Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.

[merimask]

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

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

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 :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

It's funny...if I had known how nearly IMPOSSIBLE it is to achieve that wonderful rich coppery-brown that I had as a kid & young adult, I'd have cherished it more. ANYone can have blond hair. That's easy. It's those rich browns that are hard to find in a bottle. I keep telling Charlotte this (her hair is almost the same color mine was) but she doesn't believe me. :-/

I love your hair & your color experiments. :-) Wild hair colors are SO cute on short hair.