To dye or not to dye & my hair story
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Ahoy there beauties!
I've had black hair now for three years, craziness! In this time it's also had red, blonde and yellow front bits but it's always been mainly black and to be honest i've really gotten fed up of it. Me and my boyfriend split up not long ago and i'm really just in the frame of mind I want to change my hair, go out be happy, I'm sure you get the idea. I was thinking of changing the style, however I tried that not long ago as you will see shortly and I really do prefer it as it is now.
So here's what my hair story goes like.
I was born with naturally really curly hair, we're talking afro curly.
I was born with naturally really curly hair, we're talking afro curly.
Yes this is me when I was 1/2 and I'm fully aware I look like a boy and have no eyebrows. :)
Most of the time growing up it was really nice and I love how my hair looks in photos.
That's me second the right at about 5/6 :) as my hair got longer the curls remained manageable and actually looked really cute, I wish it was like that now but that's what straighteners does for you.
When I was 10/11 I decided I wanted a bob, why, why!? What possessed me to think a bob would look good. The hairdresser cut my hair way too short and it looked horrendous.
Yup that would be me with the frizzy bob haircut and lovely belly rolls, attractive right? ;)
I despised that haircut and let it grow out, when I was in secondary school at the age of 12/13 my hair had finally grown back out, however instead of curls it was just really, really frizzy and kids at school would pick on me. My mum and dad tried everything including frizz-ease but nothing would tame it. At the age of 13 my parents took me to the hairdressers and asked them what to do and they suggested layering my hair, so at the age of 13 I had layers cut in and a very strange fringe that did not suit my massive forehead and it was this age when I began with straighteners and curlers.
I soon realised I didn't look right without some kind of fringe and so at 14 I started with a side-swept fringe, it wasn't very drastic and had gaps in it all the time but it was a big improvement from the previous 'fringe'.
Me in 2008, do excuse my face, fancy dress and the gaps in my fringe, this is just what I looked like when I was a 14 year old.
At the start of 2009, I decided I wanted to dye my naturally brown hair black. So me and my friend decided to get the black hair dye from XXL, as you can see it really did go black, and dye our hair. I really liked my hair at this point, my fringe was nicely trained to sweep across without gapping and I really liked my dark hair.
The colour remained the same longer than the style did as I didn't just keep my fringe at this angle and amount, oh no I got addicted to adding bits from the opposite side into my fringe, until the point came where it wouldn't stay thick and nice but started to gap once again.
My 16th birthday at the end of 2009. As you can see it started to really look a mess and was basically (as a member of my family kindly put it) like an old man's comb-over. I kept it like this though until August 2010 when I decided enough was enough and I needed to take some of the hair out of my fringe. However, because I'd trained my hair to do this for over a year, it wouldn't lay flat anymore when I tried to place it back where it should have been and instead stuck up towards my fringe. I asked the hairdresser what to do and she suggested having a full across fringe as it would be the only thing I could do to stop having my fringe like this and not have it sticking up at weird angles.
So in August 2010, I had a full across fringe cut in and at first I hated it, I thought it looked horrendous but then it began to grow on me (comedy genius right there) and I began to really like it.
(Although I really don't like this picture)
I remained dying my hair XXL's black until October 2010 when I dyed it black for the last time and had dark pink streaks/patches put into either side of my fringe.
This was the first picture I took of my new hair and the only one I have.
I decided I didn't like the whole dark pink and instead wanted red in the sides and so I started dying them myself with XXL red colours.
I began to really not like my fringe anymore and I didn't feel 'pretty' anymore, I don't know why a certain fringe made me feel un-pretty but it did and so I started to sweep my fringe across again but not as extreme.
Last summer (2011) my hair was still practically black with dye, even though I hadn't dyed it in a long time but I decided I was fed up of the red and decided I wanted my side parts yellow.
The first step was letting the red fade out and I did this for around 2 months.
As you can see they went a very light orange colour and it was at this point I decided I was ready to strip the colour to make it lighter.
To get a more blonde tone I applied an XXL platinum blonde dye to the orange parts of my hair, just as a test to see if it would lighten the colour at all and this is the result I achieved.
Do excuse the horrible dark circles beneath my eyes. But the colour was light enough for me to apply the yellow hair dye, I left this colour over the weekend and conditioned my hair over the three days as this much dying could harm your hair and I like to take care of mine.
On the Sunday I applied the Manic Panic, Electric Banana hair dye to the light parts and waited, I was expecting a very sunshine yellow but it actually came out like the highlighter colour of yellow and was extremely bright as you can see.
It didn't both me that it was so bright, I love yellow so just looking at my hair made me smile. I continued washing my hair as normal and it eventually faded to the sunshine yellow I had originally wanted.
I never thought to reapply the dye and still have it in my drawer, I just kept letting the colour fade and it became more and more blonde.
It's now a year later and I still have my side-swept fringe and blonde-yellow side parts.
The onlly problem is I'm getting bored again but this time of my allover brown colour, as mentioned, I haven't dyed my hair black in nearly 2 years and so obviously it has faded and grown out to a natural brown colour, I don't want brown hair so I'm trying to decide what colour to go now. I'm thinking a dark red but I can't decide whether to keep my blonde parts or whether to dye them red too!
What do you guys think? Red? Blonde parts? I'm also open to the blonde parts being other colours :)
Lots of Love
Hayley
xxx
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