WARNING: picture formatting is too hard with blogger for some reason so I don't care. Let them be free. The reading kind of goes with the picture clumps.
So over the past decade I have abused my hair. Well actually go back in time....
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| August 2003 |
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| April 2007 |
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| Sept 2009 |
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| June 2008 |
It's some where between 6th and 8th grade (no picture). I begged my mom let me to try the crazy colors my old brothers were doing. To stave me off she agreed to let me get highlights. I pushed the envelope and got platinum blonde. I stuck with that until high school.
High school was my experimental ground. I had almost every color; green, red, orange, pink, yellowish...I rebelled, and dyed my hair a very rich color green (see above). Of course to get this vivid color I had stripped my hair beforehand by myself. I was referred affectionately as "green" in my intermediate science classes (partly because my best friend at the time have blue hair and her nickname was 'Blue.)" Eventually I branched out and tried other colors, always stripping my hair when needed. Sometimes I stuck with a color for months because it would fade in a week and I just had to keep reapplying
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| Nov 2010 |
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| Jan 2011 |
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| Feb 2011 |
Eventually I started making my own money and I upgraded. I had a hair dresser do the coloring. I got afraid all my hair would fall out, I'd done so much damage. I feel in love. In comes Carrie. She has always understood what I've wanted and given me what I want to the extent that was possible.
After high school I started doing "natural" colors. I wanted fire engine red but we could never get it there so I started seeking a red headed copper. For the "longest" time I have a red variation hair color. We also did red-black two toned just to put some variety in. Then I just decided one day, black. I can't remember when life event, coming or going of a boyfriend or what but I went black. There was my first real mistake. I should have never gone black. It's so hard to lift. Eventually though, I went back to red. I don't know why. And again, I went black. I don't know what I was thinking. My hair was invincible? Somehow I went back to red though. And then I met my boyfriend. And I started a new job (bottom right with hat).
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| May 2013 |
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| March 2012 |
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July 2012
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Trigger the rainbow era. It started with purple. I had been working at my new job for a several months, I had been with my boyfriend for a few months and I was red for a "long" time and I was itching for a change. I went purple, which faded to pastel. Then I went two-toned blue. A Mermaid blue. But it wasn't enough. I went mermaid unicorn. Purple, blue, magenta all professionally mixed and paid for only to last a month before I would have to shell out a million dollars again.
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| April 2013 |
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| May 2013 |
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| June (12) 2013 |
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| June 2013 |
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| May 2015 |
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| May 2015 |
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| May 2015 |
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| June 2015 |
I got poor. So I went black...almost. I went black with a streak of blonde. It was like nothing I'd tried before. Just a little something to mix it up. It was cheap to maintain, just touch up the blonde spot roots. Presto. I stuck with this hair for a LONG time. I'm talking over six months (almost a year now!).
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| August 2015 |
Then I finally decided, it was time. I wasn't going to wait anymore. I want to go grey.
White/grey (which are distinctively different) have both always been on my hair color bucket list. The trouble is, I've got a lot of black. Previously we only needed to lift enough to go red, which was still hiding under the first time I went black. It was harsh but doable. Now that's it's been almost a year, I've been begging my hair dresser to let me know when I could go grey. I finally announced I didn't want to wait and she agreed....to a time line.
So what is a girl to do in the mean time? We I started getting into cheap extensions. Cheap COLORED extensions. So I put color and length in the back of my hair but it looks weird with a streak of blonde in the front. In comes HAIR CHALK.
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| Feb 2016 |
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| March 2016 |
I never wanted to lose the blonde and I didn't want to commit to a color for my streak so I tried hair chalk, the most casual and temporary of hair coloring. At first I was nervous. I was putting a two-toned blue on my streak. I was sure it was going to stain. It was EVERYWHERE. My hair, my scalp, my forehead, my ears. But I covered it all up and you know what? It looked good. I love surprising my coworkers so I didn't tell them it was going to wash out first shower I got. I left it in for 3 days. Then I washed it out. And it didn't stain!.I now knew of a brand that I could use that would not stain my blonde streak! I could do colors again! I went on a hair extension shopping spree. Pastel purple, red, two-toned blue, regular purple, green and yellow, wine red and magenta and hot pink! I had to get chalk to match. For the two-toned colors I would two-tone my streak.
Safe brands: Diggity do color pop (found at Ulta but is limited time)
Brands I have but have not tried yet:
Hair-Chalk-Set-Temporary-Effects and Hot Huez
I haven't actually used all the colors yet, I got sick/tired & sick and tired of the work but I still throw it in on special occasions. All the while I wait for my transformation to grey to begin.
