I'd like to jump right in today with three signs you might need a makeover. <div><br /></div><div>Don't worry, this will be fun - fun like how jumping into a freezing cold pool fully clothed with your iPhone, full of irreplaceable photos, tucked away in your pocket is fun. Ready? Go: <div><br /></div><div>1. You show your husband and old picture of the two of you and his frank, uninhibited response is, "Wow. You were hot."  </div><div>2. When you go to a new hairdresser after not having a hair cut for at least eight months (maybe longer - no one is quite sure), her first question is, "So, you're a mom?"</div><div>3. Urban Tulsa Weekly hosts a contest based on a most unflattering photo of you. The game? Guess the ID of the columnist in the photo. One of the early guesses: <a href="http://batesline.com/">Michael Bates</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>No offense, Michael, but I was hoping we looked different enough that folks would be able to tell us apart. It's one thing to be accused of being one and the same with <a href="http://tulsaartblog.blogspot.com/">UTW arts writer Holly Wall</a> (I've actually been quite flattered by the recent claims that we're actually one person pretending to be two); it's entirely another to be confused for, well, this: </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashadoestulsa/3972235270/" title="Michael Bates and Fam by Tasha Does Tulsa, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3972235270_68dfeb95d1_o.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Michael Bates and Fam" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Even though he does make pretty, pretty babies. But still - I'm a lady, he's a dude. I have longish hair and I wear a skirt from time to time; Bates sports a beard and wears a derby hat at Oklahoma Centennial reenactments. </div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, there's confusion. </div><div><br /></div><div>How better to exploit my apparent androgynousness and contest-worthy lack of remarkableness than to fight Holly for a makeover, all for the sake of my favorite Tulsa charity? Check it: </div><div><br /></div><div><object width="660" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICXJRAPPavo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICXJRAPPavo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="660" height="405"></embed></object></div><br />I've already convinced you that I'm the one in most need of some heavy-duty primping. All you have to do is head to <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/causes/204915">Resonance Center for Women's home on Facebook</a>. Once you're there, vote for my sad and lonely and makeup-coveting mug by hitting the donate button once or twice or five times. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then, <a href="http://twitter.com/resonancetulsa">get on Twitter and tweet @ResonanceTulsa</a> (or on Facebook and write on the wall at /ResonanceTulsa) that you voted for me. Because the girl who raises the most donations in her name by Oct. 15 gets a makeover. </div><div><br /></div><div>And I really, really need a makeover. Apparently. So be sure you <a href="http://twitter.com/resonancetulsa">tweet @ResonanceTulsa that you donated in my name</a> or else I could lose to that too-gorgeous-to-be-up-to-any-damn-good Holly Wall.<br /><div><div><br /></div><div>If I win, I not only get recreated by the Ihloff Salon &amp; Day Spa Creative Team, the one and the same that's putting on <a href="http://www.ihloffspa.com/site/page.php?name=community">the annual and always kick-ass Fall Collection</a>, but I'll also get to strut my buffed-up stuff on the catwalk at this year's show, Fables, Fantasy and Fairy Tales: Once Upon a Time.</div><div><br /><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/geW7zk7V9nA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/geW7zk7V9nA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Plus, this all comes right in time for my birthday. I officially embark on my late 20s starting Monday, and Fall Collection isn't until the 22nd, but still. They're happening in the same month. Let us not split hairs.  </div><div><br /></div><div>All proceeds of this brutal smackdown benefit <a href="http://resonancetulsa.org/">Resonance Center for Women, Tulsa's premier non-profit support center whose mission is to help women and their families become self-sufficient</a>. All donations are tax-deductible.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tickets to this year's Fall Collection are available at both Ihloff locations (Utica Square and South Memorial) and at Dwelling Spaces. They're $15 in advance.</div><div><br /></div><div>Vote for me, friends. Because Michael Bates wants his identity back. </div></div></div>