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Live Fast And Dye Your Hair
Mar. 14th, 2009 07:37 pmI like having dyed hair - if nothing else, it tends to be a good conversation opener - but I really hate the actual process of dyeing it. When Linda does it for me it's relatively painles, but doing it on my own...oof. Labor-intensive! Plus it's so messy. This may just be the long hair thing, but I always manage to make a huge mess of our little sink alcove thing when I do my hair. The whole basin ends up purple, there's water all over the floor, etc etc. Plus I have dye all over my arms where the gloves didn't go up far enough.
I leave it on for awhile to try to get the color to last longer, and I look like an idiot while I do - most of my hair is pulled back in a ponytail, and my bangs are rolled up in tin foil and bobby-pinned to my head. I can't leave my room while it's setting, because, hey, look like an idiot, and I'm superparanoid about getting dye on things so I can't get comfortable doing stuff on my computer and whatever. And the chemical-y scent of the dye makes me a little sick to my stomach, not crazy about that either.
It's almost enough to make me want to give it up and stop dyeing. Almost, but not quite enough! Having purple hair is just too much fun. Although I am a little worried about how it will turn out this time around. I wanted the color to be a little more purple than the violet Manic Panic I'm using, so I mixed in some of my leftover purple from the brand I used before - but I was half through before I thought of it. I'm hoping I don't end up with one side of my hair a different color than the other...that might be a bit odd even for me. D:
At least I have Nightwing to read while I'm doing this. It makes me so sad this book was canceled - Dick is so adorably awesome! And OMG pretty. Not just pretty, but in a blue-and-black bodysuit so tight it looks painted on. It's a GOOD thing.
I leave it on for awhile to try to get the color to last longer, and I look like an idiot while I do - most of my hair is pulled back in a ponytail, and my bangs are rolled up in tin foil and bobby-pinned to my head. I can't leave my room while it's setting, because, hey, look like an idiot, and I'm superparanoid about getting dye on things so I can't get comfortable doing stuff on my computer and whatever. And the chemical-y scent of the dye makes me a little sick to my stomach, not crazy about that either.
It's almost enough to make me want to give it up and stop dyeing. Almost, but not quite enough! Having purple hair is just too much fun. Although I am a little worried about how it will turn out this time around. I wanted the color to be a little more purple than the violet Manic Panic I'm using, so I mixed in some of my leftover purple from the brand I used before - but I was half through before I thought of it. I'm hoping I don't end up with one side of my hair a different color than the other...that might be a bit odd even for me. D:
At least I have Nightwing to read while I'm doing this. It makes me so sad this book was canceled - Dick is so adorably awesome! And OMG pretty. Not just pretty, but in a blue-and-black bodysuit so tight it looks painted on. It's a GOOD thing.