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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Bad Hair Day Blog Tour: Must Have Items for a Bad Hair Day (guest post)

Welcome to Day 2 of the Bad Hair Day Blog Tour. Today I'm thrilled to have author Carrie Harris on the blog talking about the Must Have Items for having a Bad Hair Day. 


Must Have Items for a Bad Hair Day

Let’s be honest—we’ve all had them. The hair does not always cooperate. Mine tends to do this weird thing where it sticks out on the right but not on the left, so it looks like I’ve developed one horn on the side of my head. I’ve tried to persuade the horn to migrate to my forehead so I could run up to people and shout, “Look at me! I’m a SPARKLY UNICORN!” and then fling a handful of glitter in their faces, but it won’t do that. Upon further reflection, I’m thinking this is probably a good thing for my criminal record. Although the more I think about THAT, I’d kinda like to see the judge’s face when the Sparkle Flinging Unicorn Bandit came into their courtroom to be sentenced.

ANYWAY. I’ve learned a few things about having a bad hair day, and when I say this I’m not making a sneaky werewolf joke like my book title. I’m talking real, honest-to-goodness, hair-horn-on-the-side-of-your-head bad hair day. And I’m going to share my hard earned wisdom with you. Because I’m nice. And because it makes me feel smart. And BECAUSE I SAID SO.

Er…sorry. Mom moment.

So here are my secrets for making the most of a bad hair day. They pretty much boil down to one essential goal—DISTRACTION. First, wear a zombie unicorn dress. If you’re a guy, you might be tempted to skip this one, but it would probably work even better for you than it does for me. People are so busy trying to figure out what the bleep I’ve got on my body that they don’t realize I’ve accidentally styled my locks with an egg beater and a crème brulee torch. (Mental note—don’t do hair in the kitchen.) Pick something deliberately and entirely crazy. If you only go semi-crazy, people will take one look at your clothes and another at your head and decide you’re a vagrant, and that’s not much of an improvement status-wise.

In short, FULL ON CRAZY is what you’re going for. Hey, it works for Lady Gaga.

Some people will tell you to jam a hat on your head in the event of bad hair, but if you’re not the kind of person who normally wears hats, you’re completely drawing attention to your head! Why would you want to do that?!? It seems to me that you’d want to draw attention AWAY from your head. Maybe on top of the zombie unicorn dress, you could wear a sandwich board. Or randomly scream, “OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THAT!” and point at something. Again, it’s all about the distraction techniques.

Which brings me to another point—your actions can be just as distracting as your clothing. If you don’t want to be forever known as Crazeballs McWonkyhair, you can try things like paging yourself on the overhead speaker. Which I have done, and I still get the giggles every time I think about it. Or start quacking in the middle of random conversations. Yes, you’ll be known as That Weird Duck Girl, but at least you’ll be memorable.

Your last option in the event of a bad hair day is to embrace the suck and take it to the next level. If it’s sticking out in all directions, why not turn it into modern art? I have a stuffed raven at my house expressly for this purpose. I can perch it on my head and pretend that my hair looks like a bird’s nest on purpose. However, this only works if you can keep a straight face better than I can. Because it doesn’t make the best impression when you walk up to someone with a fake bird on your head and then spray spittle all over their face laughing at their expression.

I know these things. Benefit from my mistakes. Someone has to.

What are your bad hair day tips? I need more of them. Poe is tired of working overtime. That would be the raven. I name all my things after horror stuff. My van is called Helsing. I also tend to free associate at the end of blog posts. Which would be now.




By: Carrie Harris
Published by: Delacorte Press
To Be Released on: November 13th, 2012
Purchase from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Senior year is positively hair-raising.

Kate Grable is geeked out to shadow the county medical examiner as part of her school’s pre-med program. Except when he’s arrested for murder, she’s left with the bodies. And when Kate’s brother Jonah stumbles upon a dead gamer girl, she realizes that the zombie epidemic she cured last fall was only the beginning of the weirdness taking over her town. Someone’s murdering kids—something really hairy. And strong. Possibly with claws.

Is it werewolf awesomeness like Jonah and his dorktastic friends think? Kate’s supposed to be a butt-kicking zombie killing genius...but if she can’t figure out who’s behind the freakish attacks, the victims—or what’s left of them—are going to keep piling up.

It’s scary. It’s twisted. It’s sick. It’s high school -quoted from Goodreads


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4 comments:

  1. Exciting! I have been waiting a long time for this book to come out! At least it feels like it. :)

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  2. Yay! Happy Release Day, Carrie! Can't wait to check this one out! :)

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  3. Looks like a good one and I haven't seen it before! Thanks for spotlighting it and for the giveaway!

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  4. Sounds really good!! Thanks for the chance to win!

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