My Hair Colors Over the Years

So, since I’m about to start the hair dyeing process again in the near future, I decided to make a post of all the hair colors I’ve had over the years. Before I got a red hair, I had some hair color “stages” which led me to it...

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.

Fifty Shades of Red

The winter has felt like forever, especially those days between a beautiful white coat of snow and those slushy days when the snow isn’t yet gone... I can’t wait for those actually warm days when you can put on something lighter clothing.

But now, at least the snow has melted and I can’t wait for the summer! I have been using pants (yes, pants) almost through the whole winter but now I have started to use skirts again. Oh, how I have been waiting for that.

Also, I have been able to put on my high heels for the first time since winter! I have been using high heels every day about two weeks now and I can’t even describe the feeling... No more combat boots!

Today's outfit consisted a pencil skirt with a silver zipper and a translucent top which comes down like air.

Here’s some more photos from today:

I haven’t been using this necklace for a while but I think it goes well with all the other silver details – and I like the text. 

I thought that my “basic” dark makeup would go well with the dark outfit and black nails. 

I have been enjoying my red hair more than I can put into words. I love how sunlight makes my hair shine!

Tomorrow it’s Friday and the weekend is finally here. I hope you enjoy the springtime and you have had a great week!

 

R E D

Endless seeming hair crisis days are over and my hair is bright red again!

So, goodbye faded pinkish-orange-yellow-mess! One of my friends said once that I look like My Little Pony with my hair – she must be right!

And the roots, oh my God, the roots... They are probably the worst! And also the faded, washed out red which has turned to orange. As you can see; dark roots with faded red hair will show up like a plague.

Depending what brand of red hair dye I’m using, my hair can sometimes fade to orange, but usually now it turns to pinkish color first and that’s why my friend called it a My Little Pony -hair. Bleaching the roots makes my whole appearance look a bit more bearable, but anyone can still see that the hair is a work on progress... So what else there is to do but to dye, dye, DYE! 

This time I had a little over one can of red hair dye left from last time I dyed my hair, so I ordered three more cans, even I knew I won’t be needing that many but I prefer having too much dye than too less – one of the worst feelings what comes dyeing hair is when you run out of hair dye in the middle of the dyeing process! 

To be honest, I was feeling a little under the weather today and didn’t feel like starting dyeing my hair, but I still decided to do it and I couldn’t be happier that I did... I somehow think dyeing takes too much time and effort to even begin with but after I’ve done, I always realize how easy it actually is. 

It took me three cans of hair dye and about 50 minutes to dye my hair – I have never been so organized and fast in dyeing my hair as I was today! 

One of my very favorite feelings is the moment just after I have washed the red dye off of my hair and have bright red hair again. If the hair is bright red even it’s washed and still wet, it’s always a good sign for me. 

This is the result of the whole dyeing process! After dyeing my hair, I try to cherish the red color as long as I can. I always think I will dye my hair at least once in every two months but I always let myself slip from that. That’s why I end up having hair crisis! But with blood, sweat, tears and red hair dye it is all fixed up. I couldn’t feel any better right now, when I can walk with my head held high again!

PS. Here’s a photo of my chubby cat winking at you: 

Scary or cute? 

It's That Time of the Month Again...

I have finally started my hair project, and now after watching my dark roots long enough, it was time to do something about them. Damn it!

I’ve been buying the same bleach for a long, long time since I’ve been proven that it’s good. I remember standing in front of a wall of bleaches trying to pick one before I found the one I’m using now. I still like to wait some time (about a week) before I dye my hair after bleaching, washing it at least once between bleaching and dyeing, so it’s not too much for my hair. I don’t know whether it does anything but still... If my hair is still not red yet but if I must go outside with ”dyeing-in-progress” hair, it is more bearable to walk outside with light roots than dark, for the contrast is more harsh with my own roots.

My mom always helps me to bleach my hair because I’m such a pedantic person that I could easily use at least an hour just to bleach my roots, which isn’t a good thing because I’m dealing with peroxide...

The bleaching was a success – my roots turned out better than I expected!

Next up it is time to dye my hair back to bright red again! I’m now stuck with my pinkish mess, until I get the chance to buy red hair dye at the end of this week. The tins will probably arrive at the beginning of next week... And believe me when I say; I can not wait!

Red is the New Black

So, I finally dyed my hair again. It had been quite a long time since I last did it – but never mind, I finally did it and I’m glad. I no longer have to deal with faded, orange hair anymore which comes between every dyeing... I had bought three new tins of red hair dye and had one older one still in my closet – I tend to buy too much than too little what comes to hair dye because there’s nothing so crappy situation than the hair dye runs out in the middle of the dyeing process and you end up with half dyed hair.

My mom had helped me to bleach my hair a few days earlier I dyed my hair. I haven’t gone to hair salons in years because it’s just way too expensive and I’m way too pedantic to bleach my hair myself, with the ammoniac bleach to let it stay on my hair as long as I’m finished with all of it if I do it all by myself – so it’s always nice to have someone else to help you. I use Semi-Permanent hair dye to dye my hair so it doesn’t do damage to my hair and thus I don’t need to worry about how much time the dyeing process consumes...

 
My schedule kind of prolonged till 22:30 p.m. although I was supposed to start dyeing my hair at 9 p.m. at the latest! I had reserved an hour and a half to dye my hair but it only took an hour. It always takes a right state of mind for me to start dyeing my hair, but after the whole process is over, I’m always like; “It wasn’t that hard! Damn it, why didn’t I do this earlier!?”

I love the actual dyeing process because I’m so concentrated to get every hair covered with the red dye that I don’t think about anything else and my mind is blank – that’s makes so good mentally! Needless to say when the whole dyeing process was over, the clock was after midnight. But I didn’t mind because the result is always beyond worth it, no matter what the time is!

I was at a fair about “making yourself feel at home” at an exhibition centre and this was my outfit today: 

And here is pictures of my hair and makeup: 

I feel so, so, so confident again now I have red hair again after a long time being stuck with the faded orange mess! I will upkeep this color as long as I can and walk with my head high being as confident as one can be!