Love this photo...but mostly love this girl

While I was in the city last week, Erin and I decided to tick off one of our to-dos and shoot some photos to use for book publicity purposes – like for press releases and such, since people tend to request a photo to go along with the text. Obviously I’m not exactly in short supply in the photo department, but we strangely don’t have any shots of us together (save for one or two massively, massively awkward ones, which I love quite a lot but are mayyyybe not exactly what people are referring to when they request an “author photo”).

So we booked a photographer, chose outfits that were respectably non-clashing (I wore the same thing that I wore in this post because I shot both at the same time), and tried to stand next to each other and simultaneously look like normal-ish human beings (which is not as easy as you might think). First, though, we got our hair done, because who doesn’t want to have pretty hair for a photograph? Nobody, that’s who. And when you’re dealing with Manhattan-in-July heat and humidity, sometimes it’s nice to get some professional help.

Greenhorn Ranch | Quincy, CA 

Whenever you travel, you end up forgetting something. On last week’s trip to Greenhorn Ranch, in Northern California, that thing ended up being two things: my shampoo and conditioner, specifically. Which are unfortunate things to forget, especially when you find yourself essentially in the middle of nowhere and in the company of realllly a lot of dust and sun and other things that tend to dry out already super-dry hair like mine.

So what I decided to do for the week was go next-level with the haircare routine I wrote about a few weeks ago, and try to get even more volume and waves into my (already pretty voluminous and wavy) hair.