an entry about hair that you can skip
August 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM
I dyed my hair over the weekend. Earth shattering, no? Well, my hair parts naturally and the zipper of roots down that part was fug so I needed to take care of it. I dye my own hair because I am cheap. Also, because my hair is curly, it's more likely to hide horrific mistakes should something go horribly awry. (That's only happened once and it was an extreme situation—trying to go from deep red back to blond without professional help—and the curls were useless then, so why I think they help hide mistakes is somewhat of a mystery.) I use boxed colour and I'm not consistent with the colour I choose. I like to keep my hair on its toes, I guess. Though generally, I wind up with Revlon's Colorsilk colour because it's consistently inexpensive (under $5—told you I'm cheap) and it doesn't smell like napalm. I haven't had a haircut since before busy season, February possibly. While it's a testament to my girl's talent that my hair has grown out in a manner that doesn't suggest a pack of wombats resides in it, it also means that no one has used those magical thinning shears on my head in a good six months either, so there's plenty of room for those wombats. My hair is now long enough that I have to put it into a ponytail when I sleep so that I don't have to spend ten minutes untangling knots before I get into the shower in the morning. It's not especially long to the average gal—barely shoulder length—but there's a massive amount of it. I could have probably dipped my head in the gulf a few times by now and cleaned up all the damn oil from Deepwater. Just wash it with Dawn, right? I mean, I did that back in the day when I attempted to dye my hair blue. (Hey, remember? Yellow and blue make green. Just FYI.) Dawn and Tide get Manic Panic out of your hair best, should you need to know. But you'll need to follow up with a whole bottle of Three Minute Miracle. Anyway, I found that while I was dying my zipper roots, I now officially have more hair than a dye kit has dye. Had I needed to do my entire head, I'd have needed a second box of dye. I haven't needed more than one package of dye since the aforementioned Yellow-and-Blue-make-Green blunder of 1994 and my hair was loooooong then. The blond I'm using might be the same as the last batch I used, or else it's close enough that I didn't think it necessary to go get another box. Totally unrelated—I'm trying to figure out how to post the list of cool etsy finds. It might just be easier to do it as a whole separate blog, but do I really want to go that route?
Reader Comments (1)
Okay, why-oh-why aren't you showing us a photo of your freshly dyed do??!??! p.s. this site still thinks my url for my blog is BS and I don't get it!