{"id":22011,"date":"2013-08-18T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=22011"},"modified":"2013-08-18T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:54:28","slug":"the-week-in-review-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-week-in-review-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten days ago, the Internet was in an uproar after Beyonc\u00e9 Instagrammed a picture of herself sporting a 1980s-perky-news-anchor pixie cut.<\/p>\n

\"beyonce-00-600x450\"<\/a>

Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

Everyone was all excited, debating whether she’d taken out her weave or cut her real hair<\/a>. I was skeptical, though. Having lived through Kim Kardashian’s short hairdo Instagram in 2012 (actually a wig for a Vogue Italia shoot)<\/a>, I didn’t think the new ‘do would be around for long. Not everyone appreciated my input!<\/p>\n

\"beyoncetwitter\"<\/p>\n

The Monday in question would have been last Monday, August 12. I was off by only four days. Ha! By Friday the 16th,\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9 was wearing her hair in a bob.<\/p>\n

\"Beyonce<\/a>

Photo from Huffington Post. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

I like Beyonc\u00e9. Hell, I paid good money for tickets to her concert at Barclays Center <\/a>earlier this month. But I just can’t get behind what the highlarious Michael K of gossip site Dlisted<\/a> would term a STUNT QUEEN<\/a> (all caps mandatory!) hair move. Getting everyone talking but not even having the nerve to stick with the look more than a hot minute? How Kardashian of you! This is why I give big props to Rihanna, who courts attention by constantly changing her hair, but is at least seen out and about in each style for days or weeks. A recent short, curly style<\/a> lasted about two weeks. She seems to have switched it up for a short, punky mullet<\/a>. Edgy! I approve.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I felt very much in style this week. The New York Times published a big article about “bespoke” (custom) jewelry and The Cut blog had a short post about single earrings — both things I’ve been selling for a while. And those stories came out the same month that JCK Magazine mentioned me in a blog post about word jewelry<\/a>! So stick with me if you want to stay on trend in the jewelry department. Here’s what was on the blog this week, including the bespoke and single-earring posts:<\/p>\n