I've done dark and tried light once or twice but dark wins every time, it's just so rich and shiny and doesn't damage your hair like going lighter does...makes it thicker rather than thinner/more brittle. This is why my hair is always in better condition than my blonde mother and my two blonde sisters.
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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Date: 2007-06-30 03:44 pm (UTC)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 :)