Hair Styling Tips

Always use a protecting spray when blow drying your hair, this helps from damaging your hair. Then do a few more quick spray of the protector before straightening it. To really get a good hold use an extreme hold hair spray.

Colors are always a good way to make an emo style stand out. For those who can't color their hair, pick up some non-permanent hair color. It is temporary and will wash right out. You can find them in sprays and gels. All colors too- red, black, purple, blue, pink, green, teal, yellow, aqua, etc. You can always use more than one color!

The cut says it all. Short or long- it doesn't matter. Cut or have your hair cut in choppy, uneven layers. Side bangs are the bomb! Throwing some color in them will def. draw some attention. Using a razor will give you more texture- which is a great thing with emo hair.

If your hair is thick and you want it thinner to style better- use or have your stylist use a thinning sheer- this while thin out your hair (but not too much) and also give you texture.

thanks to Crystal

Simple Steps in Fighting Excessive Hairfall

Having excessive falling hair is a condition that is commonly shared by a lot of people. Many factors contribute to this, such as stress and tension, poor diet and malnutrition, hormonal imbalance, over-processing of the hair, and frequent use of styling products and chemicals, to name a few. Just because it is a common condition does not mean that it should be ignored and left untreated. If you allow the condition to persist, you might find yourself dealing with bigger problems in the future, such as hair loss and baldness. If you suffer from excessive hair fall, here are some simple steps to follow in order to arrest the problem.

Reassess your diet and eating habits. Make sure that you are providing your body with the right amount of vitamins and nutrients. Eat a lot of food rich in protein and Vitamins B and E, as these promote the growth of healthy and lustrous hair.

Avoid combing or brushing your hair when it is wet and refrain from putting it up on a ponytail or a tight bun. Hair is at its weakest when wet and brushing or combing it makes it prone to splitting and breakage. Fixing your hair up in a very tight hairstyle may also cause unnecessary damage to the hair follicles and may result to hair loss.

Lastly, always keep your scalp clean and free of dirt or product buildup. Wash it on a daily basis to get rid of dirt, grime, excess sebum, and styling product buildup. Massage it every so often to aid in the circulation of blood to the scalp. This allows the scalp and the hair follicles to breathe and to stimulate the growth and production of healthy hair.

A Barry Jenkins Film

Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
Seen: Saturday, March 29, 2008

I was not at SXSW to catch director Barry Jenkins' first feature Medicine for Melancholy on the big screen. Nor was I at Sarasota or L.A. or any other festival where the movie was screened this year (and it is probably safe to say I won't be at Toronto either), but I guess having long-time friends who are working their way into the business has paid off ever so slightly, because my pal Barry generously sent me a DVD screener of Medicine, which I am happy to report was picked up by IFC Films for theatrical distribution in 2009.

When I put his movie in the DVD player I was struck with a little conundrum, What if I didn't like it? As someone pursuing a legitimate (read: paid) career in film criticism, if the movie wasn't any good I had to be honest about that. Still, the author of the film being my friend, it would be a terribly awkward and hurtful moment to have him read this potentially bad review. But I sucked it up and decided it was business. And then the movie played and all of that anxiety disappeared--Medicine for Melancholy is a poetic montage of the San Francisco cityscape and two nascent lovers, set to an indie music soundtrack that alternates between youthfully energetic and melancholic.

And I suppose that's the best way to understand Medicine, as a tale of ambivalence, first between Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo (Tracey Higgins) as they wake in the shameful light of the morning after a one-night-stand, and later as they try to feel out one another's personalities. There's a constant push and pull between the two young lovers, which is centered upon one essential common characteristic: they are both black.

Race is the primary subject of exploration, but Medicine works precisely to avoid conflation with the greater social and cultural issues that that topic embodies; the conflict for Micah and Jo is manifest in a series of conversations about blackness. Micah bites with condescension and contempt for Jo's interracial relationship; he comes to life, has a sort of energy that bubbles up when this prime opportunity knocks to confirm his suspicion of Jo's commitment to a white boyfriend. It is almost as if her boyfriend is the subsidy that supports her existence in San Francisco's urban space, which has been gentrified at a murderous rate.

While we wouldn't believe for a second that Jo's boyfriend (who we never see, and who we know only through Jo's one-sided responses to him via cell phone) is acting out of white guilt and providing reparations for institutionalized racism, there is also a pointed moment when we learn Jo lives for free under her boyfriend's roof, while she herself is still "figuring it out."

But Medicine doesn't linger on these moments for long, and is balanced with small delights like a color-saturated montage of San Francisco's sites and skyline, a cute homage to Godard's Breathless (1960) as Micah flashes faces in the bathroom mirror, and very simply, in its sum total, Medicine is a playful picture to look at. Amidst some rather serious moments are a spattering of jokes, the quiet ones that go unnoticed in everyday conversation.

As the movie begs the question, What does it mean that out of the 7% African American population in San Francisco, Micah and Jo found each another last night?, there is no commitment to a sense of fate in their meeting, nor is there an algorithm put forth for pragmatic understanding either. In other words, this is a social drama with romantic elements of a very earnest and exploratory nature.

This measured tone transforms even the most heavy-handed scenes into profound ones. As the black couple strolls into the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Jo whispers, "I didn't even know it was here." Quietly they meander through the museum corridors. The name "MAYA ANGELOU" is etched on the frame like a title card, until the door it is printed on swings open and the two cross its threshold. In a previous scene, they ascend a staircase along a vast collage of disconnected faces in black history: they are suddenly connected to an identity that is quickly being forgotten. It is in this instance that a seemingly innocent affair from the night before takes on a sobering importance.

Scene hair colours

Scene hair colours
You are able to choose several different colors for your scene hair, but it is not a rule. Imagine old metal hair scene cropped up with whole the sophistication of nowadays. It does not matter if you are a scene boy or a girl,what counts is your ability to pull it off with self-confidence.
If you wondered what it would be like to have a different hair color, but perhaps you should check this scene hair pictures gallery:

Two Unexpectedly Cute Movies: Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (2004) and My Blue Heaven (1990)

My Blue Heaven (1990)
Seen: Thursday, March 27, 2008

Even when Steve Martin in bad he is good. But in My Blue Heaven's cleanly symmetrical framing of suburbia being crashed by a very bad New York Italian-American accent (Steve Martin), he is just plain great. Rick Moranis (also infallible in my book) plays alongside Martin as his putzy FBI guard dog, while he continues to trudge through the mundaneness of a world without street attitude. Martin procures a price sticker gun at the grocery store, his only manageable act of defiance; a mound of steaks under a buck pile up at the end of the cashier's conveyor belt for a bit of silent slapstick, while Joan Cusack stomps around in her classic mad and appalled way. You can certainly ask for more in a comedy, but this is pretty happy middle ground.








Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)
Seen: Friday, March 28, 2008

Yes, it's a teen movie. Yes, it's melodramatic and fluffy at times. But ooh-wee, it is much fun, which cannot only be credited to Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!'s great script, but to its headlining costar Topher Grace. We don't see enough of him, that's for sure. Back in February I caught In Good Company (2004), a story that delightfully plops into the corporate rivalry of a fifty-something veteran ad man (played beautifully by Dennis Quaid, in an understated comic role) and his smooth-skinned, fresh from college boss (Topher Grace), who's young enough to be the elder's son. This, and his role as the uptight, slightly effeminate supermarket manager in Win A Date, shows Grace at his best: sympathetic and self-deprecating. One scene says it all, as his thin, pale bodice attempts chopping wood next to the tanned hunk of Alpha-male muscle, Josh Duhamel--no shirts required. Its been too long now to remember more detail, but the great thing about Win A Date is that it also doesn't take itself too seriously, bouncing along with a knowingness of its tweeny categorization.

So Nice to See You, Seen!

Honey, I'm home!

Poor Seen. I have been away from you for so long; been spending most of my time over at your sister's joint, Scarlett Cinema, but I promise to share some time with you too, old chum!

As you might imagine, there are a-many movies to be updated in this humble diary. Where to begin? At the beginning!



Monday, March 24th movie was where we left off (in case you forgot, that's four days after the flick before it, This Is England, see below), and on that fateful Monday I met my favorite film so far this year, Chop Shop. I was lucky enough to interview the film's director Ramin Bahrani a few weeks ago for a piece on New York City geography in cinema, which will be out in the coming days through the New York Asian-American Film Festival (links to come!). In the meantime, if you missed the movie in theaters, it is now available on DVD. Lucky you.

In light of the subject of my essay with the AAFF, my favorite element of Bahrani's film is its setting. There is a close, intimate feel with the space--a dilapidated area called the Iron Triangle in Queens, New York just beyond the perimeter of Shea Stadium. Breathtaking shots of the stadium lit at twilight loom behind the characters kicking across the dirt roads in the extreme foreground. The roar of the crowd mixes with the characters' spoken dialogue in real time, and the film becomes as much a historical document as it is entertainment. This is true New York cinema.

Emo Anime FanArts

I recently ran across a German website that has some really interesting emo fanarts.