True Blue

Call me a copycat (I could do worse than copy from Jo), but I recently made the leap into blatantly unnatural hair color.

Before this I stuck to semi-natural drugstore colors. Even if the colors clearly did not belong on me (burgundy, as much as I love you, you do not belong next to my face), someone, somewhere, theoretically, could have had hair of that hue grow out of their head.

Black looks good in the winter, but as soon as I start to tan the effect is lost, and it just looks stupid. Because my hair is only a few inches long the black dye had grown out already and I have had (gasp) my very own natural (brown, boring) color.

Now that my matron of honor duties are over and I could spare the coin for the bleach and color kit from Rite Aid, I did it, mostly just cause I could. Mommies can get away with this kind of thing. Our bosses don't care what color our hair is. And I was bored and restless. And it's way cheaper than that snake tattoo I keep talking about.

Phase 1 was the bleaching. eek. It took a long time and it was frightening to see myself with blinding bright yellow hair. 

Phase 2 involved the staining of my hair and everything in the vicinity with the entire bottle of color. My fingernails, four days later, are still stained. There was so much extra color on my head that I could have stood in the shower for another hour and the water would still have run blue. The next day I was sweating so much in the heat that there were blue streaks running down my face and neck. And, oi, my pillowcase will never be the same

The result was worth the mess it made. And for those of you with smurf jokes at the ready, the smurfs did not have hair. They had white hats and blue skin, not blue hair. Enough smurf jokes. Really.

When it fades (hoping for a nice peacock phase, courtesy of that neon yellow base) I'm thinking of going for plum. Or maybe orange.

Soundtrack to the colorization: The new Editors cd, An End Has A Start*. Especially Escape the Nest.

PS- I have been getting lots of comment spam, so I enabled the comment verification thing. Let me know if you have problems commenting.

*Dontcha just love the Robert Palmer throwbacks in that video?

Comments

[Casey]

I love it! Ivy wants me to dye my hair "pink. . .or maybe purple." I'm thinking about it, but I don't know how my boss would feel.

[Jenna]

Totally effing jealous. In fact, I refuse to show Josh this picture because he's always had a jonesing for randomly colored hair. (When we met, my hair was dyed black with BRIGHT RED streaks.) He's always wanted me to go fire engine red (uh, fire fighter much?) or BRIGHT PINK. I can pierce just about anything on my body but I don't think I can pull off randomly colored hair, however much I want it...

So I will live through you, my blue haired friend! GORGEOUS!

[redzils]

Gorgeous! I love it!

[Audrey]

Love. it!

In high school I had blue hair for a short spell. I missed it so much that this summer I dyed my hair purple. Now it's back to natural - gotta teach school again in a couple of weeks!

[amy]

That looks amazing!!

[Shannon B]

That's completely fantastic. I love it, LOVE IT. But the bleach stage would scare me off it, for sure.

[MsRebecca]

Very nice I would love to see what a little color would do for me.. I'm afraid though.. afraid of something going terribly wrong..

[Lilian]

It looks awesome!

[Wasabi]

OMG that's gorge! I wish I could dye my hair blue to celebrate my divorce but alas it would not look so good on my frizzy mess.

[zanaleigh]

I'm new here, but I love your hair. It's great! If I didn't work at a school, I'd go bright pink.

Very cool.