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missroserose) wrote2011-12-25 04:56 pm
missroserose) wrote2011-12-25 04:56 pm
I'm going to need a new user icon...
Well, they say Christmas is a time for wishes to come true.
And after three rounds of bleach, two failed dye jobs, an ultimately pointless round with dye stripper and more money than I like to think about spent at the local beauty supply place...
My wish finally came true.
Step one, of course, is bleaching. I'd never done this before, but fortunately my brother's quite experienced in the realm and didn't mind doing it for me. It was downright odd seeing my hair go from dark brown/red to pale yellow/slightly lighter red.
The smile is to hide the burning going on in my scalp.
Results of the bleaching. The ends got gradually darker as there were more layers of previous dye to contend with. It was an oddly foxy look.
I don't think I make a very convincing blonde.
Hair full of dye, take one, using Manic Panic Ultra Violet.
A couple of days later, we got another load of supplies and gave it another go. I was rather disappointed to discover that the local Sally was out of the Ultra Violet, as I quite liked the results on the bits that came out properly. Oddly, the entire store seemed to have been cleaned out of dark blue-purple colors, so I got some Beyond The Zone in Huckleberry Blue.
Needless to say, that didn't quite work out either.
Even though the second failure was due to crappy dye rather than user error (and I have emailed the company to ask if they had a bad dye lot or if I shouldn't try using the other colors of theirs I bought), and even though a learning curve is going to be part of any new endeavor, I was feeling pretty discouraged after that second round. Fortunately my brother was pretty gung-ho about fixing it, so off to the store I went again for more bleach, more dye (since they were out of Manic Panic blue, I decided to go with pink), and some dye stripper, which ultimately didn't seem to do much other than smell kind of bad. But, one more bleach job and one bout of pink dye later, and behold.
Was it worth the effort and expense? I like to think so. Mistakes are learning experiences, even when they're expensive ones.
Besides, now I can wish people a Merry Pinkmas.
How do you celebrate Pinkmas? With firearms, of course!
And after three rounds of bleach, two failed dye jobs, an ultimately pointless round with dye stripper and more money than I like to think about spent at the local beauty supply place...
My wish finally came true.
Step one, of course, is bleaching. I'd never done this before, but fortunately my brother's quite experienced in the realm and didn't mind doing it for me. It was downright odd seeing my hair go from dark brown/red to pale yellow/slightly lighter red.
The smile is to hide the burning going on in my scalp.
Results of the bleaching. The ends got gradually darker as there were more layers of previous dye to contend with. It was an oddly foxy look.
I don't think I make a very convincing blonde.
Hair full of dye, take one, using Manic Panic Ultra Violet.
A couple of days later, we got another load of supplies and gave it another go. I was rather disappointed to discover that the local Sally was out of the Ultra Violet, as I quite liked the results on the bits that came out properly. Oddly, the entire store seemed to have been cleaned out of dark blue-purple colors, so I got some Beyond The Zone in Huckleberry Blue.
Needless to say, that didn't quite work out either.
Even though the second failure was due to crappy dye rather than user error (and I have emailed the company to ask if they had a bad dye lot or if I shouldn't try using the other colors of theirs I bought), and even though a learning curve is going to be part of any new endeavor, I was feeling pretty discouraged after that second round. Fortunately my brother was pretty gung-ho about fixing it, so off to the store I went again for more bleach, more dye (since they were out of Manic Panic blue, I decided to go with pink), and some dye stripper, which ultimately didn't seem to do much other than smell kind of bad. But, one more bleach job and one bout of pink dye later, and behold.
Was it worth the effort and expense? I like to think so. Mistakes are learning experiences, even when they're expensive ones.
Besides, now I can wish people a Merry Pinkmas.
How do you celebrate Pinkmas? With firearms, of course!