Vamped – virginia portrait and wedding photographer

Maybe it is the artist in me, but I get bored. Bored of everything. Paint colors on my walls, furniture arrangements, business look, clothes, and my hair. I am pretty cyclical about it all. You can almost always garuntee my walls to change color every 1-2 years, my clothes to change every season, and my hair to change every 6 months. Not intentional on those timelines, just seems to work out that way.

So the last couple of months I have been working on some new business materials and freshening up the biz look. I went to the doctor and got the ol’ body checked out and got on a vitamin cocktail that could challenge even the best of pill swallowers and had to add on a regular serving of Cheerios. I am waiting on my new painting kit (yes I got suckered for a TV infomerical that will promise to make my painting job easier) and once that gets here the walls will be free of 3 foot high kiddy grunge and have a fresh new color.

And I colored my hair. Not just a little…but a lot. I have not gone so drastic in a while, usually I will take the cut approach, not the color approach. I felt so pale, sickly (which I guess as vitamin deprived as I was, it makes sense), and the straw colored over grown highlights were just not cutting it anymore. I wanted  a new look, like a REALLY new look. So 1 hour before I headed out to just get the standards at my favorite salon The Madison Salon by the lovely Miss Tara, I found a picture and decided to do it and go dark. I have been dark before, but it was back in the college days when I was young and quite a bit more wreckless. I am sure that’s what made this even more enticing. I am a mom of a 10, 6 and 2 year old, have 3 businesses, and have got in a bit of a fashion rut, me, a fashion rut…I STUDIED fashion! It was time for a shake up, and shake it up is exactly what I did. The clothes will follow, but I am also loosing weight, so that will have to wait until I have hit my goal.

I love it. I was in shock for a day or so, and occasionally when I walk by a mirror I still have to do a double take, but to me, I look tons better, and I feel like I have a bit of an edge which I really needed and wanted. So check out the new me.