I started to want a red hair since I was a child. When I was 7-year-old I brought this subject to my parents but they took it like a joke – they did not know I would actually have a bright red one day! After bringing this request to my parents, I knew I need to wait at least ten years to get what I wanted. No parent would give a permission for a 7-year-old girl to have bright red hair!
I had desperately wanted to do something to my hair for years – anything but the regular damn sandy brown color it had always been. I've always had long hair which I think looked like pretty, golden hair for a child but when I got older the color started to look like a bucket of sand to me. So, I remember calling from the hair salon to my mom and got a permission to bleach two blond highlights on the front (with a cost so overprized it now makes me sick to even think of it)... That was in February 2006. But I was beyond happy for I had finally got something done to change my regular hair!
Besides a bright red hair, a pitch black was my second option, but that wasn't so simple either. As a minor every decision, even concerning my hair, was in the hands of my parents and I was not allowed to dye it as “radically” as I would have wanted. But going towards the black hair, I finally got to dye it dark brown at first... This was in 2007.
But then, I finally lured my way to the black hair. It was so lovely for a long time, because that had always been my second choice whatever comes to hair colors! This was in 2008.
At least I had started to dye my hair on my own! After the black hair period I started to go towards the red, first dyeing the two strips in front of my hair red and the rest remained black – I first dyed my hair like this on March 3rd, 2008. That was a rather difficult hair to keep up so I didn’t kept that too long, even I did like it a lot at that time...
Still, I was an idiot by going to a hair salon too often what came to dyeing my hair and paid the outrageously overprized amount of money for it. And to my experiences whatever you say to the hair dresser the final result is still something else than what you asked.
But then, ah, I finally got red hair on 18th of August 2008 and even it was very dark, dark red I was beyond ecstatic! I had waited that day for so very long.
After getting down from the ecstatic cloud of my dark red hair, I decided to take it in my own hands and bleach the hell out of my hair myself. After two bleaches and 3-4 packages of bleach my hair was orange but it was evenly orange and so, it was brighter it had been since it was black – not every color from dark brown to blond roots, like after being at the hair salon and simply just asking them to bleach my hair. I wasn't going for blond but something bright enough to dye it bright red, so bright orange hair was more than perfect base to put on the red dye. So, for a moment in 2009 I had completely orange hair...
I had asked for a bright red hair at the hair salon but since I got a dark red hair, I decided to start to dye my hair myself to actually get what I wanted and to save a whole lot of money. After bleaching the hair-salon-dark-red hair dye out of my hair I found the brightest permanent red hair dye and even I liked the result, it still was too dark for my own taste. Still, I kept it for a long time, dyeing my hair over and over again with the ammonia red because I didn’t know about the semi-permanent hair dyes at the time... My brother have said the darker red suited me better than the brighter.
After bleaching my hair from ammonia red to lighter again it got an orange hair vs. blond roots massacre mess going on with my hair and my hair started to protest after so many ammoniac treatments... But then I found out about shock colored semi-permanent hair dyes and that was an epiphany kind of thing what came to hair dyes and dyeing my hair.
When my hair was finally as red as I had always hoped it would be I just stared it for so long and looked it from the mirror and I was so out of this world because of the joy of having my childhood fantasy of having this red hair finally come true! All my “brighter” and brighter shades of red happened during 2009 and from there on I haven’t changed my hair color – and have no plans to change it!
P.S. I usually have a semi-blond phase between dyeing my hair red... My dad liked it so much, he suggested me to keep the blond hair color and bleach it all the way. He have said he will not change my picture in his phone to a red headed one again. Ha! I kind of liked the semi-blond hair, but I didn't feel quite "myself" with it.
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