Anna Paquin's Blowback Hair Style

I love wearing my hair up especially when the weather outside makes it very difficult for me to wear my long, thick hair down (at least without dying of heat stroke) and I try to find as many ways to style it like this as I can.  Right now, I have my bangs swept to the side and they are getting a bit on the long side.

I have a hair appointment later this week and part of me wonders if regular bangs would let me pull off a look like this a bit better or if they would only make it worse.  I am thinking that this might be more of a creative blow dry technique than an actual style.

I love this picture of Anna Paquin from early in the True Blood series (a favorite show and book series of mine) and this is exactly how I would love to get my hair to look for the summer.  It's clean and non fussy but still polished enough to wear with a sundress.  I am going to try and my bangs back and see what happens over the next few days!

photo courtesy of Google

Anna Paquin's Hair Color

I am still on the fence about going blond.  My initial thought was to start lightening my hair to an ice blond shade, a la Pam from True Blood.  I am now beginning to wonder if that look is much to dramatic and will require more upkeep than I have time for.  And how much it will wreck my hair at the same time.

I am now looking more at the shade of Anna Paquin's hair, still blonde but a few hues darker and more highlighted.  I still don't know that I could get all the way to this blonde shade but I am thinking that highlights could begin to get me to this shade instead of the full bleaching that the ash blonde would require.

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