Bored with my own bad self...

[eregyrn]

I have the unaccountable urge to dye my hair red. Actually, a nice auburn. This came over me suddenly last week and the thought is still in my head. I don't really know WHY, except I'm bored, I guess

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[ex_hedgies507]

For what it's worth, I let "the world's most fabulous hairdresser" change my color to red this summer and it was awesome. But I had a hell of a time getting used to it, so I asked her to change it back when I saw her in September.

Again - fabulous job. Exactly what I wanted.

Point is - it really is worth seeing a professional like her if you want it done right. She will do whatever it takes to make you happy. And she understands the words "financially challenged" ---

[eregyrn]

I dunno, though -- the fact that I was coloring it for years with the $10 stuff from CVS, with perfectly good results, doesn't go a long way towards convincing me that it *does* pay to have it done "right" by a professional (because, you know, it's not like I felt like it wasn't being done right before). I'm sure this is short-sighted of me, but -- as I say, nothing's happened to convince me otherwise.

It would probably shock me a bit to go back to the dark red, too. I didn't think it looked that bad *on* me, though.

[keiko_kirin]

I have been totally behind the times catching up, but this post made me bounce because I've been having spookily similar thoughts lately. I used to dye my hair red, and it came out a nice dark shiny coppery color that I liked a lot. I got tired of doing it about 8 years ago, but lately I've been thinking about how much I liked that color. But in those 8 years, I've started going grey, and I don't want to cover the grey up or look like I'm trying to. *sigh*

I don't have the hairdresser problem, though. I was spoiled rotten by 2 great hairdressers when I lived East, but out here, it's been nothing but overpriced, attitude-filled butchery. So I've resorted to giving myself semi-annual trims, God help me.

Have you decided what to do yet?

[eregyrn]

*waves* Hi! Wow, eerie!

I'm still dithering, although I am inching closer to actually doing it. Factors include: do I want to go to the trouble? (Not just of doing it, but of the process of getting it back to natural sometime in the future when I get tired of it again.) Will it look okay on me or not? One doesn't wish to look bad, with all one's friends just being too polite to say so. (My closest friends still in Boston are boys, who are not always great with being forthcoming about fashion advice, despite one of them being a very fashionable gay man; I finally got a close female friend who's known me with both hair-colors to offer the opinion that she genuinely thinks I looked good with the dark-red hair. Whew.)

I decided to get a hair-cut appt. this week (I need it badly), and I will at least warn my hairdresser that I'm doing it, which is better than just showing up having done it, perhaps. So, possibly this weekend! Yikes...

[eregyrn]

I did it. Boredom outweighed the effort involved. Plus my hairdresser reacted quite well. I'm a very dark, chestnut-brown red now. Doing it didn't shock me as much as I thought it would. I look in the mirror and think, "oh, yeah, I remember that".