What are you lookin at?!

One day of conferences down, one to go. The ones that I had today were good, nothing surprising. I got my hair cut and colored last night (those stubborn grays...thanks mom!) Then I had a dentist appt. first thing this morning, so I wasn't at school right away. I had let my students know that I wouldn't be there right away and had told them why. When I got to school there was the usual post haircut/color fallout. All the kids just stared and then the questions and comments began. Amid the cries of "You look like a different teacher!", was the following dialogue:

Student: Why did you color your hair black?
Me: It's dark brown. Its a little darker when you first get it colored but then it lightens up a little.
Student: When? Tomorrow?

Student: Why are you wearing lots of mascara?
Me: I'm not, it just looks different with my hair (I think "mascara" was a general term for all of the eye makeup, pretty sure I didn't just cake on the mascara today)

Student: I thought you went to the dentist, not the hairdresser
Me (stunned stare): I went to the dentist this morning and got my hair done last night.

Alright, Ang, I was going to just write "awful" over and over again in the space that a picture would take up but then decided to wait till Awana was over and someone would be at home to take a picture of me. Turns out that I'm worse at taking one of just me than I was at taking a pic of two people. Who knew! Given the above student comments you would think that I had gotten this drastic haircut, not so much. The pic doesn't really show the difference in color and I just got my shorter bangs back. Not too much, but enough to throw their day off. Gotta love first graders.