Bloody Eric. @anomadsoul stole one of my facts about me so now I have to think of another otherwise, LAME. I too cut my own hair and have done for 13 or 14 years now. There were hairdressers married into the family so I was spoiled with good haircuts and when I moved away I did some modelling for hair shows so I had plenty of hairdressers around to play with various things. My hair too. But once I came to Finland I couldn't find a hairdresser I liked and I would often end up cleaning it up after myself anyway. So, I just started cutting it completely and saving the 30 euros. These days, I just don't care so much (hence the beard) about my looks but, I do try to remain relatively well groomed for clients and, I shower daily, often twice. As a kid my mother would cut my hair but fortunately, you could hardly tell:
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3 Fun facts about me
#1. I am very bad in photos
I am very, very unphotogenic and if there are any 'good' pictures of me, they are pure luck. I am the anti-Barney Stinson (if you get the reference) and tend to be the one that people want to crop out of images for spoiling what would have "otherwise been a great shot." I don't know what it is but I am just terrible at posing and looking anything close to natural. Perhaps I now suffer from photo performance anxiety so tend to stay behind the camera. I have so few photos of me it is like I was born in the middle ages.
#2. I once won a fashion show as a designer
Once upon a time during my senior high school year, I entered into a yearly fashion show that was put on by the art department and their top students. I had never seen it before. I bought material, found models, designed, cut and sewed the dresses and choreographed the runway show. What I didn't know was that this long running show filled with top art students was actually one of those nonsense "arty" BS things filled with trash and not actual real fashion or dresses but, literal trash at times. So, I won and the show was never the same again. A junior kid who was in the crowd later went onto become a fairly well known designer and credits me with his start. lol.
Oh, I haven't sewn in years really but it did come in handy when decorating the baby's room and I had a chance to borrow a machine from a concerned mother-in-law and sew while a concerned wife looked on. The room turned out pretty good though I think. These things were mostly hand sewn though :)
#3. I like to play dress-up
I have always liked costume parties and at times have gone to some pretty extravagant lengths to pull something off. I don't have many pictures here with me (that are suitable for the blockchain anyway) but here are two. Off the top of my head, I have dressed as an angel, devil, french maid, a priest, Egyptian slave, the moustached dude from the Village People, a gogo dancer... and quite a few more. I think people who go to a costume party and don't put in a bit of effort are disrespectful to the sanctity of the event. I find that in general though, people are getting lamer as costumes are able to be bought cheaply. Making a costume is so much more fun.
My wife wasn't pregnant (at this point of the night anyway)
So, there you go. Three facts about and two of which you likely didn't know. When I get to Poland who knows what others there may be. Perhaps I will have a shot of @anomadsoul's Tequila and all the secrets will come flooding out.
# Bonus fact: I am not much of a drinker.
The last time I had a drink I was tipsy by half way through.
Taraz
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