flatiron with me and straighten as necessary.
I started here:


(a bad blow dry job that took about 40 min)

and ended up here:

(a flatiron job that took about 45 min)

Now, do i really want to spend almost 2 hours doing hair while on vacay? hell no.

I thought about doing this look (in black of course):

But my mom gave me an ear full about how terrible this look is for me. Yes, i have tried it before.

And god forbid i do typical vacay hair (aka wet and wavy). I need a solution, and fast because it needs to be done today! Suggestions?

Ugh....