Hair, hair, hair!

I started to put this post in the last one, and then thought, what the hay, since I jipped you all on posts for the past week, why not have two! The post was born from the fact that I dyed my hair tonight.

I used to have long hair, and would have loved to have gone crazy with it, but long hair is just too much effort. It also gets way too damaged with constant bleaching. With short hair, I bleach, the bleach grows out but by the time I bleach again, I've had one or two haircuts. The old, damaged stuff gets chopped off and it stays relatively healthy.

 The dye I use is Crazy Color and it absolutely killed me spelling that without the u...Anyways, I digress. Kate's Clothing has the most fabulous multi deal on it. One bottle bought from here (home) costs me $24 AUD. I can get 4 for ten pound from Kate's Clothing so with postage it converts to about $28 AUD. You'd have to be crazy to pass that up!

The colours I have in my extensive collection of this dye are Vermillion Red, Pine Green, Capri Blue, Hot Purple and Pinkissimo.

The first time I dyed my hair, I used the Capri Blue, and had it done at a hairdresser. They told me that with bright colours, you need to do several applications of them before they will start holding. Well, I must say, I was a little surprised that I went green. I did love it, but still, I had wanted blue...

I did get my hair pretty blue for a while after that, but for some reason I don't have a photo of it. In that time I was given the nickname Smurf, so I Pinkie Promise that I'm not lying!

After plain blue, I went purple, using the Hot Purple dye. I rather liked it.

After that was the rainbow stage. Blue at the front, pink and purple alternated at the back. No idea what it looked like from the back, but I loved it.

 Then came the red. When I bleached my hair, I found that for some reason, the blue in the fringe wouldn't bleach out. When I first dyed it red (using Vermillion Red) the fringe went black. Over time the red faded from the fringe and it went blue again. I did re-dye the blue at one point too, so most of the pics I've had up on this blog have had me with a blue fringe and red hair.

To celebrate finally being able to raise my arms above my head again (FREEDOM!!!) I thought it was high time I dyed my hair again. Red seems to be everyone's colour of choice for me, but I get bored with the same old thing, day in, day out. So I figured I'd try out the Pine Green I had in the cupboard and see how it would go in my fringe.

You'll get to see how it pans out in my photos from the next week or two. It doesn't seem very bright at the moment, but the wonderful thing about semi-permanent colours such as these, is that they evolve all the time.