Farewell red hair – I will miss you so much….
I have got my hair fixed today. I had prepared myself for quite a light-colored hair, with lots of highlight. I had two options: I would either have it dyed to platinum colour and have dark brown low lights all over. Or, have it dyed to close to its original dark brown, and have lots of highlight. The colorist gave me two options: one: colour correction, which would take multiple visits (and a longer time frame to get a decent hair in the short term), or second: dyeing it to brown and have highlights. I chose the second option.
I was not ready to leave the current shade. I kept looking at the red colour and got very saddened….
It was a meticulous process that took around 5 hours; highlights in foils first. Root treatment second. Dyeing the rest of the hair next. And finally a toner application.
I was suspicious that the hair colour would turn too dark and as a result when the roots start showing up, the contrast would be weird. This is mostly because while washing out the toner, the colorist said that the highlights were somehow dark…. Argh…..
The moment I looked at my new hair was disappointment. All I could see was dark brown and no highlights…. Poor colorist needed to talk to me defensively 15 minutes or so, and try to convince me that the highlights would get lighter in two weeks. I was not convinced. Until she moved me over to the window where there was a lot of light. There I saw what she meant. Yes there were highlights, and yes there were not very strong, but I have had some lightness to hair colour that gave me hope and realize that we were on the right track! I apologized sincerely.
Of course transitioning to my gray hair is a process that will take around a year. There will be times that I will lose my cool again and attempt to change it to platinum or something. But, today I feel like at least I have started the process and so far it is okay.
Tomorrow is another day. Let’s think about it then.
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My hair after today’s treatment:
And this was a day ago
Your new hair looks good!
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really! thank you so much 🙂
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Yes! It’s the next stage of the new you!
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right on!! many thanks 🙂
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I think the color looks great with your skin tone. I have no idea what color your eyes are, but I bet they stand out more now too.
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my sister said the same thing re; eyes standing out more. i have hazel eyes and they look incredibly big and green with this hair. I am grateful for this (until the roots start showing up, but we will figure this out then). thank you for the compliment! it made me feel good about this hair :))))
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It’s pretty!! Similar to my natural color
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thanks a lot! it is very close to my natural colour as well. 🙂
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Looks good!
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aww.. thanks 🙂
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I like this brown color on you! It looks good.
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thank you so much! I think I am getting to like it myself. it was good of me to take the pic of the red/orange colour prior to turning it into brown. looking at both I am choosing the brown one too 🙂
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I like your new hair. I think it looks really good. For real.
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thank you! looking at both pics I also came to the same conclusion. I may like red hair, but brown serves me better I guess 🙂
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It looks so good! Totally natural.
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thank you very much! 🙂
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I like the new color a lot!! It looks more natural than the red did.
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thanks Jen! I am grateful for taking the pic of terrible red head 🙂 the new one really works for me, I came to believe now 🙂
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It turned out nice!
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thank you :))))
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I agree with everyone else….very nice color!!
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thank you! 🙂
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The brown hair looks fab. I bet it would make your hazel eyes pop :).
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yes indeed! almost greenish they look. I am not missing my reddish/orange hair anymore – this one is so lovely. my highlights re getting lighter with each wash, so I am hopeful that it will not be as bad as i thought it would be when the roots start to show up 🙂
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