Ok, first of all, this whole dying your hair thing is A LOT harder then it looks. DAMN. And it's VERY messy. Holy shit, my entire bathroom was this funky shade of purple when I was done. Second, the next time I decide to do something like this, I'm having someone else apply the stuff. It's just too damn hard to evenly coat your hair. I ended up with more like highlights then a full head of redish hair. It's weird. I even did it, waited, rinsed, dried it, saw it wasn't enough, and saturated it again. You really need to use A LOT of the actual dye. When you think you have too much, add more. Use the whole damn bottle. And make sure, you get it along the hairline itself - otherwise, it's really screwy looking. Here's the stuff I used by the way. Easy enough. Just open the one bottle, pour it into the other, shake and apply. Didn't smell bad - actually, didn't smell like anything - and didn't irritate my skin at all (and it's really sensitive). Let me tell you though, those ten minutes you have to wait are like the longest in your life! =)

Man, I really need to have someone either help me, or pay someone to do it next time. I like the results colorwise, but it's just not nearly even enough. My hair is so very dark normally that wherever I didn't literally drown it in color, it's still very much brown. Like I said, looks more like I hightlighted it. It's kinda weird though seeing myself with redish hair. Although it's cool. Just makes my already almost black eyebrows look even blacker! *lol* I can't wait to see what it looks like in daylight. The only mirror in the house is in the bedroom and that's a shitty light. Wonder what my Love will think??

What? Oh, you want to see what it looks like yourself? *grin* I'll show ya, hold on. I just have to mention that my stupid scanner went shitty again. Remember I was just saying how it used to fill the entire surface area with shades of horrid yellow and green? Well, it did that when I tried to scan the result. No problem yesterday, no problem earlier when I did the "before" scan, just problem now. I even tried rebooting, thinking perhaps I was low on resources and that was causing a problem. Nope. No good. So, sorry, the pic is horrible. It's mostly all yellow. (and this is after trimming the bed size down to almost nothing.) It's hard to see, but yes, there is a difference. It's rather subtle, but looks pretty cool.


Ready for it...?

Sure...?

So, what do you think?
*just ignore the stupid, stupid ugly yellow bar. There's nothing I can do to get rid of it and for whatever reason, the scanner is hating me*

Hard to tell, I know, but kinda cool, hu? I like it anyway. Actually, now I'm really eager to do it again with someone's help to get it more even and actually leave it on more then the standard ten minutes to make it more intense. (it says you can leave it in up to 20 minutes) Of course, this being the first time I did it, I had no idea what to expect.

Anyway, I need to go to bed. This was a LONG evening and I have a shit load of emotional packing to do tomorrow. Have a good one all...

...zzz...

ps: I probably won't be online much if at all tomorrow. My Love will be over helping me pack up and probably spend all day doing that. If I'm on, it won't be until the evening/night. I'm sure I'll have more to report then...probably more crying as well. But at least tonight I did one thing kinda productive without crying. Hey, it's a start.

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 4/22/2001 03:40:34 AM ~ ~