10 posts tagged “hair”
I find that when I talk to people that ask about my hair I always get their hair stories too. But now I'm finding I get people that imply that I'm unhappy with my natural color of my hair. Yes, it's true, God did not give me naturally purple hair and that does make me sad. :( But I'm happy with the hair I have, I like having black hair, it's a hell of a lot easier to take care of than colored hair!! I just enjoy the unnatural colors, they're fun! I really don't like it implied that I think there's something wrong with my real hair color because I love that color too. So there!
I've been battling with my hair color because it didn't turn out like I expected, you can only see it's full glory in daylight. In dim light areas, I look like I have black hair or a very deep purple in the front. So I'm in the process of altering it a little, but I'm warming up to it.
Anyway, I'm babbling since I'm tired and just wanted to update my Vox. I haven't been feeling moblogging lately. Not to mention, I hate when I feel like I'm not blogging for myself. I hate thinking "Oh I haven't updated my Vox in a while." I really loathe that. But OMG I GOT A NEW CUT! 0_0 I think I like it, it takes me three days to decide. I just like it being light and showcasing my color. *sigh*
That has an insanely comfortable strap? I like that this tote has compartments that I actually use! It holds everything in a nice little spot. The strap's inside is very good to my shoulders and I like the quote for some reason. It's a horrible thing to say, to me. So..I dunno. Also! I'm thinking about changing my hair BECAUSE I AM INSANE.
I just wanted a clean up cut.
You want the best you got the best. Atleast I didn't qoute the "dabba-dee-by-dye blue" song. haha But yeah I have a lot of Special Effects dye that I haven't used and I didn't want this one to be in the "never used" section! lol
Superhero. I wanted a change. So I did that. Also when I say "Superhero" I look like one of those real life protrayals of superhero type girls or girls before they become their "true self" which is usually with longer hair. It's kind of funny to me. But I need to style it and play with it a bit.
People frequently ask me how do I keep my red in my hair for a long period of time. Actually people ask me this all the time. I even had one person(a waitress from the section beside me) blop down in the chair beside me while I was waiting for food to ask me how I kept the red in my hair long term. I thought I would blog this since it's a valid frequent question I get, and I think you have the right to know the answer to it.
I do a combination of things to ensure my reds last for a pretty good while. Most people turn their nose up when I tell them because they will not give up their rountine to keep a hair color! It blows my mind that you want this color and you want to last, but not give up what you do normally??? I'm baffled!
First of all, you are going to accept that it fades, it just does. You can't stop it from happening but you can slow it down!
1. I only wash my hair once or twice a week at the most! The hair color falls out with every wash and I've learned this from experience that you CAN NOT wash your hair everyday. This girl that asked me told me she had dyed her hair pink a week ago and there was NO color in her hair whatsoever. It was because she washed it everyday. DO NOT WASH YOUR HAIR EVERYDAY. Delay it as much as you can!
2. When my hair starts getting oily, I put cornstarch in my hair! I tried baby powder for awhile but it makes my boyfriend and I sneeze really bad. My eyes water. So I recommend cornstarch. I just run it lightly through my hair and brush it out! This is a method I use to delay washing it. I imagine this will gross people out, but hey, you do what you gotta do.
3. I use products for color treated hair. Now I don't use all professional products but I do use one. I've used all
professional products but I didn't enjoy it. So I just went on my own and found products that work for me. The shampoo I use is John Frieda Radiant Reds, I found the brightest red they have and I use that one. It's the only one that didn't totally wash out all the color of my hair, but it does wash it out! For my conditioner, Matrix Biolage Earth Tones TRUE RED Color Refreshing Conditioner. It has dye in it so it replenishes the dye that washed out from the shampoo. I leave it in for a few minutes wash it out and try to avoid putting my hair under the water anymore. I wanted to come back and stress that you need to use shampoo for color treated hair! Regular shampoo just strips your color soo fast, like you wouldn't believe! I know from experience!!!
4. I rarely go out in high noon. Mainly because I work at night and sleep during most of the day. But direct sunlight does fade out your color. So you might want to take extra precaution if you are willing to be serious. I am not and my hair would probably have shown this if I had a day schedule.
But to wrap it up, my hair color has faded (from intense to eh, not bad.) and my roots are showing a whole lot. I have to go get it down for the roots. But I have come addicted to the intensity going back up when he redyes it. I did do a redye inbetween Febuary and April, actually 5 weeks ago when I got the black tips added. My stylist redyed it for me since I am running out of my color conditioner and he didn't have any in stock(I didn't actually need to redo the color. I was happy as a clam with it). When I think back on it, when I did the redye (with black tips) it was five weeks after I orignally did my hair red! I guess 5 weeks is my lucky number!
In the end, you are doomed to a trip to your salon or your DIY salon for tune ups. I perfer to go the salon because I don't like staining my entire bathroom unless I have to! haha But I'm getting better at DIY hair dye and neatness. Beauty comes with its price. Would you do this to keep your color?
I do a combination of things to ensure my reds last for a pretty good while. Most people turn their nose up when I tell them because they will not give up their rountine to keep a hair color! It blows my mind that you want this color and you want to last, but not give up what you do normally??? I'm baffled!
First of all, you are going to accept that it fades, it just does. You can't stop it from happening but you can slow it down!
1. I only wash my hair once or twice a week at the most! The hair color falls out with every wash and I've learned this from experience that you CAN NOT wash your hair everyday. This girl that asked me told me she had dyed her hair pink a week ago and there was NO color in her hair whatsoever. It was because she washed it everyday. DO NOT WASH YOUR HAIR EVERYDAY. Delay it as much as you can!
2. When my hair starts getting oily, I put cornstarch in my hair! I tried baby powder for awhile but it makes my boyfriend and I sneeze really bad. My eyes water. So I recommend cornstarch. I just run it lightly through my hair and brush it out! This is a method I use to delay washing it. I imagine this will gross people out, but hey, you do what you gotta do.
3. I use products for color treated hair. Now I don't use all professional products but I do use one. I've used all
4. I rarely go out in high noon. Mainly because I work at night and sleep during most of the day. But direct sunlight does fade out your color. So you might want to take extra precaution if you are willing to be serious. I am not and my hair would probably have shown this if I had a day schedule.
But to wrap it up, my hair color has faded (from intense to eh, not bad.) and my roots are showing a whole lot. I have to go get it down for the roots. But I have come addicted to the intensity going back up when he redyes it. I did do a redye inbetween Febuary and April, actually 5 weeks ago when I got the black tips added. My stylist redyed it for me since I am running out of my color conditioner and he didn't have any in stock(I didn't actually need to redo the color. I was happy as a clam with it). When I think back on it, when I did the redye (with black tips) it was five weeks after I orignally did my hair red! I guess 5 weeks is my lucky number!
In the end, you are doomed to a trip to your salon or your DIY salon for tune ups. I perfer to go the salon because I don't like staining my entire bathroom unless I have to! haha But I'm getting better at DIY hair dye and neatness. Beauty comes with its price. Would you do this to keep your color?
Show us your hairstyles over the years.
Submitted by Lena Katrin.
1. 2003: My hair was really long. And a band guy friend bleached two streaks in my hair for me. Oh myspace angles. Well...I was always a camera ho. So this was shortly before myspace.
2. 2005: I cut my own bangs here..and this was after 80's night at the brewery so I'm wearing big fake eyelashes.
3. I cut it and colored it red..pinky underneath. More styled.
4. I cut it again. But my boyfriend like to shoot me occasionally in bright green laundromats beside our apartment complex.
5.2007; black hair, side bangs.
6. All red.
Sorry I don't have other hairstyles from "over the years" because a lot of it is on my old computer WAIT! In 2004 I cut all my hair off and colored the bangs red..but it didn't come out that well. It was okay. Ever since then I've been getting it professionally colored. I look like a different person.
This is better pictures of my hair. I'm not sure if I'm really happy with it. It looks too flat to me. But the highlights are bright red, I still don't like it though. I like BRIGHT red. I don't believe in the inbetween colors. haha but this a day after sleeping on it, and I still pretty much don't like it. I'm trying to though.
I took a photo on Friday night in my brand new "Paul Frank" shirt and I have little skeleton hand gloves to go along with the theme! lol I thought I was looking cute, until I saw this picture. I am mortified and realise that I need to cut my hair!
So I was looking around online and found a site that I can not read at all!!!
Feel free to tell me what I'm looking at. I assume it's a site that centers around hair. hahaa I took it Google and translated it. Woo! What a difference! I hate feeling so lost.
So I was looking around online and found a site that I can not read at all!!!
Just some hairstyles I thought were cute. But I don't want to go too short..I'm not ready for that just yet.
I think I'm going to do this style. Whatchu think?
I think I'm going to do this style. Whatchu think?
I am getting ready to go to work after NOT WORKING ALL WEEK. So I decided to do my hair and makeup. :D I burned my neck!!!! It's crazy how easy you can hurt yourself with a curling iron(ahhh!). Well I gotta go find something to eat.
