This post is an ode to Bangs.

Bangs are a huge part of my life. Throughout my 25 years I have had short bangs, long bangs, blunt straight bangs, wispy wavy bangs, sides-wept to the left bangs, side-swept to the right bangs, center bangs. You name the bang look, I’ve had it. This is partly due to the fact that I was born with a severe widows peak and a wide forehead. Simply said, I look unfortunate without bangs.

I also have found that I go through life finding friends to be in my bang club. Girls who realize that bangs will forever be their battle and their love, girls who get the concept of “look but don’t touch.”

Lynelle. Tessa. my childhood friend Emily. I’ve chatted with these girls about the correct cleaning process for bangs (every day, even sometimes in the sink), the right brushes and technique to blow dry them with (round, but blow dry with nozzle down at end to flatten them out), the best flat irons (small 1/2 inchers that heat up really hot), the best hair spray strategy to keep them in place (a couple of layers of medium flexible hold for everyday multiple layers of extra extra hold if going out at night), and how to cut them ourselves (not a guaranteed success, even after all these years).

Here’s the thing, yes they’re high maintenance, but I like them. I can’t part with them. And I’ve grown to appreciate their neediness. So here I am… ode’ing to you, bangs.

My bangs these days are mid length and side-swept. I feel as though they work with the many long-hair hairstyles I have been experimenting with of late (if you don’t know me personally, my long-ish hair is new). Cue bang mugshot photoshoot…

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An ode to my favorite inspirational celeb bangs:

top to bottom:  Zooey Deschanel: cutesy messy i’m-in-a-band bangs. Rachel Bilson: glam it-girl movie-premiere bangs (noted this is not a look she always does, but it so works on her). Erin Fetherston: fashion designer immaculately perfect blunt bangs (the girl has been interviewed a dozen time about how she keeps her bangs amazingly perfect. She has is down to a science- check it out here).

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Let’s not forget, miss editor-in-chief herself, that always impeccably Sartorial Anna Wintour, has bangs.

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p.s. I cut my bangs in these pictures myself. Pretty decent if I do say so myself…

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