Blondies Rules. Especially Kristen....

So, after a most productive meeting with my personal assistant. scratch that, personal muse, Nicole Schafer, I made a leap of faith down to Blondies Salon on Ingersoll Av.

Wearing the same clothes I slept in, carrying a back pack, a notebook, a cell phone and a few bent business cards, I wandered in an approached a very innocent and sweet blond at the front desk.

Hi, I'm Lauren, I'm a writer, I'm scheduled for a consult with Kristen. But I haven't set up an appointment, and I have a few details to discuss.

Something to that affect. I can be quite charming, even after removing yesterday's underwear the morning after and breaching commando mode early saturday morning.

I meet Kristen VanHauen, the hero-hair dresser of my darling friend Kelli Jo Sweeney whom gets her hair done religiously by the young Kristen.

She askes me to wait a few minutes while she "finishes up" a client. I sit in one of the swivel styling chairs and proceed to do just that... swivel, and make a few 'important" phone calls and receive a few, while taking notes, and using my best "grown up voice" in the salon.

(this is all in jest, i hope you sense the wit here)

Kristen asks me to sit down, and I say, no no, let's sit, i'd like to look at you in the eye.

I explain my case. Lauren. Writer. Film. Poor. Acting. Need hair. Character. Ukweli. Dreadlocks. Extensions. Credit. Did I mention you could be in the film. Credit. Broke. Help?

She throws her hands up... she's learned a technique for synthetic dreadlocks (which I'd like my character Ukweli to possess) but she has yet to work on a real human head.... she whispers, I don't think Des Moines has caught on yet.

She says if I purchase the hair, she'll do the work (typically 50 bucks an hour, about 6 hours for this hair-duty) FREE.

This woman became the apple of my eye for July.

Blondies Hair Studio. July the 30th. Ukweli's hair manifests.

Blessings to Kristen Vanhauen, may she rock out in every thread of hair.

THANK YOU