Bang your head
God, I am such a sheep. Baaaaaaa.
To celebrate my birthday, I shall give you a gift. The gift of bangs, both ancient and anew.
Mercifully, my bangs were only fairly hideous for a few short years. I succumbed to the no-bang trend my junior year of high school, and it’s only been recently that I’ve accepted that bangs CAN look good with long hair. As long as they aren’t feathered, right?
You can guess the year this photo was taken based on my shirt. And my sweatbands.
And you can guess the year this photo was taken based on my eyeliner.
My bangs (and my drill team makeup kit) made it all the way to Canada. Too bad I didn’t find Her Bad Hair while I was there.
The bangs are long, but they’re shorter than the rest of my hair, but not long enough to be called layers. Hence, they are bangs.
Mary Tsao can work the barrette, but I can’t.
And Motherhood Uncensored may diss the claw clip, but lemme tell y’all – I’m rockin’ the claw clip.
Happy birthday to me. Peace out.
February 27th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Happy birthday! Those are some bangs – I especially like the stiffened drill team ones. I need to dig out my pictures and see what I can find.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Happy birthday!!!!!! Those are some rockin bangs girl.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:24 am
dude. you win.
now why didn’t you tell me it was your birthday?
WEEEHOOO! baby!
February 27th, 2007 at 7:07 am
You are a STONE FOX.
Happy Birthday, Foxy!
February 27th, 2007 at 7:41 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sistah-in-bangs!!!
(I love the drill team bangs. Lovingly teased, and sprayed – with AquaNet no doubt – into submission. Classic.)
February 27th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Happy Birthday Julie…you young whipper snapper you! I so wish I’d saved my crimper from 1990.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Happy Birthday!
When are they no longer bangs? When they reach your jawline?
February 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Happy Birthday!
I so do not want to see a retrospective on my hair. So I will go enjoy yours one more time!
February 27th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Happy Birthday!
I wish I could rock bangs like you do. HOTT.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:04 am
A very happy birthday to youuuu!
February 27th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Happy Birthday! You rock the bangs like no other.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Happy birthday to yooooooooouuuu.
Love the armbands.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Happy Birthday, she of the HOTT hairdos. You’ll be bringing that claw clip back in style in no time.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Happy Birthday Dahling. I’m thinking of sending you a banana clip and a scrunci or two ;o)
February 27th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Happy birthday! You’re rocking the bangs, baby.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Happy Birthday, from another head-banger, claw-clip-lovin’ momma!
February 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Happy Birthday!!! You are hot no matter what year/style it was!
February 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Happy Birthday! And you are SO rocking the claw clip. ROCKIT!!! (and–you look very attractive in those photos–well the last ones. Rock the Bone Structure. ROCKIT!)
February 27th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
not that you don’t look attractive in the others, but it’s hard to get past the time warp thang;-)
February 27th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Happy Birthday woman with fringe!
February 27th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Oh, Aquanet Bangs – I had those! Delurking to say happy birthday and keep rocking those bangs. I have scary bangs but a mostly-anonymous blog so I can’t post my pics, but I have an appointment on saturday to get them Dealt. With. Love your blog!
February 27th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I just had to go back and look at last year’s Blogher photos to see what your hair looked like then-it’s a lot different now! Very nice. We’ll all have to post current photos of ourselves right before we leave this summer so we can recognize each other in Chicago!
(Because if you walk right past me this year and say my name and I say “who is that?”, I will DIE of embarrassment!)
February 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Happy B’day!!! No matter what kind of bangs you have…I hope every year is a good one
February 27th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Happy Birthday!!!
Did you have bangs at Blogher last year? I’ve seen the pix a million times and now I have to go check.
I had regular bangs (as in not sideswept) for most of my life until a few years ago and I will probably have them again. But I NEVER had crunchy mall bangs!!!
February 27th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Happy Birthday!
from someone who grew out their bangs in the fall of 1991 and has since refused to have any cut back in! Took too damn long to grow them out in the first place!
February 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Not bad. I had those Drill Team bangs too, back in 1988.
Happy Birthday!
And thanks for planting the Quiet Riot song in my head. I’ll be singing it the rest of the evening.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the walk back through the bangs, I feel like I’m right back in Ohio reliving the old days.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
You’re a crack up. Happy Birthday!
February 28th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Oh, happy happy birthday!!
(I soooo dig your claw clip!!)
February 28th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Happy, Happy Birthday!
February 28th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Happy birthday sweetums!!
And….sweatbands?! HAHAHAH!! Too funny!
February 28th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Happy Birthday! Love the bangs, but I’m distracted by the Arizona sweatshirt. I’m an alum of the U of A. What’s your connection?
March 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pm
You’re so witty with your titles. And cruel. It’s 10:30 pm and I’m off to bed singing a heavy metal tune I’d almost forgotten ever existed.
Happy belated birthday you!!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:13 am
Hope you had a wonderful birthday, Julie! After seeing your “bangs of the past”, I don’t feel so bad. We should have had stock in Aqua net. ;>)