Day 57/183: Achievement Unlocked

[nanila]

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.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Similar colour to my present look.

It suits you.

I've not done my own hair work for years so this is going to be.....interesting!

[nanila]

Yay, thank you!

Good luck with reviving the old skills!

[maellenkleth]

Oh, talk about old skills.

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.