plunkybug | Yes, yes. I know.

I'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

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wow, how do you dye your eyebrows? is it difficult? i've never dyed anything before!

A q-tip and a little of the leftover dye. Sometimes, if I have them, I use the little mascara testers that some stores have and brush it on. Very important not to leave it on too long. Also, wipe off with Kleenex and rinse carefully with water. Do not let it drip in your eyes...dry face well and finish with your hair. Voila!

that's awesome!! i bet i could so easily screw that up!!

I think it is fading fast or washing out or something, or maybe I have just gotten used to it. I should stop babbling.

i wish i had the talent and the patience to do it. i've never dyed my hair, ever. i don't really do much with it at all. in fact, it's kind of boring!

I had peer pressure from friends in the end of high school/early college years. Been dying since. :)

peer pressure!! i hung out with all the boring kids :) hehehe!

Then you'da hung out with me. I desperately wanted to be cool and have lots of friends and do things normal kids my age did, but I had to be different and as a result, I am much happier how it was then what it could have been if I ha gotten what I wanted. In the end, I had my own identity that I was building and forming...a process that took many years and into college, and a truly caring small network of close friends instead of an army drone-friends. I am also much smarter and more well-rounded a person than any of *those other people* could have been. I mean, I did not let my brains fall for popularity.

High school nostalgia report is over.

hehe, you are so cute!! i had my own little group of friends at first, but after freshman year i kind of went from one group to another. i was never really popular like a cool kid, but everyone knew me (i was almost unanimously voted "class clown" without realizing everyone even knew my name!). when i was a freshman in college, i commuted to school, and started hanging out with the kids who were considered "cool" in high school. i had so much fun but spent time regretting the time in high school that i wasn't "cool" and went through a whole bizarre personality review, trying to figure out how to stay cool forever. i stayed with the guy i was with way too long because of the cool factor, and eventually we broke up and i realized why i had stayed with him for so long. it's so weird, because as much as college can be like high school, there are so many more people and it's so much different when it comes to being cool and not cool. i never really fit in with the kids in my major, but i did make a lot of friends, and that's all that counts :)

thanks for sharing all that with me!!

High School reunion is this year, but I don't think I will go, as most of my friends were in another class. And the important ones, I keep in touch with now.

me too...i think it would just be fun to see everyone together :)

Not for me, as I did not have many friends, and those friends I did have were not in my class. Besides, it is $65 to go per person.

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