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29 June 2003 20:28I'm feeling a little anxious about going in to work tomorrow because I dyed my hair Friday night, and the results came out darker than I had expected, so I will definitely get comments on it because it is such a change. I did want my hair darker, but not this dark. At least I had the common sense to dye my eyebrows a little darker to match. I think it is ok, and it will be better after the color begins fading, but what I am going to dread is telling everyone that I know it is darker. Ugh...
A few things went wrong with the whole thing. For starters, I wasn't able to clearly determine my natural color, because it has been dyed reddish the last 9-10 years. Judging from roots, I had a hard time figuring out what the color was. This did not help me when I spoke to the nice people at Clairol. They offered great advice...if my hair was darker than I thought it actually was. I ended up mixing half dark ash blonde and half light brown. I should have stuck with dark blonde on both fronts. Maybe it was my fear of going back to blonde that drove me to the light brown mecca. I also think I was blind to what looked good on others than what would actually look good on me The other mistake is that I did not do a strand test to see if it would be too dark; I figured it couldn't be that bad. I have never done a strand test and always been ok...except once. And I survived that incident.
It does definitely look different, but I checked with some total strangers in a hair care store and they thought it was my natural color, and said it looked fine. Maybe they were just being nice, but not everybody is a great actor/actress, so I tend to look on the positive side of people and think that they were probably telling me the truth.
Well, we'll see what happens tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Hopefully that will be a good indicator of what my family will think when I see them for the fourth celebration. My dad always loved his blonde baby. But if they were ok with the red, I think they'll be ok with this too. Family is great like that.
I am going to go, as there is a special on The Jam on the tv in the other room...live shows, etc. "Kick out the Style; bring back The Jam."
Plus, there is ice cream!! :p
A few things went wrong with the whole thing. For starters, I wasn't able to clearly determine my natural color, because it has been dyed reddish the last 9-10 years. Judging from roots, I had a hard time figuring out what the color was. This did not help me when I spoke to the nice people at Clairol. They offered great advice...if my hair was darker than I thought it actually was. I ended up mixing half dark ash blonde and half light brown. I should have stuck with dark blonde on both fronts. Maybe it was my fear of going back to blonde that drove me to the light brown mecca. I also think I was blind to what looked good on others than what would actually look good on me The other mistake is that I did not do a strand test to see if it would be too dark; I figured it couldn't be that bad. I have never done a strand test and always been ok...except once. And I survived that incident.
It does definitely look different, but I checked with some total strangers in a hair care store and they thought it was my natural color, and said it looked fine. Maybe they were just being nice, but not everybody is a great actor/actress, so I tend to look on the positive side of people and think that they were probably telling me the truth.
Well, we'll see what happens tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Hopefully that will be a good indicator of what my family will think when I see them for the fourth celebration. My dad always loved his blonde baby. But if they were ok with the red, I think they'll be ok with this too. Family is great like that.
I am going to go, as there is a special on The Jam on the tv in the other room...live shows, etc. "Kick out the Style; bring back The Jam."
Plus, there is ice cream!! :p
