It's Sunday!

Did I say the “Whose Celebrity Hair Is It?” contest winner would be announced on Sunday? I meant to say the winner would be announced by Sunday… Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, to be exact. Take it away Sunday… (sound of envelope ripping open)…

Congratulations, Lady Nole! Your swag bag is on its way!

Based on the stats, there appeared to have been a lot of lurkers on the contest post :), but not a lot of guessers. (By not a lot, I mean there was exactly one!) There are several possible reasons for this:

1) Most of you don’t like free things.

2) Most of you are pop culture challenged.

3) Most of you are shy.

4) I didn’t properly explain the fabulousness of the contest prize.

5) I have gone on record as saying that I’m an Oprah fan. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you had the same reaction to seeing my face that many times that you have to seeing Oprah on the cover of her own magazine every month. Maybe this post just included too darn many pictures of moi for your taste and sensibilities and you wanted nothing to do with it.

6) Maybe you thought there was such a disconnect between my 40-ish (emphasis on the “ish”), relatively average looking features and all that red carpet worthy hair, that your circuits overloaded. Maybe this caused your brain to smoke and/or hiss and rattle.

7) Maybe you stumbled onto this blog from somewhere outside of the sunshine state and you didn’t think I’d mail you your prize (I would have!) and/or maybe sitting things out and watching is just your M.O. Maybe when Lee Ann Womack sang, “when you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”; you politely responded: “Thank you for the advice, but I’m still going to pass. I’ll be over here if you need me.” or

8) Seeing me in Lady Gaga’s hair was so profoundly troubling to you that a week down the road, you are still sitting in a catatonic state rocking back in forth in front of your computer.

Well, once again… I’m here to help! If your reason for not participating was answer:

1) I would like to refer you to the Clark Howard website. http://clarkhoward.com/ Free is good, girls!

2) Might I recommend a daily regimen of Entertainment Tonight until you have a respectable knowledge base in this area. You never know when you’re going to find yourself on a game show where the only thing standing between you and $50,000 is your ability to tell the difference between Jessica Biel’s hair and Jessica Simpson’s.

3) Here’s a link to a Wikihow site that explains how to get past all that: http://www.wikihow.com/Become-Outgoing-if-You-Are-Shy. It offers some fabulous advice i.e. When asked what to order at a restaurant, don’t just say, “I’ll have special number one.”. Try something like this instead: “One - please, it's so delicious." That way you can start up a conversation with your server, who, after all, is kind of getting paid to be friendly to you.

4) Sorry! My bad…and your loss!

5) In my defense, if I had put the faces that went with each hairstyle under them instead of my own, the contest would’ve been a little too easy. Don’t you agree? How about this? How about I tell you how to put your own face under all those different styles? That will give you the desired break from looking at my mug and it will help you prepare for your own trip to Hot Heads. By the way, introducing the website where I did this was actually one of my primary reasons for the contest to begin with. I think you…your daughter….your niece….are really going to get a kick out of trying this yourself. (A full post explaining how anyone can try on celebrity hair will be up sometime later this week.)

6) Sorry, but I’ve got news for you. I have 40-ish, relatively average looking features and red carpet worthy hair in real life. You’re just going to have to get used to this. (I promise, the shock will lessen over time.)

7) OK… carry on!

8) I don’t have anything to say here. That is perfectly understandable. Hope you’re feeling better!

According to Woody Allen, 80% of success is just showing up. LadyNole showed up! Yay! (Not such a great showing, Florida Gator fans! Would Tebow have sat on the sidelines like that? I think not! :) Sorry, but it had to be said.)

Anyway, thank you for participating and/or for stopping by and congrats again to Lady Nole! Oh… and by the way… here are the answers to the quiz:

1) Taylor Momsen
2) Selena Gomez
3) Reese Witherspoon
4) Lauren Conrad
5) Lady Gaga
6) Jessica Biel
7) Jennifer Lopez
8) Heidi Klum
9) Farrah Fawcett, and
10) Christina Aguilera

Have a great week!