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Until today, I had never dyed my own hair. My hair has been green, blue and purple. I've had synthetic locks, real locks [see icon], and real locks with synth locks tied in. There have been periods where I went to the hairdresser religiously for months, and I've also gone years without bothering to do anything at all with my hair apart from wash it regularly. When I've wanted it, I've always had the luxury of being able to pay professionals to colour and style my hair. It's a treat to go to a salon, especially now that I have children, as it's two to three hours I get to myself at a weekend every couple of months.
Obviously this isn't possible under the current circumstances. I colour my hair regularly now that I have a significant amount of grey, and because my last appointment was in January, my roots were getting quite obvious. So the bloke picked up some hair dye for me when he went to the shop today. He didn't have much choice, but since we're not going into the office at the moment, he got me an exciting electric red. Or at least it was on the box. As you can see above, my hair - at least the part that's not grey - is extremely dark. So the colour took variably, shall we charitably say.
I'm pretty sure I'll be straight back in the salon once it re-opens. It's not just the unintentional two-tone effect, it's the fact that it took me ages to apply the stuff.
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I do share your frustration with home colour kits. My white roots are now taking over from my (hairdresser-assisted for years) blonde.
Back to the Saturday chores -- be well!
/elane
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Woe :(
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Did the box advertise a much more red (fire engine red?) kind of coloration?
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It suits you.
I've not done my own hair work for years so this is going to be.....interesting!
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Good luck with reviving the old skills!
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I think that the last time I attempted to colour my own hair was in 1988, the night before a big meeting with a group of Japanese mining engineers (concerning a colliery in Salishaan that never got built anyway).
Anyway, long story short, I was regularly having my hair dyed Chinese black at a salon, and there I was in a hotel room far away. Fortunately there was a chemists on the high street of the town I was in. So I bought and mixed up a bowl of initially-colourless dye.
I did the dye-job in the bath of the hotel room. Not until the next morning did I realise, to my horror, that the bath and nearby surfaces were all splodged with gobbets of sticky black goop.
Plus, to add insult to injury, I had splodged my earlobes, too.
The Japanese engineers were utter ladies and gentlemen and said not a word about my polka-dotted visage. ^_^
So, there are good, fine, solid reasons to stick with blonde nowadays.
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I've been dying my own hair for a long time and it took a bit of experimentation and a bit of stubborn persistence to find a colour and brand that worked well for me and I have the opposite problem to you - light coloured hair rather than dark. I'm pretty sure that I've gone entirely grey now but my original plan of letting it all the dye grow out at that stage has been shelved because I still like having black hair enough to go through the regular process of doing the dye job.
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I'm hoping my proficiency will improve. I'm impressed at yours; I would have had no idea you did your own if you hadn't said so. :)
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It looks to me like an intentional ombre, or what the length of mine does when I get a lot of sun. Mine doesn't go even remotely evenly and it's entirely natural.
Maybe it'll grow on you? Or maybe you'll become more skilled (by your own estimation of the results.) If ever there was a time for experimentation, it's now!
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