Learning to love your hair, in four easy steps.

[rheasilvia]

Do you ever think it'd be extremely cool to whole-heartedly approve of your hair? Well, help is nigh! I have personally developed and tested an easy four-step program that achieves just this result.

1. Dye your hair a horrible, no-good, awful shade.Make sure the color in question is entirely wrong for you. A hint of orange is usually a good

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[japanimecrazed]

I died my hair bright red a few weeks ago and over the next two weeks it went through various shades of red, pink, and orange, with small amounts of blonde thrown in. The red was, good, the pink was acceptable, and the orange and blonde deserved to be shaved off. The terribleness was compounded by my desperate need for a haircut. I was vaguely horrified when I got compliments throughout the whole period

[rheasilvia]

Your hair does sound scary. O_O How can it change colors like that all on its own? It must have severe personality issues... or, indeed, be possessed by the ghosts of a flock of particularly flamboyant drag queens!

It's not actually the sometimes unfortunate colors that bother me so much as the constant care unnatural colors require.

Yes!! I didn't intentionally go for an unnatural color - though I'm pretty sure that the orange-tinted blond it turned out to be is not ever found in nature - but my hair went to total straw on me after the (permanent-type and so pretty vicious) dye job. Weirdly enough, the second dye job seems to have helped there - I splurged on an ammonia-free dye plus some super-fancy two-phase deep conditioner.

Sadly, I've got several more bottles of neon semi-permanents to go through before I can return to it. :(

What is this strange circumstance that forces you to use these bottles...? I hope that never happens to me!!

[japanimecrazed]

My hair is now dark red and actually attractive again. Yay!

The first time I tried bleaching my hair I went for platinum, but it came out orange. I've bleached it twice more since (in the space of about a month), but my hair refuses to get that light, which is why I keep using the neons. I could pull of white, but I don't have the skin tone for blonde. Luckily, my hair stays pretty healthy so long as I condition daily.

And I have to use the dyes. I bought them, after all, and they'd feel rejected if I used all the colors except them!

[rheasilvia]

Yay indeed! :-))

Ack, the orange. :-/ I did much the same - went for a shade of blond that simply doesn't look good on me (and that featured a tinge of goldy-orange to boot; wouldn't have worked even without the orange, though). Platinum would probably have looked better, and I did consider going there... but at that point I wasn't up for any more experimenting. *g*

I always wanted to try aubergine, that really dark color with a purple shimmer... or dark, dark red, like the color I'm imagining on you right now. :-) But I'd have to use a permanent dye, because my natural color is too light for a semi-permanent dark color to come out right.

they'd feel rejected if I used all the colors except them!

There is that! :-)