Sep 24 2008
Change is Good, Right?
After my husband left us, I decided I needed a change. I didn’t now what but I needed to do something I could control as I watched the rest of my world take a roller coaster ride without me. When faced with an emotional crisis, women tend to take it out on their hair, at least I do anyway. I guess because it is the easiest, fastest and cheapest to change at a moments notice. Yep, you guessed it. I cut and dyed my hair.
The haircut went okay since it was just a straight cut across the back taking off about 6 inches of hair. It was the color part that got me. I bought this little kit at Wal-Mart that is dye and highlighter in one box. It was the Cherry Chocolate Mousse or something like that. I’m still trying to figure out the chocolate mousse part of it.
You put on the all over Cherry dye first. True to its word, it was very cherry. It looked kind of like cherry wood stain was what I had used. Now a smart person would have stopped there. But even I am not always the brightest crayon in the box. I thought this is different and it looked young and chic. I could deal with this.
Then you put in the dramatic highlights. The box should say traumatic instead because my head definitely needed a rescue team of its own. We followed the directions to the letter but they still did not turn into the beautiful bold blonde highlights that were promised. It looked like someone had melted pennies and poured them on my hair. Since it did not take on the whole strip on most of them, I had copper spots all over my head. Can a leopard change its spots? Nope, but we can sure give an idiot a few!
I wish when I dyed my hair it would look like the box girls hair but it never does. It usually looks like something the dog puked up.