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Well ain't that some shit?
Hair show tonight. Big Hair Ball, to be exact. Been planning & organizing for this show for about a month. From the minute I got my team together we had our theme, idea, model, etc. We spent quite a bit of money on this. A LOT of time. Every little bitty detail. We drew this shit out. We executed it damn near perfectly. Everyone kept coming over to our workspace while we were prepping our model tonight & telling us how amazing ours was.
And then.......................... we lost!
And not only did we lose, we lost to a fucking teased head of hair with some cardboard glitter bats stuck in it! REALLY? WTF is that?
Meanwhile, our entry was a 22" tall tornado on top of our models head (yes, made out of hair!), which grew to over 24" when all of the "decorations" were added! Flying monkeys made from hand... The Emerald City... Dorothy's house (with the ruby red slippers coming out from under it!)... the rainbow.... bluebirds... wicked witch on her broom.... a bicycle. WE HAD IT ALL!!! Even a yellow brick road with the 4 friends skipping down it! AND... our model was pained 1/2 Dorothy & 1/2 Wicked Witch & had a costume that was 1/2 & 1/2. We even left some of her hair down & did Dorothy's on one side & the witch's on the other. Even 1/2 a hat for the witch side. We even HAND PAINTED (with glitter nail polish) a pair of red pumps for her to wear!
And we lost to a teased head of hair with cardboard glitter bats stuck in it.
OURS:
THEIRS:
Ugh!!!! I need a fucking drink!
Comments
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM, skatie said:
Bummer, yours looked really cool. You got robbed, girl.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:34 AM, MandyStroyer said:
Thanks, guys! It was quite the let down. I mean, I can handle losing. I'm not arrogant enough to think I'll win EVERY show/competition I enter, but when the thing you lose to isn't even something you can look at & think, "Damn. They really did a great job. They deserved that win"... it just kinda blows.
Oh well. There will be plenty more shows in my future & plenty of opportunities to prove myself. Besides, I know in my heart that everyone on my team was exceptionally talented & that, collectively AND individually, we do better work on a day to day basis than most of the people on that other team do. And that's really all that matters at the end of the day anyway.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:21 AM, BtotheILL said:
Man, that's bullshit. Yours looks awesome.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:25 PM, BonnieBlowtorch said:
That is wrong on so many levels. I'm creative for a living and there's an obvious split in creative processes here. I would have voted for yours, given the choice between the two.