So, at the end of the Spring semester, in May, I decided to take a drastic leap and dye my hair very, very red. I used a red-for-brown hair color, from a bottle I got at the Wal-Mart. The thing about red-for-brown colors is that they sort of wash your color out and replace it with red. For the first time ever, my hair actually came out exactly like the box... exactly. It was, well, it was horrifiying, actually. I got a lot of compliments on it, so everyone else liked it, but it was really hard for me to look at myself in the mirror and know I had to go to work looking like I'd gotten into a knock-down drag-out with a box of red crayons.
See, told you! It's so, so red. I waited and tried to get use to it, but it never would grow on me. It also wouldn't rinse out completely. My dye was still running red after more than a month. Never, I repeat never, use Garnier hair colors. They're horrible!! So, dissatisfied, I bought a color to cover it up that I thought would be perfect. It was called "Auburn Black" which, I should say, could have stood to be more black than it was auburn. The result was this...
Yeah, not exactly what I was looking for. But, again, I managed to get a Garnier hair color and again it wouldn't rinse out completely. Horrible products, seriously, horrible. Okay, enough Garnier bashing, I think you get the point. I dealt with this color for a month, got more compliments on it than I had the previous red, but I couldn't kick the cheap feeling. I felt like I looked horrible, and no amount of compliments was going to fix it. Now don't get me wrong, I like red, but my god, this has been a nightmare.
Fast forward to the day before yesterday. I got a bottle of Medium Ash Brown, because I'd heard that ash covers red. That is a bald. face. lie. Good god, it literally did nothing. It dyed my roots a lighter color than they already were, which made my hair look worse, actually. When I was done, my hair was exactly the same color it had been before dying, except for my roots, of course. I cursed, I threw a tantrum, I had a fit. Yeah, I wasn't happy.
My lovely friends offered me all sorts of help, via Facebook. The recommendation I decided to take was to use unRed in my hair color to keep the red tones out of the color. Today, I went to Sally to get it, but while I was there, they talked me into a different option. They said the UnRed wouldn't cover the color I had, that I'd have to lighten and then dye again, or go so dark my hair would be nearly black to cover the red. Then, they showered me with compliments about my current red hairdo and convinced me to dye again, but to use a professional color. I agreed, got all the stuff, and got to dying tonight. I felt so weird brushing color onto my hair, but I did it. And here's the results...
I think I'll have to take an outside picture, tomorrow, to get a really good idea about how it compares to the other two. It's certainly dark, but initial feelings are that I like it. That's a heck of a lot more than I can say about the other two reds, so far.
Whew! Okay, what do you think? Tomorrow I'll replace it with an outside picture and hopefully I'll still like it then, too!
For now, good night. I've had a long day of studying and have another, tomorrow. Adieu!!
Small update: Here's how it looks outside. I decided to leave the other picture and just add this one...
I wasn't up long when I took this picture, so excuse the look. My dog needed to go out, so I went out with him and took my camera. So, what do you think? Matt likes, I really like it, I think this one's a keeper!! Now if I could only figure out what to do about my eyebrows!
