Gone Back To The Dark Side

Well, I went blonde a couple of weeks ago...sort of. It definitely wasn't the blonde I wanted.

Not terrible, but it was a heck of a time even getting to that, if you remember. What a nightmare. I haven't loved the way it turned out and knew I eventually wanted to try to gradually lighten it more, but was giving it a little break of course.

Over the last two weeks, I don't know if it's pregnancy, but I just have not liked the way I look. I felt I looked "blah". The color did not go with my skin tone really at all, so that didn't help. As I said before doing it, I didn't want to be a yellow blonde, I had to be more ashy/light. Well, I had yellow.

So now at two weeks and being fed up, I knew it was time to either try to attempt more of the blonde I wanted, or just give up and go back to dark brown. Well, the dark brown won. I didn't even want to mess with the blonde anymore - such a bad experience. I suppose if I ever do it again, it will be when I can afford to have it done right at a salon. Since I can't do that right now, brown it is...and you know what, it suits me a lot better I think. My eyes are blue - everyone loves blue eyes with dark hair, right? {Hello, Megan Fox!}

Plus, I think it's the best color for fall and winter anyhow.

So here I am, again with dark brown hair. It is REALLY dark right now, but will lighten with a few weeks of washes. I always have to use two boxes, so that makes it really intense. But I don't mind.

What's your honest opinion? The blonde or the brunette?

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Of Hair Tragedies & Triumps

I made a big change to my hair...remember how I said I wanted to go blonde again {it's been so many years}? Well, I started the transition...trying to get a natural blonde...so I didn't want to do anything too light or abrupt right away...to get away from a dyed dark brown, you have to be careful. I started this weekend with Feria Hi-Lift Brown...it was a very caramel light blondish brown with some shimmer to it, so I thought it would be a good base. It was meant for dark brown to black hair.

It did not turn out good. Basically, my roots were dyed the color and the rest of my hair stayed dark brown. Extreme lightening, hi-lift - my ass. Disaster. I put my hair up in a pony tail and ran to Walgreen's to get a color removal system. I read online about this one:

It was nerve-racking to try it, but I went for it. It lifted a lot of the brown and I ended up with an orange-y strawberry blonde shade {expected}. I had also picked up this hair dye knowing I would have to dye it again after {my poor hair}:

And well, not much better...my roots were still very light in comparison to the rest of my hair, though at least my dark brown had lifted to a more light brown. To everyone's disappointment, I did not take a picture of any of these stages...I do not want the record. However, if you are going to learn something from this post, just remember, it was BAD, very bad.

At this point, I didn't want to do anything more for fear my poor hair might retaliate from all the chemicals and just fall out. So I gave 'er a rest for the night and let myself stew think about what route I wanted to go - either just give up and buy a box of dark brown, or continue to try to achieve the blonde I was going for.

The next day, I threw it up in a pony tail {that was the only way to somewhat disguise the hell that was my hair}...and I went to work. My bosses are in town this week, and surprisingly, neither of them said anything about it {I guess they know when not to say anything}.

Anyway, I had a box of highlights in my linen closet, so I decided I'd go ahead and give it a try. I figured the highlights would help break up the line between my blonde roots and my brown shaft...help it blend a little better. So, here's the result:

So yeah, a little better...and able to wear it down in public. It's not what I want exactly, I definitely have some work to do. I want to achieve a more natural blonde, not so yellowish-toned. More like this:

I'm still a pretty far cry from that...so I'm going to work on it {slowly but surely}...this little beauty endeavor is to be continued...

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