First times are always interesting: coloring my hair
Today's first was me coloring my own hair. When I'm employed, I kinda splurge on the cutting and coloring at a pricey salon on the Eastside. Now, less expensive indulgences have to do.
As I always do before I attempt something new that comes with an insertful of directions, I read through the directions before starting. I have to say that this may be the first time I've ever applied anything to my body that carried the following warning:
Contact between contents and eyes may cause blindness.
Blindness.
Let me just take a moment to reflect on the fact that I'm pretty myopic. I have nice glasses. I didn't wish them to be damaged in this process. In order to avoid damage, they had to come off. As a result, I could neither read the directions unless I held them very close, nor could I actually see what I was doing very well.
Don't think I didn't go into this process without trepidation.
The next thing that I wondered about was:
Apply product onto dry, unwashed hair until hair is completely saturated and color mixture is evenly distributed.
How does one tell if color is evenly distributed? Seriously. I can figure out the saturated bit, but it's not like I've got a meter. And, lest we forget, I'm not wearing my glasses so I'm a big, pink and brown blur in the bathroom mirror. Gloppiness will out, I guess.
Pile hair loosely on top of head...
...from which it kept falling. ::sigh::
Anyway, it's done now, and my silver is no longer visible--at least for the nonce. I have black splotches in places where I must have gotten some of the color on me, including a spot in the middle of my back that I just can't reach. Lessons have been learned for the next time. In the meanwhile, I feel like I look like myself again. Yay!
As I always do before I attempt something new that comes with an insertful of directions, I read through the directions before starting. I have to say that this may be the first time I've ever applied anything to my body that carried the following warning:
Contact between contents and eyes may cause blindness.
Blindness.
Let me just take a moment to reflect on the fact that I'm pretty myopic. I have nice glasses. I didn't wish them to be damaged in this process. In order to avoid damage, they had to come off. As a result, I could neither read the directions unless I held them very close, nor could I actually see what I was doing very well.
Don't think I didn't go into this process without trepidation.
The next thing that I wondered about was:
Apply product onto dry, unwashed hair until hair is completely saturated and color mixture is evenly distributed.
How does one tell if color is evenly distributed? Seriously. I can figure out the saturated bit, but it's not like I've got a meter. And, lest we forget, I'm not wearing my glasses so I'm a big, pink and brown blur in the bathroom mirror. Gloppiness will out, I guess.
Pile hair loosely on top of head...
...from which it kept falling. ::sigh::
Anyway, it's done now, and my silver is no longer visible--at least for the nonce. I have black splotches in places where I must have gotten some of the color on me, including a spot in the middle of my back that I just can't reach. Lessons have been learned for the next time. In the meanwhile, I feel like I look like myself again. Yay!