Dark Cherry

I like to dye my hair different colors, and I wish I had the balls to go one crazy color such as beach blond - I'd love to go blond, but lets be honest, I doubt it would suit me. I compromised and for a while I had blocks of blond at the back of my hair on one side, and then at the front I had another blond bit, I loved them, and it was a good compromise, but the front blond was beginning to grow out, and as it was at the front, it was noticeable whenever I wanted to put my hair up in a ponytail on a lazy day. So I decided to go back to the reddy/purpley colors that I used to try out back when I was 17/18. I have always used the L'oreal Casting Creme Gloss as it makes my hair silky smooth, smells pretty fit and I trust the colour. I used to get the 550 Mahogany color as it had a subtle reddish tint, but as I am no longer at secondary school, I can go for a more in your face color. I was standing in boots trying to decide what color would suit me best, or better still, would I cope with if it turned out horrible! After picking up at least 5 different colors, looking at one, then putting it down, picking up another, then putting it down over and over again, I swear if I wasn't down the hairdye aisle I definitely would have looked shifty, but somehow I think it would be quite obvious if I had a suspicious box bulge in my pocket. After a good 15 minutes down the same aisle, I decided on the 360 Black Cherry. It was a lot darker/redder than the Mahogany, but I went for it, until I got out of Boots and then had a slight panic-attack because I thought it would be too red. But as I was dying it back home with my housemate watching, and with her saying it was picking up the color well, and where i used to have the blond blocks, they had picked up the color in a pinkish way would looked cool, but as I have the world's longest hair, the ends didn't really pick up a lot of color, and it was came out very dark purple, and once i had my face done, I decided that yes, I can pull off the Dark Cherry.

I had received a fair amount of compliments on this hair color choice, and normally nobody ever used to notice whether i had dyed my hair or not, so obviously this boost my confidence, and confirmed even more-so that I liked the color and would stick with it for the rest of the summer but i decided that next time, as it is only a 28wash, I would buy two boxes so that all of my hair could get the full extent of the color, and my ends wouldn't feel like I was favouritsing my roots. Luckily Sainsburys is currently doing 2 for £10 on the Creme Gloss range at the moment, so bonus for me, as well as getting those precious nectar points. So today, rather than going to the library as planned, I dyed my hair with the two boxes worth of color, and I swear, I have never made such a mess when dying hair than I did today! It looked like I had murdered a blackcurrant in the bath - as well as one of my turbie towels now being a shade of purple, as well as my Ibiza top, that I don't know where it came from. With all this, I was hoping that the colour would come out decent, and that the mess as worth it, and the mess was definitely worth it.

It has come out a lot redder than before where it was more purpley. I'd like to think my Nan had influence over this as she had red hair, and I definitely have a natural slight red tinge to it. The color spread right through to the ends, and when in the sun, the color stands out at its best. I'm hoping that next time I do it, it comes out even redder and i can gradually get to the perfect deep red that I want. All I need to do now is get me a slight tan, and bobs you're uncle, I've got my summer head sorted!

There was one downside to todays hair dying situation today, the dye, dyed the bath a little so i used bleach to get rid, however i forget that if you get bleach on your clothes, it doesn't come out. So now on my favorite jeggings, I have 4 bleach splodges on one leg. Time to go shopping, my poor purse. Oh well, at least I have good hair.

Something to think about.... Why is that when you get bleach on your clothes, It never goes white like when you buy bleached jeans....