I got a wild hair yesterday, literally, and decided to utterly change my hair color. I've had to color it for some time now, 'cause of the gray (it's the most undignified gray pattern ever...like a skunk stripe along my center part), but I've been doing it the same way for years and I thought it might be time for something different.
Actually, it's closer to my real hair color, which is a sort of chestnut brown. I think it's a tad too dark, but I spend so much time in the sun that I'm sure it'll lighten up a bit. I had Tracy put red highlights in it, so to me it seems pretty gaudy.

Greg likes it though (I think).
I'm doing a small SCA event tomorrow. It's nearby, they don't have many merchants showing up, and I think it'll be fun. Plus OMG I need the money...I spent 300.00 yesterday on supplies. O_O
Actually, it's closer to my real hair color, which is a sort of chestnut brown. I think it's a tad too dark, but I spend so much time in the sun that I'm sure it'll lighten up a bit. I had Tracy put red highlights in it, so to me it seems pretty gaudy.

Greg likes it though (I think).
I'm doing a small SCA event tomorrow. It's nearby, they don't have many merchants showing up, and I think it'll be fun. Plus OMG I need the money...I spent 300.00 yesterday on supplies. O_O
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Supplies costing money = not fun. I feel guilty that I'm thinking about buying cocoa absolute and some other yummy things, seeing as how I've already spent so much money on just beginning perfumery. . .*grin*
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(Ugh, buying supplies always both fun and painful. But no pain, no gain in the art world, right? Le sigh)
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Dad always said you have to spend money to make money. :-/
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Hmm. I should go do the same thing. I'm not so thrilled with this odd reddish/blondish color that I ended up with. Not schnazzy enough for me! :D
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Ooo...try a shade darker. It really does make the hair very shiny, and shiny = good.
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In that pic, it softens your skin and makes you look very very feminine :) I actually prefer the darker shade on you, it makes you look very soft :)
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Although, if you went a little redder AND let the skunk stripe come in, you'd be all set for X-Men cosplay!
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After seeing the first X-men movie my husband (who is younger than me & used to tease me about the little white hairs until he started growing his own) said "Stop coloring your hair & let the white come in...it might be cool!" OBVIOUSLY he was thinking of Rogue.
So I sez "OK" 'cause why should I pay 60 bucks every two months if he doesn't care if I go gray? Four months later I look twenty years older with a VERY unattractive thatch of the ugliest salt & pepper bangs you've ever seen.
He meekly suggests that maybe I should go get my hair "done". I agree heartily & now I keep up my coloring appointments come hell or high water. :-) When your younger husband says "Maybe you should color your hair", you don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out to the salon!
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Char's pining for blonde has me giggling because I'm secretly blonde under all the dye (ssssh don't tell anyone) and was just THRILLED when I finally worked up the nerve to go fake, I hated being blonde! Mind you, growing up someplace where that coloring is very unusual didn't help any, nor did having weird undertones in my skin that clashed with the hair...but what really clinched it was seeing how much differently I got treated as a redhead. With my natural color, far too often people seemed surprised I had a brain in my head (and a sharp tongue to match) -- I guess there are folks who actually BELIEVE those awful dumb-blonde-bimbo stereotypes! Red, well, they EXPECT you to have a temper, so you get treated with a bit more of a healthy sense of respect. ;)
(And you'll probably laugh at me for being a little jealous of the gray, as aside from one possible white hair a year ago...and it's hard to tell for sure because I have some natural platinum streaks that are pretty damn close to white...I still can't find anything noticeable when my roots come in. Looks like I'll be following the typical pattern of my mother's side of going grey very very slowly and very very late. Which means my dreams of having hair like Emmylou Harris must stay on the shelf, le sigh.)
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I don't think it's too dark, looks just right to me. Mine when I first do it is BLACK, and I'm a shade or so fairer than you are, so you can imagine how that looks. But it fades out pretty quickly, the perfect stage seems to be somewhere around three weeks. It's a nice chestnut shade, what you have there, that's the colour I'd want to have all the time if my hair was straight brown. Alas, the red always comes through in a couple of washes...pure brown doesn't last at all on me and I get so sick of the red!
For all I get bored so often, I just couldn't go blonde, not ever...being dark-haired is part of my personality. Probably partially because my three female family members all went the opposite way :)
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I love your hair & your color experiments. :-) Wild hair colors are SO cute on short hair.
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Will visit your site ASAP. It's been a busy weekend!
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The funniest part is; I can't tell if my face is actually getting thinner or if the dark hair around it just makes it LOOK thinner! Either way, I like it. :-)
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Funnily enough, I got more "did you dye those?" remarks in all the years when my hair was natural than I ever did when I was using even some rather unusual deep violet-reds; my real color grows in such variegated streaks, including a couple of really fake-looking platinum streaks at the temples, that people thought it must have been highlighted. ;)
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lol My hair used to be super blonde. Now it's a very dull blonde. If I was out in the sun more they'd have lovely highlights but I don't dig too much sunlight.