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A New Avatar – A New Hairstyle
Sep 4 2007

This aruni-headshot-sep07-200×150.jpgLabor Day weekend, after going to a birthday party for our son’s twin friends at Brushy Creek Water park and while our daughter was takingaruni-avatar800×600.jpg a nap, I roped my husband and son into helping me create a new Avatar.  The one I had been using was taken on May 21, 2003 less than a year after our son was born.  Since I started blogging around May 2007, I figured I probably should get around to taking a more up-to-date picture of myself.

I was born with board straight, brown/black hair…not a curl or wave in sight.  When I hit 8th grade I hated having straight hair and started perming it (a la the 80’s hairdo) until a short reprieve between 1997 and 2002.  I got a few more perms until I became pregnant with our daughter in 2004.

After she was born, my hair experienced a miracle (or shall we say a hormonal shift) and I had naturally wavy hair.  I was shocked and pleasantly surprised.  I have to say in my 37 years of living, I have not been more happy with the state of my hair than I am now.  Well most days that is…like everyone else, I still have bad hair days!  It also helps that I found a new hairdresser who happens to charge less than 1/2 the price of the salon I used to go to.

Erin told me I should get a professional to take my headshot.  I told him I didn’t have time and we didn’t have the money to do that and insisted that he help me.  Plus I knew he would end up doing a better job than most professionals I could find…and he is much cheaper. 🙂

He worked a little of his Photoshop magic on it: played with the lighting and covered up some of the ravages of time.  And voila, a new Avatar was born.  The background is our off-white walls in our hallway.  I am still going to leave the 2003 headshot on some of my older posts but going forward until the next major hair change, I’ll be using the new one.  I also just noticed that the old one made me look a bit bright orange…

My mom and sister also had their favorites (i.e. the top two below).  The bottom two our 5 year old took so of course I love those!  The following have not been modified in Photoshop (i.e., no nice highlighted background plus all of the ravages of time and shiny spots are present).  I thought twice about putting these up, but I believe it’s important to mix in a little reality from time to time…

arunilookingup.jpg     arunifront.jpg

aruni-son.jpg    aruni-and-erin.jpg

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7 Comments on “A New Avatar – A New Hairstyle”

  1. 1 Neena said at 7:46 PM on September 4th, 2007:

    Aruni,
    I love the new avatar (although the old one was fine as well). Count yourself lucky to be one of the few women who are happy with their hair – I wish I could say the same of mine! Congrats on the update.

  2. 2 Aruni said at 9:24 PM on September 4th, 2007:

    Thanks Neena! I’m happy with my hair right now…who knows what tomorrow brings. 🙂

  3. 3 Carole said at 10:58 PM on September 4th, 2007:

    Aruni, I love the new avatar! I also like that you posted some “real” images; the last one is my favorite — what a great photo! : )

  4. 4 Justin Case said at 4:14 PM on September 5th, 2007:

    WOW !!!! (BTW who is the guy?)Justin Case. 🙂

  5. 5 Erin Defosse said at 7:36 PM on September 5th, 2007:

    Hey Mr. Justin Case: I’m “the guy”. So, you like my picture? Give me a call… 😛

  6. 6 pearl said at 8:08 PM on September 5th, 2007:

    Hi Aruni – you are looking gorgeous in all of the pictures 🙂

  7. 7 Aruni said at 9:22 PM on September 5th, 2007:

    Thanks Pearl and Justin Case!