Real Woman Dares to Try the Posh Pixie, and Rocks It

 

Victoria Beckham, it's been a wild ride through your style evolution. Post-Spice Girls, we endured years of your WAG-tastic highlighted extensions that looked as if they would strangle you and Becks while asleep (what a nightmare they must have been when not sleeping, if you know what I mean). Then, things began to improve (they had to, didn't they?) when you caught up to the rest of the world, and in a bid to gain credibility with fashion's heavy hitters you cut those nasty rat tails loose and gave us "The Pob." We expressed our appreciation of the change by copying the cut - everyone from actresses to actresses who were once porn stars to supermarket check-out clerks looked like you. Then, a blip - you fell victim to your new Californian surroundings and gave in to the peroxide, and you got blonder and blonder. The Pob grew out a bit and got a thorough teasing at the crown. Alas, before long you tired of the brassy roots and returned to something closer to your natural shade, averting disaster (had you grown it out, with those concrete half-melons, you may have been recruited as the newest cast-member of The Girls Next Door.)

What came next? Quelle surprise! You knew you had to step it up for the front row of pal Marc Jacobs' show at New York fashion week, so you rocked up, hand in hand with Jennifer Lopez,  your BFF (Best Faux Friend) and did what a good Faux Friend would - you showed up the new mum with your bold new look and made headlines around the world. We didn't know you had it in you, Victoria, it takes mad confidence and real fashion savvy to channel Mia Farrow a la Rosemary's Baby (or Halle Berry, if that reference works better for you). And so, this became the cut that would separate the trend-followers from the seriously daring: Would mere mortals be brave enough to cut it all off and commit to the Posh Pixie?

One woman was. Her name is Giovanna, commonly known as Jo to her old school friends, and Gio to the new wave. She saw, she wanted, and she conquered. She announced her intentions on Facebook with nervous excitement, and a small helping of self-doubt - the kind that intimates something big is about to happen and risks will be taken. But deep down, she knew she had it in her, and SHE WENT FOR IT. Now, that's a real woman. Watch out, Posh. You've got competition.

Comments

[Kelly Eden]

Wow! So brave and so beautiful Jo! Posh could only dream to rock the pixie with such effortless panache! As always Denise, love the website...great job! xoxox Kel

[giovanna prodger]

Denise ...thank you thank you...coming from someone of such amazing style as yourself...well lets just say i'm speechless

[Denise @ The Swelle Life]

My pleasure, Jo!!

[sarah]

I think she looks 10 times better than Victoria. I don't know how anyone could find Victoria B. pretty!