I dyed my hair red?
It was short lived and only last about 6 weeks, but it was my wonderful post-wedding hair experiment!
A lot of women post wedding chop their hair short after having grown it out for probably the duration of the relationship in preparation for the wedding up-do. I on the other hand chopped my hair off soon after starting to date Aaron and so come wedding time, my hair was BARELY long enough for my up-do... I regret ever cutting it, so I wasn't going to do that now. I did, however, long for a change and so dying it a drastic color like red seemed like fun...
... who knew it would be such a process????
To give you an idea... this is what I was going for:
Thus began my quest...
I started by trying to just dye it with a box over my black hair... that was a stupid idea and resulted in no change at all except at my roots where my natural hair was growing out. Next I tryed a color lifter... DON'T EVER USE A COLOR LIFT!!! It smells like a rotting egg and leave your bathroom with that smell no matter now long you air it out... plus my hair smelled like that for over a week... needless to say it didn't work :(
Next step was bleach!
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| This picture actually makes it look descent, but in reality it was slightly more mustard than this |
Next came the hair dye!
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| This was a horrible orange color :( |
What I got was ORANGE!!! I had to leave this in for another 24 hours... yuck!
Third time was indeed a charm... almost... I got the right color, but within a week it was faded again to nearly orange... I finally bit the bullet and bought a Groupon to Dolce Salon and Spa and had them professionally do it to the right color!
After 6 weeks from the beginning of the process I was done with the grand experiment and ready to be myself again... I dyed it back to dark brown and there it shall stay :)
... you'll see my red hair throughout all of the pictures with Phoebe and Liam, so it was immortalized!
1 comment:
I thought it was great!
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