Heya! So first up, a big shout-out to Ms. Sugarbunni, the original alpha female whom I met at BM this year at the very end of the festival. Been meaning to say hi, but I figure this will be as good a place to do it belatedly as any. so there you go.

Okay, onto the subject at hand. So I've become increasingly interested with the complexity of shaved patterns and lines in hair. I've mainly been inspired by the wondrous Isa Psybiote of Phoenix, whom some of you may know from the S&M/fetish/transhumanist scenes. Amongst many other things, she's also very fashion-forward with the 'do, as you can see:

www.psymbiote.org/

Then of course, there's Patricio, whom some of you may know, who does the same thing with his facial hair, and it looks great on him.

So anyhoo, I decided to take a bit of inspiration from them with this new 'do.

For this, I was assisted by Jesselynn Desmond, my pal and friend who's also on my friends list here on tribe. It took two days total to pull this off - one for the haircut and shaving, the other for dying. Jesselynn is a fun and exuberant human being and it's always a joy to see her in her environment no matter what the reason, so the process was just as fun and as memorable as the results were.

The pictures are saved in the expHAIRiments war chest under the name HAIRoglyphics. Most of it was dyed using Clairol Hydriescence, and the tips, which were already bleached from a previous job were done up with Special Effects maroon. There was a strand that was also dyed yellow, maroon and dark blue, which you can also see. And the shavings extend down into the back of my head.

It's gonna be tough touching this one up, but for now, I love it. Hope you do, too.